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Wendel van der Sluis
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Associate Editor, Life Sciences at De Gruyter Brill: Promote articles on animal/human behavior, cognition, anthropology, primatology, amphibians, zoology, sensory perception, insects and related fields published by the Life Sciences unit.
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Long-tailed macaques show prosocial behaviour in a group service task – despite steep hierarchies and no cooperative breeding. They helped others, especially kin, supporting the dyadic interdependence hypothesis.

👉Full #OpenAccess paper: brill.com/view/journal...

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Swing set apparatus, the macaque (the provider) in position 0 is providing a food reward to another individual (the receiver) in position 1. The macaques can see and interact with each other through an opening in the wall. The macaque in position 0 cannot reach for the bucket in position 1, because it has to let go of the rope. Citation: "Despotic long-tailed macaques benefit others in a group service paradigm" by Edwin de Laat, Sophie Waasdorp, Tom Roth, Jorg Massen & Liesbeth Sterck in Behaviour 2025; 10.1163/1568539X-bja10338.
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#OpenAccess study uses micro-CT + morphometrics to map skull evolution in Triturus. Marbled/pygmy newts have broad skulls; crested newts are narrow – yet both equally diverse. Shows distinct evolutionary paths. Contrib Zool: 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

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📷 Dorsal (left) and ventral (right) view on the surface model of the skull of Triturus rudolfi (specimen RMNH.RenA 51786 from Cercal, Portugal). The black dots are landmarks used to characterize skull shape.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🚀🪰 Insects are taking over … science!

#BugBook brings researchers together to standardize methods & speed up #Edible #Insect innovation. Crunching #Bugs, not data chaos! Fully #OpenAccess in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 🦗📊

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November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🦗🪰🪲🐛 Insect chefs & cookbook collectors, ASIFF wants your recipes & cookbooks! Share edible insect recipes – traditional or modern – to help document culinary & cultural practices.
Send recipes or books titles to Diana Bogueva-Koprinkova at [email protected]
More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/asiff_...
Image of books, open and closed, together with insects like crickets and ants flying in the air with the following writing "Call for Resources, Recipes with edible insects" by ASIFF Working Group Consumer Perception of Insects as Food and Feed.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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This image shows a Finnish Puutalo Oy prefab house in the ’40s–’50s that was exported globally. The company exported a whole model of agile, climate-specific, user-friendly design.

New research shows how its “standard” systems were anything but.

Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
Component parts of one complete house packed for transportation. Citation: "From Forests to Houses — The Standard Buildings of Puutalo Oy" by Laura Berger, Philip Tidwell & Kristo Vesikansa in the International Journal of Wood Culture 2025; Open Access, https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10053
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Research shows scratch-and-sniff books do more than entertain.👃📚 In 334 titles, scents shift by age: simple for little readers, playful for older kids. Smell aids inference, emotion and social understanding. #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/2213...

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Rank flow of the top 10 most frequently included smells across age groups, based on area under the curve (AUC) of each smell’s age distribution. Smells are ranked within each age group by the cumulative AUC of their presence across books within that developmental stage. Citation: How Scratch-and-Sniff Books Encode Smell Across Development by Jas Brooks, Natalia Kucirkova & Charles Spence in Multisensory Research 2025; https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10176
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Finnish autiotupa cabins − open, free shelters deep in the wild − show how simple wooden huts carry both tangible and intangible heritage. They bridge past and future, as Mari-Sohvi Miettinen @mahvimi.bsky.social notes in her #OpenAccess study:

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This Porontimajoki cabin has a contemporary bitumen roof that is likely from a different era than its wood structures. Photo taken in 2022 by Mari-Sohvi Miettinen. Read more here: Three Heritage Perspectives on Inhabiting Finnish Wilderness Cabins, published in the International Journal of Wood Culture: https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10054.
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Discover the latest in Behaviour! 🐟 Pupfish show off territorial skills, 🐭 mice reveal behaviour patterns, 🐬 dolphins pair up in fascinating ways and 🪰 invasive flies share their mating secrets. A must-read for animal behaviour enthusiasts!

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November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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New in Folia Primatologica: special issue on Domestic Animals and Wild Primates 🐒🐕🐄

From macaques in Bali to lemurs in Madagascar, explore how primates coexist with dogs, cats & livestock in shared landscapes.

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📷 Long-tailed macaques + cattle. Photo Jeffrey V. Peterson.
Cover of Folia Primatologica. Picture of juvenile long-tailed macaques grooming cattle near the Uluwatu temple grounds, Bali, Indonesia. Photograph by Jeffrey V. Peterson.
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Interested in nocturnal primates?🌙🦧

Submit to Folia Primatologica’s special issue on the Natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers!

Guest Editors: Marina B. Blanco, Lydia K. Greene, Sharon Gursky & Anna Nekaris

📅 New deadline: Dec 21, 2025

Details 👉 brill.com/fileasset/do...
Image of a lemur sitting in a tree. Extended deadline for the Call for Papers: natural history of the nocturnal strepsirrhines and tarsiers - Folia Primatologica.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Humans perceive edges, shape & hardness reliably, even with variable touch. A new #OpenAccess article explores haptic invariants via skin–body–environment interactions. 🤲🧠

Insights also guide robotic haptic design. 🤖

📖 Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social: brill.com/view/journal...
(A) Dedicated setup for identifying the biomechanical parameters of the skin model. (B) Skin model to approximate the dynamics of the skin tissue (from Rongala et al., 2024). Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10165.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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🧠✨ An Illusion of Tactile Slip

A 2-part haptic interface creates the feeling of slipping with no actual movement. Different motion frequencies can also control the perceived speed. 🤲

Published in Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social #OpenAccess:
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Figure: (A) Results of Experiment 1 grouped by values of trise. Colour code indicates conditions. For 0.9 s rise time with larger spread, the individual data points are presented. (B) Pooled reaction times per condition. Error bars represent standard deviation of the mean. (C) Results of Experiment 2 grouped by values of common-mode motion amplitudes (0.15, 0.30, and 0.60 mm). Colour code indicates differential-mode motion amplitudes. Error bars represent standard deviations of the mean. Note that the estimated distance is in arbitrary units. Citation: Multisensory Research 2025; 10.1163/22134808-bja10164.
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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📣🐒 The latest issue of Folia Primatologica is now available online, featuring a lovely cover photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid.

Explore the full issue here:
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Cover of the latest issue of Folia Primatologica featuring a lovely photo by Leila M. Porter capturing an adult Weddell’s saddleback tamarin consuming a bush katydid. Explore the full issue here: 👉 https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/96/3-4/ijfp.96.issue-3-4.xml
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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👃 Our sense of smell shapes emotion, memory & mental health. A new #OpenAccess study shows self-awareness of smell varies by task – less insight for faint scents, better alignment for discrimination & identification.

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Woman smelling a brow bottle. Part of an article exploring how accurately we understand our own sense of smell and perception. Published in Multisensory Research.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🐙 Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish … not just shape-shifters, they’re geniuses of the sea! 🌊 Share your research in Minds of the Deep: New Frontiers in #Cephalopod #Behavior #Research, special issue to be published in Behaviour.

📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026
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Image of a cuttlefish for a Call for Papers: New Frontiers in Cephalopod Behavior Research to be published in the journal Behaviour.
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🐍 Slow worms of the Netherlands carry hidden genetic tales! mtDNA barcoding uncovers native lineages, French/Spanish hay-linked imports & unexpected Polish haplotypes 🌿🧬 Tracing origins, movements & hidden diversity across regions.
In #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
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Image of Anguis fragilis for article in Amphibia-Reptilia on mtDNA barcoding reveals native and introduced in Dutch slow worms.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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👀🎶 Your brain naturally links moving shapes with sounds! Mid-level audiovisual patterns show how perception connects across senses – beyond simple features or meanings. Perfect for multimedia design, crossmodal art & immersive experiences.
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Review article on sounds and shapes that aren't random - your brain links them naturally! In Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🎬 Music in film isn’t just background – it changes how we see, feel & remember. Guiding attention, shaping emotion, boosting memory … sound is both art & science. Perfect for movies, VR, & immersive experiences. 🎶In Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social

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Review article on background music that shapes how we see, feel and remember films in the journal Multisensory Research.
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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🐒 The new Behaviour issue honours Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking work and impact on generations of behavioural scientists. Cover + tribute by long-time collaborator Koen Margodt inside.

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Cover of the journal Behaviour with the photo of the late Dr. Jane Goodall.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥
Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating.
TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🧠 How do our senses work together? The Merging of the Senses inspired decades of research – celebrated in a new Multisensory Research @multisensoryres.bsky.social special issue!

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Pioneering multisensory research, shaping generations of scientists. "The Merging of the Senses" in a Multisensory Research special issue!
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🌟 Huge congratulations to Mariska Kret, Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour, on receiving the 2025 Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize from @knaw-nl.bsky.social🏆for her groundbreaking work on emotion, behaviour and social cognition.👏

🔗 www.knaw.nl/en/news/mari...

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Photo of Mariska Kret, recipient of the 2025 Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize from KNAW - the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Spotlight on #Women powering #Africa’s insect value chain 🦗🌍

From collecting and cooking to processing and marketing, women drive the edible insect sector. As insect-based feed industries expand, their vital roles deserve greater recognition and support. 💪🏾

#OpenAccess 🔗 brill.com/view/journal...
Women drive insect-based food and feed production across Africa. Published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📢 Call for Papers!

Folia Primatologica invites submissions for a special issue on “Primates and Invertebrate Prey” 🐒🦧🕷️

Guest Editor: Leila Porter (NIU, USA)

Exploring primate–invertebrate interactions, behaviour, nutrition & ecology amid global change.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Primates and Invertebrate Prey - Folia Primatologica.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Belgian ethicist Koen Margodt had the privilege of collaborating with the world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall (1934–2025) for nearly thirty years. He wrote her obituary, now published in Behaviour, following her death on October 1, 2025.

You can read it here: doi.org/10.1163/1568...
October 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM