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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 7d

Also, I'm Ngogo West 4 life 💔

Only because West females are so awesome. The West males are a little unhinged...

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 7d

Study to help explain very rare and violent (horrifying for me to see) intracommunity split among Ngogo chimpanzees. Changes in female # and residence patterns affected male grooming networks, which likely negatively affected male affiliative bonds.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Changes in Grooming Networks Among Male Chimpanzees Preceding a Permanent Community Fission at Ngogo

Chimpanzees form social communities with memberships that change only with births, deaths, and female emigrations or immigrations and that are characterized by high fission-fusion dynamics. Relations...

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 8d

For us primatologists studying infanticide: here's a novel investigation in capuchins of the Bruce effect (i.e., spontaneous miscarriage in response to new adult male). No evidence of Bruce effect despite capuchins being a good candidate species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?

Infanticide by males is an extreme form of sexual conflict that can increase male reproductive success at a cost to female reproductive success. Femal…

www.sciencedirect.com

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 8d

This is cool. Adoption of orphaned youngsters in chimps is relatively well documented, but I had not read or heard about this yet in orangs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A Case of Sibling Adoption in Wild Orangutans: Accelerated Development of Independence Following Maternal Loss

Vanna/Ronnie lost her mother Veli when she was between 4.2 and 5 years old (pictured together on the left). Subsequently, Vanna/Ronnie was seen traveling with and sleeping in the same nest as her old...

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 8d

Applies also to primatology’s gendered, hetero, judeo-christian interpretations of behavior. Authors describe macaques rubbing sticks in genitalia. Disciplinary bias flags masturbation but authors don’t even mention that. Instead talk about itchiness. Point made is the absence of usual explanation!

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 8d

Upon further reflection, what I enjoy here is that a stark point is made by authors, within the absence or silence of what’s not being said. The evolutionary biologist’s disciplinary bias flags the absence of the usual paradigm, which is the actual argument made. Brilliant, imo.

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 9d

This is great for many reasons (summary of feminism in primatology, unique discussion on sex/gender) but what I like most is authors' description of macaques studied. They ignore (assume deliberately) kin selection + socioecology in favor of semi sociocultural approach. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13...

Engendered Primatology: Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists from Gender and Animals in History: Yearbook of Women’s History 42 on JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

www.jstor.org

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 9d

This is so good because done subversively, without explanation! To a non-primatologist, they wouldn't even be able to tell but it's such a new perspective for those of us programmed to think through the evolutionary, adaptationist lens. Love it.

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 9d

This is great for many reasons (summary of feminism in primatology, unique discussion on sex/gender) but what I like most is authors' description of macaques studied. They ignore (assume deliberately) kin selection + socioecology in favor of semi sociocultural approach. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13...

Engendered Primatology: Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists from Gender and Animals in History: Yearbook of Women’s History 42 on JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

www.jstor.org

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 9d

someone told me they take Tylenol to replenish their autism the way one grabs blue globes to replenish their mana and I can’t stop smirking

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yvesbroeckx.bsky.social @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · 12d

I U N M O O R E D I

Unmoored — a fractured self adrift.
Ghosts dissolve into pale washes, while violent slashes of crimson and black tear across the canvas.
A portrait of dissociation, of consciousness slipping free, unanchored.

- The Asylum Art -
Art and words by Yves
#blueskyart #cptsd #Art

$Unmoored captures the disintegration of self and reality through a fractured, atmospheric composition. Pale washes of gray, ivory, and muted blue bleed into one another, their blurred transparency evoking a sense of drifting detachment. Violent slashes of black and crimson erupt across the surface, sudden intrusions that shatter the stillness with raw intensity. Scraped passages expose the bare canvas, hollow voids where presence collapses into absence. Ghostlike figures flicker at the edges of form, dissolving before they can take shape, leaving only smears and spectral drips. Layers overlap without anchoring, creating depth that refuses stability—floating, untethered, between states of being. The brushwork shifts between jagged urgency and nearly invisible veils of paint, embodying the oscillation between sensory overload and numbing emptiness. At once distant and intimate, Unmoored speaks to the painful beauty of a consciousness slipping away, untethered from body and ground, lost in the fragile in-between. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art concept and execution by Yves$

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 13d

But then your kid shows up one morning with a black and blue cheek he got being rowdy in the school gym and the bus driver is shocked and confused.

oprah winfrey is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .

ALT: oprah winfrey is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 17d

Pseudo-penis who?? Elongated clitorises are out (sorry spider monkeys), male genitalia resembling vaginas are in! Yet another reason why colobus are the coolest primates.
Also, Tom Struhsaker is continuing to publishing iconic articles.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The perineal organ of male red colobus: its structure and possible social function as a mimic of female genitalia - Primates

The perineal organ of male red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) is illustrated with photographs. I discuss its possible role as a mimic of female genitalia and how thereby it may play a rol...

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 19d

Haha. You know I forgot about this comic. It might be a bit too risqué for my slides 🤣

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 19d

Just some Evolutionary Biology humor for myself and the void, on this crisp September morning. Darwin and Wallace are rolling over in their graves.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 19d

hello friends, it's STFU Friday and this is your reminder that no one can make you do anything. they CAN maybe make you WISH that you HAD done something, but...no one can MAKE you do ANYTHING, okay? ok be safe ILY 🫶🏻

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 19d

Sexual selection IS problematic, but talking about peacock tail feathers and other ridiculous secondary sexual characteristics in (mostly) males, is so much more fun than explaining Peppered Moth wing color variations during the industrial revolution in England!

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 19d

Every year, when I'm about to teach the most important foundational topic of my undergrad courses, which is Evolution by Natural Selection, I catch myself thinking: "I wish natural selection was more like sexual selection"... in that I wish it were more fun and sexy.

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

The patterns of nipple switches from left to right, right to left nips is also fascinating... and the suck rate changes in relation to the switches

iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

I should say, I do have a couple of videos of entire nursing bouts where infant jaw movements are visible

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

I'm really motivated lately to get to these data. It's been on my ms to-do list for 8 years 😅

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

Yes, I actually thought of you! I would like to chat, yes. You used video recordings to count suckling ratio/rate? I free-eyeballed it... lol. Let me extract and organize all these data from spreadsheets, and I'll get in touch. Would be so cool to do an orang-chimp comparison...

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

Their version of 'milk & cookies'. Cute

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Kane the Ghoul Wrangler @demikane.bsky.social · 21d

Unhinged meal time in Monster Hunter Wilds

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

I do wonder, if figs are too dry, maybe mixing in maternal milk can make chewing the pulp easier.

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iulia bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 21d

Looking through my data- surprised by the number of suckling bouts where infants still have figs in their mouth while simultaneously nursing... 🤣 Oh, these chimp kids. Gotta love em.

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