Finally giving twitter a go after a great few days @EFP_GfP2022! Feeling inspired after having the opportunity at last to have real life conversations & hear about all the amazing research happening outside the four walls of my home- office (aka kitchen table) 🙌 #EFP_GfP2022

This little B really does determine if it's a good day or a throw your laptop out a window day 😃🙃 #pleaseconverge

When you don’t have any new data to present at the lab meeting.

I am looking for a paid field assistant to collect data with me on the vocal behaviour of bonobos at Kokolopori Bonobo Research, Democratic Republic of Congo, for at least 7 months. Offer and details below 👇 groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wis… DM me if you have questions!

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🐕2 open postdoc positions!🐒 We're looking for 2 postdocs to join our team studying how environmental variation impacts gene regulation in the aging brain and body. Multiple years of funding + sunshine (every. single. day.) Apply: apply.interfolio.com/109642 ASU School of Life Sciences Evolution & Medicine

📢Out today, our new special issue with Royal Society Publishing co-edited by Marlen Fröhlich + me, presenting empirical and theoretical contributions on the idea that #language was likely facilitated by a special skillset for #social #interaction. A thread 1/17 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2022/…

We are seeking a motivated Research Assistant to join our team in #Uganda to study the development of #empathy in human infants! Position starts in autumn. Excellent research training opportunity in a diverse team & a chance to discover beautiful Uganda! Please RT! Durham Psychology

🐵📢JOB! NYU Primatology and I are hiring a 30-month postdoc to investigate the form and function of primate natal colouration, funded by NSF & BBSRC. Apply by Oct 16th. Informal enquiries welcome. Please RT! #colsci #evolution #primatology swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…

WRITING ADVICE: If you’re having a hard time getting started on a project, simply start a second project, get it to a critical point, then use the original project to procrastinate work on the second now more stressful project. Repeat as needed until the universe disintegrates

Revising a paper is more about spending hours and hours to find a reference to support what you know is absolutely true but you just need someone to agree with you 😂😂

Pls RT. We’ve co-drafted a letter with the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic to the NIH to ask them to urgently review protocols & ethical justifications for the ongoing invasive macaque research at Harvard 1/2 Link to Google Form: forms.gle/W5wCwEQepfhNnd…

Massive congratulations to *Dr* Dr Jake on passing his PhD viva today! Making the C4D lab very proud 👏 👏👏

Cool opportunity with some cool people to gain fieldwork experience with chimpanzees! 👀

Young #chimpanzees combine different gestures, vocalisations & facial expressions in a way which echoes development of communication in human infants according to new research from Durham Psychology 🐒 👉 fal.cn/3yQEu

Emma Doherty from Durham University has spoken about recent research into Chimpanzee's intelligence. 🐒

Our Durham Psychology research has found that development of communication in #chimpanzees echoes that of human infants. Find out more about how our closest living relatives could help us better understand how human communication evolved 👉 fal.cn/3z99L #DUresearch