Bridget Waller

Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

New Publication Alert 🚨

"Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare" 🐐

w/ Marianne Mason & @amcell.bsky.social

Check out @peerj.bsky.social - peerj.com/articles/208...

#AnimalBehaviour #AnimalWelfare #NoninvasivePhysiology

Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques Facial expressions play a central role in primate social communication, but in cognitive experiments, they are typically presented out of context and …

New paper showing that the direction and expressivity of faces impacts social attention in macaques - the context of the face matters! @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @kerensarees.bsky.social and Olivia O'Callaghan. @erc.europa.eu

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) @primatesocietygb.bsky.social is advertising a vacancy to join their Conservation Subcommittee.
PSGB are looking for applicants who have a background in research/protected area management/community conservation/ conservation education.

A few more days left to apply for our PhD studentship in primate cognition at NTU - join us!

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

One more month to apply for this! Please forward to any potential students (UK-only)

Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

Control over the many small muscles that create facial expressions—a key communication channel in primates—comes from the neural circuitry that produces voluntary movements, according to new Science research in macaques. https://scim.ag/3Z8tzDs

Making faces Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways

Our Science Perspective on Ianni et al - neural control of facial expressions involves voluntary pathways

@jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social

www.science.org/eprint/EKJTZ...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

Fully funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU (and Claire Witham at MRC) - join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social

Vacancy Search Results - Bournemouth University View our Latest Vacancies

Join us @bournemouthuni.bsky.social at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. #Lecturer #academicjobs in #Biomedical Science, #ecology (especially #Marine Biology please), and #sustainability science. vacancies.bournemouth.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

PhD opportunity: MOVE
Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Deadline: 12/01/26
Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social
Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

Be sure to check out, "Intentional communication reduces social stress by increasing the predictability of conspecifics’ behaviour," co-authored by WG grant recipient Anna I. Roberts! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢

EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration!

🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application)

Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs...

Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg...

All abstracts will be accepted!

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BBS article on mechanisms of group cohesion in primates (Robin Dunbar), with our commentary proposing facial expression as one of those key mechanisms! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Robin Dunbar on group-living in primates with several very interesting commentaries

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146

Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social.
Informal enquires encouraged!
www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Enhancing welfare through cognitive assessment of parenting skills in captive managed animals Find out more about this PhD opportunity funded by BBSRC, hosted through the NTU fully funded studentship scheme.

Fully-funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU, associated with her BBSRC Fellowship on parenting in rhesus macaques. Join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social @ntupsychology.bsky.social (note - open to UK students only)

www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Thank you bringing your knowledge, enthusiasm, and hope to this year's Winter Meeting at National Museum Cardiff. We hope to see you all next year!

A heartfelt pant-hoot farewell to dearly departed Jane Goodall, from all of us at PSGB. Thank you Richard Wrangham for your moving Memorial Talk, guiding us through her life and legacy ❤️

Don't forget to enter our raffle! Just £1 a ticket to win some primate-tastic artwork 🎨

raffall.com/404460/enter...

#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social

www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

Smarter magpies linked to social network connections The social interactions Western Australian magpies experience in their first year of life affects their intelligence, according to a new study.

2025. Smarter magpies linked to social network connections phys.org/news/2025-11...