#psgbfieldskills2025 students then had fun with an engaging session by @rachellrobinson.bsky.social developing a question and choosing the right methods, before heading into the zoo to collect behavioural observation data on their chosen primate species!

Insightful #psgbfieldskills2025 panel discussion with in-country researchers.
First steps to community-based conservation? Build relationships first, arrive to learn not fix, be interested in others and their priorities, make friends, don't assume, show yourself as a person first, not a researcher.

It's a wrap! #psgbfieldskills2025 #zsl #asab has flown by! Day 3: ethics, logistics, permits and wildlife health via scenario-based learning (Matt Gardiner), inspiring panel discussions on community conservation (Praneetha Monipi) and collecting data at the human-primate interface (Kelly Sambucci) 👏

A fantastic Day 2 on #psgbfieldskills2025 #zsl workshop: vegetation and wildlife surveys @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social bioacoustics @wascherclaudia.bsky.social tracking, camera traps @lizallo.bsky.social and mental health in the field with Praneetha Monipi @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @asab.org

As field researchers, we can support disclosure choices with confidential protocols, pre-fieldwork conversations and ensuring allies are visible

Why talk about LGBTQIA+Inclusion in the field?
45% of those participating in fieldwork have faced gender discrimination 👇
#psgbfieldskills2025 workshop
@primatesocietygb.bsky.social
@asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social

Our #psgbfieldskills2025 workshop has started! Great to hear Kat @pintsizedprimate.bsky.social
talk on different perspectives in the development of animal behaviour methods
@primatesocietygb.bsky.social
Thanks to @asab.org @zslscience.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social for their amazing support

Looking forward to hearing all about drill conservation tomorrow with Dr James Bukie
jamesbukie.com @asab.org @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Fascinating talk from Christopher Barnard Medal winner @lirsamuni.bsky.social contrasting chimpanzee and bonobo cooperation and conflict
#ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Great flash talks 💥 sleep in fish @helenanorman.bsky.social, the friendship paradox @eloisenewman.bsky.social, parental care in roaches: Georgia Cash, behavioural plasticity in bees: Gifty Jacob, social inheritance in red deer: Hannah Lemon, motion tracking: Nikoloz Sirmpilatze #ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Great talk from @martafavero.bsky.social about the often overlooked 'individual-level' negative effects of the pollutant phenanthrene on behavioural plasticity in wild-caught brine shrimps.
#ASABSpring2025 #ASAB

Fascinating talk from Helga Fourie from CIBIO Portugal at the #ASABSpring2025 conference: Proximity promotes social partner choice in weaver birds.
#asab

Great first talk to open the student presentations today at the #ASABSpring2025 Conference from Axelle Delaunay @utu.fi on the physiological stress of allomaternal care in Asian elephants #asab

Fantastic to hear about language barriers in science #ASABWinter24 from @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and how we can improve knowledge exchange and collaboration @asab.org