Introducing the Orang Asli Health and Lifeways Project (OAHeLP)! With the support of an U.S. National Science Foundation grant and our Malaysian collaborators, we’re up and running! Here’s our website: orangaslihealth.org And a paper describing our research: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/9/e… A thread (1/n)

We have a new preprint to share. Hint: guenon evolution is a mess! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… In my PhD project with Katerina Guschanski, we study guenon genomics to learn about speciation processes. In part 1, we focus on ancient hybridization, and found a lot of it. From the top: 1/15

Lovely work by Stephen Montgomery and colleagues, beuatifully demonstrating how sensory specialisation shapes brain evolution. Like in primates, visual specialisation is associated with expansion of neural pathways including integrative brain regions nature.com/articles/s4146…

Really excited to be a part of the “Ask-a-scientist” event at Calgary Public Library (Country Hills) along with two other volunteers from Host-Parasite Interactions ! 🪱 I love science outreach and am looking forward to talking about parasites with children at the library! calgarylibrary.ca/events-and-pro…

High-sensitivity low-cost spectrometer that runs from a smartphone. Build your own from 3D printed parts and off-the-shelf components. My paper is out in JEB today. doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24…

Dr. Natalie Sanchez has been selected as Costa Rica's nominee for the Young Scientist Research Award: Women for Science, by the Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Congratulations Dr. Natalie V. Sánchez! We're so proud of your nomination! 🐦🇨🇷🍾 Story: uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2023…

We are hiring! 3 year NSF-funded postdoc working on understanding the weird bright coloration of the infants of some nonhuman primate species. Starting salary $62.5k plus benefits. In collaboration with Will Allen. Apply! (Img Menotlost WikimediaCommons) apply.interfolio.com/129167

Tomorrow in Cairns, come see our symposium in rooms M5-6. Big thanks to our symposium sponsors, The Anatomical Record and American Association for Anatomy

Why do capuchins eat pith? The topic of the second paper out from Amanda Melin (she/her) and my special issue of AmJournalPrimatology on #Primatology in #Canada. This time from Allegra DePasquale, Alice C. Poirier, and authors from Amanda Melin (she/her)! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Was a real pleasure working on this project - see our prospective article on the sensory ecology of collective behavior, co-led by an outstanding team! elifesciences.org/articles/88028