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Dr Hella Péter

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mbchimp.bsky.social data wrangler 💻 PhD - are your chimps drinking? 🐵💧 team abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝 ADHD & disabled✨ she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
@abcmicrogrants.bsky.social we recognize these barriers in academia and aim to help break them down by supporting students through microgrants and mentorship opportunities!! 🐝🐝🐝 Learn more about our initiatives🤓, donate to our cause 👛, or get involved 🏃‍♀️via the links in our bio! 💪💪💪
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Let’s celebrate women and girls in science on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science! UNESCO reports that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates, about 1/3 of researchers worldwide, and just 1/10 STEM leaders.
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The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation
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Tropical Biology Association @tropicalbiology.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
24 early-career ecologists from 13 African countries have arrived at Mpala Research Centre for the #EcologyMasterclass - two weeks of hands-on training in the Kenyan savanna to build skills, confidence and networks. @mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
A BES Endemic network advertisement for their upcoming reasonable adjustments webinar. It is on 4th November, from 6-7:30 pm BST
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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Next up in the @britishecologicalsociety.org Endemic webinar series, we'll focus on reasonable adjustments in the workplace and at university. Both in the field & in the office, being neurodivergent in ecology can be difficult – but there is help!
A BES Endemic network advertisement for their upcoming reasonable adjustments webinar. It is on 4th November, from 6-7:30 pm BST
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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The #FindThatLizard scholarship has reached 66% of our $5000 goal! I started this scholarship because i wanted to support women and gender non conforming scientists, especially those of color, achieve their goals. Will you help us meet our goal? www.ecologikinstitute.org/fieldnotes/f...
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THE ECOLOGIK INSTITUTE — FindThatLizard Scholarship
This scholarship will support girls, women, and gender non-conforming people who want to pursue herpetology with a special focus on those who identify as Black or people of color. Funding can support ...
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 01/09/2025
The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
⬇️ potential PhD position ⬇️
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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
#Behaviour2025 out of context: "we did a different study that I'm not going to tell you much about" "Bees are not little humans, and humans are not big bees" "it's never easy to catch an insect when you are moving at 40-50mph" "I started my career in ants and made the natural move across to whales"
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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
S. Anvitha: Drought led to changes in Asian elephants' body condition and social behaviors, along with increased miscarriages. These changes suggest possible welfare effects, too, and point towards the usefulness of studying welfare impacts of drought. #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!
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ips-primatenews.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We will soon advertise these two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology): zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities
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Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻‍❄️ zoogestures.uni-koeln.de with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social 🏺🗃️📕
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Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
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Cinq mois dans une jungle au Ghana pour étudier des singes menacés
Deux étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie passent cinq mois isolés dans une forêt du Ghana pour percer les secrets reproductifs d’une espèce de primate menacée d’extinction.
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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Can’t make it to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ? Did you know you can also register to attend online for free as well? 💻 Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”! More info here: www.asab.org/conference-h...
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Conference Hublets — ASAB
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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Animal brains don’t think in a vacuum, they think in heatwaves & hypoxia, and around predators, parasites, and social groups. Our new review maps mechanisms, timescales, and gaps for understanding animal cognition in changing environments: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lau5Esvgs...
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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.
Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.
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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I love this visual abstract! What a fantastic paper. Check it out!
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Listening Deeply to Indigenous People: A Collaborative Perspective and Reflection Between a Mapuche Machi and Ecologists
Two-eyed seeing offers a way to see with both Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western ecological sciences. In this collaborative perspective piece between ecologists and a Mapuche spi....
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 12/08/2025
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology & Behavior
Duties & Responsibilities
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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool? If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you! tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r
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Dr Steven Allain @stevoallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Are you a neurodivergent ecologist? Are you planning to undertake any fieldwork soon as part of research? Then our upcoming webinar with the @britishecologicalsociety.org's ENDEMIC Network may be for you. Find out more and sign up here: britishecologicalsociety.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fieldwork Whilst Neurodiverse. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
This webinar will explore different experiences of doing ecology fieldwork while neurodiverse, both within and outside academia. After a panel discussion with the speakers, a discussion with the audie...
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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New video on the YouTube channel: talk at the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on the question 'is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?' youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...
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Is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?
YouTube video by Tai Chimpanzee Project
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Pls share! #seabirds
Sign ups for Guillemates 2025/ 2026, for mentors and mentees. Deadline 19th September. Any q's email Jacqui - ecr@seabirdgroup.org.uk.
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Charlotte Wiltshire @charlotte9080.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr... #WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop
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Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🌿 The National Plant Monitoring Scheme has turned 10! More than 1,000 volunteers have gathered 250k+ botanical records that feed into the UK Biodiversity Indicators. Marking the milestone, the 2024 report shares surveyor stories & a timeline of NPMS highlights. 🔗 🧪 www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
Front cover of National Plant Monitoring Scheme Annual Report 2024Books and papers lying on daisy covered grassTwo people outside in a rural environment look at information on a clipboard
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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Want to join our friendly team of conservation experts? Our marine team are hiring for a new 1yr role to provide expert scientific advice on marine developments 🌏 🧪 See here for how to apply: shorturl.at/kdthM #ornithology
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Conservation Scientist (Fixed-Term) | RSPB
We are seeking a Conservation Scientist to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for 12 months. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of res...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
So we have this database for wildlife disease surveillance, and we made a data standard, and an R and Python package to help you clean your data, and two years in we just still cannot get first adopters, so here’s my new bit: I will personally Venmo you $20 of my personal money to share a dataset
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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org
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ASAB @asab.org · 29/07/2025
Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Winter ASAB 2025
December 15th-16th
Edinburgh  
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How sensory information affects behaviour

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
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Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Wenner Gren is closing Sapiens because, among other things, they anticipate being able to fund fewer than 10% of their applications... at the same time as other funding sources from the federal government are being destroyed. This funding environment is an existential crisis for anthropology 🏺🧪
At our most recent application deadline, the Foundation received a 40 percent increase in proposals for our core programs, and we anticipate that demand will continue to dramatically increase in the months ahead. Without immediate action, we face funding rates of less than 9 percent for Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-PhD Research Grants, and as low as 7 percent for our Hunt and Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships. We are also facing possible reductions across our entire range of program areas including conferences, workshops, and community engagement. The consequences are stark: a narrower, less diverse, less adventurous field, with brilliant projects left unfunded, scholars left unsupported, and doctoral students stalled in their progress towards their degree
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Individuelle Umstände & sozialer Kontext beeinflussen das #Aggressionsverhalten weiblicher #Gorillas gegenüber Gruppenmitgliedern. Neue Studie von Nikolaos Smit & Martha Robbins now out in @elife.bsky.social‬. #Tierverhalten #Primaten @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @utu.fi www.mpg.de/25104158/per...
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Persönliche Umstände prägen die Aggression von Gorillas gegen Gruppenmitglieder
Je nach individueller Situation und sozialem Kontext können Tiere ihre Aggression an mehr oder weniger starke Rivalen richten
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Jordi Galbany @jordigalbany.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Great days at the #IPSMadagascar2025 with @sanchezmegias.bsky.social and Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, presenting our research @ub.edu @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social Always a pleasure to come to this conference and interact with primatologists from all over the Word! 🐒🦧🦍
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school. www.calebscholars.org
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Caleb Scholars Program – Inuit-led conservation advocacy.
A fellowship program focused on providing community and cultural connection, professional development, mentorship, and financial support to students in the arctic.
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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The first papers from our special collection on vocal communication in corvids are now live. Most are still under review, stay tuned for more updates as they’re published! link.springer.com/collections/...
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Vocal communication in corvids
In the field of vocal communication, research has mostly focussed on birds because of their vocal learning capacity and non-human primates due to their ...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
We’re expanding EHBEA’s Workshop Grant scheme to cover outreach activities, after our Stand Up For Science discussions at the conference 👇 The community clearly expressed the view that outreach beyond academia was vital to championing science. Apply by 11 September 💶
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We need your help to raise money for our Field Skills Workshop! 🤝 Our workshop provides critical training for emerging primatologists who otherwise would not have opportunities to gain field experience. Consider donating to support this goal via the 🔗: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £1000 to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025 – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Support the PSGB Field Skills Workshop 2025. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🚨 Abstract Deadline approaching! Submit your contribution to the Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction by August 1st! 📍 Göttingen, Oct 13–15, 2025 🎟️ Participation is free, but registration required All details & submission portal: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... See you in Göttingen!
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The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction
We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Here's the latest in our series of interviews about how we can make ecology & evolution more inclusive to people with disabilities & chronic conditions. If you would like to contribute, we are looking for people to contribute in October, November & December so please get in touch! tree@cell.com
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 16/07/2025
✨New science, new ideas, new friends.  Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.
British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025, 15-18 December, Edinburgh. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open.
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Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)
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Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use
Long-term standardized data collection on wild western chimpanzees reveals late-life changes in stone tool use, and the extent of these changes varies between individuals.
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Dr Hella Péter @hellapeter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Been balancing out learning new remote sensing stuff with learning a new fibercraft - Nothing fancy, but my first quilt is coming along nicely!
A colourful patchwork baby quilt made of squares laid out on a bed
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We are looking for panelists! 🦧 If you are working in community-based conservation, (or know someone who is) apply to speak on our panel at PSGB's 2025 Field Skills Workshop. See 🧵 and video: youtube.com/shorts/YBJLr...
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