@meg-crofoot.bsky.social
Seeing drawings by @lazaroillustration.bsky.social take shape always seems like magic to me!
20.05.2025 17:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !
19.05.2025 17:16 β π 18 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
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 animalsβ 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) 𧡠(1/12)
19.05.2025 15:07 β π 106 π 52 π¬ 2 π 13End your work week with decreasing hazard functions and truncated power laws; start your weekend with surprising similarities between meerkat, coati and hyaena behavior!
Cool new research by @pminasandra.bsky.social and collaborators below & here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
https://stri.si.edu/academic-programs/fellowships/tropical-animal-behavior-3-year-fellowshipβ¦
Heads up animal behavior researchers!
Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15.
Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...
@MPI_animalbehav @UniKonstanz @CBehav
#PhDpositions #Academic
Zzzzzzzzzzzz!
Don't sleep through the November 20 deadline!
Fully funded PhD to explore how sleep shapes societies, and societies shape sleep!
https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69052/doctoral-position-social-dynamics-of-sleep-in-baboons-from-the-lab-to-the-field
@livingingroups...
4 days left to apply! Fully funded PhD within an ERC-funded project on the collective dynamics of sleeping in (baboon) groups. Come join us @imprs_qbee @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav @UniKonstanz...
16.11.2023 18:15 β π 0 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
heard!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/smithsonian-tropical-research-institute-metoo
We must also recognize who is NOT represented among the women speaking out against abuses & inaction @stri_panama.
Nationality, ethnicity, class and gender interact in toxic ways at STRI, and the stories of our Panamanian colleagues must also be...
We've been yelling for change at @STRI_Panama for over a decade to little effect. #TimesUp
@MattLarsenSTRI @VelociaEB @OrisSanjur @tewksjj
Help us demand the necessary changes @STRI_Panama and @smithsonian by reading and signing our open letter to @POTUS and the White House Gender Policy Council https://tinyurl.com/WH-STRI
& please re-tweet and share widely!
@LauraLDunnEsq @BerlinRosen @LLDunnLaw
It is beyond time for @smithsonian and @stri_panama to live up to their responsibility to ensure a safe and respectful working environment for all.
#MeToo #STEMtoo #TimesUp
Enough!!
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/smithsonian-tropical-research-institute-metoo
For decades, women at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute @stri_panama have had to shoulder the burden of protecting themselves and each other from discrimination, harassment and sexual assault....
09.12.2021 17:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Trash Parrots Invent New Skill in Australian Suburbs https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/science/trash-parrots-australia.html?smid=tw-share
27.07.2021 22:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations @DanPapageorgiou ! What a fantastic defense--with a little something for everyone! #vulturineguineafowl #intergroup relationships #animaltracking #collectivebehaviour @IMPRS_OrgBio @MPI_animalbehav
28.06.2021 17:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations, (almost) Dr. Clatterbuck @Cocotross! Thanks for the fantastic exit seminar! and thanks for my first ever experience sitting on an all-women dissertation committee!
25.06.2021 18:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@SHOALgroup @unikonstanz @CBehav @maxplanckpress @stri_panama @mpalalive
31.10.2020 12:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Need a break from the US presidential election?
Learn about primate politics on @Radiolab--Democracy? Despotism? How DO baboons decide?
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/how-win-friends-and-influence-baboons
@livingingroups @ariSPeshkin @DamienFarine...
I am unreasonably proud of our cat-o-lantern!
15.10.2020 20:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excited to see @ClaudioMonteza and @pedroluis_ho expanding what we know about the birds of Coiba NP! Congratulations, guys!
Aves de islas JicarΓ³n y Jicarita http://www.thepanamanews.com/2020/07/aves-de-islas-jicaron-y-jicarita/ via @The Panama News
3/n "The balance of power is different. ... The forest and it's inhabitants dispel any illusion that scientists are in charge. Humility quickly sets in."
27.06.2020 12:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
2/n. "Lab biologists spend most of their time in charge of the pieces of life they study. Their own human lives are lived outside the flasks that contain their subject matter. Field biologists rarely have so much control. The world is the flask and they're inside it."
27.06.2020 12:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Perfect sunny afternoon during naptime... @MerlinSheldrake describes, better than I ever could, what I love about the kind of science I do 1/n
27.06.2020 12:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f4097ff3caf84a2b73bcc10a29a6e70e2cd19ae70
@livingingroups is searching for a scientist with international field-work experience to coordinate and support field- and lab-based research on animal behavior in the Dept. for the Ecology of Animal Societies @unikonstanz @maxplanckpress @CBehav....
04.02.2020 10:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How does information about the location of fossa spread through a sifaka population? Help us find out!
Post-doc in the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups in the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior:
https://www.ab.mpg.de/209814/job_full_offer_14338079
