Dr. Jones's Monkey Business

03/16/2024

This is very sad. Frans de Waal was such a lovely, kind person who contributed so much to our understanding of humankind and animals.

His latest book, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist," has been on my shelf for a while. Time to read it.

Frans de Waal has died. Among his smaller accomplishments was winning an Ig Nobel Prize in 2012, with colleague Jennifer Pokorny, for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees ind…

11/21/2023

Please, share and spread the word to anyone who might need it! And many thanks to all those who ordered a Take-Home Thanksgiving dinner, you’ve helped us all be able to provide our Everybody Eats Dinner !:)

03/14/2023

Mannnn there’s some crazy rain but don’t fear!! Homemade is here and near! Come on in for a getaway from the weather and enjoy a nice warm cup o’ joe and some almond mocha coffee cake:)) Doesn’t it look delicious? because it isss😋✨

03/13/2023

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/03/13/homemade-cafe-free-meals-everybody-eats-berkeley

Homemade Cafe's "Everybody Eats" program serves a hearty breakfast at no cost to anyone who asks.

08/13/2022

One of the greatest hominin fossil hunters, Kamoya Kimeu, has passed away at 84.

Working closely with the Leakey family in Kenya, he discovered many of the bones that rewrote how we understand human evolution.

05/21/2022

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03/22/2022

The Lawrence Berkeley Lab is hiring a computational scientist. :)

03/19/2022

Short, thoughtful, and awe-inspiring article by another biological anthropologist.

Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is exciting and terrifying. Both humans and animals experience awe, but our experience is more profound.

03/04/2022

Ten-minute video on axolotls. 💜

This axolotl would like to accept the award for Short Form film at the World Wildlife Day Film Showcase on behalf of our own bioGraphic magazine and filmmaker Katie Garrett. Once treasured by the ancient Aztecs, axolotls are now critically endangered, and this award-winning film follows the biologists, anthropologists, and farmers working to save them: bit.ly/34inxS1

09/10/2021

Oakland Zoo is always looking to add to our team of dedicated and hardworking employees. A great place to work, we are strongly committed to being a workplace free of discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, or disability. There are a variety of employment....

04/27/2021

This is really cool! It's a three and a half minute video illustrating how light from the sun (which comes to the Earth as photons) hits a bacterium that uses photosynthesis to turn the light into energy packets that life can use.

Winner: Best Visualization Award, Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase, SC19 conference. "An accessible visual narrative for the primary energy...