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she is 22 years old and she is braver than all of us.

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply!

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I have often observed people say they would like more diversity, more Global South voices, more African voices. But it only goes so far. Once sharp voices with hard critique emerge, people would rather ignore them quietly

Critique of Jane Goodall's legacy from a prominent Kenyan voice on conservation

Imperial Power - Global Inequality

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Substack essay: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/the-stagge...

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New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Scientists announce that 7 of 9 key 'planetary boundaries' have been crossed A team of global scientists issued a new report on Wednesday, noting that seven out of nine of key "planetary boundaries" have been crossed. Carbon dioxide emissions have increased ocean acidification...

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value.

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Blog Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation 25th May 2020 Michelle A. Rodrigues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twitter: @MARspidermonkey Website: Recently, I watched the Jane Goodall…

Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the @peopleprimate.bsky.social. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)

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Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC and TM logos. Text: EMERGENCY Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla. Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping.   The flotilla did not break any laws. What is unlawufl is genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilians vessels and abduction of all those on board.

Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC amd TM logos. Text: We will never stop challenging Israel's illegal blockade - a siege weaponized to starve, silence, and imprison Palestinians.  Stand with us to break the siege and hold governments and institutions accountable for enabling Israel's crimes.

EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted.
The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.

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While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

Leakey told Japanese primatologist Junichiro Itani that he could take over Gombe research in 1961, but when Goodall decided to stay on, Leakey denied them access, and the Japanese researchers spent several years exploring nearby sites before establishing long-term research at Mahale Mountains (7/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

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)

Cover of the classic volume edited by Richard Byrne and Andy Whiten in Machiavellian Intelligence as the evolution of intellect among monkeys, apes and humans. It shows a funny cartoon of a big male hamadryas baboon, looking over a rock at his diminutive female imagining she is being good. But out of sight behind the rock she's grooming another male!

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#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

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email screenshot: Dear XX, thanks for thinking of me. Unfortunately I need to decline — I am one of those people who feels that Frontiers and big-money-OA is corrupting the scientific enterprise beyond repair, so I don't submit, review, or edit for their journals. I feel the same for journals like Scientific Reports, Communications Psychology, MDPI journals, and the like. In my opinion the only way to improve scientific publishing is to vote with our feet and our grant dollars. Sorry that I don't have a more positive response....! best from NZ Sam

I screen out Frontiers emails so hadn't seen a colleague's invite to their editorial board. so the colleague emailed me directly to ask again (we're friendly w/ each other)

I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply

Graph of scientific publisher output over time - showing rise of MDPI, now second only to Elsevier

The strain on scientific publishing 🧪 is unsustainable

And some publishers are exploiting #OpenAccess better than others

MDPI now second only to Elsevier in articles published

Excellent talk by Matthias Egger at visit to Monash Malaysia @kentbuse.bsky.social

Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open | Royal Society The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.

We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z

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Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!

Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!

Full guidelines and requirements are available on the conference website.

🔗 Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026

We look forward to your contributions to HBES2026!

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black and white illustration of flying bats and moths

Working on the next piece of the "animals in the move" series for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#art #sciart #bats 🦇

Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist, When and Where Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm Music Room (218) Goldring Student Centre 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?