🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

I had an amazing time attending the @ishe-society.bsky.social congress last week and presenting research from my PhD alongside so many fantastic researchers in the field, all in such a wonderful location. I'm also very pleased to have received a Poster Commendation for my poster talk!

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

This campaign needs you now

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...

As part of our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we have produced a methods paper reflecting on naturalistic observations of children and adolescents in diverse contexts, detailing methods, challenges and recommendations doi.org/10.1002/icd....

Naturalistic Observations of Children and Adolescents in Diverse Contexts: Methods, Challenges and Recommendations

The understanding of child development benefits from varied research approaches, including those that reflect the complexity of children's experiences across diverse and real-world contexts. This art...

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About seven percent of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape - the Tapanuli orangutan - are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a study involving NTU has revealed. @davepetley.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Climate change-fuelled landslides push rarest great ape closer to extinction

About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found.

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How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

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New paper! Being more facially expressive has social network benefits, especially in women. May explain why highly expressive faces have evolved in humans! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... With @bridgetwaller.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social Alisa Balabanova, Robin Dunbar and Jasmine Rollings

Spontaneous facial expressivity predicts real-world social network size and richness

Psychology; Social interaction; Social sciences

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Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of mapping social networks. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/jwhi...

The evolutionary origins of mapping social connections

Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates, Jamie Whitehouse and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of…

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We are currently accepting applications for two positions on this project! Research Fellow/Post doc : tinyurl.com/postdocNTU PhD Student: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU Come work with us! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social @neuroprimato.bsky.social

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 3mo ago

Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of mapping social networks. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/jwhi...

Post-doc position with Jamie Whitehouse on his new Leverhulme grant. Join us at NTU!! @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social

Jamie Whitehouse@jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

New paper alert! Facially expressive people are more popular when strangers meet in group settings, supporting the hypothesis that facial expression has evolved to form and maintain social connections. Alisa Balabanova's PhD with @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social and Tom Kupfer rdcu.be/ffBQi

Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Assistant in Primate Cognition:Hybrid

Research Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.

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Support PSGB Through Crafts and Souvenirs! Are you heading into the field this year? If so, we invite you to bring back more than just data and memories. (see 🧵)

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Biruté Galdikas earlier this week. A pioneer of modern primatology, her lifelong work has shaped the field as we know it today. Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and all those inspired by her legacy. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/biru...

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their f...

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We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

Delighted to be part of this!! Postdoc and PhD jobs to be advertised soon - contact Jamie for informal chats if interested! @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social

Jamie Whitehouse@jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thrilled to be awarded a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Project Grant! We’ll investigate how primates use facial expressions to construct mental representations of their social world. Jobs coming soon, watch this space: 3-year postdoc + PhD position available 👀

One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum

The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

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New Publication Alert 🚨 "Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare" 🐐 w/ Marianne Mason & @amcell.bsky.social Check out @peerj.bsky.social - peerj.com/articles/208... #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalWelfare #NoninvasivePhysiology

New paper showing that the direction and expressivity of faces impacts social attention in macaques - the context of the face matters! @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @kerensarees.bsky.social and Olivia O'Callaghan. @erc.europa.eu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques

Facial expressions play a central role in primate social communication, but in cognitive experiments, they are typically presented out of context and …

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The Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) @primatesocietygb.bsky.social is advertising a vacancy to join their Conservation Subcommittee. PSGB are looking for applicants who have a background in research/protected area management/community conservation/ conservation education.

A few more days left to apply for our PhD studentship in primate cognition at NTU - join us!

Yuri Kawaguchi@yurikawaguchi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques! Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

One more month to apply for this! Please forward to any potential students (UK-only)

Eithne Kavanagh@eithnekavanagh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social. Informal enquires encouraged! www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Control over the many small muscles that create facial expressions—a key communication channel in primates—comes from the neural circuitry that produces voluntary movements, according to new Science research in macaques. https://scim.ag/3Z8tzDs

Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes

Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

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Our Science Perspective on Ianni et al - neural control of facial expressions involves voluntary pathways @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.science.org/eprint/EKJTZ...

Making faces

Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways

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