Tuesdays I furiously make slides for my dream course. Next up, JAPANESE PRIMATOLOGY: longitudinal observations of individual life histories, detailed behavioral descriptions + anecdata, letting monkeys tell the story. I recommend this fab doc on life of female, Mozu: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A66...

Me to myself in the mirror every morning.

#BabyFormula - so long a product of massive exploitation, profiteering and #PublicHealth threat. “The companies have demonstrated appalling negligence.” www.ft.com/content/3711...

Loved it. Bangin soundtrack. Ralph Fiennes doing interpretative dance to Iron Maiden was 🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/erX9OPd3K7c?...

Love this new colobus research measuring fecal glucocorticoid metabolites through lactation! Stress hormones are closely tied to lactation, and they probably shape infant maturation processes, but empirical data from wild populations are limited. Well done Sam Stead & @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social

A nurse. ICE shot and killed a nurse today. www.startribune.com/alex-pretti-...

Family bowling alleys are wild because at 10am we’re in a neon blacklit cellar blasting 2000s Euro club techno while my 5-year-old eats nachos for breakfast.

one of the most gracious and thoughtful of all evolutionary biologists. A wonderful read.

I got busy this week so I didn’t get to my Greenlandic artist of the day. It is Anne-Birthe Hove who prolifically worked as a graphic designer and printer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Her art interrogated the Greenlandic landscape. 1/3

Ready for the weekend youtu.be/VwXKR9EWhXo?...

sad news youtu.be/ga8K_diGviw?...

Unfunny Kathy Griffin is my fav version. youtu.be/riC3PuWhqg0?...

An early lecture covers effects of Piltdown Man hoax on primatology, based on a chapter by the late Bob Sussman. The fake fossil set false expectations about what our early ancestors should be; its takedown in 1953 clarified why field primatology is useful to rebuild human evolutionary narratives. 🦧

More gratuitously 1980s. Have you passed the Dutchie 🌿 yet? youtu.be/EsyUa63NM1E

I'm teaching 1st time my dream undergrad course on "Science, Gender and Society in Primatology", based on a legacy of this wonderful and always relevant book edited by inconic primatologists, Linda Fedigan and Shirley Strum. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

So many cool articles here on sleep! Maybe us academics will finally figure out why we all sleep like shit.

Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.

I keep thinking about Craig. @pili-scotland.bsky.social you prob saw some horrifying things done by poachers. I admit I have big fear of elephants after being surrounded + almost trampled by them at Kibale. But I know context for elephants is humans = death. 😢 I’ve seen some terrible things too…

For context, I watched him leave his family at 16 (late) and his first musth in his 20s. A very successful male. news.mongabay.com/2026/01/what...

When you get home after a few weeks away during the holidays:

finally, we're living through precedented times

Jupiter, Io and Ganymede looking beautiful tonight with my C6. #astronomy #astrophotography

Happy New Year from the Lemur Conservation Network! 📷: Mathias Appel

“For now, given all we know and don’t know about how bones grow, sex differences in height are reasonably explained as an accident or a by-product of estrogen’s role in our evolved reproductive system.”

This is well written. discoverwildscience.com/consciousnes...

A very nice end to the year: my PhD work on the development of differentiated social relationships in wild Asian elephants is now published in Ethology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Currently watching… Columbo, the ultimate comfort show! 🥰

I’ll admit it: the only reason these long-overdue manuscript revisions are getting done this holiday season is because my kid has discovered KPop Demon Hunters and now watches it on loop. #academia

A very nice X-mas present 🐦‍⬛🐵

Oh the panic when your 5-year-old wakes up and catches you wrapping Santa’s Christmas presents at night because it’s the only damn time you thought it was “safe” to wrap gifts 😳

Can always count of The Vicar of Dibley holiday specials to get in the Christmas spirit 🎄

Last exam today... may the university bureaucratic gods bestow blessings and good vibes for our us today so the darn exam can go smoothly and we can say 'good riddance' to a challenging semester

C’est la saison! À la cafétéria de l’UdeM, un verre de vin est offert avec le plat du jour 😆

Cool research by @chrishalperin.bsky.social ⚱️ nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Someone please lie to me and tell me that after this week things will slow down, get less stressful and we'll get a nice break to re-motivate for next semester.

My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)

Le professeur Pierre Minn donne aujourd’hui le cours d’anthropologie qui a marqué sa mère 60 ans plus tôt. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

man there is just so much shit happening now

Time to yell KISS KISS MOLLY’S LIPS At top volume 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔉🔉🔊🔊🔊🔉🔉🔊🔊 youtu.be/sIg1ApHMO2E

En photo : les chimpanzés Jarman (8 ans) toilettant Django (16 ans), septembre 2013, à Ngogo, Uganda. Ils sont mignons. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater 📹Shelton Dupreez

RIP Sophie 👑 🏳️‍⚧️. I miss you so fucking much. youtu.be/PB5tnokRFS0

Or ideally, the vibes any Romanian would aim to bring to the function = Maria Tănase 😍

What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party:

Current vibe: so overwhelmed and stressed out that you might pass out. Lovely. Last time I was this stressed I got vertigo for 2 days.

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

La Lune à un mètre (The Astronomer's Dream, 1898, dir. Georges Méliès) 🎥 A melancholy, effectively creepy three minutes in which the moon eats people.

That feeling when you get a black toenail because you’ve started running again & you remember the era when ‘running girl’ was half your identity & wrecked toenails were normal for 10 years.