Julia Bădescu
@iuliabadescu.bsky.social
Primatologist | Chimpanzees, Colobus | Prof at Université de Montréal | SMBC to 💫 AuDHD kid | Still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
It's World #RiverDolphin Day! 🐬 Take a moment today to learn about these remarkable species and the challenges they face 👉 https://ow.ly/H0p85100zhI Together, we can help ensure river dolphins continue to thrive for generations to come 🌍
Had a nice morning being interviewed for a documentary about some very special chimpanzees. Coming soon!
That's cool! I thought all chimpanzees went crazy for honey. At Ngogo, some females will risk their newborns getting stung in the face beyond recognition for some sweet, sweet honey.
Thibaud Gruber@thibaudgruber.bsky.social · 4d agoFlashforward: by adding a new community, we can triangulate behaviour, attitude and motivation. In particular, while Bugoma chimps have the same cultural toolkit for honey as the Kibale chimps, they share the (mildly uninterested) attitude of the Budongo chimps towards honey. 5/7
New paper alert!! 🐵🌿🌴 The Bugoma chimpanzees use sticks to get honey... Or at least one of them! Meet Engineer, the first chimp (out of over 80 chimps across 3 communities) who used multiple tools to solve the honey-trap experiment: sticks, leaf-sponges, and the entire brush. 1/7
Greeks: sculpture is about the ideal body, perfect proportions, beauty through which we can experience th— Etruscans, over in the corner:
I’ll have to go behind my partners back and get his work framed 😏
Go to your camera and search ‘boat’ and post one that you like. København in October 2024
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · last wk.Go to your camera and search ‘boat’ and post one that you like. The working harbour of Rivière au Renard from this September.
Bioanth on🔥these days with queer + feminist science: "Using the lens of queer monster theory, I investigate the relationship between the study of callitrichid chimerism and the conceptualization of callitrichid and human bodies, with particular attention to the role of “queer” sex and reproduction."
Of Monsters and Monkeys: Queering the Study of Genetic Chimerism in Primates
Scientific research is a political enterprise, and is therefore susceptible to cultural biases. With its central role in understanding humans as a species, primatology is particularly vulnerable to t...
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Rétrospective ! Au début du mois, des étudiant.e.s aux cycles supérieurs du département étaient au Collège Ahuntsic pour présenter leurs recherches aux élèves du parcours Sciences Humaines. Bravo à Viviane, Mathieu, Florence, Kévin, Maïka, Juan, Matteo et Benoit pour ce moment de partage !
Tree Guy again (this is still just a sketch, hoping to do a traditional painted version)
Something that comes up a the time in books about scientists studying animals is the tension between how they are expected to act like a dispassionate, “objective” observer, and the realities of being a human who has personal interest and empathy for the animals they study.
A new preprint, co-authored with a great group of collaborators who joined us in Aarhus almost a year ago: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Playing at scale: a long-term population perspective on the relationship between play and innovation
The multifaceted relationship between play and innovation has long fascinated scholars across disciplines. Yet, we lack robust empirical evidence regarding the causal pathways that may connect these t...
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Is this supposed to discourage me from seeing the movie?
My favourite show where everyone whispers all the time is on Netflix … in the US but not in Canada. Booo. Give us Felicity! 🇨🇦
Felicity
ALT: Felicity
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Filtered sunset across a very still bay. Ventnor, NJ
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
Space is bluish black and glossy as solid water and moving very fast in all directions, shrieking past the woman who stands pinned Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 3w agoBREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Honestly though, Arthur introduced millennial kids to the best music, art and philosophy. The episodes with Taj Mahal and Koko Taylor were so damn good! They made 10-year-olds get into the blues
I'm A Woman
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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane@dianamonkey.bsky.social · 3w agoHello fellow New England Millennials, Arthur premiered 30 years ago today on October 7, 1996 on @wgbh.org!