Nicky Staes

Primatologist working at @APELAB2 #Uantwerpen and #ZOOscience on the genetic background of behavioral and cognitive differences in #bonobos and #chimpanzees

[Adriano R. Lameira @lameira_adriano]

📢 Exciting news! A new PhD position is now open @warwickpsych 🎉 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 - 🌟 https://t.co/1I2EZI7jS8

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

🚨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 @jonasrrtorfs for more info.

https://t.co/SXoeqkDWBB

[Animal behavior opps animalopps.bsky.social @AnimalOpps]

🚨Eight (8!!) funded PhD opportunities in animal behavior and welfare at Harper Adams University🚨
Deadline: January 2025
Start date: October 2025
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[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Publication alert! Our latest output of a successful collaboration with @ejcvanleeuwen, Marcel Eens and @Jeronobo1 on identification of social culture in bonobos.

https://t.co/UFkVuipdsF

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Verifying myself: I am nickystaes on https://t.co/nehrcXJx0c. RLRu5brvQgQjSycWs9q-P2QcrLPhPC666G8_ / https://t.co/csuSKY45YM

[Thibaud Gruber @bonobo_style]

And with this group picture, it's a wrap! Thank you everyone once again for coming to Lausanne @EFP_2024 #efp2024 !! See you all soon in Montpellier and good luck to the organizing team!

[daan laméris @dwlameris]

New paper on #bonobo #welfare! 🐵 We applied QBA to see how humans score bonobo emotional expressivity. Check out the study published in @AW_TheJournal and in the thread (1/5):
https://t.co/GnLEvfpnUB

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

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

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

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 🙌

https://t.co/L1ug0z2Tm5

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

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:
https://t.co/ISBTAoTdCg
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[ZOO Science @ZOOscience_be]

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 https://t.co/r6Ff1xYGYj!

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

DNA methylatie heeft een invloed op de ontwikkeling van persoonlijkheid in chimpansees. Lees onze blog op https://t.co/0QzeItnraW @ZOOscience_be

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Read our blog on how methylation impacts the personality of chimpanzees @ZOOscience_eng
https://t.co/nUvokidGDz

[Dr. Alexandrina Guran | @rinaguran.bsky.social @GuranCNA]

Thanks to everyone who attended our symposium on comparative neuroscience @PuG2023 and of course @LateraLiterally @NickyStaes and @PatFri3drich

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

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

[GW Primate Genomics @GWBradleyLab]

Epigenetics of peptide hormones and chimp behavior -- new publication with @goguevara @chet_sherwood @NickyStaes @MMulholland33 and Bill Hopkins.
https://t.co/ASUGMQ1lcM

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Happy to share our latest work: Serotonergic methylation effects on personality are CpG site specific and impact both reactive and prosocial personality traits @goguevara, @chet_sherwood, @GWBradleyLab, @gwCASHP, @ZOOscience_eng https://t.co/Yfc6ENWe2A

[daan laméris @dwlameris]

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… 🧵
https://t.co/lOawNMvPx7

[Cyril C. Grueter @ccgrueter]

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_PrimateNews @BiologicalAnth @EFPrimatology @PsgbSTudent @AusHumanBiology @AnimBehav @ScienceUWA @CEB_UWA

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

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 @AdrienMeguerdi1 @GWBradleyLab @APELAB2 https://t.co/F31GWsLdSR

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

It’s official, with help from the keeper team @TwycrossZoo @APELAB2 PHD student @jonasrrtorfs just collected his final 💩 sample, thereby completing sampling the entire zoo-housed European bonobo population for his microbiome project. So thankful to all zoos that participated 🙌