🎉 New paper out in Biological Reviews! 🎉
With 19 brilliant co‑authors from the IUCN SGA's Working Group on Chimpanzee Cultures, led by Crickette Sanz and me, we provide a much needed toolkit on how animal cultures can be built into conservation.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applications are now open for a PhD on collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself. The deadline is soon (31st March) so get in touch with questions.
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Bonobos and bottlenose dolphins may seem worlds apart, but together they reveal key conditions that foster cooperation beyond group boundaries
Heading into the weekend with that TFIF mbchimp style!!
#soundon #TGIF #chimpanzee #moyenbafing 🧪
Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project!
Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵
Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation
📢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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We're looking to hire a field site manager to oversee on-site operations and support our research programme starting as early as August 2025. Hone your management skills in the stunning PNMB 😮 🐵
For more info scan the QR code, and apply soon!
Grateful and honored to receive this award. Thank you @asab.org !!
Liran Samuni shaking ASAB president Melissa Batesons hand
Liran Samuni in front of a slide with bonobos and chimps reading “What can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about the evolution of cooperation and conflict? Liran Samuni” DPZ Emmy northern programm
Congrats to Christopher Barnard Award winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social ! You’ve done some really fantastic work 😍
There’s also nothing like some chimp and bonobo vocalizations to wake everyone up from the after-lunch slump 🙉🙉🙉 #ASABSpring2025
🌿 Join the @mbchimp.bsky.social ! 🐵 Seeking a part-time Data Assistant in Göttingen, Germany. Ideal candidates have experience in GIS and R, and will work with camera trap and spatial data. Dive into chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Guinea's PNMB. #Conservation #DataScience
✨Chimpanzee play and the evolutionary roots of cooperation✨ Dispatch @currentbiology.bsky.social commenting on the fabulous paper by @lirsamuni.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social
link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Great to see Mathilde Grampp's first PhD paper come out - a great study of the links between social uncertainty and signalling complexity in chimps and mangabeys 🐵! Co-authored with @taichimpproject.bsky.social @lirsamuni.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y3n69duv
Feeling extremely privileged that I get to spend my days in the forest with these amazing creatures. Bonobos cooperation between groups is neither random nor rare and brings us a step closer to understanding our own evolutionary past
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sending in an email!
Animal groups usually don’t get along, but human groups can. Now it turns out bonobo groups can be friendly too. Does that mean human group cooperation reaches back millions of years? Here’s my story 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/s...
