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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🦍🚨 Happy to see this paper out!: "Variation in the timing of developmental milestones in Gorilla does not support the ecological risk aversion hypothesis": tinyurl.com/3y4k93zs It is my 1st collab with the Gorilla Group at MPI (tinyurl.com/4vsry4f9) and was a lot of fun to work with some 🦍 data!

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Horizon MSCA Postdoc fellowship deadline is approaching: url-shortener.me/OLZ3 If ur a postdoc interested in endangered primate (Barbary macaque) genomics, we (www.plasticprimateslab.com) have a lot data ready to go + more samples on the way! Pls get in touch before 10 August if interested.

Barbary macaque infant reaching out while being groomed

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🚨🐵 New MS: rdcu.be/eQDX7 ... behavioural syndromes are associated with how much individual Barbary macaques adjusted affiliative behaviour across multiple socioecological gradients... including human-related activity! (1/3)

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Starting in September 2025 and recruiting now, LJMU (UK) is starting a new MSc in Primate Behaviour, Conservation and Welfare! Details on the course and how to apply can be found here: www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/course...

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Barbary stag... First time I've seen one in a lot of years of coming to Morocco. This one was in Tazekka National Park where the government had a reintroduction programme a few years ago. 🦌

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

The VC PhD Studentship scheme is open for applications at LJMU: www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd... Here is the monkey work my lab is currently doing in Morocco; if it sounds interesting and you want to apply for a PhD, get in touch via the email on the site: www.plasticprimateslab.com

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

What a great photo for an interesting article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

More 🐵work! My PhD student is looking for a research assistant for his project looking at how mother-infant dynamics are affected by group differences in human exposure & socioecology! 6months of field work with room, board & flights (from UK) covered!: tinyurl.com/4s7pukxd

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

🚨 Primate/conservation job alert 🚨 6-month NERC-funded research assistant role looking at population sizes & health of wild Barbary macaques in the national parks of Morocco. Official advert posting coming soon, further details in image below, inc. info on how to apply

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Great to see Mathilde Grampp's first PhD paper come out - a great study of the links between social uncertainty and signalling complexity in chimps and mangabeys 🐵! Co-authored with @taichimpproject.bsky.social @lirsamuni.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y3n69duv

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Great post doc opportunity with @ethnoprimate.bsky.social and very cool looking macaques!

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