Baby Hamadryas baboon 'McQueen' happy with his piece of cabbage #PaigntonZoo #baboon #primates

📣🐒 The latest issue of Folia Primatologica is now available online, featuring a lovely cover photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid. Explore the full issue here: 👉 brill.com/view/journal... @efprimatology.bsky.social

👃 Our sense of smell shapes emotion, memory & mental health. A new #OpenAccess study shows self-awareness of smell varies by task – less insight for faint scents, better alignment for discrimination & identification. 📖 brill.com/view/journal... @multisensoryres.bsky.social

🐙 Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish … not just shape-shifters, they’re geniuses of the sea! 🌊 Share your research in Minds of the Deep: New Frontiers in #Cephalopod #Behavior #Research, special issue to be published in Behaviour. 📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026 🔗 brill.com/fileasset/do...

🐍 Slow worms of the Netherlands carry hidden genetic tales! mtDNA barcoding uncovers native lineages, French/Spanish hay-linked imports & unexpected Polish haplotypes 🌿🧬 Tracing origins, movements & hidden diversity across regions. In #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568... @benwielstra.bsky.social

👀🎶 Your brain naturally links moving shapes with sounds! Mid-level audiovisual patterns show how perception connects across senses – beyond simple features or meanings. Perfect for multimedia design, crossmodal art & immersive experiences. @multisensoryres.bsky.social 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

🎬 Music in film isn’t just background – it changes how we see, feel & remember. Guiding attention, shaping emotion, boosting memory … sound is both art & science. Perfect for movies, VR, & immersive experiences. 🎶In Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

🐒 The new Behaviour issue honours Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking work and impact on generations of behavioural scientists. Cover + tribute by long-time collaborator Koen Margodt inside. 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

Looking forward to seeing this grant presented to the winner at the ZOOLOGY 2025 congress in Amsterdam: www.kndv.nl/zoology-2025...

Tarsiers are among the world’s most unusual animals! Apt for Halloween! They are surely the most unique primates. Small, nocturnal, arboreal, mostly solitary, and the only fully carnivorous primates. They are perfect predators. Watch the video to learn about tarsiers. youtu.be/6y9dpO6jW6Y

💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥 Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating. TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal... @virginievanw.bsky.social @multisensoryres.bsky.social @mrgbcn.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @uva.nl

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

I just discovered that you can now submit your abstract for the Cognition, Behaviour & Evolution Network (CBEN) Preconference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands on April 14, 2026. 📅 Submission deadline: November 30, 2025 www.cognitionbehaviorevolution.nl?p=1120 @copan-leiden.bsky.social

🧠 How do our senses work together? The Merging of the Senses inspired decades of research – celebrated in a new Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social special issue! brill.com/view/journal...

🌟 Huge congratulations to Mariska Kret, Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour, on receiving the 2025 Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize from @knaw-nl.bsky.social🏆for her groundbreaking work on emotion, behaviour and social cognition.👏 🔗 www.knaw.nl/en/news/mari... @copan-leiden.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Spotlight on #Women powering #Africa’s insect value chain 🦗🌍 From collecting and cooking to processing and marketing, women drive the edible insect sector. As insect-based feed industries expand, their vital roles deserve greater recognition and support. 💪🏾 #OpenAccess 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...

📢 Call for Papers! Folia Primatologica invites submissions for a special issue on “Primates and Invertebrate Prey” 🐒🦧🕷️ Guest Editor: Leila Porter (NIU, USA) Exploring primate–invertebrate interactions, behaviour, nutrition & ecology amid global change. 🔗 brill.com/fileasset/do...

Belgian ethicist Koen Margodt had the privilege of collaborating with the world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall (1934–2025) for nearly thirty years. He wrote her obituary, now published in Behaviour, following her death on October 1, 2025. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1163/1568...

🎶🐟 Sound + unpredictable food = carp keep coming back! Partial reinforcement beats continuous for long-term training. 📖 Dive into full #OpenAccess study in Behaviour: doi.org/10.1163/1568... #CommonCarp #PREE #AquaticResearch

📢 Call for Symposia is open! Submit your symposia proposals for EFP2026! Share innovative primatology topics and help shape the scientific programme. 🗓 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 🔗 Submit: forms.gle/WmGZHwviZB7C... 🌐 Conf website: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/ 📩 Mailing list: forms.gle/jcZKhJj6KdVv...

De Verkiezing-A-Long 2025! Met nummers van ‘Euro-opa’ tot ‘We’ll build 10 cities’! Een muzikaal verzamelalbum voor de zwevende én swingende kiezer! #LUBACH

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📸 Last week, Fuat Balci had the pleasure of attending Timing Research Forum 4 (#TRF4) in Tokyo, Japan as Editor-in-Chief of Timing & Time Perception. Here are some of his impressions from this event. @timingresforum.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

Marina Blanco & Lydia Greene on lemurs for the smallest humans. Together with Sharon Gursky and Anna Nekaris, they are putting together a special issue on the natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers, including the wonderful lemurs: 🔗 brill.com/fileasset/do... 📅 Nov 30, 2025

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

PIT-tagging #Newts reveals rare tag loss and higher mortality in aquatic T. marmoratus and juvenile T. cristatus. Long-term studies in Mayenne, France, inform research on smaller newts. By Jan W. Arntzen, @unileiden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568...

Marsh frogs are overrunning Limburg, NL! 🐸 mtDNA analysis of hundreds of water frogs reveals four distinct invasive marsh frog lineages from across Europe & beyond. Immediate conservation action is needed to protect native populations. In Amphibia-Reptilia. 🧬https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-bja10239

Can insect farming be both ethical and sustainable? 🐛 In her just published editorial, Silvia Cappellozza explores how rethinking sericulture can inspire models where humans and insects coexist for mutual benefit. Published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed: 👉 doi.org/10.1163/2352...

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler! Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

🐒 Swinging by to share a Call for Papers! Our special issue on Decolonizing Human–Wildlife Coexistence in Folia Primatologica wants your research on humans & primates living together. Submit by 31 March 2026🌿 @efprimatology.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social

Researchers have confirmed that the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, previously thought to live only in Sumatra’s Batang Toru forest, also inhabits a peat swamp forest 32 kilometers (20 miles) away.

Years ago, I discovered bonobos in "The Forgotten Ape" by Frans de Waal & Frans Lanting. Never heard of them before. Now, their rainforest along the Congo River is disappearing fast. I hope bold conservation efforts can save these fascinating apes’ last wild habitats before it’s too late. 💚📰📷

A 2014 fire at Glasgow School of Art (@glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social) revealed NZ #Kauri disguised as oak. New research traces its 19th-century journey from prized export to “cheap ballast,” uncovering NZ–UK trade links. Read #OpenAccess in Int. J. of Wood Culture: doi.org/10.1163/2772...

🚨𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀! www.ehbea2026.com is now live for our 2026 European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association (EHBEA) conference in Leiden (NL🇳🇱) Check for 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, first 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & the [𝗔𝗜]𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸! 🗓️ 14–17 Apr 2026 | CBEN pre-conf 14 Apr 📍Pesthuis #EHBEA2026

Save the date for the next European Conference on Behavioural Biology! Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene, 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University. Watch this space for updates on speakers, plenaries, and calls for abstracts! #AcademicSky #UpcomingConferences

Animal Biology’s latest issue is out now! On the cover a wonderful image by Adriana Bocchiglieri of a marsupial, Marmosa demerarae (woolly mouse opossum), inside an artificial bamboo nest. brill.com/view/journal...

Male barn swallows may sound like their own chicks! 🐦 A study by Masaru Hasegawa & Masahiko Nakamura in the journal Behaviour shows nestlings respond to male “nestling-like” courtship calls just as to real begging calls – evidence of intraspecific mimicry in action. 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/1568...

📢 Deadline extended! 🗓️ Submit your work to our Special Issue on Visually Induced Motion Sensations by Feb 28, 2026. Explore vection, VR sickness, visual discomfort & more. Let’s advance VIMS research together! #VIMS #CallForPapers #Research #VR #VisionScience @multisensoryres.bsky.social

Wood anatomy of ~450 Sapotaceae species reveals evolutionary shifts, mineral inclusions, and vessel diversity, providing crucial insights for taxonomy, phylogeny, and protecting tropical forests. Read in #OpenAccess here: brill.com/view/journal...

🌿 Discover Salonga National Park — where people, water & wildlife shape one living story. brill.com/display/titl... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🌿 Excited to announce Elisabetta Palagi as the speaker for the 2nd Frans de Waal Honorary Lecture at #CBEN2026 in Leiden (14 April)! 🐒✨ A celebration of empathy, play & evolution – and of what connects us all. 💚 #CBEN2026 #Ethology #Empathy #Evolution @ehbea2026.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social

New in MSR: Older Adults with Clinically Normal Sensory and Cognitive Abilities Perceive Audiovisual Simultaneity and Temporal Order Differently than Younger Adults qr.brill.com/libkey/?link...

New in MSR: Enhancing Dynamic Visual Experiences through Touch qr.brill.com/libkey/?link...

Synbiotic drops helped children ≤2 years recover from diarrhoea 2 days faster than usual care. Most kids improved quickly, and it was safe and well-tolerated. Read full #OpenAccess article in Beneficial Microbes: doi.org/10.1163/1876... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🌿 How can we involve citizens in green smart cities? Learn from fungi networks? Use AI for biodiversity? Excited to share new #OpenAccess book Moral Design and Green Technology by Bart Wernaart & Gerard Schouten – exploring how nature and tech intertwine in moral design. brill.com/display/titl...

♻️ Turning waste into opportunity with nature’s tiny biotechnologists! New in J. Insects as Food & Feed: “Insect holobionts as tools for waste biomass valorisation.” 🪲 Insects + microbes = powerful allies for #CircularEconomy & #Bioconversion of stubborn #Polymers. 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/2352...

📣 Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy 🧠🐒 The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour. 🏆 Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14) ⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026! @ehbea2026.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers: Nocturnal Strepsirrhines & Tarsiers Folia Primatologica invites submissions for a special issue on the natural history of these elusive primates. Field data, even fragmentary, are welcome! 📅 30 Nov. 2025 🔗 Details: brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37808_IJFP_SI_EST-CfP.pdf