There's still time to submit your videos for the ASAB student video contest & be in with a chance to win £100!!! Deadline is 20th March: asab.org/videos @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social

🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions:
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄

BREAKING NEWS:

Meat is not oxygen and you can live without it

Dr Patrick Kennedy, winner of the ASAB Christopher Barnard Award.

🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗

Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.

#worthywinner #ECR #proud

We're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March!
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive... PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...

⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals

UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

DM or email me if you have questions.
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The stage is set for this unique conference.

The stage is now set for this year's ASAB WINTER CONFERENCE

This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️
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Barbara Caspers holding a zebra finch

Our plenary on Dec 16 of #ASABWinter2025 will be by Barbara Caspers. She’ll be presenting data on how individuals respond to chemical cues of family members, and how being related to the scent donour might change their response. 

She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️

Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15-year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial met....

2025. Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe. West African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), now restricted to Niger. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
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We are interested in what capuchin monkeys can teach us about the evolution of sensorimotor intelligence and sensitive discriminative touch. Here, Luna demonstrates an excellent example of skilled hand use!

engineering facts post captioned “one drop of camel tears contains potent antibodies strong enough to neutralize venom from 26 deadly snakes, a breakthrough discovery in anti-venom science” source is questionable, no link to study is provided

in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook

We had a great start to the day with a fascinating and important talk by Prof Jo Setchell, our first Plenary Speaker

It's very unfortunate that I will not be able to attend

Amanda Melin with a camera in the jungle

Our first plenary for #ASABWinter2025 will be by @amelinlab.bsky.social. She will be discussing how fruit traits and color vision variation in primates* shape sensory behaviours during food selection 🍌
 
*White-faced capuchins, Central American spider monkeys and mantled howler monkeys, oh my! 🙊

ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!

@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025

All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself - I’m a primate behavioral ecologist who recently completed my PhD studying female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I am currently looking for post doc and/or teaching positions!

Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops

For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!

And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)

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Hi Nico, were you here too?

Behavior 2025 has come to an end, but Kolkata will remain fresh on my mind. What a beautiful and amazing place and people

Research Grants — ASAB Research Grants of up to £10,000 support original research projects.

ASAB's grants committee has revised the funding criteria for research grants to explicitly allow EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) factors to be taken into account.

If you're planning on submitting a proposal, please use the revised application. New criteria is here: asab.org/research-grants

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Registration for the ASAB conference is now open - come join us!

🎙️In-conference Workshop II

Breaking Down Science Communication by @Kartik Chandramouli and @Shailesh Shrivastava, @mongabay.com @mongabayindia.bsky.social

✅Join us for hands-on training on networks, innovation and cultural transmission through real-world datasets and practical tools.

✅Requirements: laptop with R Studio installed.

Perfect for early-career researchers; no prior experience required.