Wildflowers along the Widowmaker Trail in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Please enjoy 🗻🌸❤️🍁

Grateful for the opportunity to present our recent publication on tamarin scent marking behaviour at ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social. Thank you to the organizers, all the great scientists who shared their research, and for the interest in our work! 🐒👃 doi.org/10.1002/ajp....

Responses to Scent Marks in a Wild Group of <i>Leontocebus Weddelli</i>: Insights for Sexual Communication

In wild saddleback tamarins, scent marks from the adult breeding female elicited the highest response numbers and received the most overmarks from adult breeding males. Together, these findings sugge...

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Check out our new paper! 🔗 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New Study Out🚨 In #MolecularEcology we used a new method to measure #DNAmethylation NON-INVASIVELY in wild capuchin monkeys 🐒🧬 We show that epithelial gut cells from feces encode species, age and sex, and can be used to build #aging clocks, run EWAS, and more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Non‐Invasive Measures of <fc>DNA</fc> Methylation Capture Molecular Aging in Wild Capuchin Monkeys

Elucidating the socio-ecological factors that shape patterns of aging in long-lived vertebrates is of broad interest to evolutionary biologists, geroscientists, and ecologists. However, research on a...

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It’s out! We show that fecal cellular DNA methylation profiles provide accurate molecular clock for age estimation in wild capuchins; age-associated differences in DNAm are relevant to development, membrane excitability, and control of cell cycle. New opportunities for epigenetic study in the wild!

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🚨New Study Out🚨 In #MolecularEcology we used a new method to measure #DNAmethylation NON-INVASIVELY in wild capuchin monkeys 🐒🧬 We show that epithelial gut cells from feces encode species, age and sex, and can be used to build #aging clocks, run EWAS, and more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New study 🚨🚨🚨 Using fecal samples collected over 17 years, we tracked antibiotic resistance genes in wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park; one of the last remaining chunks of primary rainforests in West Africa. Study out now in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

“The true number of insect species (globally) is at least 14 to 20 million…” Important work on insect biodiversity out of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, leveraging DNA barcoding doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation | PNAS

Estimating the number of insect species on Earth is a daunting challenge. The current consensus estimate&mdash;about six million species&mdash;is likely far to...

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New post in the Host-Parasite Interactions blog on screwworm- the good, the bad, the ugly. Arm yourself with knowledge! Written by Dr Ruyechan (PhD/ DVM). theparasiteblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/n...

New World Screwworm: an old North American foe on the rise again

By Dr. Maura Ruyechan, DVM PhD I’m sure at this point we’ve all heard at least one or two news reports about the New World screwworm (NWS) outbreak that is currently happening in the United States.…

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Where are the robin’s eggs going? www.wbez.org/environment/...

American robins’ numbers are on the decline. Here’s why and what that might mean.

The numbers of the songbird appear to be dropping not only in the Chicago region but throughout much of the country. Experts say it's another sign many birds in North America are in trouble.

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No one does quality sister time like capuchins. Please enjoy some hand sniffing, courtesy of the tropical dry forest in Área de Conservación Guanacaste.

Does transparency make wings fragile? Investigating wing membrane thickness shows that facing conflicting optical and mechanical needs, wings have evolved thick opaque patches around thin transparent patches, like kite frame around fragile sail: Gomez et al. 2026 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

It takes decades to see how climatic cycles interact with the social dynamics of animal societies. Now a 33-year dataset of 12 capuchin groups + satellite environmental data has an answer. @livingingroups.bsky.social @oddjacobson.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social www.ab.mpg.de/857503/news_...

How do climate extremes alter animal societies?

As climate change intensifies, scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about how animals will cope with a more unpredictable world. One way to gain insight is by studying how animals have alrea...

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Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

One eye, two eyes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evolution of the vertebrate retina by repurposing of a composite ancestral median eye

The vertebrate retina is a uniquely complex and evolutionarily conserved structure, combining ciliary (rod and cone) and rhabdomeric (ganglion, amacri…

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This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A microbiome gut-brain pathway influenced by intestinal metabolites, innate immune responses, vagal nerve signaling and hippocampal memory encoding, impacts the rate of cognitive decline. Many potential points of intervention are described. #Science 🧪

Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline - Nature

Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this g...

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Todd with a Santa Rosa delicacy, squirrel tartare. Capuchins primarily eat fruit/seeds/insects but they are true omnivores. When the opportunity arises they will absolutely hunt bigger prey such as birds, lizards and mammals like this variegated squirrel

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Phylogenetic regression and structural equation modelling of environmental, social and life history traits across the primate clade indicates correlates for same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB), and sugges...

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A new paper in @plos.org Complex Systems from my time at @nimbios.bsky.social with Nina Fefferman. We set out some ways of classifying rules for social learning and knowledge exchange in higher-order networks. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A typology of rules for knowledge exchange in higher-order interactions

Author summary Learning from each other is important to humans and other animals as it provides safe or quick ways to gather information about the world around you. Because of this ‘social learning’, ...

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New paper from our Rwenzori colobus & Sam Stead's dissertation. We examined female glucocorticoids & found a U-shaped distribution with unit size! Females also had increase to parturition & a decrease throughout lactation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ASAB Winter/Spring Newsletter 2026

ASAB Winter/Spring Newsletter 2026

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“Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion andreanum) – quite drab to human eyes – use their birefringent arms to literally twist light, creating a highly conspicuous signal precisely tuned to cuttlefish vision.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-l... 🧪 🐙 🦑

Cuttlefish Literally Twist Light to Attract a Mate, Study Finds

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special.

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Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years

Gardiner et al. reconstruct the diversity of sharks and rays across the past 145 million years using deep learning and an extensive dataset. Their results unveil previously hidden patterns, including ...

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Happy New Year! Delighted and honoured to have our research featured in the top human evolution discoveries of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🎉!

The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists examine the year’s most fascinating revelations

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Final schedule for #ASABWinter2025 is up! We have some fantastic talks and posters ahead of us 🥰 ❄️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 asabwinter.github.io/2025/schedule/