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Karyn Anderson

@karynanderson.bsky.social

PhD Candidate researching how primates use sex to navigate their complex social lives | Primate behavioural ecologist | University of Toronto | she/her 🏳️‍🌈🐒

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Karyn Anderson@karynanderson.bsky.social · last mo.

How does our organization of behavioural data impact our interpretations? In this paper, @iuliabadescu.bsky.social explores how classification itself can be a form of interpretation, shaped by our own thoughts and beliefs about what we are seeing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Primate Play and the Classificatory Making of Human Nature

Primate play is often interpreted as a developmental activity through which immature individuals acquire capacities used later in life. This essay uses play to examine a wider process in behavioral r...

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Karyn Anderson@karynanderson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How does our lived experience impact our science? In this essay, Michelle Rodriguez and colleagues reflect on Donna Haraway's Primate Visions, and consider how we can build on feminist primatology to incorporate queer and decolonial perspectives. www.prosocial.world/posts/harawa...

From Objective Science to Situated Perspectives: The Impact of Haraway’s 'Primate Visions' on Understanding Gender and Sexuality in Primatology

Primatology must adopt queer and decolonial perspectives to fully understand how culture and power shape science, gender, and sexuality.

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Posting three today! First, from Karyn Anderson et al, a survey on how same-sex behavior in mammals is widely observed, but seldom reported! (17/n) 🧪🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Same-sex sexual behaviour among mammals is widely observed, yet seldomly reported: Evidence from an online expert survey

Same-sex sexual behaviour (SSSB) occurs in most animal clades, but published reports are largely concentrated in a few taxa. Thus, there remains a paucity of published reports for most mammalian speci...

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Karyn Anderson@karynanderson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What is the relationship between science and society? How does culture impact the production and dissemination of knowledge? In this new paper, Eppley et al interrogate how systems of oppression bias our research, and how Queer perspectives can address these. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Where We Go From Here: Harnessing Queer Perspectives to Advance Practice in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Science and society continuously shape one another; this relationship determines what science is funded, which inquiries are pursued, and whose voices are included in the production and dissemination...

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Julia Bădescu@iuliabadescu.bsky.social · last yr.

Great media piece by my PhD student, Colombe Sehenomalala, on state of lemur research & conservation in home country of Madagascar. Did you know lemurs are important seed dispersers? @theconversation.com @anthropologieudem.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social theconversation.com/lemurs-can-h...

Lemurs can help save Madagascan forests, but first we need to protect them

Climate change, forest fragmentation and hunting threaten lemur populations in Madagascar, and impact the health of mothers and infants.

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