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Taï Chimpanzee Project
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Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.

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behavecol.bsky.social
INVITED IDEA:
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions

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November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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elmanubohn.bsky.social
⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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nathumbehav.nature.com
In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Sharks, stories and stewardship: How one communicator found her calling beneath the surface | Conservation Careers
Sharks, stories and stewardship: How one communicator found her calling beneath the surface | Conservation Careers
Learn how Esther Jacobs, a conservation storyteller, mother and campaigner, combines emotion with science, and storytelling with advocacy.
www.conservation-careers.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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isf-oeaw.bsky.social
📢 Open PhD position at our Institute: Bioacoustics / cheetah vocal communication 🐆🎶
You’ll study the cheetah’s high-pitched “chirps” that sound surprisingly like birds 🐦— exploring their acoustic structure and function. 👉 Details and application: www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=34u4...
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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elizabethhobson.bsky.social
In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
Graphic showing the paper title “Monk parakeets ‘test the waters’ when forming new relationships” in the journal Biology Letters. Also features photos of the co-authors (Claire, Annemarie, Gerry, and Liz) as well as the issue cover photo of two marked monk parakeets from Claire’s work grooming each other. Also shown are some of the main plots of the paper showing how the parakeets escalate their behaviors from low risk/low investment (like proximity) to higher risk/higher investment interactions (like preening/grooming)
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

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‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic
Evidence that the whales and other marine animals are particularly vulnerable to sound is driving calls for quieter vessels
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢NEW paper out NOW in @asab.org Animal Behaviour on how a novel #call changes subsequent responses to #alarms in #fairywrens

🌟CONGRATULATIONS #NatalieTegtman on #first paper from #PhD
👥With #RobMagrath

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#animalcommunication #birds #fieldwork #ECR

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Female superb fairywren in Australia. Male superb fairywren in Australia.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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asab-meetings.bsky.social
🚨 Important reminder for those who have an earlier grant deadline for #ASABSpring2025 March 23-25 in Bristol 🚨
ccioannou.bsky.social Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 1d
@asab.org Spring, aimed at ECRs, is coming to Bristol!

Conference grant DEADLINE for Developing Country Applicants (<£2500) or anyone needing an early decision for visas (<£750) is in ONE WEEK, 1st December.
www.asab.org/conference-g...

Referee statement also needed by then! 🐝🐜🦟🦂🐠🐟🐬🦎🐸🦆🐿️🦓
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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kirstyfranklin.bsky.social
Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?

We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣

🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:

Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation

UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🎉 The results are in!

Meet the 5 winners of Mongabay’s Wildlife Wonders Photo Contest: Anand G Krishnan, Tayla McCurdy, Gunjan Soni, Divyashree Ashwath & Aqil Fadhlullah.

Huge thanks to judge Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

See the winning photos 👉 www.instagram.com/p/DRec6sdDU6_/
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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nicolasmathevon.bsky.social
theconversation.com/what-babies-...
What babies’ cries really tell us – and why maternal instinct is a myth
Is it possible to interpret babies’ cries in order to understand their needs accurately?
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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richardmoore.bsky.social
If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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richardmoore.bsky.social
I was a reviewer on this paper. It introduces some much needed clarity into primate pragmatics debates, and will become an important touchstone in future research.
marlenfroehlich.bsky.social Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jul 28
Now published! 📝✅📢
Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access).
Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them!

📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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christophvoelter.bsky.social
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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ethos-research.bsky.social
Alban Lemasson et Maël Leroux étaient aux mardis de l’espace des sciences !
Quand les animaux prennent la parole !
Retrouvez leur conférence en ligne ici:
www.youtube.com/live/io6tAYL...
Et leur livre: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...
@espacedessciences.bsky.social
@maelmleroux.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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limorraviv.bsky.social
Interested in the evolution of human language? Check out our new paper in @science.org where we synthesize latest findings and outline a multifaceted, bio-cultural approach for studying how language evolved. Super proud of this work, and hoping it leads to exciting new research! tinyurl.com/ykacvanp
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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twigtechnology.bsky.social
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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jbeehner.bsky.social
Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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shoalgroup.bsky.social
PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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anthropology.net
A new biocultural framework argues that language emerged from the interaction of biology and culture, combining vocal learning, pattern formation, and deep social motivation. A mosaic of traits, not a single evolutionary spark. #Linguistics #Anthropology #Evolution #Science
When Minds Meet Cultures: A New Way of Understanding How Language Emerged
A sweeping biocultural framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary spark but instead formed through layered interactions among bodies, brains, and shared traditions.
www.anthropology.net
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery
Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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nerdychristie.bsky.social
Is this wolf using a tool to get a seafood snack? Or does it not count, because the animal didn't construct the trap itself? @phiejacobs.bsky.social dives into that debate, plus more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM