Alex Georgiev
@alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social
Primatologist at Bangor University, UK. Studying Zanzibar red colobus https://www.zanzibarredcolobusproject.org
Some big news to share! @rhythmsoflife.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-07...
Bangor University awarded £5 million doctoral training grant from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the rhythms of life
Bangor University has been awarded a £5 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust to establish the Rhythms of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme. Over the next three years the University will r...
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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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I have a better pic of the talk :)
Kirsty MacLeod@kjmacleod.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social conference is in full swing! With great representation from our research group. MRes student Keya did a great job presenting her research so far, with lots more to come! @beps-bangor.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social
I’m a bit biased as I’m married to him BUT this will be a great project and a brilliant opportunity for an evolutionary ecologist who values variety (genomics, fieldwork, entomology) and who’d like to live in beautiful North Wales!
Benjamin Jarrett@bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
Some lovely talks from BEPs colleagues and others today to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday! Reflections on his huge contributions to natural history scicomm with particular reference to primatology from @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social and entomology from @bjmjarrett.bsky.social 🐵 🐞
Announcing our 2026 Conservation Cause 📢🥳 Le Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar (GERP). This fantastic organization is working to protect Madagascar's lemur populations: some of the most threatened mammals in the world, with over 95% of species at risk of extinction.
One of the recent PSGB research grant awardees, Hassan Al-Razi, has published their work on chimpanzee nesting in Current Biology! 🎉 Congratulations Hassan on these exciting new findings, and check out the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thermal adaptation and the potential anticipation of overnight weather in the nesting decisions of chimpanzees
Animals employ behavioral strategies to buffer environmental stress,1,2,3,4 yet it remains unclear whether such adjustments reflect reactive responses…
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The UK is sizzling towards a big Friday next week. David Attenborough’s 100. Uni colleagues what are you doing to mark the day??
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Have you submitted your PhD since April 1st 2024, or might submit by the 31st March 2026? 📖 Do you know a student who wrote an excellent thesis and deserves some recognition? 🏅Nominations are open for the PSGB Napier Medal - submit a nomination by 31st March 2026: www.psgb.org/pages/95-nap...
Napier Memorial Medal | Primate Society of Great Britain
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Do you care about primates, and want to help raise funds to support primate conservation, research, and captive care? 🐒We're looking for a Marketing Administrator to support PSGB's work doing exactly that! 🤩 See the News section on our website for further particulars: www.psgb.org/pages/18-lat...
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#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour
Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.
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We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation
Smashing talk from @cyrilgrueter.bsky.social today at Bangor! Thanks for visiting and for taking time to meet some of our PGR students for lunch ! @beps-bangor.bsky.social
Cyril C. Grueter@cyrilgrueter.bsky.social · 6mo agoMany thanks, @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social, for hosting me in the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University. I greatly enjoyed the visit and our stimulating discussions.
Many thanks, @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social, for hosting me in the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University. I greatly enjoyed the visit and our stimulating discussions.
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff
A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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A more detailed story about @zrcp.bsky.social work at the Winter Meeting of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social in Cardiff last November! www.bangor.ac.uk/sens/news/tw...
Two Bangor students win prizes at the Winter Meeting of the Primate Society of Great Britain in Cardiff | Bangor University
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omg yessss! I'm so happy this has a date AND a rather fabulous cover 🥳🌈🦋
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks@rossbrooks.co.uk · 6mo agoMy first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
Best feeling ever. Sending good news emails to people on a Friday. Sometimes I do LOVE my job.
So yeah second semester has truly started. Welcome to the fray.
New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 7mo agoAmazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Almost four years on since we started work on this project, it feels surreal to have a copy in my hand. @stephanielking.bsky.social @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social
We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality
In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…
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Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing
We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
Beyond excited to have joined Animal Behaviour journal as an actual EDITOR this month! My fave journal that I’ve never published in (yet)!! Please do submit your cool primate papers so I get to read them!! @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social
Missed our #ECBB2026 Plenary Speaker reveals? Not to worry! Here is a quick recap of all the excellent speakers we'll be welcoming at September's meeting!
We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline. www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-... #academicsky #ecbb2026
