🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
Delighted to share the special issue “Frans de Waal’s Legacy: Looking Back and Forward” (#Behaviour, April 2026)
👉 brill.com/view/journal...
Honouring #FransdeWaal, this collection reflects on his transformative impact on #Primatology, #Empathy, #Morality and #SocialBehaviour across species.
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó. How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality.
In Playing Possum, @susanamonso.com explores how animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality.
The #paperback edition arrives on 14 April!
Preorder yours here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Philosophy
🚨 4-year PhD 🚨
Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology
with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me
⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20
📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷
--> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪
Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪
PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓
More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
My first story for @science.org covers microscopic spikes on ball python scales that can inhibit bacterial biofilm formation.
Antibacterial microstructured surfaces could be a lifeboat in an ocean of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but only if we understand how they work!
The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j
They can be nutritious, but they can also make one sick?
Cool study showing just how common it is for capuchins to anoint themselves and each other with the antimicrobial toxins produced by millipedes. 🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
INÉDIT 🎬 Elle avait disparu des radars depuis les années 70, pourtant la loutre fait son grand retour, notamment sur le Lez qui traverse Montpellier 🦦. Découvrez dans ce reportage les signes que laisse l’espèce derrière... 🐾
Le reportage 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le-re...
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
Welcome to EvOCRO (Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles), the EU-funded project exploring how crocodiles learn and what their minds can teach us about evolution.
www.instagram.com/p/DRrbV3ACIv... #MarieCurieActions #ComparativeCognition #ConservationScience #ResearchEurope
Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧
We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.
Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026
Comparative Thanatology Highlights — 2025 Edition.
See the thread below for this year’s standout publications.
#comparativethanatology
Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most.
The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.
Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.
Resharing & please pass it on!
ACCE+ PhD project on the molecular evolution of insectivorous mammals that eat toxic amphibians 🦔🐸. Jointly supervised with brilliant colleagues in @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social & open to UK & international students. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social
Hence the importance of having geographical and cultural diversity in editorial/reviewing committees ;)
A three by four grid of example stimuli found in the experimental buffet. The first column shows edible insects: meal worms, crickets, and buffalo worms. The second column shows novel savoury snacks for participants in the UK and Austria: Haldiram's Mullu Murukku, roasted broad beans, and Wah-Yuen fried dough. The third column shows common savoury snacks for the same participants: tortilla chips, crisps, and peanuts. The last column shows visually matched non-foods: Lego, wooden buttons, and wooden clothes pegs.
Figure with four panels. In each panel, the x-axis depicts the four types of stimuli: insect snacks, novel snacks, familiar snacks, and non-food. The top two panels show total dwell time across the experiment and average fixation duration. Overall, participants looked at the insects and novel snacks more than at the familiar snacks and non-food. The bottom panels show disgust and desire-to-eat ratings. Insects are scored as much higher on disgust and much lower on desire to eat compared to novel and familiar foods (both of which are rated low on disgust and relatively high on desire to eat).
Quick post on @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social new paper! We found people looked more at novel foods at an experimental buffet, including insects that they find gross! People suppress disgust avoidance when making foraging decisions.
Blog: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora...
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
@disgust-nerds.bsky.social!
Perhaps insects are processed differently (the gut vs the skin defence system, Kupfer et al. 2021) and not as food items in this population? In chimps, we also observed images of invertebrates having an opposite effect on task accuracy, compared to animal carcasses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky!
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
📢 Calling all primatologists 📢
EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration!
🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application)
Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs...
Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg...
All abstracts will be accepted!
[Concours CNRS] Si comme moi, vous attendiez et que vous n'aviez pas vu passer ça.
Ouverture du concours : (a priori) aujourd'hui 8/12
Dépôt des candidatures : jusqu'au 7 janvier
WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans!
@dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !
Talking about banana research… I think someone had the right socks for it… @atognetti.bsky.social
