Julie Teichroeb

Huge day in the lab! As Sam Stead defends the first #PhD #dissertation on the Rwenzori #colobus!! Congratulations to Dr. Stead!!!

Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

My amazing master’s student, Coco Tucker-Gritt, is applying her superior art skills to the walls of the research station now!! The vervets keep sniffing and calling to the these new wall monkeys, but they never respond! 🤣

The very human reason why baboons walk in lines A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about animal movement, suggesting that baboons don’t march in line to protect themselves or to follow a leader, but rather, to stay close to their frie...

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Very cool finding!!

Ah yes! I saw that a lot. Very odd. I always thought the infants were going to get injured too!! They were grimacing and squealing most of the time and seemed scared. Perhaps this acted as an appeasement gesture..? 🤷‍♀️

All those former Flames can get it done!!

Fruit Availability and Maternal Energy Expenditure Associated With Infant Independence in an Arboreal Primate (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) Infant being handled by mother.

Another cool primate infant article by Sam Stead, @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social on this bizarre (in the best way) species of black & white colobus. When mothers are better fed, they divert more energy to lactation and infants can reach independence earlier! 🧪🐒
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We suggest that when moms can divert more #energy to infants via #lactation, infants are independent earlier, benefiting both! 2/2

Another new lab paper led by the amazing Sam Stead! We show that greater #fruit availability & less #maternal #movement increases #infant #independence in Rwenzori #colobus. 1/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
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Only 10 days away from the American Society of Primatologists Small Research Grant deadline!! We fund both wild and captive hypothesis-based research. Info on the ASP website.@aspvoice.bsky.social

Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Offspring survival is a key determinant of reproductive success, defined as an organism’s ability to pass on its genes to subsequent generations. Investigation into the factors that impact offspring s...

"We suggest that male immigrants occasionally commit infanticide, but that they also impact infant survival through another mechanism, such as the loss of care provided by putative fathers."
Cool new primate research by Sam Stead, @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social et al. 🧪
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Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Offspring survival is a key determinant of reproductive success, defined as an organism’s ability to pass on its genes to subsequent generations. Investigation into the factors that impact offspring s...

New lab paper! Led by Sam Stead. #Infant #mortality for the Rwenzori #colobus is associated #male #immigration and #replacement. But sometimes occurs months afterwards. Infanticide may occur but loss of male caregivers may also impact infants. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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!

Congratulations to PhD student Frances Adams for passing her proposal defense today and achieving candidacy!! Her PhD will focus on the importance of #male #bonding in the formation of the Rwenzori #colobus #multilevel #society.

New article! How do biologists pursue generalizations given the heterogeneity of living systems? This paper examines diagrams and tables in review articles and discusses visual practices for generalizing while embracing differences. Forthcoming in Synthese philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25344/

I’m already sewing a lot and complaining about the government!

It’s my 10th year too! Can we retire yet?…

POLL — Gorilla vs. 100 humans. Who wins? Experts weigh in on viral debate Who would win in a fight, 100 humans or a gorilla? Elon Musk, MrBeast and other celebrities have weighed in, but here's what experts think.

We had to get in on the debate at #UTSC www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos...

What should we be doing as behavioural ecologists? This is essentially a definition of modern behavioural ecology and what we need to do to generate new hypotheses and advance the field. We need to put ecol

An important publication from John Endler on the fundamentals of behavioural ecology:

" We need to make a lot more use of Natural History. Natural History is the ultimate source of all hypotheses, so neglecting it could result in stagnation of our field "

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We asked how behavioral diversity & agonistic behaviors relate to group size in wild capuchins. We analyzed >65,000 behavioral scans collected over 15 yrs on 214 capuchins (8 groups) & controlled for # inds sampled. We found behavioral richness, diversity & agonism was higher in larger groups.

Our new paper on Arsi gelada feeding ecology!

This is the southernmost living population of geladas. Their envt is lower elevation and thus hotter compared to other sites.

Activity budget data suggest this is a pretty marginal envt for geladas.

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Thanks Angie!

Just informed by @wiley.com that our paper on applying dual process theory and Bayesian decision theory to wild animal decisions was in the top 10% of articles read last year! Really gratifying that it is being read, since it was so hard to write! 😄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

So fun to talk about the joys and challenges of being a primatologist with a wonderful panel of colleagues!

Fantastic 3-year postdoc opportunity working on communication in wild chimpanzees with a dream team of scientists!

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Following Primates | Platypus If the langurs moved to the agricultural fields or crossed the village, no data could be collected for a couple hours or more. In those moments, we would either wait, patiently hoping that the langurs...

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A beautiful, introspective, and philosophical blog post co-authored by my PhD student Virendra Mathur on the complicated politics of studying nonhumans in a human-dominated world.