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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · 5d

Had the pleasure of meeting Jane Goodall once, in 2011 while in grad school in Buffalo NY. This clip captures how she related to and inspired the public just as much as she inspired generations of behavioural biologists, conservationists & women in STEM. 💔

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Jane Goodall On Voting To Save The Planet, And Why Male Politicians Are Like Chimpanzees

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 6d

In memory of Dr. Jane Goodall, we're releasing a special podcast episode today. Ira Flatow shares his memories of the renowned primatologist, including a 2002 interview in which they discussed her groundbreaking discoveries and hopes for a better future.

Remembering Primatologist Jane Goodall

Trailblazing chimp researcher and conservationist Jane Goodall died on October 1 at 91.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10d

Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society

This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Aug 31

Back in Thailand, to wrap up the fieldwork phase of our longtailed macaque 'social microbiome' pilot project! Huge thanks to my Project Assistants Tanatcha & Silakorn, & collaborators Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Sunchai Payungporn & Vorthon Sawaswong! Stories to emerge soon... 🐒 💩 🦠 ⛅️ 🇹🇭

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Aug 30

😎😎 symposium and discussion on comparative studies in animal behaviour, organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & Anindya Sinha at @behaviour2025.bsky.social ! Was a pleasure to be part of a 👌 speaker lineup, & present my work on interspecific variation in 🐵 social behaviour!

Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you to everyone who joined our symposium on comparative research in animal behaviour at @behaviour2025.bsky.social! It was great to see such interest & the discussions happening right after the symposium! Looking forward to continue the discussion! 🐅🦍🐍🐋🦘🦚🦏🐫

@asab.org

Audience at the confernce center listening to Jacob's talk

Our symposium speakers, including an expertly photoshopped Greg, standing by the Behaviour 2025 booth featuring a tiger.

Symposium speakers enjoying dinner at a Bengali restaurant.

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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Day 5 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary by @samellisq.bsky.social on a question that I have thought about many times. Why does menopause evolve in some species but not in others? And how do social structures and conflict contribute to their evolution?
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
@asab.org

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Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD @stotra.bsky.social · Aug 29

Had the pleasure of presenting our collaborative work on 🦁 comparative behavior alongside fantastic colleagues at #behaviour2025 @asab.org

Super fun to engage in such a thoughtful symposium on the challenges and future directions of comparative social behavior across species 🦁🐒🧪🔬

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Nicola Koyama @nicolakoyama.bsky.social · Aug 28

Why talk about LGBTQIA+Inclusion in the field?
45% of those participating in fieldwork have faced gender discrimination 👇
#psgbfieldskills2025 workshop
@primatesocietygb.bsky.social
@asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social

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Nicola Koyama @nicolakoyama.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop has started! Great to hear Kat @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social
talk on different perspectives in the development of animal behaviour methods
@primatesocietygb.bsky.social
Thanks to @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social for their amazing support

Kat Almeida-Warren talking to students at the PSGB Field Skills Workshop

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lucky enough to visit the Sundarbans today: where three rivers converge into the Bay of Bengal, mangroves anchor a fragile ecosystem, and swamp 🐅s remain elusive..

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 25

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on the meerkats’ major histocompatibilit...

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ASAB @asab.org · Aug 25

The first plenary speaker of #Behaviour2025 : Prof Susan Alberts !

Prof Albert’s in front of a slide reading of 'The medicine of life':
Social bonds in animal behavior

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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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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Aug 23

🐺Gray wolves' reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park is considered a conservation success. But 30 years later, are they out of the woods?

How Have Gray Wolves Fared 30 Years After Reintroduction?

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 4

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job

More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

PLEASE share widely.

Opportunities — ASAB

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Jul 7

The gist: we show how viruses are naturally embedded ecosystem components, rather than external, merely disease-causing agents. Their occurrence and assembly is strongly influenced by wildlife (host) exposure to environmental factors, here macaques' group living and exposure to humans and livestock

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Jul 7

‼️New paper alert ‼️ in
@ecol-evol.bsky.social ! We show how macaque socio-ecology and their exposure to anthropogenic factors combine to influence Picobirnavirus communities:

dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Anthropogenic Factors and Social Organisation Drive Picobirnavirus Communities in Wild Rhesus Macaques

We assessed the relative importance of host-related, environmental and virus-specific factors in influencing viral communities among wildlife hosts. Among wild rhesus macaques, we found that picobirn....

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thrilled to have heard @willdalrymple.bsky.social at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, on how ancient India transformed the world!

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Jun 6

Interested in field-based primatology? Apply to the PSGB field-skills workshop to be held this August, free of charge (**DL: 18th June**)! @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · May 29

Apply for the 2025 field skills workshop at London Zoo (28-30th Aug)! 🤓 🦧

More info @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-b... and our website: psgb.org/pages/psgb-f....

Want to help us raise money to create opportunities for future primatologists? Consider a donation: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Lauren Wilson @lnwilson.bsky.social · May 29

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵

Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · May 13

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Apr 30

With just 16 Red Wolves known to remain in the wild, every wolf is essential + worth protecting.

#SaveRedWolves

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Apr 25

Asia's carnivore conservation is often focused on big cats, overlooking some of the world's most diverse & ancient wolves 🐺

Research at @wildcru.bsky.social suggests embracing an integrated approach, to help wolves and other less-protected species and landscapes 👇
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Asian wolves are at risk – a holistic approach to conservation is needed

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