It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.

A great opportunity for in-country community-based primate conservationists to share experiences and challenges in our online Panel Discussion (30 Aug '25). Send in your expression of interest by 10 Aug! @lemurnetwork.bsky.social @neoprego.org @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

I talked about chimps, ants, tools and revisits at #IPS2025 #IPSMadagascar Happy to be surrounded by so many amazing researchers and conservationists! 🐒🇲🇬 @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social

It’s Friday night (somewhere) so settle in for a 🧵that combines fermented fruit, scrumping monkeys, etymology, Larson cartoons, & Gothic art to tackle the enduring mystery of why humans are so astoundingly good at metabolising alcohol! or read our new 🧪 paper ;) academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

The IPS EDEI committee has put together Conference tips for first timers with loads of great guidance on how to navigate your 1st conference. Available in English, en Français, & en Español Please share widely! Feedback welcome! internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-conferen... 🧪🐒 #IPS2025

We are delighted to announce Professor Ronald E. Sánchez Porras as the recipient of the 2025 IPS Charles Southwick Award in recognition of his lifelong dedication, passion, and extraordinary contributions to conservation education in Costa Rica and beyond 1/4

Beautiful Crowned sifakas are 1 of 9 species of sifaka. They are found in western Madagascar, and some live near another sifaka species — the Decken's sifaka! Learn about crowned sifakas in this fact sheet: www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/learn/lemur-... 📷 Deb Bradley #lemurs #primates

West African pottos (Perodicticus potto) are native to a wide range throughout West Africa. Solitary, slow-moving, and nocturnal. Because they sleep in tree holes in daytime and freeze in place when threatened, they perish during slash-and-burn deforestation. Listed as Near Threatened.

#voxprimato #colloque 📢 les inscriptions et soumissions de résumé pour le 37è colloque de la SFDP sont ouvertes! 🐒 Le colloque aura lieu à Poitiers du 30/09 au 03/10 sur le thème "(Paléo)primatologieS: du terrain au laboratoire" et est organisé par la fantastique équipe de @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏

#voxprimato #conference 📢 registration and abstract submission for the 37th conference of the SFDP are open! 🐒 It will be held in Poitiers, France, from 30/09 to 03/10 on the thematic "(Paleo)primatologieS: from the field to the lab" and is organised by the fantastic team @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏

#voxprimato #colloque D-15 before the deadline for abstract submission for the 37th conference of #sfdp2025 from 30/09 to 03/10 in Poitiers! All infos in the threads below 👇🏽 Don’t forget to send us your application for a grant to attend the conference before 30/06! 👇🏽

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Masters & Genin African Primatology Award has been given to Yeboah Bright for their project on Foraging and Risk Avoidance Behavior of Cercopithecus lowei in a Human-dominated Landscape at the Boabend-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary in Central Ghana. 🐒🧪 1/2

We are delighted to announce the Sebastian Ramirez Amaya Award for Fieldwork in Primatology has been awarded to Veronica Torres-Solorzano for her work on Energetic trade-offs between immunity & reproduction in mantled howler monkey females🐒 internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/sebastian-ra...

So incredibly grateful to have received an IPS @ips-primatenews.bsky.social Research Grant and an ASP Conservation Small Grant to support my research on capuchin behavioral and physiological flexibility to extreme environmental conditions! 🙏✨ Exciting things to come✨

Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

#mondaymicdrop Wild Minds Lab goes audio! We’ve been working to share our research in diverse ways lately - whether @kirstyegraham.bsky.social ‘s awesome graphic novelisations, translations into French, or the smooth tones of Dr Matt Henderson’s #PodcastPapers www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...

New deadline for nominations is May 15th Do you know anyone working to support DEI and Ethics initiatives in primatology? Help celebrate that!! More info 👇

Charles Southwick Conservation Education Award nominations! Deadline May 21st! Know someone living in a primate habitat country that has made a significant contribution to formal & informal conservation education in their country? Please nominate them 1/2

Ever wanted to make sure you can crush your nearest & dearest at games night.... 🤓🐒 Primates is an evolutionary board game where you can explore the evolution of more than 100 different primate species! Now available: greenbutterflygames.com/products/pri... Players: 2-4 Ages: 14+

🚨New IPS Ethics & Diversity, Equality, Inclusivity Award🚨 Deadline for applications May 1st More info internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips.../

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

Just a few more days to get your votes in for your IPS Officers!

What’s that? Having trouble filling out your #2025MMM Bracket? Too hard to make decisions? Is Zorilla a typo? Does that mean Katie blew the seeding in the Tuxedo Style Bracket? (That's easy: No) DON’T PANIC Grab your towel and follow along with Professor Bobcat’s March Mammal Madness Manifesto.

We can confidently celebrate International Women's Day with so many great women involved in our project Meet @elisaotra.bsky.social, researcher and activist for our Spanish #InnovationHub Inspira Territorio www.agroecology-transect.net/innovation-h... #IWD2025 #genderparity #agroecology

🚨 IPS Officer elections now open! Voting deadline March 10th All current members of IPS can vote via a link to the ballot on your IPS website homepage.

🚨IMPORTANT CONGRESS INFO - DATE CHANGE to 20-25th July This week we were informed that the President of Madagascar has decided to host the SADC (Southern African Development Community) Summit in Madagascar at the same time we were planning to have the IPS Congress.

🚨IMPORTANT CONGRESS INFO - DATE CHANGE to 20-25th July This week we were informed that the President of Madagascar has decided to host the SADC (Southern African Development Community) Summit in Madagascar at the same time we were planning to have the IPS Congress.

Stop press!! The IPS deadline for abstracts has been extended to midnight EST on Feb 28th - so you’ve now got an extra couple of weeks to send us all your most exciting primate ideas!!! #IPSmadagascar #IPS2025

#VoxPrimato #grants 🚨 grant deadline is approaching! ⚠️ Apply before 1st of February! - 4 grants: 2 * research 2 * conservation - amount max 1250€ - no need to be member to apply Send us your best projet!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

MPIG is on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on primatology, relevant job postings, and details about our annual conference. #MPIG2025 will be a joint meeting with the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago, September 17-20!

#2025MMM Calendar!

Javan surilis (Presbytis comata), also called grizzled leaf monkeys, Javan leaf monkeys, and Javan grizzled langurs, are endemic to western and central Java in fragmented pockets. Total remaining population may be as low as 5,500. Threatened by habitat destruction and hunting. Listed as Vulnerable.

Send out the hooooots!! It’s Bulletin time! Check out the bumper new Bulletin with all the news of what your Officers and IPS grantees have been up to in 2024, and with updates on the Elections & 2025 Congress 🤓🐒 internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-bulletins/

The Chimpanzee Brainnetome Atlas reveals distinct connectivity and gene expression profiles relative to humans Open Access www.cell.com/the-innovati... Open Data github.com/FANLabCASIA/... Webpage molicaca.github.io/atlas/chimp_...

Do you work in primate care? 🐵 Know someone who does? We want to hear from you! As part of research from the University of Sussex, we are looking to hear from primate carers from all over the world to understand their current wellbeing practices. ➡️https://forms.office.com/e/PRZqMuFh0t

🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #EvMed @bioanth.org @ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships will open for applications next week on 21 January. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more on our website: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

📣🚨Extension of deadlines: Behaviour 2025! 📣🚨 Last date for abstract submissions for #Behaviour2025 has been extended to 31st of January 2025🕰️. Early bird registration ends on 28th of February 2025. Don't miss your chance to share your expertise on a global platform. Hurry and submit your abstracts!

The Biological Anthro Section of the AAA would love to see you at the 2025 meetings in ...New Orleans (...you know you love NOLA 🎷). The theme this year is Ghosts (!) If you are interested in pitching an executive session - the call is now open annualmeeting.americananthro.org/executive-ca...

IPS AWARDS NOMINATIONS OPEN 🐒🚨 Know someone who has made a significant difference to primatology? We’re soliciting nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award & Outstanding Achievement Award. Deadline Feb 10th. Full deets : tinyurl.com/IPSawards Any Qs please DM!

Looking for a way to wrap up the year on a high? Got a great idea & know a group of primate peeps who can talk about it? How about putting together a symposium for #IPSMadagascar #IPS2025! Deadline for outlines has been moved to 10th Jan! ipsmadagascar.org/the-congress...

Workshop proposals now open for #Behaviour2025 ! ⬇️

if you are looking for a tt job you couldn’t find a better place to work, with inspiring and collegial colleagues and wonderful students. Feel free to dm me with any questions!

New paper led by former group member Jadelys Tonos! Simulations/empirical data reveal just a few trees bearing the most fruit in the landscape are critical for driving patterns of lemur movement & seed dispersal 🐒🥭🌱https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2435.14702

Now that @nature.com has joined us, here’s a #ThrowbackThursday to our study on wild capuchins deliberately breaking stones and making flakes. I got lucky filming this activity, when I stayed behind while my team climbed a sandstone plateau. The monkeys turned up, and the rest is (pre)history 🧪🐒🏺

New Paper! 🐒🌍🦤🧪 @andyhouldcroft.bsky.social built upon his MSc Conservation & Biodiversity project to develop a mapping model using monkeys in Guinea Bissau which aims to boost conservation & promote human-wildlife coexistence @uniexecec.bsky.social #ExeterGSES news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Gut microbes may have fueled brain evolution. A study found human and large-brained primate microbes boost energy use, while small-brained promote fat storage—linking microbiota to cognitive demands. #Microbiome #Evolution

#Primates Twins were the norm for our ancient primate ancestors—one baby at a time had evolutionary advantages