Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from the NCCR Evolving Language with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.

🚨💫It's happening! The Perspectives Collective Journal is a multi-media platform, where field staff can share expertise and insights on the natural world! Check out our website, and keep an eye out for some new material 👀 perspectivescollectivejournal.com

Keen to make travel plans for #EFP2024 in Lausanne? Our preliminary schedule is available on the website now wp.unil.ch/efp2024/progra…

Just in time for #EarthDay: our OA paper on selective deforestation and exposure of African wildlife to bat viruses is now out! Our findings shed new light on the earliest stages of virus spillovers. Communications Biology shorturl.at/cgsH0

Job Alert 📢 3yr The Leverhulme Trust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals + quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/res…

EFP-Primatology happened in Lausanne at the beginning of the month. Here are 10 new discoveries about primates that I've learned during the congress published in #uniscope : bit.ly/3XFHn8V

*Long Thread on my Academic Job Market Experience* In 10 days I start my new tenure-track position, a position that took me 5 years on the academic job market to get I wanna talk about my (miserable) experience on the market, and a few takeaways for those on it now

New Paper in Current Biology! Chimpanzees across FIVE communities take rapid turns in gesture-to-gesture exchanges resembling human conversational patterns. Language may not be a pre-requisite for fast-paced, coordinated communication in social species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wild chimpanzees’ communication resembles human conversation New research led by Gal Badihi and @nakedprimate in IntJPrimatology shows wild chimpanzees share humans’ snappy conversational style.🐵 Read more 👇 ow.ly/T4y850SHq2M #EverToExcel

Gesture exchanges in wild chimps resemble human conversational patterns! New paper (with data from 5 chimp communities!) in Current Biology led by Gal Badihi and Cat Hobaiter! Ping NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE

🎉Exciting news! Our lab's first paper, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates," is now published in @Science! 🐒 Dive into our findings on how marmoset monkeys use vocal labels similar to human names and dialects. Check it out! 1/6 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Branching out from ants we are looking for a motivated and curious PhD student who wants to study why chimps apply insects on their wounds! 🦧🪰🚑Focus is on the insect side of course, so if you want to know more, follow the 🧵 (1/6)

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🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at Johns Hopkins University (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

Our new paper is out!🐒🔊 Studying two wild chimpanzee populations, we found they flexibly adjust pant hoot acoustics to context (feed vs. travel). Most patterns are shared, but some community differences may suggest a small role for vocal usage learning. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

We are looking for applicants for the Kokolopori Research Fellowship. Fellows will spend one year in remote Congo gaining experience with behavioral data collection on wild, habituated bonobos. Check out the full posting below and apply now! 🌿📷 📝