New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

These Guinea baboons are on high alert. We don't know what triggered the alarm calls but better safe than sorry!

Save the date. Date: 24 September 2026 Time: 09:15 – 17:30 (BST) Location: Huxley theatre, ZSL, London #Rewilding

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The Rewilding 30 x 30 event is almost here. Join the Rewilding SIG to discuss the opportunities and challenges of utilising rewilding to achieve the 30 by 30 target. This is an in-person event. To register: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi... #Rewilding #BritishEcologicalSociety

Help us identify barriers that prevent critically endangered European Eels from travelling up the River Lea. You'll gain valuable survey experience, learn about eel ecology & contribute to an important conservation project alongside Thames21 & ZSL. Apply: https://ow.ly/ULaF50Zt3FS

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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A reminder that Animal Cognition is always looking for exciting Special Collections (link.springer.com/journal/1007...)! If you have an idea for a topic and are interested in guest editing, please get in touch #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition

Animal Cognition

Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary ...

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Nurturing to Release, the Story of Dela Mawar and 4 Baby Orangutans Conservation Action Network (CAN) mongabay.co.id/short-articl...

Mengasuh untuk Melepaskan, Kisah Dela Mawar dan 4 Bayi Orangutan

Setiap hari, Dela Mawar menyiapkan makanan, menggendong bayi orangutan, lalu membawa mereka menuju sekolah hutan. Di sana, perempuan 20 tahun ini bukan hanya menjadi pengasuh, tetapi juga guru yang me...

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What are you up to this Thursday evening? One option is to explore St James’ Park with us & turn your nature notes into a tiny handmade journal with naturalist Zabby Allen. All materials provided! Book here: bit.ly/4fAjNmL

Walk and Workshop | Making Nature Zines and Journals

Walk, wonder and create! Explore St James’ Park, then turn your nature notes into a tiny handmade journal with Zabby Allen.

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I'm delighted and honoured to share that I've taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of Animal Cognition! This journal has shaped how we think about cognition across species. Huge thanks to Debbie Kelly for 10 years of vision and leadership, and for all her guidance during my time as associate editor.

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

An exhausting but inspiring 5 days at #ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social. As always, a highlight was getting to bring the Uni Zurich and Australian National University halves of our lab group together, as well as catching up with past lab members! Even better if 1m long pizza is involved...

Big congrats to @morfjoe.bsky.social on this exciting new paper in Science Advances! We provide evidence that larger flocks of migratory birds navigate more accurately toward their target direction than smaller ones

Joe Morford@morfjoe.bsky.social · last mo.

The WISDOM OF CROWDS emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds! Excited to share our work published by @aaas.org in Science Advances! doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summer

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[Commentary] Behind cheap instant coffee lies widespread deforestation in Vietnam. A new op-ed by Etelle Higonnet (@coffeewatch.bsky.social) details how Robusta production pushes tigers and elephants into shrinking habitats, calling on consumers to pressure companies for ethical supply chains.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Vietnam is now the world’s largest producer of robusta, the bitter, sturdy bean behind instant coffee, supermarket blends, and the overall global appetite for cheap caffeine. But behind its meteoric…

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🚨 Behavioral ecologists 🚨 I am about ready to submit a review paper on animal contest behavior. If you have any high quality photos of your study system engaging in a dyadic interaction (fight), DM me. I am revising a figure that has photos of different study systems. Photo creds will be provided!

2026. Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... via @asab.org cc @asabeducation.bsky.social

Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields

Many research fields rely on assessing the behaviour of wild or captive animals, using observational and experimental protocols. This work is highly s…

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Sacred ibis feathers and hamadryas baboon fur reflected light almost identical to moonlight, offering a possible link between Thoth’s two animal forms. Olive baboon fur showed a greenish hue instead. doi.org/hccd8h

Moonlight-like fur and feathers may explain Egyptian god Thoth's two animal forms

The ancient Egyptian god of the moon had two very different faces: a crescent-beaked white bird and a silver-coated baboon.

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I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

Ever noticed how in a tense situation, a reassuring touch can help calm things down? New research from our Department of Psychology suggests reassuring touch could be an evolutionary tool dating back over six million years.  tinyurl.com/2r3v74k6

Can grassroots conservation survive in a conflict zone? In Myanmar, the women-led Clean Mountains group supports communities with waste and forest management. Founder Ou Ou shares the challenges of protecting nature while facing war and gender inequality. An interview by fellow Esther J.

Community conservation under fire: Interview with Myanmar’s Clean Mountains founder

Myanmar experienced a military coup in February 2021. In the aftermath, widespread repression by the military regime fueled the emergence of armed resistance movements across the country, pushing an…

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Our recent paper led by @oddjacobson.bsky.social recently covered by @mongabay.com

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A 33-year study on Costa Rica’s white-faced capuchin monkeys reveals that extreme climate events force the primates to abandon their social norms. Severe droughts cause food scarcity, driving intense competition, territorial sensitivity and shifting group dynamics. Adam Litchkofski reports.

Save the date! 📅 PSGB is hosting an online workshop on the topic “Cognition for Conservation and Captive Care” (2nd September 2026). Check out the first look for our speakers working across primate behaviour and cognition & register your interest to receive the workshop link! 🐒 shorturl.at/HDvXA

New @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out today. Interested in how animal groups pre-emptively adjust their behaviour to a landscape of intergroup conflict? The culmination of almost daily chats with @andyradford.bsky.social throughout my postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…

Filling up faster than ever! So many folks excited for this extra special meeting of #ASABWinter2026 🐒 Better sign up now! ⬇️

ASABPSGB2026@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are approaching venue capacity to register for the ASAB & PSGB Winter Meeting - sign up soon to secure your spot! When capacity is reached we'll be operating a waiting list. More details about the meeting and registration at: asabpsgbwinter.github.io//2026/

Primates with longer thumbs tend to have bigger brains, research finds | Evolution | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Primates with longer thumbs tend to have bigger brains, research finds

Results suggest brain co-evolved with manual dexterity, say scientists, with humans by no means the outlier

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In Nairobi’s Kibera, Nubian activist Malasen Hamida is running for parliament while leading community-driven waste & land rights initiatives. In an interview with fellow Ouma Elvine Tina, she discusses how her women-led organization works to protect families amid a historic loss of ancestral land.

Waste, women & environmental justice: Interview with Nubian activist Malasen Hamida

Malasen Hamida, a Nubian Muslim woman from Kibera, in Nairobi, is an aspiring politician and an environmental activist with more than 25 years of advocacy behind her. Kibera, which was named by…

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How do failures of coordination shape the evolution of collective behavior? 🐸💥 In our new preprint, we use inadvertent call collisions among chorusing frogs as a model for revealing how costly coordination failure events generate selection gradients within animal collectives. (1/3)