My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

📣 New Lecture! Explore the science of theory of mind with @chriskrupenye.bsky.social. Learn how studies of great apes are reshaping our understanding of social cognition and animal intelligence. 📅Sat, 11 July 🕓16:00 GMT | 12:00 EDT | 09:00 PDT 📍Online Register: shorturl.at/GrRZe

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Another super fun ASP conference in the books!! As co-chair of the Research and Development Committee, I got to give out $20,000 in grants for exciting new primate research!!! 😍Looking forward to Costa Rica 🇨🇷next year!!! #ASP2026

Unpacking bags because our entire field season in Uganda was just canceled due to the Ebola outbreak. 😢 Better safe than sorry, but so disappointing for my students and team in the field.

CEs Job Alert 🚨! 4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus. Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

A running thread of articles, blog posts, and more about the Government of Canada’s proposal to fast-track “major projects” and weaken federal environmental laws and regulations.

The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone in the Same Room Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Phone-free for 72h? Study shows your brain’s reward centers reset after just 3 days of restriction. Escape the scroll, reclaim your focus, and rebalance your dopamine!

Excited about our new paper led by postdoc Jacob Feder, which examines social organization variation of baboons and their relatives. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Jacob's website here: jacobfeder.weebly.com UMass news release here: www.umass.edu/news/article...

Baboon Societies Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All, Study Finds | UMass Amherst

UMass Amherst researchers identify three distinct social groups; findings offer fresh insight into evolutionary forces shaping social systems in primates, including humans.

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2024. Goats discriminate emotional valence in human voices. They habituated to repeated happy or angry speech, then looked longer when the valence changed, suggesting they perceived the shift. Familiar voices modulated responses. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... via @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour

Postdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust

One of the best feelings - Putting on email automatic replies and leaving civilization!!! 🫶

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First-Ever Egg of a Mammal Ancestor Discovered! Research by myself, Julien Benoit (Wits) and Vincent Fernandez (ESRF) presents the first-ever egg of the therapsid Lystrosaurus, finally answering the question: Did the ancestors of mammals lay eggs? Yes, they did! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa

Oviparity was likely the plesiomorphic reproductive condition for non-mammalian Synapsida, the stem-mammal group. Yet, despite nearly two centuries of research, no definitive fossil eggs of late Palae...

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Nearly half of all wild mammal species traded for food, fur, research and traditional medicines carry at least one pathogen that causes disease in humans go.nature.com/4mm57te

Almost half of traded wildlife carry disease-causing pathogens

More than 40% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, compared with only 6% of non-traded mammals.

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#SaveUSFS

2026. Mammal defaunation leads to biotic homogenization of plant communities in tropical rainforests. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Mammal defaunation leads to biotic homogenization of plant communities in tropical rainforests

Biotic homogenization is the process in which species communities become increasingly similar across different regions over time. This phenomenon has substantial ecological, evolutionary, and economi...

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Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens

Erin E. Saupe@eesaupe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

Excited to have more work out from Colobus vellerosus in Ghana! Led by @iuliabadescu.bsky.social looking at expression of self-directed behaviours in females in situations provoking anxiety. Males are troubling for females... Check it out! Read-only full version available here rdcu.be/favqS

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

🦧Very sad news that Dr Birutė Galdikas, world-renowned anthropologist and orangutan researcher, has died at the age of 80 One of the Leakey Trimates she was the first scientist in the world to begin in-depth studies of orangutans The Loss of Professor Birutė Galdikas 👩‍🔬🏺🧪 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...

Seriously what is going on with octopuses Get a job and stop bumming rides from other organisms! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Shark's 'mystery hat' turns out to be a giant octopus

Researchers spotted the unlikely travel pair near New Zealand.

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Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

Job 🚨 Please share!! We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De... @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

I chuckle every time the brms package tells me to “adjust my expectations accordingly”.

Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

James Traniello and I, and Associate Editors of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, have prepared editorials commemorating the semicentennial of Wilson's Sociobiology. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... and link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sociobiology and the transformation of evolutionary behavioral biology - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology -

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I have a new PhD position available on any topic related to musicality or animal communication that aligns well with our current research programs. Deadline March 31: oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=795a... For more info about my Musicality and Bioacoustics group: oeaw.ac.at/en/ari/resea...