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Malene Friis Hansen

@mfhansen.bsky.social
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I am researcher, a mother and a monkey advocate. I move between and within the fields of Biology and Anthropology and combine fundamental scientific research with practical conservation action

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UCPH Behavioural Ecology Group @behaveco.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🐒 Do humans and wild macaques co-create culture? While human expansion often disrupts wildlife, a new study shows shared spaces can actually lead to novel interspecific traditions. Explore the co-construction of behaviours introduced by @mfhansen.bsky.social #Conservation #Primatology #SciComm
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Human‑macaque Co‑construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives | Behavioural Ecology Group
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Another great collaboration with @anthrofuentes.bsky.social providing a historical overview of primate culture concepts - and some expansion. Please read and share widely. @aiasdk.bsky.social @princeton.edu
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Article w/ @mfhansen.bsky.social out and open access. In it we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture. Interested in primatology and culture (and history)? check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The evolution of the concepts of ‘primate culture’ in Western science - Primates
While most scholars across the social and biological sciences acknowledge that human culture is distinctive in the comparative context there is widespread acknowledgment that some form of culture does...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
No, absolutely no. Turn down the review invitation if you can't do it. DO NOT fake it. This is malpractice and deeply dishonest. Plus, it's not any good. "More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On May 5–6, 2026, Maria Rentezi, Pierre du Plessis and I will organise the workshop The Politics of Traceability: How Knowledge, Artifacts, and Beings Have Been Tracked @aiasdk.bsky.social The call for papers is open: aias.au.dk/events/works... Please submit your abstract by January 15, 2026.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation and interspecific communication, and the potential for location- and group-specific behaviors in both groups. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Human-macaque Co-construction of Behaviours: Sharing Spaces, Sharing Food, Sharing Lives - International Journal of Primatology
Humans and other-than-human-animals (animals) share spaces, food, and lives. This gives rise to possibilities of interspecific learning, social facilitation and interspecific communication, and the po...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces! New article from excellent ongoing project with @mfhansen.bsky.social aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces
Humans and animals have always shared spaces, food and lives, but little research sheds light on this coexistence. In a new study, AIAS Fellow, cultural biologist Malene Friis Hansen and Professor Agu...
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Read more about our new research on the importance of human-other animal co-construction of behavior for coexistence aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces
Humans and animals have always shared spaces, food and lives, but little research sheds light on this coexistence. In a new study, AIAS Fellow, cultural biologist Malene Friis Hansen and Professor Agu...
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The long-tailed macaque is endangered IUCN confirms www.science.org/content/arti...
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Common research monkey is endangered, conservation group confirms
Listing could affect availability for biomedical studies
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Former @behaveco.bsky.social postdoc @mfhansen.bsky.social efforts to maintain the IUCN listing of the long tailed macaque where it should be based on scientific evidence paid off 💪🏼 news.mongabay.com/2025/10/iucn...
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IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint
BANGKOK — The long-tailed macaque will remain on the Red List of the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, despite objections from the biomedical industry arguing the designation hampers r...
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The conservation status of the long-tailed macaque was updated today. See here for more information and a bit about my new research project aias.au.dk/events/show/...
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Research contributes to updating the IUCN Red List for the long-tailed macaque
AIAS Fellow, cultural biologist Malene Friis Hansen has studied the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) for many years. Together with an international team of primate specialists, she has contri...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Congrats to three amazing scholars moving on to their next academic adventure!!! @mfhansen.bsky.social @ulisesjespinoza.bsky.social and Ellen Kladky anthropology.princeton.edu/news/three-a...
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Three Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholars Accept New Positions Beginning Fall 2025
Malene Friis Hansen came to Princeton two and a half years ago. She came as a biologist with the goal of transitioning to anthropology. Along the way, she came to appreciate her background and discove...
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In September, I start a new and exciting adventure at @aiasdk.bsky.social in collaboration with Felix Riede and Michael Eilenberg. Much gratitude to AIAS and of course to Agustin Fuentes and Princeton University
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