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Dr Hella Péter

@hellapeter.bsky.social

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mbchimp.bsky.social data wrangler 💻 PhD - are your chimps drinking? 🐵💧 team abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝 ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi all!

I'm Hella, and I'm an ecologist interested in the role of water in water-rich ecosystems! So far I focused on chimps, but I'd love to branch out to non-primate sps. I enjoy wrangling large databases, camera traps, disappearing to remote areas, and textile crafts 🧶

Hella, a young white woman with long hair is sitting at a picnic bench, knitting something. She is outdoors, in the Scottish Highlands on a sunny day

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · Sep 2

The #FindThatLizard scholarship has reached 66% of our $5000 goal!

I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals.

Will you help us meet our goal?

www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...

THE ECOLOGIK INSTITUTE — FindThatLizard Scholarship

This scholarship will support girls, women, and gender non-conforming people who want to pursue herpetology with a special focus on those who identify as Black or people of color. Funding can support ...

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 1

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Jun 7

⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️

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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · Aug 29

#Behaviour2025 out of context: "we did a different study that I'm not going to tell you much about" "Bees are not little humans, and humans are not big bees" "it's never easy to catch an insect when you are moving at 40-50mph" "I started my career in ants and made the natural move across to whales"

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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social · Aug 29

S. Anvitha: Drought led to changes in Asian elephants' body condition and social behaviors, along with increased miscarriages. These changes suggest possible welfare effects, too, and point towards the usefulness of studying welfare impacts of drought.

#Behaviour2025
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · Aug 23

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒

The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.

📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

Macaela Skelton @macaelaskelton.bsky.social · Aug 19

🎉 Just days to go until our MacaqueNet Workshop in Kolkata!

🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST
✨ Open to all (online & in-person)
📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00)
🍽️ Optional Dinner

View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/

#MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025

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ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Aug 18

We will soon advertise these two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology): zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities

Opportunities

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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · Aug 18

ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻‍❄️

zoogestures.uni-koeln.de

with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social

🏺🗃️📕

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Cinq mois dans une jungle au Ghana pour étudier des singes menacés

Deux étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie passent cinq mois isolés dans une forêt du Ghana pour percer les secrets reproductifs d’une espèce de primate menacée d’extinction.

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ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · Aug 18

Can’t make it to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ? Did you know you can also register to attend online for free as well? 💻

Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”!

More info here:
www.asab.org/conference-h...

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.

Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 12

#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 11

A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3

Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path

Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Aug 12

I love this visual abstract! What a fantastic paper. Check it out!

Listening Deeply to Indigenous People: A Collaborative Perspective and Reflection Between a Mapuche Machi and Ecologists

Two-eyed seeing offers a way to see with both Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western ecological sciences. In this collaborative perspective piece between ecologists and a Mapuche spi....

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Aug 12

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Aug 12

My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology & Behavior

Duties & Responsibilities

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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · Aug 12

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool?

If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r

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Dr Steven Allain @stevoallain.bsky.social · Aug 12

Are you a neurodivergent ecologist? Are you planning to undertake any fieldwork soon as part of research? Then our upcoming webinar with the @britishecologicalsociety.org's ENDEMIC Network may be for you. Find out more and sign up here: britishecologicalsociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fieldwork Whilst Neurodiverse. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

This webinar will explore different experiences of doing ecology fieldwork while neurodiverse, both within and outside academia. After a panel discussion with the speakers, a discussion with the audie...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · Aug 11

New video on the YouTube channel: talk at the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on the question 'is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?'
youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...

Is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?

YouTube video by Tai Chimpanzee Project

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · Aug 6

Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?

Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...

Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
Pls share! #seabirds

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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · Aug 11

Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop

Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10!

More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights.

🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...

Front cover of National Plant Monitoring Scheme Annual Report 2024

Books and papers lying on daisy covered grass

Two people outside in a rural environment look at information on a clipboard

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · Aug 6

Want to join our friendly team of conservation experts?

Our marine team are hiring for a new 1yr role to provide expert scientific advice on marine developments 🌏 🧪

See here for how to apply: shorturl.at/kdthM
#ornithology

Conservation Scientist (Fixed-Term) | RSPB

We are seeking a Conservation Scientist to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for 12 months. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of res...

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