AmSoc Primatologists abstract accepted, so Oliver and I will see you all in Mexico in September! Any fellow moms have tips for conferencing while momming? Nervous but so excited to bring him!

Loblaws and groceriea in Canada. If they are providing everyone value why are their prices some of the highest? If you use a points system that saves customers 10% over the year, why wouldn't you just drop prices 10% and stop the rewards program?

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New paper from my excellent postdoc Pengzhen! Providing the first evidence that #samesex #mounts are exchanged for #grooming among #male juveniles in all-male units of snub-nosed #monkeys . doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoa…

How can treating #primate #conservation as a #public #issue help both people and primates? Alexandria Cosby and Travelling Primate lab ask this in the 12th paper from Amanda Melin (she/her) and my special issue of AmJournalPrimatology . doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23…

Looking forward to hosting Dr. James Loudon for anthrosdsu annual field methods in #primatology lecture & workshop series! If you're in San Diego, and interested, please join us 🐒🐒🐒
#SDSU
#StableIsotopeEcology
#Ecotoxicology
#Macaques

As a Catalan, I particularly appreciated getting my copy of ‘Paleoneurology of Amniotes’ Springer Nature yesterday, which was #SantJordi and #WorldBookDay ! 📚🌹🐉 Make sure to check out our chapter on early primate brain evolution and other excellent chapters!

Happy to see Dr. Michelle Bezanson honored i the April AmSoc Primatologists bulletin. #Primatology is indeed a better field because of you, Michelle Bezanson. I miss you so much 💔

My dearest PhD students Mafer and ZaiEsparza (@Inecol_mx), and their brief academic notes were published in the AmSoc Primatologists new bulletin. Both are great young scientists and amazing leaders in the topics they are working on in their projects. Congratulations and go ahead!

My Introduction to Primatology field course at Camaquiri Conservation Initiative is officially a go for August 2024!

There is still space for you, your students, your colleagues, or friends! Contact me today to learn more!

(Course credit available)

It is wonderful to work with a #publisher that helps aspiring #primatologists in #Madagascar ! Thank you Waveland Press!!

Please share and apply to our Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Position at ASU:
One Health, Many Diverse Genomes

This is a position provides postdoc training and then transitions into a tenure-track appointment at ASU
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I will write something later today but this sums it up perfectly. We are heartbroken at the loss of our wonderful, one-of-a-kind, sparkling colleague and dear friend, Michelle Bezanson Michelle Bezanson 💔

'We can worship this ground we walk on
Cherishing the beings that we live beside
Loving spirits will live forever
We’re all swimming to the other side'
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Love you always Dr. Bezawesome Michelle Bezanson

“It’s hard to picture a world without Michelle.” RIP primatology and conservation researcher, Dr. Michelle Bezanson. We are honored to know you, and your unconditional kindness to primates, students, and ASP will live on forever. michellebezanson.com

Michelle Bezanson has left the building. We all owe Michelle so much. She was an amazing colleague, a wonderful teacher and mentor, and the most generous and caring friend anyone could have. Read her work, marvel at her art, listen to what she had to say, and try to be like her.

Africa’s Great Apes Are Already Feeling the Effects of Climate Change, First-of-Its-Kind Study Finds ecowatch.com/africa-great-a…

🐒 New pub! ⁦In this paper are⁩ 3 perspectives from primatologists who direct long term primate conservation projects in Asia, Africa and South America. Each project PI provided key advice about the first steps in starting out. #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Academia is that relationship where you’re just never going to be ‘good enough’ for them…. Aka toxic as sh*t!

This week's student spotlight is Katie King (Katherine King), a Ph.D. student studying lemurs in Madagascar with others in the @LEEPUarizona lab at the University of Arizona.   #Futurefriday #FollowFriday

I will be defending my doctoral dissertation research next Thursday, April 18th at 10:30 AM EDT. Send me a message if you would like the Zoom link!