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Today’s replacement office mate is a tad less friendly than couch lizard… anyone got an idea on species ID? #ennedibaboons #ennedi #chad #scorpion #fieldwork 🧪

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I can haz cake crumb, yes…? New office mate 😅 #fieldwork #ennedibaboons #ennedi

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Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore… (definitely not in chimp-land anymore!) #Chad #NDjamena #EnnediBaboons #ennedi #fieldwork

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Do I know anyone out there who does science/nature book reviews? Please re-skeet! 🧪🦊🦉🦑🐍

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Does anyone have any recs for iPad/phone apps for scanning smaller objects like bones etc. for a primatologist currently cosplaying at archaeology 😅 3D scanner has been great for larger natural objects like trees but hoping to find something that will do the small stuff 🙏 #archaeologysky 🧪

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Things that are technically roads @mbchimp.bsky.social This sensibly flat laterite boulder field… also this not at all flat but reasonably free of trees section.. Also apparently I’m not the only cat that likes to use the steep slabs as an easier route up! #Guinea #mbchimps #fieldwork

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It's #DarwinDay, the year 2025. And (sad to say) this insight from the 1870s is more relevant than ever.

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5-yr position in computational humanities with @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @jbcamps.bsky.social in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

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I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Also my morning brain processed those scratches, which were scored in to the rock at regular intervals all the way up a long steep slab section, as crampon marks for an embarrassingly long time… 🤦‍♀️🤣 you can take the girl off Scottish rock but… #cramponsincluded #bigkitty

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Things that are technically roads @mbchimp.bsky.social This sensibly flat laterite boulder field… also this not at all flat but reasonably free of trees section.. Also apparently I’m not the only cat that likes to use the steep slabs as an easier route up! #Guinea #mbchimps #fieldwork

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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

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In other news - it is remarkable how many parts of a car you can just bypass when they fall off. Today’s bush mechanics lesson - how to circumvent a busted fuel line! #Guinea #gonechimping #MaybeDontTravelWithCat 🧪

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We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Giving our new RA the full Guinean fieldwork experience : no visa, no luggage, no wheel 🤣 No worries! 💪🧪 #gonechimping #fieldworkfail @mbchimp.bsky.social

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Macaques on Japan's Shodoshima Island enjoy leaving chalk marks on stones. They have no symbolic purpose, but recognisable geometric features (parallelism, intersections, repetitions). (paper) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-024-01176-y

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In January back in 2018, I published a piece in The Atlantic about how dying people really communicate. You can find it on that website, but to celebrate the publication of Bye Bye I Love You next month, I've put a full version up on my website: michaelerard.com/blog/how-peo...

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Send out the hooooots!! It’s Bulletin time! Check out the bumper new Bulletin with all the news of what your Officers and IPS grantees have been up to in 2024, and with updates on the Elections & 2025 Congress 🤓🐒 internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-bulletins/

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Not me packing by LED strip lights & a powerbank b/c the power was out at home on the one-day turn around between 2 massive field trips 🫠 there’s a lesson in here somewhere 🤔 Oh & mid-way through the evening the power company messaged to ask for the meter reading 🙃 #fieldwork #basecamp

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Hello Bluesky! Follow us for posts on new research, jobs (mostly European) and updates on activities of the society and related organisations! Let's connect! 🦩🦩🦩🦩

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And... We are up and running! We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group of the EFP! 🥳 We aim to discuss and implement short-, medium- and long-term actions to mediate EDI issues in primatology. If you want to join, email us at edi4efp(at)gmail.com!

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It’s already been a rollercoaster start to #2025 so a little #gonechimping #fieldwork photo dump while I hop from East to West.. 🧪🐵 1. Leaf tools are the best tools #fightme 2. So pretty, so pointy 3. Oops.. 4. Just you n me now kiddo; Nambi, grand dame of #teamSonso #Uganda #Budongochimps

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Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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‘From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong’ Please join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor @bodowinter.bsky.social on Friday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00) in the Alan Walters Building, University of Birmingham.

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Do nonhuman animals copy successful and prestigious models? Disentangling payoff-biased transmission across taxa www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Please enjoy this article on the origin of joking by Erica Cartmill, who studies the evolution of cognition and communication. Her observations of great apes clowning around are delightful, and she has fascinating ideas about why these behaviors evolved 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/grea...

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New paper! Very chuffed to see Laia's first paper published with @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social - great explainer thread... 🐋🧪

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New paper🚨 So time for one last 🧪 🧵 of 2024! TLDR: Wild chimpanzees love big butt-resses (we can not lie), and are fussy about which ones they choose, but not quite in the way we predicted 😂 tinyurl.com/DrumTrees 1/8 Hoots to Wytse W; @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social; Vesta Eleuteri & #teamDrum

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#teamWaibira ladies : very demure, very mindful… Not like those Sonso hooligans.. #gonechimping #budongochimps 🧪

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THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

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No matter how intense the day there’s always something tranquil about the last golden hour, waiting for the chimps to decide its nesting time, watching the sunlight drip from the branches.. #gonechimping #budongochimps #uganda 🧪

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Still looking for a gift for that weirdly gothic friend of yours, the one insufferably obsessed with animals, or the smug intellectual who nevertheless appreciates a good joke? Here are some reasons why PLAYING POSSUM (published by @princetonupress.bsky.social) may be just what you need:

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It is impossible not to resort to cheesy cliches but this is just a soul-achingly breathtakingly beautiful night in the forest surrounded by a galaxy of fireflies, having what I can only assume is the most spectacular end of year orgy 😂 #gonechimping #budongoforest 🧪

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