@NickyStaes

Primatologist working at @APELAB2 #Uantwerpen and #ZOOscience on the genetic background of behavioral and cognitive differences in #bonobos and #chimpanzees

 Sint-Niklaas, België
Joined November 2014
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📢 Exciting news! A new PhD position is now open @warwickpsych 🎉 If you applied to our previous positions, here's another chance to join the ApeTank and increase your chances of success. Don't miss out - 🌟 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/phd-st…
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🚨Looking for a thesis project?🚨 Always wanted to study the gut-vagina axis of zoo-housed bonobos within Europe? Join our lab in 2025! Contact @jonasrrtorfs for more info. linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

Looking for an exciting internship or thesis study topic for your bachelor or master in 2025?...

Looking for an exciting internship or thesis study topic for your bachelor or master in 2025? Always wanted to do behavioral studies in great apes 🐵? This is your chance to join our lab! 👇 Bonobos,...

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🚨Eight (8!!) funded PhD opportunities in animal behavior and welfare at Harper Adams University🚨 Deadline: January 2025 Start date: October 2025 Thread (1/5)
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Publication alert! Our latest output of a successful collaboration with @ejcvanleeuwen, Marcel Eens and @Jeronobo1 on identification of social culture in bonobos. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality - Volume 6

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Verifying myself: I am nickystaes on Keybase.io. RLRu5brvQgQjSycWs9q-P2QcrLPhPC666G8_ / keybase.io/nickystaes/sigs/R…
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And with this group picture, it's a wrap! Thank you everyone once again for coming to Lausanne @EFP_2024 #efp2024 !! See you all soon in Montpellier and good luck to the organizing team!
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New paper on #bonobo #welfare! 🐵 We applied QBA to see how humans score bonobo emotional expressivity. Check out the study published in @AW_TheJournal and in the thread (1/5): doi.org/10.1017/awf.2024.29
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Still time to register for the PhD workshop on behavioral genetics at Utrecht University (June 19-21)
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Excited to share our large-scale study comparing social co-feeding tolerance of bonobos and chimpanzees in 16 social groups across zoos and sanctuaries revealing no species-differences. Thanks to all coauthors and to all institutes for hosting us 🙌 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.…
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You are what you eat! Right? We know that diet influences your relative fat mass, but still, people can have a genetic predisposition to be over- or underweight. And in bonobos, this is also the case! Check out the study here and in the 🧵below: doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23540 (1/4)
Graphical abstract of the paper. Body condition of all European bonobos was scored using a visual score system (score of 1 to 10). Example images together with standardized illustrations are provided. Results show that the European bonobo population showed no skew to being over- or underweight. Body condition score was not associated with sex, age, cardiovascular disease, nor diet, but was rather highly heritable (h² = 0.64).

ALT Graphical abstract of the paper. Body condition of all European bonobos was scored using a visual score system (score of 1 to 10). Example images together with standardized illustrations are provided. Results show that the European bonobo population showed no skew to being over- or underweight. Body condition score was not associated with sex, age, cardiovascular disease, nor diet, but was rather highly heritable (h² = 0.64).

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Verrassing! 🥳 Dit zijn de ZOO Science Jongste Wetenschappers van 2023! Uit meer dan 102 inzendingen selecteerde onze jury drie winnaars. Kijk maar mee naar de reactie van Manu (9), Michiel (12) en Benjamin (bijna 13). Surf naar zooscience.be!
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DNA methylatie heeft een invloed op de ontwikkeling van persoonlijkheid in chimpansees. Lees onze blog op zooscience.be/nl/blog/de-omg… @ZOOscience_be

De omgeving past DNA van chimpansees aan en bepaalt zo hun persoonlijkheid

Als je tijdens je bezoek aan de zoo even de tijd neemt om onze chimpansees te observeren zal je al snel merken dat ze net als mensen verschillende persoonlijkheden hebben. Je hebt dieren die graag...

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Read our blog on how methylation impacts the personality of chimpanzees @ZOOscience_eng zooscience.be/en/blog/enviro…

Environment modifies the DNA of chimpanzees and determines personality

If you take a moment to observe our chimpanzees during your visit to the zoo, you will soon notice that they have different personalities just like humans. You have animals that like to cause a...

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Thanks to everyone who attended our symposium on comparative neuroscience @PuG2023 and of course @LateraLiterally @NickyStaes and @PatFri3drich
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Happy to share our latest work on epigenetic contributions to chimpanzee receptive joint attention skills illustrating a larger role of vasopressin than oxytocin receptor gene methylation
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Epigenetics of peptide hormones and chimp behavior -- new publication with @goguevara @chet_sherwood @NickyStaes @MMulholland33 and Bill Hopkins. doi.org/10.1002/aur.2895

Vasopressin, and not oxytocin, receptor gene methylation is associated with individual differences...

This study examines how chimpanzee performance on joint attention tasks relate to the methylation of two genes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We found that chimpanzees that perform...

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Happy to share our latest work: Serotonergic methylation effects on personality are CpG site specific and impact both reactive and prosocial personality traits @goguevara, @chet_sherwood, @GWBradleyLab, @gwCASHP, @ZOOscience_eng doi.org/10.3390/biology11111…
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Our new paper about self-directed behaviours in bonobos is out! Following previous work, we studied SDBs during cognitive testing and found some interesting results… 🧵 mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/21/300…

Evaluating Self-Directed Behaviours and Their Association with Emotional Arousal across Two...

Self-directed behaviours (SDBs) are widely used as markers of emotional arousal in primates, and are commonly linked to negative arousal, or are used as indicators of stress or poor welfare. However,...

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2nd call: If you're interested in a PhD project on chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Rwanda, please contact me by the 15th of July. @IPS_PrimateNews @BiologicalAnth @EFPrimatology @PsgbSTudent @AusHumanBiology @AnimBehav @ScienceUWA @CEB_UWA
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Excited to share our latest paper on genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees showing modest genetic contributions of AVPR1a and KIAA0319 genotypes @chet_sherwood @AdrienMeguerdi1 @GWBradleyLab @APELAB2 academic.oup.com/cercor/adva…
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It’s official, with help from the keeper team @TwycrossZoo @APELAB2 PHD student @jonasrrtorfs just collected his final 💩 sample, thereby completing sampling the entire zoo-housed European bonobo population for his microbiome project. So thankful to all zoos that participated 🙌
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