We'll be there! @savetheorangutan.bsky.social

Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Had a great first day at LSE for the Common Ground on Animal Ethics workshop with some great discussions and food for thought! Back tomorrow for more: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Don't forget about this excellent opportunity to share your joy and story-telling passion with younger generations! Expressions of interest are due on April 30th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Their Future is Wild 🌿 Swipe to learn how rescued bonobos go from sanctuary to wild, and how you can support the release this year—one of the most important moments in bonobo conservation. Donate at savebonobos.org/rewild

Some good news in primatology 🐵🐵

I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere! www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

Workshop: Common Ground on Animal #Ethics - When #Philosophy Meets #Anthropology 🗓️ 30 April -1 May 📍 LSE Campus Abstract and programme: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e... Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-gro... @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

This week on the @science.org podcast: An unprecedented violent split occurred in a large chimp colony that has been tracked by researchers for decades. Now, scientists are asking: What can the lethal division of a chimp community teach us about human conflict? www.science.org/content/podc...

We’re recruiting! Exciting opportunities in our lab supported by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award. • Postdoctoral researchers • Research assistant/PhD students Join us to study how neural circuits drive decision-making. Deadline 26/04 Learn more and Apply here: rezavallab.org

This is horrifying and yet unsurprising. A reminder that “equal” access ≠ equity

I'm hiring! 📢 Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution using Communication Games at @mpi-nl.bsky.social. Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! share.google/fGTKbFS4v4Gb...

New masters programme in Evolutionary Anthropology - University of Leipzig & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, teaching in English www.uni-leipzig.de/en/studying/... #EHBEA

Fully-funded PhD with me in beautiful North Wales (field work in Sumatra). From conflict to coexistence: how can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? With @wwf.org.uk, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳 Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️ Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop: In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table. Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission. She did not win a Nobel prize.

For a long time, Prehistory was told from a partial perspective: hunters, explorers, male protagonists. Women appeared in the background, almost invisible. @erc.europa.eu @cenieh.bsky.social #FECYT

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

📢 Talents wanted. Are you a graduate, doctorate or an early career researchers at a research institution in #Africa? The @maxplanck.de offers mentorship by Max Planck scientists at various MPIs through its ARTEMIS program. Here is the 2026 call – application deadline is April 13, 2026.

One week left to apply for our Education Manager role! Inspiring young people about nature and ensuring their voices are heard is vital to achieve our vision. We are looking for parental leave cover to manager our educational workshops, events and grants. Apply by midnight 8 March: buff.ly/M2qGvt2

My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution. www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Fully funded PhD project available at Nottingham Trent University. Linked to a BBSRC funded grant, this project will investigate how primates perceive and respond to infants, combining cutting-edge cognitive testing with behavioural data. See 🧵

I’m happy to share that the first paper of my PhD - "20 years of microfluidic technology for advancing plant sciences” has been published in Lab on a Chip. Many thanks to Dr Claire Stanley and Dr Eleonora Moratto for their support throughout this work. doi.org/10.1039/D5LC...

Excited to share this work done with @alex-primate.bsky.social and Daniel Haun @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social (the first publication from my PhD!), where we found that chimpanzees sustained a collective resource for longer in groups of four compared to dyads rdcu.be/e0qPR

📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

The Stanley Lab is hiring! For anyone looking for a post-doc and interested in mycorrhizal fungi 🍄, this could be of interest. Deadline 4th Jan. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Thrilled to share our latest open-access study published in Scientific Reports! We examined how social versus asocial learning influences children’s ability to override previously learned strategies across three cultural settings—BaYaka, Bandongo, and Germany: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia. 👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social

The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt More coming soon! :) For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔 By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2 www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...

Interested in great ape cognition? Come join our fantastic department at the Max Planck @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social studying self-recognition! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

I’m looking for new books out there (broadly) in the field of Human Ethology, and for people that would be keen to review them for the journal of the International Society of Human Ethology! 📚 Have ideas?? 🧐 Let me know!

The poster version of my primate drawings that I presented at #AABA last year. I think I'm going to start selling this as a poster, but I'd need a better count of interest to see if it's worth it. LMK! #primate #monkey #ape #anthropology #primatology testing out tags

Tool use by a wild bonobo in LuiKotale, a report of water scooping: Since I was in the remote Congo when our paper with my mentors Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann came out, I will catch up now! link.springer.com/article/10.1... -->

A few pages of my sketch book with some pencil sketches of bonobos, a new commission I am currently working on. #SciArt #mammals