Taï Chimpanzee Project
@taichimpproject.bsky.social
Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.
www.taichimpproject.org
www.taichimpproject.org
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Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery
Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies
and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪
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Is this wolf using a tool to get a seafood snack? Or does it not count, because the animal didn't construct the trap itself? @phiejacobs.bsky.social dives into that debate, plus more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Is this wolf using a tool to get a seafood snack? Or does it not count, because the animal didn't construct the trap itself? @phiejacobs.bsky.social dives into that debate, plus more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new Science study suggests domestic dogs began developing their distinctive forms thousands of years before humans started shaping modern breeds. https://scim.ag/4nVRhNq
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology
Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
While the range of physical diversity dogs show is often thought to be the result of intense breeding over the last 200 years, a new Science study suggests domestic dogs began developing their distinctive forms thousands of years before humans started shaping modern breeds. https://scim.ag/4nVRhNq
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Less than two weeks left to submit your nominations for the Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination by Dec. 1! shorturl.at/p70wY
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Less than two weeks left to submit your nominations for the Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination by Dec. 1! shorturl.at/p70wY
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Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
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Deadline extended to Nov 26!
Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q
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international.au.dk/about/profil...
Full Professorship(s) in Archaeology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Deadline extended to Nov 26!
Day 1 of 5 days of quarantine. Looking forward to seeing the chimpanzees soon.
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Day 1 of 5 days of quarantine. Looking forward to seeing the chimpanzees soon.
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The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too
go.nature.com/4p7OH7W
go.nature.com/4p7OH7W
Be rational: chimp decision-making is guided by the strongest evidence
Nature - The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too.
go.nature.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of rational thought too
go.nature.com/4p7OH7W
go.nature.com/4p7OH7W
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Such a dream to be able to contribute to the autumn issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social
Still can’t get over both the gorgeous artwork & that we get to be issue neighbours with @questlove.bsky.social & all these incredible musicians and poets 🥹🥰 🧪
Still can’t get over both the gorgeous artwork & that we get to be issue neighbours with @questlove.bsky.social & all these incredible musicians and poets 🥹🥰 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Such a dream to be able to contribute to the autumn issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social
Still can’t get over both the gorgeous artwork & that we get to be issue neighbours with @questlove.bsky.social & all these incredible musicians and poets 🥹🥰 🧪
Still can’t get over both the gorgeous artwork & that we get to be issue neighbours with @questlove.bsky.social & all these incredible musicians and poets 🥹🥰 🧪
Today, we are travelling from Guiglo to Taï and hopefully enter the forest to start quarantine. The piste is in a horrible state, and so we are stuck in traffic waiting for a big truck to be pulled out of a huge mud hole.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today, we are travelling from Guiglo to Taï and hopefully enter the forest to start quarantine. The piste is in a horrible state, and so we are stuck in traffic waiting for a big truck to be pulled out of a huge mud hole.
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Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Samuel Macaulay 👇
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Synthesizing stressor–biodiversity relationships" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maybe the explosion of diversity among dogs didn't really start in the Victorian era! "Now, a new analysis of canine skulls spanning the last 50,000 years suggests that even early dogs came in an array of shapes and sizes." #dogs #bioarchaeology #archaeology #anthropology
The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse
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November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Maybe the explosion of diversity among dogs didn't really start in the Victorian era! "Now, a new analysis of canine skulls spanning the last 50,000 years suggests that even early dogs came in an array of shapes and sizes." #dogs #bioarchaeology #archaeology #anthropology
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📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇
📢 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
August 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇
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This is one of the last known images of the now extinct Slender-billed Curlew taken by Chris Gomersall in 1995.
Chris will kindly be donating £10 from every print sold to Curlew Action.
Find out more and purchase yours now: www.chrisgomersall.co.uk/slender-bill...
Chris will kindly be donating £10 from every print sold to Curlew Action.
Find out more and purchase yours now: www.chrisgomersall.co.uk/slender-bill...
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is one of the last known images of the now extinct Slender-billed Curlew taken by Chris Gomersall in 1995.
Chris will kindly be donating £10 from every print sold to Curlew Action.
Find out more and purchase yours now: www.chrisgomersall.co.uk/slender-bill...
Chris will kindly be donating £10 from every print sold to Curlew Action.
Find out more and purchase yours now: www.chrisgomersall.co.uk/slender-bill...
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A coalition of international organizations has launched the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme to tackle the region’s deepening fisheries decline. The WASOP initiative aims to curb illegal fishing, restore marine ecosystems, and promote a sustainable blue economy.
West Africa’s oceans get $68 million lifeline amid fisheries decline
A coalition of international organizations has launched the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme to tackle the region’s deepening fisheries decline. Led by the IUCN (the global wildlife…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A coalition of international organizations has launched the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme to tackle the region’s deepening fisheries decline. The WASOP initiative aims to curb illegal fishing, restore marine ecosystems, and promote a sustainable blue economy.
Leaving Abidjan with a full car of supplies. I started the next part of the jounry this morning. Together with Zoro, Leveda and Blanche, Sidiki and I hit the road to Soubré, for a meeting with Director of Taï National Park.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Leaving Abidjan with a full car of supplies. I started the next part of the jounry this morning. Together with Zoro, Leveda and Blanche, Sidiki and I hit the road to Soubré, for a meeting with Director of Taï National Park.
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Social behaviour happens over time - so we can gain insights if we analyse it as it happened:
New paper!
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Social behaviour happens over time - so we can gain insights if we analyse it as it happened:
Arrived in Abidjan with meetings at the office of the newly installed International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Moneky Protection for Intact Cultures (short IRL 2041 ChiMP4IC - or Chimps for Ivory Coast).
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Arrived in Abidjan with meetings at the office of the newly installed International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Moneky Protection for Intact Cultures (short IRL 2041 ChiMP4IC - or Chimps for Ivory Coast).
On the way to visit the IRL on Chimpanzee and Money Protection for Intact Cultures in Abidjan and the Taï Chimpanzee Project to see the progress we have done in the last year. Here flying out of Lyon with a sunrise over the Alpes
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On the way to visit the IRL on Chimpanzee and Money Protection for Intact Cultures in Abidjan and the Taï Chimpanzee Project to see the progress we have done in the last year. Here flying out of Lyon with a sunrise over the Alpes
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🌍 Mongabay is hiring!
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Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🌍 Mongabay is hiring!
Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
Now recruiting:
🗞️ Contributing Editor (Oceans) - buff.ly/HsXXLKW
📊 Engagement Editor - buff.ly/94vR1n9
✍️ Wire Reporter (Asia) - buff.ly/uSx1FiK
Apply now!
Join a global newsroom covering oceans, data strategy & climate storytelling.
Now recruiting:
🗞️ Contributing Editor (Oceans) - buff.ly/HsXXLKW
📊 Engagement Editor - buff.ly/94vR1n9
✍️ Wire Reporter (Asia) - buff.ly/uSx1FiK
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Excited to unveil official #CMSCOP15 logo & slogan!
“Connecting Nature to Sustain Life” highlights role of ecological connectivity in conserving ecosystems supporting migratory species & human well-being, while Brazil-shaped logo celebrates country’s rich biodiversity: www.cms.int/news/2025028...
“Connecting Nature to Sustain Life” highlights role of ecological connectivity in conserving ecosystems supporting migratory species & human well-being, while Brazil-shaped logo celebrates country’s rich biodiversity: www.cms.int/news/2025028...
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to unveil official #CMSCOP15 logo & slogan!
“Connecting Nature to Sustain Life” highlights role of ecological connectivity in conserving ecosystems supporting migratory species & human well-being, while Brazil-shaped logo celebrates country’s rich biodiversity: www.cms.int/news/2025028...
“Connecting Nature to Sustain Life” highlights role of ecological connectivity in conserving ecosystems supporting migratory species & human well-being, while Brazil-shaped logo celebrates country’s rich biodiversity: www.cms.int/news/2025028...
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1/2 Menopause in gorillas
28% of the mountain gorillas studied here were going through behavioral menopause (not endocrine menopause, similar to elephants). The hypothesis that seems to explain this best is that of the mother, not the grandmother.
(paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
28% of the mountain gorillas studied here were going through behavioral menopause (not endocrine menopause, similar to elephants). The hypothesis that seems to explain this best is that of the mother, not the grandmother.
(paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
1/2 Menopause in gorillas
28% of the mountain gorillas studied here were going through behavioral menopause (not endocrine menopause, similar to elephants). The hypothesis that seems to explain this best is that of the mother, not the grandmother.
(paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
28% of the mountain gorillas studied here were going through behavioral menopause (not endocrine menopause, similar to elephants). The hypothesis that seems to explain this best is that of the mother, not the grandmother.
(paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus
Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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✨Check out this new publication✨
Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
Read the full article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
Read the full article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Object play in Tsimane children: implications for sex-specific division of labour - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
✨Check out this new publication✨
Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
Read the full article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
Read the full article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...