Plastic Primates Lab
@plasticprimates.bsky.social
Research group studying how primates are adjusting to the new socioecologies of the Anthropocene (https://www.plasticprimateslab.com/)
Lazy afternoon up on the mountain
June 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Lazy afternoon up on the mountain
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Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!
May 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!
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🚨PAPER ALERT Chimpanzees expand the meanings of their single calls when combining them. They use a variety of mechanisms, analogous to those found in human language, to alter the meanings of single calls in their combinations. Photo by @lirsamuni.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨PAPER ALERT Chimpanzees expand the meanings of their single calls when combining them. They use a variety of mechanisms, analogous to those found in human language, to alter the meanings of single calls in their combinations. Photo by @lirsamuni.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨🐵Paid primate work: In collaboration with Stichting AAP and University of Rennes, we are looking for a research coordinator to monitor a wild Barbary macaque reintroduction. More details and how to apply can be found here: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...
Research coordinator - Barbary macaque reintroduction monitoring (12 months)
groups.google.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚨🐵Paid primate work: In collaboration with Stichting AAP and University of Rennes, we are looking for a research coordinator to monitor a wild Barbary macaque reintroduction. More details and how to apply can be found here: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...
🚨🐵Paid primate work!
🚨🐵Paid primate work: In collaboration with Stichting AAP and University of Rennes, we are looking for a research coordinator to monitor a wild Barbary macaque reintroduction. More details and how to apply can be found here: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...
Research coordinator - Barbary macaque reintroduction monitoring (12 months)
groups.google.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨🐵Paid primate work!
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🚨🐵Potential primate PhD: tinyurl.com/ym4wb2uf
We're looking for candidates for a project on conservation genomics in a wild endangered primate. This is competitively funded, so experience in field work and genomics is required to have a chance of receiving the scholarship. Informal enquiries welcome
We're looking for candidates for a project on conservation genomics in a wild endangered primate. This is competitively funded, so experience in field work and genomics is required to have a chance of receiving the scholarship. Informal enquiries welcome
Conservation genomics in an endangered primate at Liverpool John Moores University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Conservation genomics in an endangered primate at Liverpool John Moores University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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April 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨🐵Potential primate PhD: tinyurl.com/ym4wb2uf
We're looking for candidates for a project on conservation genomics in a wild endangered primate. This is competitively funded, so experience in field work and genomics is required to have a chance of receiving the scholarship. Informal enquiries welcome
We're looking for candidates for a project on conservation genomics in a wild endangered primate. This is competitively funded, so experience in field work and genomics is required to have a chance of receiving the scholarship. Informal enquiries welcome
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Very excited to contribute to this symposium organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and colleagues, on comparative research on animal sociality. Join us if you are attending @behaviour2025.bsky.social this August!
April 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Very excited to contribute to this symposium organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and colleagues, on comparative research on animal sociality. Join us if you are attending @behaviour2025.bsky.social this August!
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Social media plays a key role in trafficking wildlife - social media companies need to do more to stop it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It shouldn’t be that easy’: inside the illegal wildlife trade booming on social media
Social media sites have become crucial tools for the sale of endangered species and platforms should do more to combat it, say experts
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Social media plays a key role in trafficking wildlife - social media companies need to do more to stop it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Interested in human evolution? Want to get a great Master's education, provided by two stellar teams? Apply now for Fall 2025 entry into the Joint MSc in Human Evolution, from the U of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores U - info below and here:
www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...
Human Evolution MSc
It has taken 7 million years of struggle to make us ‘human.’ How did we get here and why? In our Human Evolution MSc you'll investigate the biological and behavioural changes that made us the species ...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
December 7, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Interested in human evolution? Want to get a great Master's education, provided by two stellar teams? Apply now for Fall 2025 entry into the Joint MSc in Human Evolution, from the U of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores U - info below and here:
www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...
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New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
November 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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This is what happens if you interpret academic freedom to mean every belief should be platformed in academia, regardless of its scientific basis: those who misuse science to their own advantage will be given academic legitimacy. That's not going to go well
Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right
Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2024 at 8:03 AM
This is what happens if you interpret academic freedom to mean every belief should be platformed in academia, regardless of its scientific basis: those who misuse science to their own advantage will be given academic legitimacy. That's not going to go well
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I am looking for an ambitious, computationally-minded postdoc to study the mechanisms of human social learning and cultural evolution! Join our thriving, ERC-funded group ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in experimental & computational psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to joi
ki.varbi.com
September 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I am looking for an ambitious, computationally-minded postdoc to study the mechanisms of human social learning and cultural evolution! Join our thriving, ERC-funded group ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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📢 Max Planck Research Groups – Central Announcement 2024
The Max Planck Society is currently looking for new Max Planck Research Group Leaders. 🏺🧪
www.mpg.de/career/max-p...
The Max Planck Society is currently looking for new Max Planck Research Group Leaders. 🏺🧪
www.mpg.de/career/max-p...
Apply now!
Apply to become a Max Planck Research Group Leader. Max Planck Research Groups - Announcement 2024.
www.mpg.de
September 13, 2024 at 3:15 PM
📢 Max Planck Research Groups – Central Announcement 2024
The Max Planck Society is currently looking for new Max Planck Research Group Leaders. 🏺🧪
www.mpg.de/career/max-p...
The Max Planck Society is currently looking for new Max Planck Research Group Leaders. 🏺🧪
www.mpg.de/career/max-p...
Happy #InternationalPrimateDay! Our team has been working hard with the monkeys during a VERY hot summer in Morocco. Find out more about our projects here: www.plasticprimateslab.com
September 1, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Happy #InternationalPrimateDay! Our team has been working hard with the monkeys during a VERY hot summer in Morocco. Find out more about our projects here: www.plasticprimateslab.com