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In September, I began a UKRI/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Swansea University, within the Biosciences Department. I am working with Andrew King and Ines Fürtbauer on a project entitled "Baboon adaptations to disease and predation: Evolution at the service of human-wildlife interactions". The ADAPT project investigates how chacma baboons respond to disease and predation risks by simulating these threats and examining how individuals navigate a complex landscape of risk. As part of the fellowship, I will also undertake a secondment at the University of Cape Town. Bonus: I get to bike along the sea everyday to go to the uni!
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Last October, I started a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. It gives me the opportunity to connect with researchers from various disciplines and look at disgust, risk perception and their potential applications from different angles. Lots of ideas with great people - love it so far!   Since March 1 2023 and for the next 6 months, I will be a Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellow at Nagoya University with Prof. Nobuyuki Kawai. The project aims to explore whether bats and rats - as natural disease reservoirs - act as cognitive distractors (matching with disgust elicitors), enhancers (matching with fear elicitors) or none in chimpanzees and humans. More soon...  Credit: Jianmei Lu The Canon Foundation in Europe then invited selected fellows to gather in Vienna in December 2023. Thanks Suzy Cohen and the team for organizing!
New position, new life chapter! I'm now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Hong Kong at the Applied Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Lab led by Dr. Hannah Mumby. I'll mainly be working on the HK Wild Boar Project. Stay tuned for more!  Conserv'Session has a NEW EVENT coming up! On "Close-Proximity Pictures with Wildlife" 🤳 🦍 🐍 🦅 🐬 🦧 🦔 🐢 🐘 🦎 at the forthcoming 15th International Symposium on Primatology and Wildlife Science (PWS). Participants of the conference will be able to discuss and play games around that 🥵 topic! We are delighted to have Prof. Jo Stechell from Durham University (who recently co-authored the 'Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates') with us for this event - March 1st at 6:30pm on Zoom after the conference. Awesome flyer credit: Tamao Maeda  When you receive an email on a Saturday night asking for your expertise to comment on an ‘unusual panda behavior’, you first think of a spam [no Saturday night fever anymore...] Then, you realize what got you there! Interesting behavior (-I wish camera traps existed during silk road times!) and pretty cool study. Always more to find out... #cameratrap #poop #senses #tradeoffs #cognition #behavior #silkroad #thermoregulation  Conserv'Session #30 is coming up! For this special online edition, we are teaming up again with Nerd Nite Kansai. Our nerdy speakers include: Marie Sigaud: "The anaconda in the living room: What’s wrong with the exotic pet trade?" ; Yena Kim: "How to study animal cognition?" ; and Carla Sebastian: “Are humans selfish or cooperative in the face of a pandemic?”. Details here. Be there or be square! Kick ass poster credit: Tamao Maeda  A film that will make you forget for a while the war and talibans in Afghanistan.  Next June, I’m embarking on a journey to the Wakhan in Afghanistan with two amazing women, Émilie and Claire, for a documentary project aiming to change the perception of that country. Incredible landscapes, moderate religion, iconic wildlife, and incomparable hospitality -this is Afghanistan. We have launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy the last visual and sound equipment needed and we need… YOU! All the material bought with your donations will be bequeathed to Reza Visual Academy/Les Ateliers Reza, which accompanies children in refugee camps to express themselves through photography and film. And if we exceed our goal, we will give the surplus to the NGO Afghanistan Libre, which accompanies Afghan girls and women to find their place in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. D-19!!!
fr.ulule.com/wakhan-afghan-une-terre-despoir/?ul_campaign=presale_82738&ul_source=shared-from-Ulule-project-page-on---http.referer--&ul_medium=uluid_2400091-unknown-201903201556  Thanks to all of you who could sign it! #anyhopefornature
In a letter released yesterday, 346 conservationists and scholars from 70 countries assert that the imprisoned Iranian environmentalists “worked and carried themselves with the highest moral integrity” and call for a “fair and just evaluation of the evidence, access to lawyers of their choice, and a transparent trial.” In the letter addressed to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, the authors, including primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall, “strongly condemn” the possibility that “the neutral field of conservation could ever be used to pursue political objectives,” and they declare that they “are convinced our colleagues had no such part.” Website: www.anyhopefornature.wordpress.com Link to Science article Proud of our new logo designed in collaboration with Elodie Thomas! Meaning: the roots remind us of a connected past, while the tips of the branches promise a divergent future. The twisted trunk also expresses the importance of genetics shaping the future of our evolution, as well as the field of Primatology, with a resemblance to DNA supercoiling. The tree is a nod to the Kyoto University logo and symbol, the kusunoki tree that sits out front Kyoto University's Clock Tower. The dots (nodes) and dashed lines (connections), taken from social network analytics, reflect the interdisciplinarity we can find in the field of Primatology and at the Primate Research Institute. The two profiles, generic primate on one side and human on the other, are there to remind us how the study of non-human primates contributes to a better understanding of ourselves.  |
