Paddy Tkaczynski

I'm recruiting graduate students to work on projects involving the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal form using a unique sample of many thousands of genotyped and pedigreed mammal skeletons (mice and baboons, mostly), please contact me. 1/2

Long-range population connectivity & limited restrictions on gene flow have shaped the evolution and diversification of flying-foxes across the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Our #newpaper has implications for conservation, speciation & #biosecurity risk. 🌐🌏 #bioinvasions 📖OA: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

Fantastic to see the first PhD paper of @gabrielmelhado.bsky.social out in @pubs.acs.org Environmental Science & Technology with @bbmwong.bsky.social @annempeters.bsky.social @rhieastment.bsky.social @fzmarques.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/acs.... 1/6👇

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Call for a group leader in Evolutionary Biology The IGFL @igflyon.bsky.social in Lyon, France, is recruiting a group leader in Evolutionary Biology. An exciting place for exploring the interfaces of evolution with physiology and development. #EvolBiol #ecoevo #evodevo tinyurl.com/evolbiol

We're hiring! 🚨 PDRA at MMU on our NERC project, using AI for depth estimation and 3D reconstruction from camera traps. With @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Seeking computer vision/ML expertise from computational or biological backgrounds! Details: shorturl.at/YoH00

I will be taking applications for one fully funded PhD student starting in September(ish) 2027 to work on one of 2 projects in @livingingroups.bsky.social and the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social Deadline for submission is Dec 1. imprs-qbee.mpg.de/133244/commu...

New paper alert!! 🐵🪾🌿🌴 The Bugoma chimpanzees use sticks to get honey... Or at least one of them! Meet Engineer, the first chimp (out of over 80 chimps across 3 communities) who used multiple tools to solve the honey-trap experiment: sticks, leaf-sponges, and the entire brush. 1/7

New open access paper on wild chimpanzee grip and hand preference during tool use behaviours. A great collaboration with @akarakostis.bsky.social, the PanAf and my own lab. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

I’m recruiting PhD students to join my lab in Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington for Fall 2027. Folks interested in biological anthropology, human biology, or LGBTQ+ population health please reach out! Happy to chat about potential projects! Applications are due Dec 1st!

We have open MSc thesis/internship positions!! Come to study mother and offspring Asian elephants with us 🐘🐘🐘

"Pimbwe women who experience more short-term and long-term wealth variability tend to have slightly earlier first births, whereas current wealth appears not to be linked to age at first birth" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m looking for a postdoc (3y) to research kinship dynamics from a demographic, sociological, public health, or mathematical perspective. Reach out if you are interested and have any questions about the role or the MPIDR! 👇

Funding Opportunity! 📣 🐜 The Insect Welfare Research Society is seeking applications for its two graduate Student Research Awards in Sentience and Welfare. Amount: $2,000 each Eligibility: Graduate students conducting relevant research (PhD, MSc, MA, or equivalent) Deadline: October 31, 2026

The last of our papers looking at the relationship between interaction networks and material culture networks in the archaeological record. Led by the wonderful Robert Bischoff 🤩 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We're hiring a 3-year postdoc at the University of Bristol to improve our ability to predict vegetation responses to fire in a changing world 🌍🔥🌱. Details: mdekauwe.github.io/join_us Please share, thank you.

New big collaborative paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. "Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds". Title says it all really. Congrats @saverygo.bsky.social and @nhcooper123.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

I’m looking for a highly motivated international candidate interested in applying for the France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship to pursue a 3-year PhD with our lab! www.campusfrance.org/le-programme...

There's still time to enter our T-shirt design competition! 🐒 Have your artwork displayed on PSGB society merch', and help us raise money for primate research, conservation and captive care 🤩

LSU is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral Ecology! Please see the job posting here and share. Application review begins November 15th. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology virtual collection on Phenotypic Plasticity: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ph... Nice photo @horacezhl.bsky.social ;)

30,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed.

What happens when hibernating #hedgehogs are exposed to the sounds of the modern world? 🦔🔊 Welcome to @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD student @isaacwestlake.bsky.social, studying how anthropogenic noise influences hibernation. @julianowack.bsky.social @dmdominoni.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #PhDLife

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

“A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨🐵Primate Job: @plasticprimates.bsky.social have teamed up with @monkeyforest.bsky.social and we have a postdoctoral researcher position opening to explore Barbary macaque population and conservation genomics. Details are here (tinyurl.com/mr275rrm) but feel to reach out to me with any questions!

The Onion is currently running approximately six months ahead of reality

Nothing like a comical Excel error to see you into the weekend: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

Social play is key for development in many animals, yet how solitary species with single young acquire playmates has remained a quandary. We unlock this using long-term data from 31 Bornean orangutan mother-offspring pairs in our new publication in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2621225123. 🧵

From the new Private Eye

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

New publication: Family life is critical for migration and survival in a long-lived social #bird, by @hanslinssen.bsky.social @bartnolet.bsky.social and others. #Bewicksswan #sociallearning #waterfowl #biodiversity doi.org/10.1007/s002...

I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

I am part of a team guest editing a special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on "Digitization and use of legacy datasets in primatology” and we are seeking out submissions due on 1 September 2027. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

📰Published📰Activity patterns of roe deer mothers is linked to their reproductive success across habitats and conditions🦌 buff.ly/zwIpz9w 🧪🌍️

Maternity Cover role in Environmental Anthropology at UCL, within our Biological Anthropology section. We are a nice bunch - Apply by 7th October! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

29th September 2026, Forrest Rogers, Princeton University, USA Title: Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate male parental behavior in African striped mice www.youtube.com/channel/UClX... wits-za.zoom.us/j/9621610834...

📣 Call for proposals! Wild Animal Initiative funds research that advances the field of wild animal welfare science. We're now accepting EOIs for grants ranging from $30k to $200k, plus applications for our Fellowship Program. Learn more about project criteria and submit your EOI by October 31:

🚨Master’s project position available 🚨 Train gibbons to use touch screens as part of comparative and affective neuroscience research

‼️Field work position ‼️ We are looking for a research assistant for chimpanzee field work in Cote d'Ivoire, starting November. 🐵🌳📹 Have field experience, speak French, and want to study chimps with us? Take a look and reach out!

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!

Job: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Great department. Great university. Great students. Really great colleagues. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904

The Wales Ecology & Evolution Network is advertising its annual WEEN conference, featuring PSGB's own @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social as a Keynote speaker! Don't miss your chance to register!

Get your pencils and paintbrushes ready because it’s time for the PSGB T-Shirt Contest! 🎨 Are you skilled with watercolours or experienced with digital art? Want to contribute to the conservation, research, and captive care of primate species? This is your chance! (See 🧵)

We are delighted to announce that Sir Stephen Fry is the new patron for the Primate Society of Great Britain! 🎉

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Using a 3D immersive-reality group experiment, we show how people integrate dynamically changing personal and social cues in realistic environments, resulting in either collective intelligence or maladaptive behavior! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...