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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 4d

For #CtenophoreDay an experience so extraordinary & exquisite if I hadn't captured it on camera I'd have thought it was a dream. Last month, heading into the sunset at end of #MySwim at Shimoda, found myself in a vast raft of ?Mikado Comb Jellies (Bolinopsis mikado) #cilia #CtenoTakeover #Japan🧵1/6

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 5d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 6d

Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...

How embedding tests into conservation practive transforms effectiveness

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 5d

Experts say there are fewer than 10,000 African penguin breeding pairs. A century ago there were 1 million. 🐧

No-fishing zones provide some renewed hope for their survival.

Read more from @theguardian.com :

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

www.theguardian.com

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 5d

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 5d

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 6d

Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why women live longer than men

Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men

tinyurl.com

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight at Poitiers #SFDP

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 7d

Incredible observational skills. Listen to Jane Goodall's analysis of the mother-child relationship with the knowledge we have now.

bbc.com/news/article...

Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins

Those she inspired say she not only revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees - but challenged how we relate to the natural world.

bbc.com

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 7d

Here, talking with immediate rapport to Nyakafungo primary school children and their parents, Budongo Forest, Uganda in 2009.

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, the first primatologist and champion of chimpanzees, we will miss you and the tireless work you have begun, to protect critically endangered chimpanzees and their habitat into the future.

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 7d

Come and join us. Observe and protect wild chimpanzees.

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 7d

The chimpanzees have lost their next champion. It is with deep grief that we learned about Jane Goodall passing away. R.I.P. Dr Jane

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 10d

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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

Working for and with the chimps at @taichimpproject.bsky.social ... this can develop into a PhD project 🎓

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

Please RT

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 12d

📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 14d

📢 JOB alert 📢 Soon we will advertise the position for the next camp manager at @taichimpproject.bsky.social Starting on January 1, 2026, for 2 years plus an optional 1 year prolongation. Come and join a vibrant research team in the middle of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Please RT

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 18d

Enjoy the weekend

Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 20d

New paper alert: Modern human predisposition to alcohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates. Wild chimps consume fermented fruit.
Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees

Natural daily consumption of dietary alcohol by chimpanzees suggests human attraction to alcohol may come from our ancestral diet.

www.science.org

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 20d

New paper alert: Modern human predisposition to alcohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates. Wild chimps consume fermented fruit.
Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees

Natural daily consumption of dietary alcohol by chimpanzees suggests human attraction to alcohol may come from our ancestral diet.

www.science.org

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 26d

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...

Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL

Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 24d

Crows can learn to use tools

The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28d

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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