@carodeimel.bsky.social
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"Many women expressed trauma because of their experiences in health care and this often seemed to lead to a fear of accessing health services, even in potentially life-threatening situations."
Nicht nur in Australien...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Breastfeeding advocates often fall into three broad groups:
#1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...
I hate to say it, but in terms of HE a very sizeable number of staff appear to believe that disability accommodations are unnecessary, a nuisance, and have gone 'too far'.
Toxic, precarious and competitive university environments (that ignore staff welfare) lend themselves to this kind of thinking
Botanische Gärten sind Anlagen aus dem Geist des Kolonialismus: In Deutschland fällt es ihnen schwerer als der Kunst, ihre Geschichte aufzuarbeiten.
02.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.
25.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 5 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Crowdsourcing request!
The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program will be creating sample syllabi as a community resource, starting with four courses:
- Wild animal biology
- Wild animal ecology
- Wild animal ethics
- Wild animal law
Please share topics and readings for any or all!
Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM
19.11.2025 17:14 — 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2
Together, our findings demonstrate that men supporting women’s empowerment face heavy costs - but norms are mutable.
Policies that reduce structural barriers, address stigma around gender atypical behavior, and leverage emerging benefits can help accelerate gender-equitable change. 🎯 5/5
WTF?! This makes me so ashamed to be an alumna
14.11.2025 02:28 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The cameras at our sites are placed to record chimps. That's why we get a somewhat funny perspective of the larger animals, like this elephant bachelor group.
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On 24 October, Barbara Fruth was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her socio-environmental work in the Congo 🇩🇪 🇨🇩 🐵 💚 🏅. Around 350 people came to the Konzil in Konstanz to watch the Mayor pin the Cross of Merit to Barbara's jacket and present the certificate. 🧵 1/3
05.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...
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Extract from page 160 of the 2019 book Intelligence of Nations by Richard Lynn and David Becker, which describes the 2019 version of Lynn's "national IQ" database, which claims to provide national average IQs for nation states worldwide: This extract appears in the section describing the samples used to calculate the US "national IQ": "From a rural area in Southeast Alaska a low-SES sample of Tlingit, mostly with learning difficulties, was reported by Connelly (1983, Table 1). WISC-R FS-IQs for younger participants of 86.89 and older participants of 83.88 were averaged to an uncor. IQ of 85.39, to which 0.68 had to be added for FE-correction but 2.50 had to be subtracted for country correction, which resulted in a cor. IQ of 83.57."
Richard Lynn was criticised for using a sample of children with intellectual impairment to calculate the "national IQ" of Equatorial Guinea in 2002. In 2019, he calculated the IQs of Native Americans from children referred for psychoeducational evaluations, including those with learning difficulties
03.11.2025 09:05 — 👍 66 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 1That’s because the purpose of biology for the right is naturalizing social hierarchy and defining a subaltern “other” to stand in contrast to the “normal”.
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Faces of different guenon species to show their morphological differences
If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
This is interesting (if a bit gruesome) on power dynamics in bonobos: "eighty-five percent of violent coalitions are led by females seeking to keep males in check"
23.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 2
📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare.
🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered.
🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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A view of the hall with Bonobo photographs and visitor stattions
Meet the Bonobo Banner with information about Bonobos and a bonobo portrait
Reconstruction of the table at the Research camp where everyone eats, with displays of equipment needed for field research. In the Background are Photos of foilage so one feels like in the forest. Two people are talking to each other in the Background.
The photographs by Christian Ziegler of LuiKotale Camp and Bonobo portraits.
Did some #scicom yesterday for Bonobo Alive and the LuiKotale Bonobo Project in Munich at the Long night of Museums @maxplanck.de
The visitors were interested and engaged and now know more about the why and how of #Bonobo research and conservation. We need more events like this!
🚨We have an open part-time paid position for an *Austria-based* master student in #ComputerScience (incl. adjacent fields) to help develop an automatic stress assessment in wild #GreatTits 🐦
More info in the job description below
Remote work is also possible for non-Viennese students🇦🇹
#AnimalWelfare
Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.)
Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
19.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 10443 🔁 3074 💬 109 📌 322“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
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Neopterin is a neat marker for #cell-mediated #immunity in #primates. We think it has great potential for #ecoimmunology research in wild and captive settings!
Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Gleichstellung in der dt. Wissenschaft: Maßnahmen & Beratungsangebote zu ihren Gunsten gibt es durchaus. Aber: Sie reichen nicht -- und drohen den Status quo teils sogar zu stabilisieren. Warum? Und was braucht es, um Gleichstellungsziele effektiv zu erreichen? Wir haben dazu einiges aufgeschrieben:
14.10.2025 06:14 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Wer am 23. Oktober abends noch nichts vor hat, sollte unbedingt bei unserer Podiumsdiskussion vorbeikommen!
Sexuelle und reproduktive Rechte: weltweit und für alle!
Gerne auch weitererzählen und RT. Ein paar Plätze gibt es noch 🌈
#kostenlos #Wien
Infos / Anmeldung:
www.therainworkers.org/blog/event
The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses
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Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
Friendly Reminder Frauengesundheit.
Schwangerschaftsabbrüche stehen in Ö noch immer im Strafgesetz. In manchen Bundesländern ist es geradezu unmöglich (Burgenland) jemanden zu finden, der/die Abbrüche durchführt. Zudem zahlt die Kasse nichts. In Kärnten zb kommt ein Abbruch schon mal auf 1000+ Euro.
