Taï Chimpanzee Project

Job alert for theoreticians! 2yr NERC-funded postdoc to model coevolution of learning & social structure. With Bram Kuijper, @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall Deadline Dec 14. Apply: tinyurl.com/3ym39cuv

The first online meeting of the annual symposium series of the IRL Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures happened yesterday. For those who have missed it, you can watch it now in full length on our YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=gI6Q...

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

Plan de Développement Local, un outil puissant pour améliorer la gouvernance des ressources naturelles autour de la Réserve de Biosphère de Badiar. #UnionEuropéenne, #NaturaGuinée, le Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable, l'Office Guinéen des Parcs Nationaux et Réserves de Faune.

Beautiful story by Nicola Davis here, heart-breaking to recognise again the wonders we are losing to wanton planetary destruction in the name of economic “growth” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🚨New article with @jinwenxie.bsky.social on human partner preferences. We asked whether gender gaps in partner preferences vary cross-culturally with the restrictiveness of gender norms. 🧵 @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are excited to announce a tenure track faculty position in quantitative population and community ecology! Come join us in EEB here in Tucson! More details about the position at the link below. Application review begins on November 16! 🧪

Lots of interesting chapters in this open-access volume on "Culture, Identity, and Essentialism: Anthropological and Psychological Approaches" (2026), edited by Wolfgang Wagner and Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social. #psychscisky #philbio #ehbea #hbes link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Psych&CNS@NYU seeking t-track asst prof with outstanding record in human neurosci. Examples of areas (but not limited to): attention, perception, decision making, memory, executive function. Research incorporating neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI) preferred. Appl deadline Nov 15. apply.interfolio.com/195772

🔊 Unique rhythmic signatures in arrhythmic birdsong. I am truly beyond happy that this work is now in press in ANYAS. In the meantime, a small reminder and the slightly different preprint version: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy Open Access Week! This year, we became 100% #OpenAccess through Subscribe to Open and Read & Publish agreements. All eight subscription journals are free to read and publish in this year, demonstrating our commitment to making high-quality research accessible to all buff.ly/1Gs9vh3 #OAWeek

🚨🚨Are you an ECR working on hominin postcrania? The Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social is hiring a Junior Research Group Leader with your profile. We are a vibrant international community working on integrative approaches to human evolution-Join us!✨ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Countries are protecting more of our planet, but progress needs to accelerate to reach global goals. And as these areas expand, they need to be managed well and connected so migratory wildlife can move between the places they depend on. Explore the new #SOBA report: www.cbd.int/globalreview...

Excited to share CASE PhD opportunities supervised by me at @edinburghbiology.bsky.social & @uoe-eid.bsky.social in collaboration with @iaciac.bsky.social , @samellisq.bsky.social and the wonderful team at Woodchester Park. Please share widely and get in touch to find out more! Links to ads below.

How do stress hormones shape wildlife’s response to humans? New research from #BiologyLetters finds that early-life cortisol levels influence how fallow deer fawns respond to repeated encounters with people doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Behaviour #Ecology #DevelopmentalBiology

Humans have long relied on cooperation to cope with unpredictability.A study in rural Bangladesh found that people in tightly connected moneylending networks were more willing to take risks,while those who could turn to more households for food and household items were less willing. These findings..

“Primate Cultures, Human Evolution and Conservation: Building a Collaborative Research Agenda for West Africa.” 📅 21 October 2026 ⏰ 1:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM Paris time 👉 Zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Please note that you will need to register through Zoom, even when preregistered.

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

Cool video by National Geographic Society on the dolphin-fisher wildlife intelligence project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbV... Great footage from our latest field season 'blocking out all the noise' to discover how dolphins and fishers work together. @oregonstate.edu @scienceanu.bsky.social

Exciting Associate Professor opportunity in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with access to state-of-the-art neuroimaging and stimulation at OHBA/OxCIN: MEG, OPM, 3T/7T MRI, TUS, TMS & more. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSQ831/a...

LIVE NOW! 🎥🚨 Experts gathered to advance the Atlas of Animal Migration. Join the live session "Migratory animals connect the planet: the wonder of their journeys, and threats for their future" followed by a choir presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH_Y... More info: www.cms.int/meeting/cms-...

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

Happy #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! 🐦🌍 Step outside, look up and record the birds you see. Every observation helps conserve migratory birds - "#EveryBirdCounts – Your Observations Matter!". 🔗 www.worldmigratorybirdday.org #WMBD2026

Are you interested in supporting scientific research and teaching focused on living things and the natural world? My department, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology is hiring two full-time Lab Coordinators (faculty assistants). Union jobs with good benefits. careers.harvard.edu/job/laborato...

Our study covered on @sciencex.bsky.social @angelastoeger.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social phys.org/news/2026-10...

🚨🐵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!

We have an open Call for PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social : www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/application/... #adna #phd

Consultation communautaire pour un pastoralisme durable, Réserve de Biosphère du Badiar. Merci #UnionEuropéenne #NaturaGuinée, le Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable, l’Office Guinéen des Parcs Nationaux et Réserves de Faune, les autorités ainsi que les communautés.

The Fyssen Foundation International Prize is open for nominations, this year on the theme of "Technology and the Social Organisation of Prehistoric Human Groups" . The prize is for 100,000 euros - consider applying if your research is relevant! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Second geology video. This one examining how basalt forms and the ecological consequences. youtu.be/wl_qIP-n6ic?...

New research on 100 primate species finds that mild and lethal aggression are evolutionarily decoupled — species that fight often aren’t more likely to kill. Bickering and murder follow different evolutionary paths. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #Aggression @evolletters.bsky.social

First online symposium of the IRL ChiMP4IC. Please register at: www.chimp4ic.org

When language comes too late: Developmental implications of delayed sign language exposure. New paper by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/cdpers/aadag021

St Francis reads a sermon to birds who flock to a tree to listen. A wallpainting at Wissington, Suffolk. Today's the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis in 1226. The Wissington paintings are dated c1280, so it's just possible the artist was alive in the saint's lifetime.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

📣🎓 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!

8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️. rdcu.be/87qLLG6DSs7a 1/4

First Annual Online Symposium of the IRL ChiMP4IC. Save the date: Oct 21, 2026 from 13:00 - 16:00 (GMT) Registration open soon: www.chimp4ic.org "Primate cultures, human evolution and conservation: building a collaborative research agenda for West Africa." www.taichimpproject.org/post/first-a...

Day 2 of the Master’s of Bioacoustics field school. We launched a Motus Audio recorder. Then great lectures by David Reby, Tecumseh Fitch, and Nicolas Mathevon. Then field recording practice in the French countryside. Then an evening bioacoustic quiz. A great day! @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

At the Measuring Behavior conference, we start each day with a keynote speech. We are happy to announce that our first keynote speaker has confirmed. Prof. Felix Wichmann will give a talk with the intriguing title “Estimating Internal Representations”. See www.measuringbehavior.org/keynote-spea...

Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474

Don't forget that grant applications (attendance, accessibility, childcare) for the joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB 🐒 @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social are due in 2 weeks (⏰ October 1!) 🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰 More info: www.asab.org/conference-g...

#CtenophoreCtuesday

C'est la rentrée! Le CA de la SFDP vous souhaite à tous.tes une bonne reprise! On en profite pour annoncer officiellement la distribution du nouveau bureau pour 2026-2027! Nous vous présenterons nos deux nouveaux membres dans les semaines à venir!

🚨Master's project on dog cognition🚨 Are you a Master's student? Into animal behaviour? Do you think dogs are cool? We've got a project for you. Check the flyer below 👇

We have a new little paper out: an introduction to the philosophy of comparative psychology. If you're tired of artificial intelligences, you can read about biological ones instead.

Animals are known to prefer kin as social partners. But non-kin bonds are surprisingly common too. So, who forms them, how stable are they & what drives them? In our new @animbehsociety.bsky.social paper we tackle these overlooked questions in free-living rhesus macaques: tinyurl.com/mwsbkjve (1/5)

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/