Dr Hella Péter
@hellapeter.bsky.social
mbchimp.bsky.social data wrangler 💻 PhD - are your chimps drinking? 🐵💧 team abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝
ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
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Dr Hella Péter
@hellapeter.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hi all!
I'm Hella, and I'm an ecologist interested in the role of water in water-rich ecosystems! So far I focused on chimps, but I'd love to branch out to non-primate sps. I enjoy wrangling large databases, camera traps, disappearing to remote areas, and textile crafts 🧶
I'm Hella, and I'm an ecologist interested in the role of water in water-rich ecosystems! So far I focused on chimps, but I'd love to branch out to non-primate sps. I enjoy wrangling large databases, camera traps, disappearing to remote areas, and textile crafts 🧶
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24 early-career ecologists from 13 African countries have arrived at Mpala Research Centre for the #EcologyMasterclass - two weeks of hands-on training in the Kenyan savanna to build skills, confidence and networks.
@mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
@mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
24 early-career ecologists from 13 African countries have arrived at Mpala Research Centre for the #EcologyMasterclass - two weeks of hands-on training in the Kenyan savanna to build skills, confidence and networks.
@mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
@mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
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The #FindThatLizard scholarship has reached 66% of our $5000 goal!
I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals.
Will you help us meet our goal?
www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals.
Will you help us meet our goal?
www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
THE ECOLOGIK INSTITUTE — FindThatLizard Scholarship
This scholarship will support girls, women, and gender non-conforming people who want to pursue herpetology with a special focus on those who identify as Black or people of color. Funding can support ...
www.ecologikinstitute.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The #FindThatLizard scholarship has reached 66% of our $5000 goal!
I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals.
Will you help us meet our goal?
www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals.
Will you help us meet our goal?
www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️
June 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️
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#Behaviour2025 out of context: "we did a different study that I'm not going to tell you much about" "Bees are not little humans, and humans are not big bees" "it's never easy to catch an insect when you are moving at 40-50mph" "I started my career in ants and made the natural move across to whales"
August 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#Behaviour2025 out of context: "we did a different study that I'm not going to tell you much about" "Bees are not little humans, and humans are not big bees" "it's never easy to catch an insect when you are moving at 40-50mph" "I started my career in ants and made the natural move across to whales"
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S. Anvitha: Drought led to changes in Asian elephants' body condition and social behaviors, along with increased miscarriages. These changes suggest possible welfare effects, too, and point towards the usefulness of studying welfare impacts of drought.
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
S. Anvitha: Drought led to changes in Asian elephants' body condition and social behaviors, along with increased miscarriages. These changes suggest possible welfare effects, too, and point towards the usefulness of studying welfare impacts of drought.
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025
@behaviour2025.bsky.social
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#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
🎉 Just days to go until our MacaqueNet Workshop in Kolkata!
🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST
✨ Open to all (online & in-person)
📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00)
🍽️ Optional Dinner
View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/
#MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025
🗓️ Sun 24 Aug | 13:00–16:00 IST
✨ Open to all (online & in-person)
📋 Members-only Board Meeting (16:00–17:00)
🍽️ Optional Dinner
View the schedule & signup now via our website: macaquenet.github.io/symposia/
#MacaqueNet #Behaviour2025
August 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.
📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
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It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.
August 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.
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We will soon advertise these two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology): zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities
Opportunities
zoogestures.uni-koeln.de
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We will soon advertise these two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology): zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities
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ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻❄️
zoogestures.uni-koeln.de
with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
🏺🗃️📕
zoogestures.uni-koeln.de
with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
🏺🗃️📕
August 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻❄️
zoogestures.uni-koeln.de
with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
🏺🗃️📕
zoogestures.uni-koeln.de
with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
🏺🗃️📕
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Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
Cinq mois dans une jungle au Ghana pour étudier des singes menacés
Deux étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie passent cinq mois isolés dans une forêt du Ghana pour percer les secrets reproductifs d’une espèce de primate menacée d’extinction.
nouvelles.umontreal.ca
August 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
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Can’t make it to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🏴 ? Did you know you can also register to attend online for free as well? 💻
Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”!
More info here:
www.asab.org/conference-h...
Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”!
More info here:
www.asab.org/conference-h...
August 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Can’t make it to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🏴 ? Did you know you can also register to attend online for free as well? 💻
Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”!
More info here:
www.asab.org/conference-h...
Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”!
More info here:
www.asab.org/conference-h...
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🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
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Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...
August 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...
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Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
August 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
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#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷
A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3
Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path
Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized
scim.ag
August 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷
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I love this visual abstract! What a fantastic paper. Check it out!
Listening Deeply to Indigenous People: A Collaborative Perspective and Reflection Between a Mapuche Machi and Ecologists
Two-eyed seeing offers a way to see with both Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western ecological sciences. In this collaborative perspective piece between ecologists and a Mapuche spi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I love this visual abstract! What a fantastic paper. Check it out!
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology & Behavior
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool?
If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r
If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool?
If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r
If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you!
tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r
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Are you a neurodivergent ecologist? Are you planning to undertake any fieldwork soon as part of research? Then our upcoming webinar with the @britishecologicalsociety.org's ENDEMIC Network may be for you. Find out more and sign up here: britishecologicalsociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fieldwork Whilst Neurodiverse. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This webinar will explore different experiences of doing ecology fieldwork while neurodiverse, both within and outside academia. After a panel discussion with the speakers, a discussion with the audie...
britishecologicalsociety.us11.list-manage.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Are you a neurodivergent ecologist? Are you planning to undertake any fieldwork soon as part of research? Then our upcoming webinar with the @britishecologicalsociety.org's ENDEMIC Network may be for you. Find out more and sign up here: britishecologicalsociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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New video on the YouTube channel: talk at the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on the question 'is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?'
youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...
youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...
Is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?
YouTube video by Tai Chimpanzee Project
youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
New video on the YouTube channel: talk at the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on the question 'is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?'
youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...
youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...
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Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds