iulia bădescu
primatologist | associate prof at université de montréal | chimpanzees, colobus | still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
- Tuesdays I furiously make slides for my dream course. Next up, JAPANESE PRIMATOLOGY: longitudinal observations of individual life histories, detailed behavioral descriptions + anecdata, letting monkeys tell the story. I recommend this fab doc on life of female, Mozu: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A66...
- I'm teaching 1st time my dream undergrad course on "Science, Gender and Society in Primatology", based on a legacy of this wonderful and always relevant book edited by inconic primatologists, Linda Fedigan and Shirley Strum. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Me to myself in the mirror every morning.
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- Loved it. Bangin soundtrack. Ralph Fiennes doing interpretative dance to Iron Maiden was 🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/erX9OPd3K7c?...
- Love this new colobus research measuring fecal glucocorticoid metabolites through lactation! Stress hormones are closely tied to lactation, and they probably shape infant maturation processes, but empirical data from wild populations are limited. Well done Sam Stead & @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social
- New paper from our Rwenzori colobus & Sam Stead's dissertation. We examined female glucocorticoids & found a U-shaped distribution with unit size! Females also had increase to parturition & a decrease throughout lactation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Family bowling alleys are wild because at 10am we’re in a neon blacklit cellar blasting 2000s Euro club techno while my 5-year-old eats nachos for breakfast.
- Reposted by iulia bădescuone of the most gracious and thoughtful of all evolutionary biologists. A wonderful read.
- Here's Sarah Hrdy reflecting on her 1974 paper on infanticide in Hanuman langurs reflectionsonpaperspast.com/2018/01/02/r...
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- Ready for the weekend youtu.be/VwXKR9EWhXo?...
- sad news youtu.be/ga8K_diGviw?...
- Unfunny Kathy Griffin is my fav version. youtu.be/riC3PuWhqg0?...
- An early lecture covers effects of Piltdown Man hoax on primatology, based on a chapter by the late Bob Sussman. The fake fossil set false expectations about what our early ancestors should be; its takedown in 1953 clarified why field primatology is useful to rebuild human evolutionary narratives. 🦧
- I'm teaching 1st time my dream undergrad course on "Science, Gender and Society in Primatology", based on a legacy of this wonderful and always relevant book edited by inconic primatologists, Linda Fedigan and Shirley Strum. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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- I'm teaching 1st time my dream undergrad course on "Science, Gender and Society in Primatology", based on a legacy of this wonderful and always relevant book edited by inconic primatologists, Linda Fedigan and Shirley Strum. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- So many cool articles here on sleep! Maybe us academics will finally figure out why we all sleep like shit.
- And our work is one of three papers published in Current Biology showing importance of social dynamics on sleep. Commentary here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by iulia bădescuOur paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
- I keep thinking about Craig. @pili-scotland.bsky.social you prob saw some horrifying things done by poachers. I admit I have big fear of elephants after being surrounded + almost trampled by them at Kibale. But I know context for elephants is humans = death. 😢 I’ve seen some terrible things too…
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- When you get home after a few weeks away during the holidays:
- Reposted by iulia bădescufinally, we're living through precedented times
- Reposted by iulia bădescuJupiter, Io and Ganymede looking beautiful tonight with my C6. #astronomy #astrophotography
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- “For now, given all we know and don’t know about how bones grow, sex differences in height are reasonably explained as an accident or a by-product of estrogen’s role in our evolved reproductive system.”
- This is well written. discoverwildscience.com/consciousnes...
- Reposted by iulia bădescuA very nice end to the year: my PhD work on the development of differentiated social relationships in wild Asian elephants is now published in Ethology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Currently watching… Columbo, the ultimate comfort show! 🥰
- I’ll admit it: the only reason these long-overdue manuscript revisions are getting done this holiday season is because my kid has discovered KPop Demon Hunters and now watches it on loop. #academia
- A very nice X-mas present 🐦⬛🐵
- Oh the panic when your 5-year-old wakes up and catches you wrapping Santa’s Christmas presents at night because it’s the only damn time you thought it was “safe” to wrap gifts 😳
- Can always count of The Vicar of Dibley holiday specials to get in the Christmas spirit 🎄
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- Last exam today... may the university bureaucratic gods bestow blessings and good vibes for our us today so the darn exam can go smoothly and we can say 'good riddance' to a challenging semester
- C’est la saison! À la cafétéria de l’UdeM, un verre de vin est offert avec le plat du jour 😆
- Cool research by @chrishalperin.bsky.social ⚱️ nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
- Someone please lie to me and tell me that after this week things will slow down, get less stressful and we'll get a nice break to re-motivate for next semester.
- Reposted by iulia bădescuMy first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)
- Le professeur Pierre Minn donne aujourd’hui le cours d’anthropologie qui a marqué sa mère 60 ans plus tôt. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
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- En photo : les chimpanzés Jarman (8 ans) toilettant Django (16 ans), septembre 2013, à Ngogo, Uganda. Ils sont mignons. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...
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