Taï Chimpanzee Project

For #CtenophoreDay an experience so extraordinary & exquisite if I hadn't captured it on camera I'd have thought it was a dream. Last month, heading into the sunset at end of #MySwim at Shimoda, found myself in a vast raft of ?Mikado Comb Jellies (Bolinopsis mikado) #cilia #CtenoTakeover #Japan🧵1/6

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts How embedding tests into conservation practive transforms effectiveness

Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

Experts say there are fewer than 10,000 African penguin breeding pairs. A century ago there were 1 million. 🐧

No-fishing zones provide some renewed hope for their survival.

Read more from @theguardian.com :

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

Use the next weekend to apply for the Camp Manager position @taichimpproject.bsky.social if you want to observe and protect wild chimpanzees, you are stress resilient and have good organisational skills, speak and write English AND French.👇

Why women live longer than men Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men

Why women live longer than men. A new study #ScienceAdvances by an intl. research team led by Johanna Stärk and Fernando Colchero @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social traces the evolutionary roots of the #lifespan gap between women and men. tinyurl.com/yrt4ju9u & www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tonight at Poitiers #SFDP

Dame Jane Goodall revolutionised our understanding of our closest primate cousins Those she inspired say she not only revolutionised our understanding of chimpanzees - but challenged how we relate to the natural world.

Incredible observational skills. Listen to Jane Goodall's analysis of the mother-child relationship with the knowledge we have now.

bbc.com/news/article...

Here, talking with immediate rapport to Nyakafungo primary school children and their parents, Budongo Forest, Uganda in 2009.

Jane Goodall, the first primatologist and champion of chimpanzees, we will miss you and the tireless work you have begun, to protect critically endangered chimpanzees and their habitat into the future.

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Come and join us. Observe and protect wild chimpanzees.

The chimpanzees have lost their next champion. It is with deep grief that we learned about Jane Goodall passing away. R.I.P. Dr Jane

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

Looking for a job in research and conservation? Check out the advert 👇 and apply within the next two-and-a-half weeks.

Working for and with the chimps at @taichimpproject.bsky.social ... this can develop into a PhD project 🎓

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📢JOB alert📢
Application for the camp manager position at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social is open now. We seek a new camp manager starting on January 1, 2026, for 2+1 years (3rd year optional) working with and for wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire.👇

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/I...

📢 JOB alert 📢 Soon we will advertise the position for the next camp manager at @taichimpproject.bsky.social Starting on January 1, 2026, for 2 years plus an optional 1 year prolongation. Come and join a vibrant research team in the middle of the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Please RT

Enjoy the weekend

New paper alert: Modern human predisposition to alcohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates. Wild chimps consume fermented fruit.
Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days !
If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September):
psl.eu/agenda/collo...

Crows can learn to use tools

The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Fixing Climate Change in Your Backyard (and Frontyard)

Register to learn more about climate change in your backyard. September 17, 6:30 PM central time.
www.climateactionevanston.org/nurturingnat...

Forest degradation driven by fragmentation and climate change.

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers

go.nature.com/3K0SGDZ

Mongabay’s probe leads to mining firm addressing illicit activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo In March 2024, Mongabay published an investigation revealing serious allegations against a Canadian and South African-owned mining firm for acquiring mining rights without proper consultation with…

Mongabay exposed a mining firm in DRC accused of grabbing Twa Indigenous land without consultation.

After our report, the company agreed to meet landowners for the first time.

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