Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data.
Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions.
tinyurl.com/TREEshifts
Things I thought I’d never say - here’s a new manuscript of cockroach and rat collective intelligence. We argue group-level intelligence can emerge from very different mechanisms—from simple local rules to socially mediated cooperation and learning:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
PLS RT📣
Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms
(Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green)
🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...
🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...
There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting!
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Thrilled to be awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Project Grant! We’ll investigate how primates use facial expressions to construct mental representations of their social world.
Jobs coming soon, watch this space: 3-year postdoc + PhD position available 👀
Happy Avril 14th to those who celebrate: youtu.be/uxTdTaNIUxo?...
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Meet Crinkle, an excellently named monkey and the first Barbary macaque to have their whole genome sequenced. We hope this is a big step forward in the conservation of the species: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@shump.bsky.social @plasticprimates.bsky.social
Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens
Out now and led by the impeccable GJ Jeunen: a new way to squeeze #eDNA sequences from preserved natural samplers!
NO need to damage the old specimens: just take out the DNA leached into the ethanol!
Also: we have a new entry into the #nsDNA world: #bryozoa!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We’re saddened by the passing of Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas, the last of the “Trimates” alongside Jane Goodall & Dian Fossey. Her work transformed our understanding of orangutans, and ourselves.
Thank you for your legacy.
Learn more: www.cbc.ca/news/science...
2026. World’s oldest dog identified at ancient hunter-gatherer site | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Brilliant research, insightful discovery - and what a FABULOUS COVER PHOTO!
Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
Gulls may facilitate landscape connectivity via nutrient and pathogen transport and deposition. Using GPS tracking, this #RSOS study analysed the foraging movement networks of breeding American #herring and great black-backed #gulls from two colonies: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
New study shows that many animals like the same sounds as we do - suggesting a shared aesthetic sense (further evidence that animals' perceptual worlds are an important part of their welfare experience)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨 The deadline for the ASAB Student video contest is 20th March - you can enter by following this link: asab.org/videos - this is a great way to showcase your research or even an area of animal behaviour that interests you! Plus you could win £100!! 💰💰 @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.
Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.
📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
The University of Tübingen seeks applications for a W3-Professorship in Experimental Biodiversity Research starting Oct 1, 2027. Apply by April 26, 2026. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700 #job
Strathclyde University has a ~£35m deficit
Over 100 staff earn > £100k. Vice Chancellor gets package > £400k
6-figure salary group alone represents ~ 40% of deficit
Strathclyde's answer isn’t trimming at the top, it’s cutting jobs lower down
news.stv.tv/west-central...
Heading into the weekend with that TFIF mbchimp style!!
#soundon #TGIF #chimpanzee #moyenbafing 🧪
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Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)
We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution
marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...
📣 Job Alert 🏺🧪
A great opportunity!
Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
REMINDER: The Society for the Study of Human Biology 2026 call for grants is open, deadline 27th March. Details of how to apply & past awardees: www.sshb.org/funding-gran.... DM me with any questions.
