On the tail of the announcement of my new Behavioural Conservation group at @idiv-research.bsky.social, I can also say... I'm hiring! We're looking for a Project Assistant (60% FTE) to join our "Conserving Cultures" project. Job posting: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...

Project Assistant (m/f/d/x)

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A shy tree-dwelling monkey with pinkish-orange lips and a black face, known locally in the DRC as Likweli, has been registered scientifically as a new species, and named Colobus congoensis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Original research article: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DRC forest

Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.

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I am very pleased to say that the new IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social website is out 🤗 thanks to former PhD student @romainlefevre.bsky.social for the beautiful work!: ibac.info

International Bioacoustics Society (IBAC) | Since 1969

Welcome to the International Bioacoustics Society. Join our global community studying biological sounds, animal communication, and eco-acoustics.

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Life in MoyenBafing gets pretty exciting for us too! Come help us learn about these incredible chimpanzees and the wonderful MB landscape they live in! RA positions in our field team from July, apply now! 🧪

The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project@mbchimp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re hiring Research Assistants with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help contribute to a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply now (open until filled, starting dates from July). More info👇or dm for Qs #conservation #science #fieldwork #primates 🧪

NEW fieldwork grant for primatologists❗ 🐒🐒🐒 📍to cover fieldwork costs in primate research & conservation 📍up to 20.000 EUR per project! 📍by the MuT Foundation: mut-freiburg.org Advert: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w... Please share 🔄

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🎉 New paper out in Biological Reviews! 🎉 With 19 brilliant co‑authors from the IUCN SGA's Working Group on Chimpanzee Cultures, led by Crickette Sanz and me, we provide a much needed toolkit on how animal cultures can be built into conservation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Identifying practical pathways from animal culture theory to conservation practice

Wildlife conservation has traditionally focused on the maintenance of population size, preserving genetic diversity and protecting habitats, with success typically measured through stable or increasi...

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So excited by paper on Bonobo Gal Pals with Kirsty Graham is now out in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology! 🧪 #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just Gal Pals! The Differential Treatment of Sexual Behavior Among Nonhuman Great Apes

Are bonobos just gal pals? We outline historical interpretations of same-sex sexual behavior in bonobos and propose ways of queering this research that expand the study of both same-sex and mixed-sex....

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Do young bonobos and chimpanzees become independent from their mothers at the same age?🤔 Answers can be found in this cool new study led by @jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social 👏👏👏, which was an absolute pleasure to be part of.

Jolinde Vlaeyen@jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

The spotlight video for the ChimpFACS Extension for bonobos is out: youtu.be/qijxWubdyNU?...

Adapting the Facial Action Coding System for chimpanzees to bonobos

YouTube video by PeerJ

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🐾 Just out & open access! Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound, Vol. 2 🎶 From insects to elephants and whales—how animals use & are affected by sound. Thanks to Christiane Erbe & all co-authors (me included)! 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

Marlen Fröhlich@marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

1/n Hot off the press! The first empirical chapter of my PhD and the fruit of a hugely collaborative project led with Franziska Wegdell and Johanna Schick is out! We explore if immature-directed vocalisations are present and in what quantity in wild great apes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes

Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.

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📰 🐒 These exciting new results from our consortium are also featured in an article from The New York Times, by Carl Zimmer. 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

NCCR Evolving Language@nccrlanguage.bsky.social · last yr.

📰 Humans from different cultures talk to their children using “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. But according to new research, this characteristic is however far from prevalent in our closest relatives, the non-human great apes... evolvinglanguage.ch/baby-talk-a-...

One thing that makes humans remarkable is baby talk. And that might be one reason why we have language. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/4k5duXd

Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

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We studied the evolution of infant-directed communication by comparing vocal input rates across great apes! A collaborative study led by @carolinefryns.bsky.social, Johanna Schick and me; www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

🌍 Dream of adventure in the heart of Africa? Boost your career in conservation or research as a field researcher on wild bonobos in the DRC! Paid, full training, project management skills & epic experience await. Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research

New paper on the role of peers in language acquisition: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development

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Working with @wildcognition.bsky.social on this paper was so much fun: drawing from our research with mammals (primates & hyenas) we discuss to what extent the urban niche poses novel cognitive challenges or whether they are exapted to exploit urban resources link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How cognitively demanding is the urban niche? Reconsidering exaptation and habituation - Animal Cognition

Urbanization is hypothesized to create a myriad of cognitive challenges for animals because it creates novel environmental conditions in evolutionary terms. The consensus is that these novel urban cha...

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📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participants felt the discovery in the abstract was more important when the author was male & spent more time reading it(114s for male authored; 98s female). www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Men Get More Patent Credit Than Women, Even For The Same Idea

A new study finds that scientific papers authored by women are cited less often in patented inventions than those by men. Here's the reason and why it matters.

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Many fields use video coding + interrater reliability. But: how reliable are those reliability tests? No standards exist for sample size, clip choice, or metrics - a blind spot. We present BRAVO—a first workflow to improve reliability by restricting coders DOF. [Paper is OA] #Reproducibility

Bonobo Sanctuary, Lola Ya Bonobo, is flooded. Financial help is needed to help them restore their facilities and keep the bonobos safe.

Chris Krupenye@chriskrupenye.bsky.social · last yr.

The world's only sanctuary for one of our closest relatives, the endangered bonobo, is experiencing severe flooding. Please consider donating to help them navigate this crisis: savebonobos.org/FloodRelief

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

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🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 – My first PhD paper is out as a preprint! Need a break from everything happening in the world? Time to focus on #great #apes 🐵✨. We investigated whether wild #bonobo infants develop more slowly than #chimpanzee infants, but the answer isn’t so clear-cut!

bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition@biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great Ape Childhoods: Development of infant bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643318v1