Paddy Tkaczynski

The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...

What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍

Female gorillas can change groups many times across their lives. These decisions are undoubtedly shaped by mating opportunities and infant protection, but what about the wider social relationships females have across groups? Check out this thread to see what we found!

Dispersed female networks: female gorillas’ inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Dispersal is a fundamental aspect of many animal societies, impacting gene flow, knowledge transmission, culture and individual fitness. However, little is known about the information individuals use when dispersing. Mountain gorillas exhibit a flexible ...

So happy to see my first PhD paper out royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

With my amazing supervisor @robinmorrison.bsky.social and the @savinggorillas.bsky.social, we examined female dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas.

fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/...
#ResearchFunding opportunity in #HumanEvoultion at the Smithsonian

#AcademicSky #AcademicJobs

Registration for the ASAB conference is now open - come join us!

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Job announcement 📢

@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction!

Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions!

apply.interfolio.com/165809

Museomics and Salvaged Feathers Piece Together the Evolutionary History and Conservation Genomics of the Elusive, Critically Endangered Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) The Night Parrot is a critically endangered nocturnal bird of Australia's arid zone. The species was “lost” for most of the 20th century until its rediscovery in 1990. Extant populations are now know....

An exciting & important new paper by @annamkearns.bsky.social & co-authors: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Conservation genomics of the previously assumed to be extinct night parrot, showing recent connectivity between populations ~2000 km apart, but very low effective population sizes.

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Individual variation in animal communication: from species averages to unique voices The comparative study of communicative behaviour in non-human animals, especially primates, has yielded crucial insights into the evolution of human language. This research, mostly focused on the spe...

Congratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews
@camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾

Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper:
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

🗓️Detailed schedule for Behaviour 2025 announced

⌛The wait is over!
Find your slot amongst 19symposia, 15 thematic sessions and 2 poster sessions. View or dowload the schedule and plan your visit to Kolkata!!

Find further details here👉
behaviourindia2025.in/programme.html

"Who are the team members organising the best conference of 2026?"

We're glad you asked! Here's a flash role call of our organising committee.

#ecbb #ecbb2026 #academicsky

Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e

Please consider helping us support the next generation of primatologists! Any support is greatly appreciated, and will help us host this fantastic event for the second time! 🐒

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We need your help to raise money for our Field Skills Workshop! 🤝 Our workshop provides critical training for emerging primatologists who otherwise would not have opportunities to gain field experience. Consider donating to support this goal via the 🔗: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

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!

Opportunities — ASAB

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job

More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

PLEASE share widely.

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

Opportunities — ASAB

the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities

Beyond the Light Show: The Effects of Fireworks on Animals and People

Thank you @nytimes.com / Christina Kelso for highlighting the harms of traditional fireworks including to wildlife and other animals. This is a tradition we can and should change. #fireworks #July4 #FourthofJuly #wildlife #animals #nature

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

laptop a pub: presentation with title slide "Practical Skills for Teamwork and Reproducibility - Shifting from individual workflows to effective collaboration"

Slide titled Scenario 3. Text reads: “If you were leaving a project tomorrow, what do you prepare? What would you document? What would you share? What would you prioritise?” Bullet points: • A clear folder structure • Sensible file names • A README with notes on data and scripts • A hand-over status-log document • Contact information

simplistic slide with shaking-hands emoji: left "collaboration", right "reproducibility" -- practices that support one often also serve the other

Slide titled: Designing Projects for Teamwork How can this project be cut into pieces? And how do those pieces stay connected? Foundational Practices: Clear planning, Simple standards, Useful documentation (Modular scripts, naming conventions, README files, change logs,...)

many thanks to @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social and @cebeardsworth.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to your Research Culture Workshop series focused on improving reproducibility, research collaboration, and data management at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social 🧪

Chimpanzés sauvages : des liens familiaux sans troubles graves de l’attachement Dans une étude publiée dans Nature Human Behaviour des scientifiques ont id

Wild #chimpanzees show attachment patterns similar to human children excluding its disorganized form ... Check out the paper by @elerolland.bsky.social @oscarnl.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social @romanwittig.bsky.social and other researchers from TCP.

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