Congrats to @francescadp.bsky.social for being awarded the 2026 Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology Early Career Investigator Award! And all the other SBNCP honorees as well!

New data science activity! Check out this R module on calculating and analyzing #grooming and #aggression rates in #chimpanzees, using real data from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project Activity information: sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn... Kibale Chimpanzee Project: kibalechimpanzees.wordpress.com

Primates like these #Barbary #macaques at Trentham Monkey Forest love to #groom! We are excited to be back to start some new research examining how these monkeys think and make social decisions.

Did you know male #Barbary #macaques will carry infants from the group? Males show high rates of #infant #handling compared to other primates, and will even carry young, unweaned infants around.

We are hiring! Jointly with @felixwa.bsky.social and the Social Minds Lab at UMich, the Cognitive Evolution Group is accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. More information at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

Check out our new paper on #female affiliation and #status in semi-free-ranging #chimpanzees! This is a collaboration with Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, along with Margaret Bryer, @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and many others! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Female Affiliation and Status in Semi‐Free‐Ranging Chimpanzees

Objectives Sex differences in social behavior and status are pervasive across primates and other mammals. In the wild, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) exhibit many sex-typed behaviors: adult female ch...

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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Stand Up for Science is excited to be hosting almost 200 speakers nationwide at our March 7th, National Day of Action rallies, including Representatives, Influencers, Nobel Laureates, PhD's, Former and current US Heath/Science Officials, and much more!

Check out our new paper on (lack of) #inflammaging in semi-free-ranging sanctuary and wild #chimpanzees, led by @megancole.bsky.social along with many others! A story spanning two sanctuaries, the #Kibale Chimpanzee Project, and a lot of biosamples. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Minimal Evidence of Inflammaging in Naturalistic Chimpanzee Populations

Objectives Whereas chronic inflammation is a hallmark of aging in many human populations, inflammaging is reduced in groups characterized by frequent physical activity and diets low in processed foo...

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We can't believe we have to say this, but POLIO IS REALLY BAD. RFK Jr.'s "independent" "expert" ACIP is destroying the foundations of our public health system. It cannot be clearer: if we want to save lives, we have to #RemoveRFKJr. Take action now: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Applications for #UMich #Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend are in 2 days! If you are thinking about applying to psychology PhD programs in the future this may be for you! The application is short, but the benefits are big lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Alexandra Rosati@alexrosati.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

The Senate is voting on funding for DHS this week. Contact your senator now and tell them to defund and rein in ICE.

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

A 5-year-old detained after preschool. Multiple people shot and killed by federal immigration agents. U.S. citizens arrested by masked officers. Our elected officials have the power to reign in this lawless cruelty — they must use it.

Find your congressional rep: www.house.gov/representati... Find your senator: senate.michigan.gov/senators/all... Rep for Ann Arbor: debbiedingell.house.gov/contact/ Senators for Michigan: www.slotkin.senate.gov/contact/ www.peters.senate.gov/contact/emai...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121

We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

The Trump administration’s illegal military action in Venezuela sets a dangerous precedent for national sovereignty. We must recognize that Maduro’s authoritarian government was illegitimate and oppressive, and that the president cannot unilaterally depose a foreign leader.

Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy. This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.

Thousands of protesters march down Michigan Ave in Detroit to participate in the nationwide No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Video by Finn Gomez #NoKings #Protest #Detroit

Check out this online seminar on #applying to grad school from UMich's #Psychology Department (open to all; register her: lsa.umich.edu/psych/underg...)

Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play? To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others! "Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!

Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees! leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Tolerant and despotic macaques show divergent temperament but similar theory of mind | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The social intelligence hypothesis proposes that the demands of social life shape the evolution of cognition, but different aspects of social interactions may be relevant. To test how competitive vers...

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Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929

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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

The Trump administration lost a shocking 96% of rulings in federal district courts last month, according to a recent analysis by Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts

Read more here.

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An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts

The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.

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