Get your pencils and paintbrushes ready because it’s time for the PSGB T-Shirt Contest! 🎨 Are you skilled with watercolours or experienced with digital art? Want to contribute to the conservation, research, and captive care of primate species? This is your chance! (See 🧵)

The Wales Ecology & Evolution Network is advertising its annual WEEN conference, featuring PSGB's own @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social as a Keynote speaker! Don't miss your chance to register!

Our next Primatology Profile is now out, and it's an International Slow Loris Day special! 🤩 We interviewed Prof Anna Nekaris, OBE on her work researching and conserving nocturnal primates, and her career path in primatology! See our website to read the full interview: www.psgb.org/pages/primat...

Thank you from @katyaherberg.bsky.social and all of us at PSGB 🐒 Truly an afternoon of fantastic talks and discussion!

Katya Herberg 🐒🧠🌱@katyaherberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you to all of you who attended our @primatesocietygb.bsky.social PSGB Workshop yesterday, and to all of our wonderful speakers from across the globe for their fantastic talks! Here’s to many more primate cognition / behaviour / conservation / welfare collaborations 🥳🦍🐒

We are delighted to announce that Sir Stephen Fry is the new patron for the Primate Society of Great Britain! 🎉

We've updated our speaker list for Wednesday's workshop! 🤩Don't miss your chance to sign up: www.psgb.org/pages/cognit...

Katya Herberg 🐒🧠🌱@katyaherberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Timetable change! Check out the updated speakers list and their exciting talks! @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Our workshop on Cognition for Conservation and Captive Care is NEXT WEEK! 😮 (September 2nd, 1 pm). Check out our full speaker list, and don't forget to sign up to receive your Zoom link! www.psgb.org/pages/cognit...

Our new Primatology Profile is out now! 🎉 We interviewed Early Career Researcher Katya Herberg on her experiences and inspirations in primatology! Check out Katya's profile here! www.psgb.org/pages/primat...

Reminder - abstract submission for the ASAB & PSGB Winter Meeting will close at 23:59 on 15th August - make sure you don't miss out! Registration is open, with spaces left for PSGB, but will also close on the 15th. asabpsgbwinter.github.io/2026/registr... @asab.org @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

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

We're reaching registration capacity for the ASAB/PSGB joint conference - register as soon as possible to ensure your place at our joint meeting!!

ASAB@asab.org · 3mo ago

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

A new species of monkey described from the forests of DRC! 🐒 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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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We're delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 Napier Medal, Dr Chloe Coxshall, for their PhD thesis: "Same sex sexual behaviour in primates: Evolutionary origins and social functionality". 🎉 Congratulations Dr Coxshall on this terrific thesis!

Our new primatology profile is online 📖🌳 We sat down with Harmonie Klein, PhD Student at the University of St Andrews, to hear about her research and her path into primatology! Read Harmonie's interview on our website, alongside our growing collection of profiles! www.psgb.org/pages/primat...

We are curating resources to support diversity and inclusion within primatology, and these resources can now be found on our website. www.psgb.org/pages/equali...

PhD advert in Berlin with @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social !

Danai Papageorgiou@danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Almost synchronously with our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on “Levelling: behaviours that constrain inequality in animal societies”, I'm also excited to advertise the first PhD student position in my Emmy Noether project @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Important information about the ASAB-PSGB joint winter meeting!! 🚨 Make sure to register early!

ASABPSGB2026@asabpsgb2026.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Registration and abstract submission for the joint ASAB-PSGB winter meeting in Edinburgh (December 8th - 10th) will be opening on the 1st of July! The theme is Social Learning and Culture. More details about the meeting and registration at: asabpsgbwinter.github.io//2026/

Our next primatology profile is ready to read 🥸 We sat down with Praneetha Monipi to hear about her important work with Bonnet Macaques, and her journey into primate conservation. Her message is clear: if you are passionate, never give up! www.psgb.org/pages/profil...

Calling All Artists & Creatives! 🐒🎨 We are looking for donated artwork for our annual fundraising raffle! Whether you create paintings, prints, photography, ceramics, textiles, or illustrations, yourcould help protect primates and support the scientists working to understand and conserve them.

This weekend celebrates the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough. 🎉🥳 A huge congratulations from us at PSGB - your lifelong commitment to nature is an inspiration to us all 💐

A new postdoctoral position is being advertised at Nottingham Trent University! For more information about the project, see the associated website: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne...

Our next Primatology Profile is online! 👏 We sat down with Dr Eléonore Rolland, postdoc researcher at the Anthropology Department of UCL, to hear about her research journey, and work on maternal and attachment styles in non-human primates. Read the full interview here: www.psgb.org/pages/profil...

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

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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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.

Job Advert 📢 Research Assistant vacancy to support research related to a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) research fellowship (to Dr Yuri Kawaguchi).

📣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

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

We're launching a new initiative: Primatology Profiles! 📢 Each month, we are interviewing a Primatologist to discuss their work and background, ultimately showcasing who they are and what they do. Our first profile is live, featuring an interview with Prof. Jacob Dunn: www.psgb.org/pages/primat...

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Biruté Galdikas earlier this week. A pioneer of modern primatology, her lifelong work has shaped the field as we know it today. Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and all those inspired by her legacy. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/biru...

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their f...

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