Paddy Tkaczynski

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

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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

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...

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GitHub - BenjaFried/modsoc_Julia: Modeling Social Behavior in Julia Modeling Social Behavior in Julia. Contribute to BenjaFried/modsoc_Julia development by creating an account on GitHub.

Interested in using my textbook, Modeling Social Behavior, but wishing code was in a more general programming language than NetLogo? The incomparable Ben Fried has translated all modeling code into JULIA, utilizing the excellent Agents.jl package. github.com/BenjaFried/m...

Join us for the 4th Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare!

🎙 “What can rats teach us about positive animal welfare with a focus on play and tickling?”
👤 With Prof. Alistair Lawrence
📅 25 February 2026 | 13:00 CEST

🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution.

www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return

● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+

● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000

● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

Genetic legacy and recent cross of two ancient lineages underlie the rebound of the world’s rarest primate Fecal genomic analysis of Hainan gibbon reveals roles of demography, recombination, and behavioral regulation during its recovery.

Genetic legacy and recent cross of two ancient lineages underlie the rebound of the world’s rarest primate | Hainan Gibbon www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project!

Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵

Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation

Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.

#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

UZH: Professorship for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology We are seeking candidates in the field of Comparative Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology for the Irene Staehelin Endowed Professorship at the University of Zurich. This position focuses on the ...

🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates.

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle' Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come join #LaurierBiology!
We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions!

Integrative Organismal Zoologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

Microbial Systems Biologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist!
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...

DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!

Postdoctoral Fellow in Eco-evolutionary Modelling and Machine Learning The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) at Stockholm University is located in the Arrhenius Laboratories on the Frescati campus. Currently, approximately 100 people, including

Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢

We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.

Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city

Details here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Among-trait covariance and cross-year repeatability for direct and indirect individual effects in producer–scrounger behaviour in wild house sparrows Abstract. Variation in traits expressed during social interactions can be attributed to direct individual effects (DIEs) of the focal individual’s identity

Social partners shape phenotypes in house sparrows: direct & indirect social effects covary in producer-scrounger tactics, forming a multivariate syndrome that constrains trait variation:

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@cdegroot.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social
@dingemanselab.bsky.social

Two PhD positions in dolphin genomics and behavioral ecology are available at the University of Zurich, starting May/June 2026. Applicants must have relevant degrees and experience. More info: www.michaelkruetzenlab.org. #phd

#voxprimato #job
poste de professeur-e en Ecologie Animale à l'Université de Fribourg en Suisse (biotic interactions, community ecology, conservation biology, ecological modelling, and eco-evolutionary feedback loops)
date limite 31/03/2026
détails 👇🏽

the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies Children’s cooperative behaviors and norms develop along distinct cultural pathways shaped by local norms.

Very excited that this paper is out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Led by the fabulous @dorsaamir.bsky.social with invaluable contributions from many awesome collaborators.

Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

Studying social transmission using STbayes Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

Read the blog here 👇

If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it!

Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!

Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Novel behavioural assays to study mosquito pheromone signalling at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

We have a fully-funded PhD project on mosquito behaviour and AI, based at @durham.ac.uk and supervised by Amir Atapour Abarghouei (Durham Computer Science), @viveknityananda.bsky.social and myself. Check the project description here tinyurl.com/2hven83a and apply here: www.needl.org.uk/apply/.

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Possums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...

A little follow up about this; adding amore eloquent critiques of the poor coverage of the original article by @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.

We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.

⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!

Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq

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Out of control? No, our social security is among the lowest in Europe Is it Government ignorance, weakness or ideological agreement that drives it to let the right set the terms of debate, asks Andrew Fisher. The UK social security system is one of the least generous…

"The UK social security system is one of the least generous in Europe. It is neither generous nor ballooning – despite the hyperbole of right-wing media and politicians."

My new piece for @labour-hub.bsky.social
labourhub.org.uk/2026/01/14/o...