Excited to share our latest paper on genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees showing modest genetic contributions of AVPR1a and KIAA0319 genotypes @chet_sherwood Adrien Meguerditchian GW Primate Genomics APELAB academic.oup.com/cercor/advance…

2nd call: If you're interested in a PhD project on chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Rwanda, please contact me by the 15th of July. IPS Primate AABA EFP-Primatology @PsgbSTudent @AusHumanBiology Animal Behaviour - Australasia Science at UWA @CEB_UWA

I am looking for a paid field assistant to collect data with me on the vocal behaviour of bonobos at Kokolopori Bonobo Research, Democratic Republic of Congo, for at least 7 months. Offer and details below 👇 groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wis… DM me if you have questions!

Our new paper about self-directed behaviours in bonobos is out! Following previous work, we studied SDBs during cognitive testing and found some interesting results… 🧵 mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/2…

Happy to share our latest work: Serotonergic methylation effects on personality are CpG site specific and impact both reactive and prosocial personality traits Elaine Guevara, @chet_sherwood, GW Primate Genomics, CASHP, ZOO Science (English) doi.org/10.3390/biolog…

Happy to share our latest work on epigenetic contributions to chimpanzee receptive joint attention skills illustrating a larger role of vasopressin than oxytocin receptor gene methylation

Thanks to everyone who attended our symposium on comparative neuroscience PuG2023 and of course Charlotte Goursot 🕊️🏳️‍🌈#RefugeesAreWelcome Nicky Staes and PatFriedrich

Read our blog on how methylation impacts the personality of chimpanzees ZOO Science (English) zooscience.be/en/blog/enviro…

DNA methylatie heeft een invloed op de ontwikkeling van persoonlijkheid in chimpansees. Lees onze blog op zooscience.be/nl/blog/de-omg… ZOO Science

Verrassing! 🥳 Dit zijn de ZOO Science Jongste Wetenschappers van 2023! Uit meer dan 102 inzendingen selecteerde onze jury drie winnaars. Kijk maar mee naar de reactie van Manu (9), Michiel (12) en Benjamin (bijna 13). Surf naar zooscience.be!

You are what you eat! Right? We know that diet influences your relative fat mass, but still, people can have a genetic predisposition to be over- or underweight. And in bonobos, this is also the case! Check out the study here and in the 🧵below: doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23… (1/4)

Excited to share our large-scale study comparing social co-feeding tolerance of bonobos and chimpanzees in 16 social groups across zoos and sanctuaries revealing no species-differences. Thanks to all coauthors and to all institutes for hosting us 🙌 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

Still time to register for the PhD workshop on behavioral genetics at Utrecht University (June 19-21)

New paper on #bonobo #welfare! 🐵 We applied QBA to see how humans score bonobo emotional expressivity. Check out the study published in Animal Welfare_The Journal and in the thread (1/5): doi.org/10.1017/awf.20…

And with this group picture, it's a wrap! Thank you everyone once again for coming to Lausanne EFP2024 #efp2024 !! See you all soon in Montpellier and good luck to the organizing team!

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Publication alert! Our latest output of a successful collaboration with Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Marcel Eens and @Jeronobo1 on identification of social culture in bonobos. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨Eight (8!!) funded PhD opportunities in animal behavior and welfare at Harper Adams University🚨 Deadline: January 2025 Start date: October 2025 Thread (1/5)

🚨Looking for a thesis project?🚨 Always wanted to study the gut-vagina axis of zoo-housed bonobos within Europe? Join our lab in 2025! Contact Jonas R. R. Torfs for more info. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

📢 Exciting news! A new PhD position is now open Warwick Psychology 🎉 If you applied to our previous positions, here's another chance to join the ApeTank and increase your chances of success. Don't miss out - 🌟 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/phd…