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PhD position alert🥁🎺🥁🎺!!! We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on cognition and curiosity in wild orangutans at the Development and Evolution of Cognition Research Group at the @maxcine_mpiab & being part of the IMPRS-QBEE. We can't wait to meet our new team member!🤓

Who was the real sabertooth predator: Thylacosmilus or Thylacoleo? Find out in a new paper by Christine Janis: doi.org/10.1002/ar.254…

A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21

I've spent the last week beside my Dad, who died this morning. His stubborn determination saw him a long way, but none of us live forever. I am so grateful to have witnessed this final journey, and hold his hand. The end is messy and hard, but somehow calm and sacred too xxx

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/ thetimes.co.uk/article/e78c47…

Baobab trees all come from Madagascar – new study reveals that their seeds and seedlings floated to mainland Africa and all the way to Australia The Conversation Africa theconversation.com/baobab-trees-a…

'Singing lemurs could demonstrate origin of human music' bbc.com/news/articles/…

And we're off! IMI summer school 2024 Day 1 with Sam David F Emily Warman #IMI24

Fabulous afternoon in the lab looking at the respiration of yeast!!! 🧪🎈🍞

💃🏾Thanks to Uni of Birmingham for the appointing me as their first female Chancellor. It’s a true honour. UoB’s focus on impactful research, excellence in education & inclusion are topics very close to my ❤️. As a proud UoB graduate I know education is the key to a bright future 💃🏾

If you haven't already, vote, it's a precious freedom

And it's all over for #IMI24 summer school, what a brilliant week! Thanks to Megan McDonald Sara Jabbari oluwaseyi shorinola for being our resident poster judges and we must not forget how amazing all the students from UoB School have been! Thank You!

Here is my new short film about the heritage of Romany Gypsies! It’s about what you can see and what you can’t: the landscape that exists only in the eyes of those with the stories passed down to them. Written, filmed, and composed by me. ✌🏼❤️ youtu.be/vsGGBPoygT0?si…

I am currently helping my partner prepare for the 'life in the UK' test. The governments words feel especially hollow with the current race riots. I am not proud at all of how this country is treating migrants and citizens alike, racism needs calling out.

'There is no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom'. Paulo Freire.

Met four of my new first year Human Sciences tutor group todayThey got a doughnut and a begonia. I expect to see the begonia at graduation in 3 years time! UoB Biosciences College of Life and Environmental Sciences Uni of Birmingham

This is not a model. Or taxidermy. This is a "fossilised" Wolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. And held on display in Krakow.