Excited to share Adriana Maldonado-Chaparro and my paper! We show more despotic social groups have higher reproductive skew. Global Reaching Centrality, accounting for direct and indirect social relationships, was a stronger predictor of skew than traditional measures of social control/domiance

Who wouldn't want to work with this friendly bunch?! Lauren Brent Lisa Leaver Paul Rose Darren Croft Pheasants@Exeter Sam Ellis Natalie Hempel

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, macaques that were more tolerant of others were better able to survive, a new study finds. The results indicate a change in the adaptive benefits of social ties after an ecological disturbance. Read more in Science: scim.ag/7oP

These findings show the potential of social flexibility to provide resilience to rapid and unpredictable environmental disturbances and emphasize a dynamic link between the environment and fitness consequences of social behavior. Illustrative work by amazing Caroline Hu below

How can social behavior affect survival after a natural disaster? HUGE congrats to Camille Testard and co-authors, whose study about Hurricane Maria's impact on Caribbean Primate Research Center just came out in Science Magazine ! Check out the paper, the thread, and the COMIC. 🏝️🐒🐒🐒

Thanks so much Caroline Hu! You've captured the results and their narrative beautifully!!

Rhesus macaques are known for their strict social hierarchies maintained through aggression and competition. Yet after Hurricane Maria swept away the monkeys’ shade in Puerto Rico, they learned by necessity to get along for survival. nyti.ms/3VByQRM

Excellent write up of our latest results! Thanks Julia Fischer and Noa Pinter-Wollman for taking the time to comment for their piece :)

In my latest story for Knowable Magazine, I explore how the social lives of mammals that were followed for decades are changing with age. Featuring Greg Albery, Josh Firth, Lauren Brent and Erin Siracusa talking about Rum Deer Research, St Kilda Soay Sheep Project and Caribbean Primate Research Center! knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

New paper alert on environmental aging. Congrats Marina Watowich and team!

A very nice weaving together of long-term field studies of the influence age has on social relationships and lessons we can take from that as scientists and as aging individuals :)

Summary of my FriendOrigins grant by European Research Council (ERC) (the ERC does Instagram? Who knew?) instagram.com/p/C9Kf9qYRqlu/…

so nice to have had you zakhiyapc! Excited to hear what you find as you progress with your analyses. Come back any time :)

Postdoc position on my FriendOrigins project. 10mos but could be 16mos with lots of low-hanging (but interesting!) fruit to be tackled in this replacement post for someone who got a permanent job elsewhere. See here, ref # S73438: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…. Due Sept 18, start Jan

the excellent Josefine Bohr Brask is currently recruiting a PhD student and a postdoc to work on social networks. Check out the ads below and apply!

Dr. Erin Siracusa at #ASP2024 on her postdoc research exploring the drivers of social aging in rhesus macaques! 🐒 Her work dives into how social selectivity changes with age and its impact on disease outcomes. AmSoc Primatologists

Do you know which bird I tried to draw here? If you do, apply for one of the postdoc positions we are offering... and if you don't, perhaps apply for the other one! We are looking for life history/theory-ecoevo expertise in birds and "in general". evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

43P has been one of our social behaviour study subjects for 14 years. He lasted until the (old!) age of 23 and died recently, probably of old age. I'll miss his pointy hairdo and his close relationship with his (still living) older sister