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It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.
His passing represents a profound loss for primate and community-based conservation in the (DRC) and for Africa and beyond. Augustin obtained a PhD from Kyoto University under the supervision of Prof. Juichi Yamagiwa in 2005 studying sympatric chimpanzees & Grauer’s gorillas in the Kahuzi-Biega NP
In the years to follow, he dedicated much of his time to teaching at several institutions in eastern DRC where he founded Primate Expertise in 2013. This NGO dedicated to primate conservation focuses on education, research, and outreach initiatives, working closely with
A great opportunity for in-country community-based primate conservationists to share experiences and challenges in our online Panel Discussion (30 Aug '25). Send in your expression of interest by 10 Aug!
@lemurnetwork.bsky.social@neoprego.org@ips-primatenews.bsky.social
We are looking for panelists! 🦧 If you are working in community-based conservation, (or know someone who is) apply to speak on our panel at PSGB's 2025 Field Skills Workshop. See 🧵 and video: youtube.com/shorts/YBJLr...
It’s Friday night (somewhere) so settle in for a 🧵that combines fermented fruit, scrumping monkeys, etymology, Larson cartoons, & Gothic art to tackle the enduring mystery of why humans are so astoundingly good at metabolising alcohol!
or read our new 🧪 paper ;)
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
The IPS EDEI committee has put together Conference tips for first timers with loads of great guidance on how to navigate your 1st conference. Available in English, en Français, & en Español Please share widely! Feedback welcome!
internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-conferen...
🧪🐒 #IPS2025
We are delighted to announce Professor Ronald E. Sánchez Porras as the recipient of the 2025 IPS Charles Southwick Award in recognition of his lifelong dedication, passion, and extraordinary contributions to conservation education in Costa Rica and beyond 1/4
His work led to the establishment of important reserves, including: Alberto Manuel Brenes Biological Reserve (1993); Dendrobates Communal Reserve (1996); Madre Verde Reserve (1998), and his work is ongoing in developing the first Municipal Urban Climate Park 2/4
Prof Sánchez Porras stands out for his dedication to citizen science, he serves as an advisor for the non-profit primate conservation org Somos Congos (somoscongos.com). He founded the first Municipal Office in Costa Rica for the Management, Protection, and Conservation of Natural Resources 3/4
As founder & leader of the Annual National Primate Count, Prof. Sánchez Porras established this citizen science initiative to improve community awareness of primate conservation, now in its 5th year. We thank Prof. Sánchez Porras for his incredible work & commitment to primate conservation education
Beautiful Crowned sifakas are 1 of 9 species of sifaka. They are found in western Madagascar, and some live near another sifaka species — the Decken's sifaka!
Learn about crowned sifakas in this fact sheet:
www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/learn/lemur-...
📷 Deb Bradley
#lemurs#primates
West African pottos (Perodicticus potto) are native to a wide range throughout West Africa. Solitary, slow-moving, and nocturnal. Because they sleep in tree holes in daytime and freeze in place when threatened, they perish during slash-and-burn deforestation. Listed as Near Threatened.
#voxprimato#colloque
📢 les inscriptions et soumissions de résumé pour le 37è colloque de la SFDP sont ouvertes! 🐒
Le colloque aura lieu à Poitiers du 30/09 au 03/10 sur le thème "(Paléo)primatologieS: du terrain au laboratoire" et est organisé par la fantastique équipe de @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏
#voxprimato#conference
📢 registration and abstract submission for the 37th conference of the SFDP are open! 🐒
It will be held in Poitiers, France, from 30/09 to 03/10 on the thematic "(Paleo)primatologieS: from the field to the lab" and is organised by the fantastic team @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏
#voxprimato#colloque
📢 les inscriptions et soumissions de résumé pour le 37è colloque de la SFDP sont ouvertes! 🐒
Le colloque aura lieu à Poitiers du 30/09 au 03/10 sur le thème "(Paléo)primatologieS: du terrain au laboratoire" et est organisé par la fantastique équipe de @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏
#voxprimato#colloque
D-15 before the deadline for abstract submission for the 37th conference of #sfdp2025 from 30/09 to 03/10 in Poitiers!
All infos in the threads below 👇🏽
Don’t forget to send us your application for a grant to attend the conference before 30/06! 👇🏽
#voxprimato#conference
📢 registration and abstract submission for the 37th conference of the SFDP are open! 🐒
It will be held in Poitiers, France, from 30/09 to 03/10 on the thematic "(Paleo)primatologieS: from the field to the lab" and is organised by the fantastic team @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Masters & Genin African Primatology Award has been given to Yeboah Bright for their project on Foraging and Risk Avoidance Behavior of Cercopithecus lowei in a Human-dominated Landscape at the Boabend-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary in Central Ghana.
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We are delighted to announce the Sebastian Ramirez Amaya Award for Fieldwork in Primatology has been awarded to Veronica Torres-Solorzano for her work on Energetic trade-offs between immunity & reproduction in mantled howler monkey females🐒
internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/sebastian-ra...
📣 Calling all audio-book friends 🎧! Fancy a break from reading about dragons 🐉, crime 🕵️♂️, or true love ❤️? Did you know we offer audio versions of some of our papers 👩🔬 🐒 ? Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing them here! #WildMindsLab#MondayMicDrop#STEM#science
New deadline for nominations is May 15th
Do you know anyone working to support DEI and Ethics initiatives in primatology? Help celebrate that!! More info 👇
Charles Southwick Conservation Education Award nominations! Deadline May 21st!
Know someone living in a primate habitat country that has made a significant contribution to formal & informal conservation education in their country? Please nominate them 1/2
$1500 will be given directly to the recipient and $500 will be given in the recipient’s name to a project of their choosing in their community.
More info on how to apply 👇
internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/awards/south....
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Primates is an evolutionary board game where you can explore the evolution of more than 100 different primate species! Now available:
greenbutterflygames.com/products/pri...
Players: 2-4 Ages: 14+
In 2025, the International Primatological Society created two awards to recognise individuals, projects, or field stations carrying out initiatives that seek to promote Ethics, and Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion within primatology.
In a moment when EDEI is under threat in various institutions and settings around the world, it is more urgent than ever to promote activities that can effectively lead to broadening the access to opportunities within our field.
Furthermore, it is equally important to recognise and celebrate these efforts to improve EDEI within the field of primatology.
The selected awardee(s) will receive an IPS Ethics and/or DEI certificate(s) in recognition of their continued efforts.
🚨 IPS Officer elections now open! Voting deadline March 10th
All current members of IPS can vote via a link to the ballot on your IPS website homepage.
What’s that? Having trouble filling out your #2025MMM Bracket? Too hard to make decisions? Is Zorilla a typo? Does that mean Katie blew the seeding in the Tuxedo Style Bracket? (That's easy: No)
DON’T PANIC
Grab your towel and follow along with Professor Bobcat’s March Mammal Madness Manifesto.
🚨 IPS Officer elections now open! Voting deadline March 10th
All current members of IPS can vote via a link to the ballot on your IPS website homepage.
🚨IMPORTANT CONGRESS INFO - DATE CHANGE to 20-25th July
This week we were informed that the President of Madagascar has decided to host the SADC (Southern African Development Community) Summit in Madagascar at the same time we were planning to have the IPS Congress.
The location of the event space we were to use for our Congress is owned and operated by the government. They have priority over the space and the right by contract to move us out.
Their event coincides directly with the original planned date for our Congress. In addition, all hotel space will be taken by delegates and air travel will be difficult to obtain. The Local Arrangements Committee & the IPS Executive committee have moved quickly to secure an alternative date & venue.
Stop press!! The IPS deadline for abstracts has been extended to midnight EST on Feb 28th - so you’ve now got an extra couple of weeks to send us all your most exciting primate ideas!!!
#IPSmadagascar#IPS2025
#VoxPrimato#grants
🚨 grant deadline is approaching! ⚠️
Apply before 1st of February!
- 4 grants: 2 * research 2 * conservation
- amount max 1250€
- no need to be member to apply
Send us your best projet!!
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@ips-primatenews.bsky.social
#VoxPrimato#grants
Applications for our grants are open!! 3 types RESEARCH, IN-SITU CONSERVATION and EX-SITU CONSERVATION/WELFARE
Deadline 1st February
All infos here sfdp-primatologie.fr/index.php?pa... and specific pages
New this year 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
MPIG is on Bluesky!
Follow us for updates on primatology, relevant job postings, and details about our annual conference.
#MPIG2025 will be a joint meeting with the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago, September 17-20!
Javan surilis (Presbytis comata), also called grizzled leaf monkeys, Javan leaf monkeys, and Javan grizzled langurs, are endemic to western and central Java in fragmented pockets. Total remaining population may be as low as 5,500. Threatened by habitat destruction and hunting. Listed as Vulnerable.
Send out the hooooots!! It’s Bulletin time!
Check out the bumper new Bulletin with all the news of what your Officers and IPS grantees have been up to in 2024, and with updates on the Elections & 2025 Congress 🤓🐒
internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-bulletins/
Do you work in primate care? 🐵 Know someone who does? We want to hear from you!
As part of research from the University of Sussex, we are looking to hear from primate carers from all over the world to understand their current wellbeing practices.
➡️https://forms.office.com/e/PRZqMuFh0t
🚨 JOB ALERT!! We're looking for a PhD student to join our group! Are you interested in evolutionary medicine / anthropology? Already have a master's? Apply with your own project ideas! See link: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...#EvMed@bioanth.org@ehbea.bsky.social Please RT!
The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships will open for applications next week on 21 January. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more on our website: #RSGrantsroyalsociety.org/grants/newto...
📣🚨Extension of deadlines: Behaviour 2025! 📣🚨
Last date for abstract submissions for #Behaviour2025 has been extended to 31st of January 2025🕰️. Early bird registration ends on 28th of February 2025.
Don't miss your chance to share your expertise on a global platform. Hurry and submit your abstracts!
The Biological Anthro Section of the AAA would love to see you at the 2025 meetings in ...New Orleans (...you know you love NOLA 🎷). The theme this year is Ghosts (!)
If you are interested in pitching an executive session - the call is now open
annualmeeting.americananthro.org/executive-ca...
IPS AWARDS NOMINATIONS OPEN 🐒🚨
Know someone who has made a significant difference to primatology? We’re soliciting nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award & Outstanding Achievement Award. Deadline Feb 10th. Full deets :
tinyurl.com/IPSawards
Any Qs please DM!
Looking for a way to wrap up the year on a high? Got a great idea & know a group of primate peeps who can talk about it?
How about putting together a symposium for #IPSMadagascar#IPS2025! Deadline for outlines has been moved to 10th Jan!
ipsmadagascar.org/the-congress...
if you are looking for a tt job you couldn’t find a better place to work, with inspiring and collegial colleagues and wonderful students. Feel free to dm me with any questions!
📣 We're recruiting for TWO new Assistant Professors:
1️⃣ Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science
⏳ Closing date: Sunday 9 February 2025
🔗 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
2️⃣ Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
⏳ Closing date: Sunday 2 March 2025
🔗 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
New paper led by former group member Jadelys Tonos! Simulations/empirical data reveal just a few trees bearing the most fruit in the landscape are critical for driving patterns of lemur movement & seed dispersal 🐒🥭🌱https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2435.14702
Now that @nature.com has joined us, here’s a #ThrowbackThursday to our study on wild capuchins deliberately breaking stones and making flakes.
I got lucky filming this activity, when I stayed behind while my team climbed a sandstone plateau. The monkeys turned up, and the rest is (pre)history 🧪🐒🏺
Gut microbes may have fueled brain evolution. A study found human and large-brained primate microbes boost energy use, while small-brained promote fat storage—linking microbiota to cognitive demands. #Microbiome#Evolution
If you would like to teach your students useful data skills, the entire PsyTeachR suite is available with a creative commons licence to reuse and adapt. We teach stats but our focus is on working with real data, wrangling, visualisation and reproducibility using R
psyteachr.github.io#AcademicSky
We should care about students’ career outcomes. Teaching them R will be MUCH more helpful than Stata. Not only is R more highly valued, it also makes learning things like Python much easier.
New episode!! 🧠🎙️
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
Hello there! 👋 We are the Francophone Society of Primatology, a scientifique association for and by francophone primatologists, whatever their status, country or job! Find us too on our website sfdp-primatologie.fr/index.php?pa... or on FB!
@ips-primatenews.bsky.social
🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!
www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...
Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
The theme of our symposium is #Primates and Regenerating Forests: Futures in #Restoration.
If you or someone in your network has research they'd like to share on this topic, send me a message so we can get you involved in this work.
Hope to see you in Tana! 🐒🦍🦧🇲🇬 @ips-primatenews.bsky.social
I am already getting excited to meet & learn from so many primatologists at the IPS 2025 Congress in Antananarivo, Madagascar next August! ipsmadagascar.org
Jhoanny Rasojivola & I are organizing a symposium for this meeting & we would love to expand our invited presenters! See below...
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