Hello #AcademicTwitter !! Introducing the official Twitter account for the Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project #smgrp @geladaresearch Follow us to get updates about our long term research on these unique monkeys and news from Gelada land! Pic courtesy @cercopithe_sen

🦧Have you ever wondered how animals, including some #monkeys, can survive living high up in #mountains?🏔Scientists at @ASU wondered this too!👉See what they learned studying DNA from mountain-dwelling geladas: https://t.co/BFFAQZ8Blp @kchiou @smack_lab @geladaresearch @asunews

Interested in the molecular causes and consequences of variation in health & fitness? 🌵Come join us @ASU in the desert🌵 We’re recruiting multiple creative, curious, and enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs to join us! Please RT and share! More info below (🧵1/5)

🚨 Thrilled to share a new gelada microbiome paper out today in @CurrentBiology ! 🚨 https://t.co/YM8CvXXeTG This is a big team effort involving: @sbululab, @Smack_Lab, @laurenpetrullo, @jcbeehner, @VocalMonkey, @reitsma_laurie, Sierra Sam and Arianne Mercer. A thread 👇

As of now, it's unclear, but ongoing growth measurements and accumulating life history data will help us round out this picture! Photos: @AliceBaniel @SMack_Lab 10/10

However, our group size result is harder to interpret. Are females in large groups preemptively maturing early to stave off future infanticide risk? Or are females in large groups exposed to more loitering males that could trigger maturation? 9/10

Given our rank result, we think that geladas' seasonal reliance on underground foods (which pack a caloric punch and are more defendable than grasses) may generate just enough competition to drive nutritional differences across female ranks. 8/10

Early maturation ages carried over to earlier ages at first birth. However, ages at first birth were occasionally delayed if newly matured females experienced male takeovers. 7/10

To our surprise, above and beyond those male-mediated effects, females matured earlier if they were a) high-ranking or b) lived in large social groups! 6/10

In this new paper, we looked to see whether, despite these two complications, gelada females still mature earlier if they're high-ranking or live in smaller social groups, where within-group competition is expected to be weaker. 5/10

Second, female maturation is highly sensitive to the presence of males. Females delay maturing when their dads are around and rapidly mature when new males arrive. Check out previous research on this from @sbululab if you haven't yet: https://t.co/OqeQ8m5GSd 4/10

First, geladas mostly eat low-quality grasses, so competing over foods might not do them very much good (but stay tuned for a plot twist!) 3/10

Across primates, being high-ranking and living in a well-sized group generally helps females get enough food to grow and start reproducing at earlier ages. But geladas pose two problems to this classic model... 2/10

🚨 New gelada research out today in @BehavEcol! 🚨 @jacobafeder @jcbeehner @AliceBaniel @VocalMonkey @SMack_Lab @sbululab https://t.co/kEOPsWtpfE 1/10

Fresh new gelada data - see @kchiou's thread below on his new paper with @SMack_Lab & colleagues looking into the unique adaptations of these charismatic monkeys.

Please RT: Shi Lab is seeking bioinformatics postdoc and/or staff. Great opportunity to work on exciting projects, including high-throughput CRISPR genetics screens, epigenome profiling, and single cell profiling. If interest, DM or email me jushi#upenn.edu.

🧵 Thread on a new gelada project paper led by @alottagelada @jacobafeder @jcbeehner @VocalMonkey @sbululab @SMack_Lab Optimal group size and the “Goldilocks effect” 🧝‍♀️

Cluster hire alert! Three postdoc-to-faculty transitionary positions to join @asuSOLS to build a stronger, more inclusive, and diverse school. Funding for 1-3 years. Goal is to transition to a tenure-track position in SOLS at ASU. More details below, but please share widely!

Looking for a postdoc in primate behavior and socioendocrinology? I'm looking for you! Please see https://t.co/cruzuzBMhY for more info, and share widely. @ASPvoice @IPS_PrimateNews @E2HD_NU @SavingGorillas @GeladaResearch @AmboseliBaboons @KibaleChimps @PrimBehavEcol

What happens to the brains of face-recognizing wasps that have been isolated for their entire life? This work was done with the help of an incredible undergrad, Natalie Zaba '20 Cornell, in @IDsignals lab while we were all also in social isolation... https://t.co/EDYuSOd4qO

This talk by @IndiaASC is going to be fantastic!! 🥁🥁🥁 Tune in to listen to the saga of taenia infections in geladas and MORE @GeladaResearch 🐛🦊 💩🌱🥢🐣🐒🐛🙊🤧🤮