I've made it to the amazing Burn meeting with my wonderful supervisor Zanna Clay . What a fantastic weekend with so many inspiring presentations, conversations and fun game nights! Had the pleasure to share some of my PhD work on the Friends of Bonobos sanctuary bonobos too.

Join us for our digital talk series on the politics of conservation starting May 3, 1-2pm CET with MOgada. Zoom registration s.42l.fr/hon Upcoming speakers incl. @AbySene9 @Sanchita_writes Noémie Etienne Rosaleen Duffy @PKashwan.bsky.social @EstherTurnhout #conservation

We are looking for a Research Assistant to join an exciting new project studying sanctuary-living chimpanzees in Zambia! 🐵 Travel & accom. costs provided alongside full training and scientific mentoring. Ideal for students looking for fieldwork experience #primatejobs please RT!

PLEASE sign and share STAE’s petition to help protect Asian elephants from brutal tourism abuse. NEW LAW NOW! bit.ly/STAEpetition Stanley Johnson Ian Redmond Dan Richardson Tracy K

Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late” #extinction #ThreatenedSpecies  #Twitter #TwitterBird #TwitterX

Please can all my 719 followers follow my #charity OmWana, to enable us to fundraise with Lilo, Moteur & Solidaire for the 10 Ugandan children we are sponsoring? It will be amazing ♥ #1000FollowersChallenge

Found only in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, #bonobos are our closest animal relatives and are increasingly vulnerable. A groundbreaking study, recently highlighted in an interview with Mongabay's Charles Mpaka, reveals that their population is at even

New research led by Durham Psychology shows orphaned apes at the world’s only bonobo sanctuary Friends of Bonobos can overcome trauma to develop social abilities like those of mother-reared bonobos 👉 brnw.ch/21wPunr Zanna Clay #DUResearch

Bonobos live only in the heart of the Congo rainforest. Their home is vital to our climate, storing more carbon per acre than the Amazon. 🌳🌍 But it’s disappearing fast. 🌱 Protect what makes this Earth so extraordinary: 🔗 donate.bonobo.org

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour 👇 links below!

I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?

THE ARROGANT APE, a book about human exceptionalism and the transformative power of unlearning it, is available for preorder now and will be on sale September 2, 2025. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/t…

THE ARROGANT APE IS OUT TODAY! The idea for this book began in 2019 in a seminar course I taught at Harvard. With each class discussion, it felt like my students and I were imagining and crafting a world beyond human exceptionalism. It was the world we wanted to live in. (1/3)