Adriana Luna
@adrilunamartz.bsky.social
Ethology and conservation 🐾🌿🪶
Studying individual differences, communication and cognition | PhD at MPI Animal Behavior, Orangutan cognition and curiosity 🦧🍃
Studying individual differences, communication and cognition | PhD at MPI Animal Behavior, Orangutan cognition and curiosity 🦧🍃
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
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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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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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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After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
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Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
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Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
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📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
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Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
For inquiries: [email protected]
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Barn Owl studies in my Steamline sketchbook. Such pretty owls, but every bird artist knows, those pesky feathers, each with small spots and that little eye on the end, make for challenging painting!
Watercolor and a bit of colored pencil
#animalart #birdart #sciart #owlpainting
Watercolor and a bit of colored pencil
#animalart #birdart #sciart #owlpainting
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Barn Owl studies in my Steamline sketchbook. Such pretty owls, but every bird artist knows, those pesky feathers, each with small spots and that little eye on the end, make for challenging painting!
Watercolor and a bit of colored pencil
#animalart #birdart #sciart #owlpainting
Watercolor and a bit of colored pencil
#animalart #birdart #sciart #owlpainting
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⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
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I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !
September 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !
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#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
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Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!
You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!
You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Second paper out this week 😱😱
We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!
[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!
[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
February 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Second paper out this week 😱😱
We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!
[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!
[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...
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We are looking for a Field Research Assistant:
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
July 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We are looking for a Field Research Assistant:
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
Had a great time joining for the first time #IPS2025
Thanks to all of you who came by to talk about orangutans, learning, culture, and exploration! 🦧🌿
Thanks to all of you who came by to talk about orangutans, learning, culture, and exploration! 🦧🌿
July 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Had a great time joining for the first time #IPS2025
Thanks to all of you who came by to talk about orangutans, learning, culture, and exploration! 🦧🌿
Thanks to all of you who came by to talk about orangutans, learning, culture, and exploration! 🦧🌿
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Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
A beautiful project and an amazing group!
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A beautiful project and an amazing group!
What a dream project!
📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social
@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪
@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪
July 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
What a dream project!
We are looking for a Field Research Assistant:
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
July 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We are looking for a Field Research Assistant:
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
If you want to spend some months working with wild orangutans, this is your chance! 🦧🌳
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News you can use for better sleep 💤
Like us, orangutans need a good night's sleep. If they don't get enough, they squeeze in a nap the next day. They even have a trick: up to 10 mins napping for each hour missed last night. Try it at home.
@livingingroups.bsky.social
www.ab.mpg.de/718751/news_...
Like us, orangutans need a good night's sleep. If they don't get enough, they squeeze in a nap the next day. They even have a trick: up to 10 mins napping for each hour missed last night. Try it at home.
@livingingroups.bsky.social
www.ab.mpg.de/718751/news_...
Orangutans nap to make up for lost sleep
New study reveals that wild orangutans recover from sleep loss with daytime naps, much like humans do
www.ab.mpg.de
June 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
News you can use for better sleep 💤
Like us, orangutans need a good night's sleep. If they don't get enough, they squeeze in a nap the next day. They even have a trick: up to 10 mins napping for each hour missed last night. Try it at home.
@livingingroups.bsky.social
www.ab.mpg.de/718751/news_...
Like us, orangutans need a good night's sleep. If they don't get enough, they squeeze in a nap the next day. They even have a trick: up to 10 mins napping for each hour missed last night. Try it at home.
@livingingroups.bsky.social
www.ab.mpg.de/718751/news_...
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