TLDR: new paper headed up by @EleuteriVesta
& with an awesome team, incl @AndreaRavignani , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms!
But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16
Being close to other people changes across menstrual cycle. Closer relations with friends and family in luteal phase. Higher progesterone predicts higher desire to affiliate. Our new paper with Stacey Makhanova
@urszulammarcin1 and others. https://t.co/V2343HeU5P
Thrilled to share that our paper on the link between the evolution of two prefrontal brain regions with social and foraging challenges in primates is out in eLife! 🧠🐒
Check it out! 👉
https://t.co/XAYJ9kdHJP
@Musee_Homme@CNRS@CNRSecologie@CNRSbiologie@eLife
📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition @JohnsHopkins - please RT!
We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique
Deadline: Dec 1
Learn more here: https://t.co/o0pQPas6Sn
And here: https://t.co/Qq73pcK933
And in QT'd thread
Great synthesis by @ChrisKrupenye stressing the need, in light of important new work, for more nuanced characterizations of the social lives of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos, with implications for our own evolutionary trajectory
https://t.co/ywxY5KLnXv
Nature’s Valley Baboon Project @NVTrust@KrisSabbi@sophiekurilla presents on primate mycophagy @SocietyAfrican#APS2024! Have you seen your study species eat mushrooms? Let’s connect! Fill out this quick survey: https://t.co/wcGsvzH1na
🥁🥁We just distributed ✨1600 GBP (4 microgrants of 400 GBP each) ✨in our special Women in Fieldwork round of funding 🥰💪
This was made possible by a very generous donor who raised the money in a charitable art auction 🥳
2/2 🇬🇧 🚨 Call for participation for those with fieldwork experience:
"Parlons Terrain" is launching a survey 📝 in 🇫🇷🇬🇧 (less than 10 minutes) to identify challenges encountered in the field.
Please participate before October 1st and share widely!
https://t.co/2NiJbLhmbv
Visualizing Science! I'm holding a series of free, online workshops, thanks to Johns Hopkins University. All are welcome! I plan to have fun with Danielle VanBrabant, Damond Kyllo, and Amey Zhang to introduce visualization topics and challenges. No art experience is necessary.
Life histories are not just fast or slow: “A growing body of evidence shows that life history strategies are also defined using an axis of variation involving developmental or reproductive patterns” https://t.co/syCAJrvHmK
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: https://t.co/gi53rtZwPt