James Bukie PhD
@oshitabukie.bsky.social
Passionate Conservationist 🇳🇬🇳🇬🦍🐒 behavioral ecologist, ASAB ECR Council member. Looking for a Postdoc position
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We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦
All positions are funded:
MSc: 2.3 years
PhD: 5 years
Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026
sites.psych.ualberta...
PsychUAlberta
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All positions are funded:
MSc: 2.3 years
PhD: 5 years
Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026
sites.psych.ualberta...
PsychUAlberta
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August 20, 2026 at 9:27 PM
We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦
All positions are funded:
MSc: 2.3 years
PhD: 5 years
Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026
sites.psych.ualberta...
PsychUAlberta
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All positions are funded:
MSc: 2.3 years
PhD: 5 years
Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026
sites.psych.ualberta...
PsychUAlberta
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Why is it so difficult to secure a post doc. position in any area of primatology?
August 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Why is it so difficult to secure a post doc. position in any area of primatology?
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August 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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There's still time to submit your videos for the ASAB student video contest & be in with a chance to win £100!!! Deadline is 20th March: asab.org/videos @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
March 18, 2026 at 4:49 PM
There's still time to submit your videos for the ASAB student video contest & be in with a chance to win £100!!! Deadline is 20th March: asab.org/videos @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social
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🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions:
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
March 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions:
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk)
Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄
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BREAKING NEWS:
Meat is not oxygen and you can live without it
Meat is not oxygen and you can live without it
March 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
Meat is not oxygen and you can live without it
Meat is not oxygen and you can live without it
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🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗
Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.
#worthywinner #ECR #proud
Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.
#worthywinner #ECR #proud
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🌟Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social who has won the @asab.org Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. 🤗
Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.
#worthywinner #ECR #proud
Research on social evolution and what links climate & cooperation in a changing world, using #wasps as models.
#worthywinner #ECR #proud
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We're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March!
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We're open for abstract submission, and look forward to welcoming you all to Bristol in March!
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026
asab-spring-conference2026.github.io
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABSpring2026
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⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
DM or email me if you have questions.
Please spread the word. ☺️
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
DM or email me if you have questions.
Please spread the word. ☺️
Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
DM or email me if you have questions.
Please spread the word. ☺️
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
DM or email me if you have questions.
Please spread the word. ☺️
The stage is set for this unique conference.
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The stage is set for this unique conference.
The stage is now set for this year's ASAB WINTER CONFERENCE
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The stage is now set for this year's ASAB WINTER CONFERENCE
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This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️
Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝
Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link
opencollective.com/animal-behav...
Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝
Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link
opencollective.com/animal-behav...
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This #GivingTuesday please consider donating to @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to support undergraduate students globally!! 🫶🗺️
Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝
Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link
opencollective.com/animal-behav...
Help us make #animalbehaviourresearch more inclusive 🐝🐝🐝
Sign up to be a monthly donor, or make a one time contribution using this link
opencollective.com/animal-behav...
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Our plenary on Dec 16 of #ASABWinter2025 will be by Barbara Caspers. She’ll be presenting data on how individuals respond to chemical cues of family members, and how being related to the scent donour might change their response.
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our plenary on Dec 16 of #ASABWinter2025 will be by Barbara Caspers. She’ll be presenting data on how individuals respond to chemical cues of family members, and how being related to the scent donour might change their response.
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
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2025. Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe. West African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), now restricted to Niger. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe
We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15-year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial met....
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
2025. Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe. West African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta), now restricted to Niger. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
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Details in thread. Please re-post!
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We are interested in what capuchin monkeys can teach us about the evolution of sensorimotor intelligence and sensitive discriminative touch. Here, Luna demonstrates an excellent example of skilled hand use!
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We are interested in what capuchin monkeys can teach us about the evolution of sensorimotor intelligence and sensitive discriminative touch. Here, Luna demonstrates an excellent example of skilled hand use!
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in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
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We had a great start to the day with a fascinating and important talk by Prof Jo Setchell, our first Plenary Speaker
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We had a great start to the day with a fascinating and important talk by Prof Jo Setchell, our first Plenary Speaker
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Our first plenary for #ASABWinter2025 will be by @amelinlab.bsky.social. She will be discussing how fruit traits and color vision variation in primates* shape sensory behaviours during food selection 🍌
*White-faced capuchins, Central American spider monkeys and mantled howler monkeys, oh my! 🙊
*White-faced capuchins, Central American spider monkeys and mantled howler monkeys, oh my! 🙊
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our first plenary for #ASABWinter2025 will be by @amelinlab.bsky.social. She will be discussing how fruit traits and color vision variation in primates* shape sensory behaviours during food selection 🍌
*White-faced capuchins, Central American spider monkeys and mantled howler monkeys, oh my! 🙊
*White-faced capuchins, Central American spider monkeys and mantled howler monkeys, oh my! 🙊
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ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
September 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
ASAB @asab.org conference grants for the Winter meeting in Edinburgh, up to £500, close 1st October!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
@asab-meetings.bsky.social #ASABWinter2025
All the details needed are here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Don't forget I also need a referee statement emailed direct by the same deadline!
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Hi everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself - I’m a primate behavioral ecologist who recently completed my PhD studying female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I am currently looking for post doc and/or teaching positions!
September 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hi everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself - I’m a primate behavioral ecologist who recently completed my PhD studying female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I am currently looking for post doc and/or teaching positions!
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For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB
Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops
www.asab.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
For those that have registered for #ASABWinter2025, you should have received an email last week asking you to confirm your attendance. If you haven't, please check your spam folders!
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
And don't forget, only one week left until the conference grant deadline (Oct 1)
www.asab.org/conference-g...
Behavior 2025 has come to an end, but Kolkata will remain fresh on my mind. What a beautiful and amazing place and people
August 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Behavior 2025 has come to an end, but Kolkata will remain fresh on my mind. What a beautiful and amazing place and people
