Two of my favorite things: primates and Jeopardy!!

"In the time it would have taken an orangutan mother to raise two offspring—from 1999 to 2015—half of the island’s orangutans had died."

Lovely surprise to open my newest @smithsonianmag.bsky.social & find this article celebrating the work of BOSF. #Orangutans need all the help we can give them!

"...urban forests can support important populations of primates, particularly endemic and threatened species ... remnant forest patches and green corridors should be prioritized in urban planning strategies to ensure long-term wildlife persistence in rapidly developing landscapes."

Congrats!!!!

Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

🚨 Calling researchers, students, technicians in cognition 🚨

We’re running a 10-min anonymous survey on how animal cognition is defined and studied across disciplines (from ecology, ethology, psychology, neurology, etc). 🧠✨

Scan the QR code & share widely

#AnimalCognition #ResearchSurvey #Science

[Depeche Mode voyce]:

🎶
REACHE OUT
TOUCHE GRASS
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The world has lost one of the biggest figures in Anthropology, Biology, and Conservation to have ever lived. Science will be an emptier place without her, and I can only take solace in knowing that she has inspired entire new generations of researchers who will continue her work. Rest in peace, Jane

Study to help explain very rare and violent (horrifying for me to see) intracommunity split among Ngogo chimpanzees. Changes in female # and residence patterns affected male grooming networks, which likely negatively affected male affiliative bonds.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sounds super neat!! I can’t wait to read it!

Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

Gender-affirming care is suicide prevention.

Please get clear on that.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Lecturing and stand-up comedy have some overlap in that sometimes you plan a joke and sometimes you come up with one on the spot that you know you'll be using over again for the next decade

This Homo naledi silhouette is sending me

(Source: www.nature.com/articles/s42...)

muppetized book covers: thread

New faculty orientation: ✅
First selfie on campus: ✅
First V’s up photo with the Vaquero: ✅

So happy and honored to be starting as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UTRGV! 🤠🧡✌🏼

As someone also working on a book about trees and our relationship with nature, this delights me!

From the archive. An anthropologist goes back to see Sulawesi cave paintings he reported in Indonesia decades ago—and mourns their degradation and loss. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

This was a good idea for a study with cool results. I'm guessing the same doesn't explain dolphin brains. 🧪 #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #primates

Summer sale: $14.97 for my ebook
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Polloc...
Ch2: social norms around sexuality, power and violence, and the role of social institutions
Ch3: how this plays out in sex education curricular debates in TX public schools

Yeah let's use stronger words.

Do say "Abolish ICE"
Do say "Stop Republican Panty-Sniffers from Inspecting Kids' Genitals"
Do say "No Weapons for Genocide"
Do say "Big Bullshit Bill"
Do say "Fuck A.i."
Do say "Protect Trans Kids"
Do say "Hands off our Immigrant Neighbors You Fascist Assholes"

How I feel after a 16-year-old referred to me as a “queer elder”

(Kidding, I love it 😅🥹)

Don’t mind me - I’m just using all of my strength to overcome the temptation to wear this shirt on the first day of classes.