Robin Morrison

Thrilled to have the first project in my @snsf_ch Ambizione fellowship published in @PNASNews this week. With @VictoireMartig2, @Samellisq and @SavingGorillas, we asked, what is a good social environment for a gorilla? And the answer was complicated... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

✨Check out this new publication✨ @UZH_en @APE_Group_UZH Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

HAPPY WORLD GORILLA DAY!! Thanks so much to Gerry and the @globioapes team for having me on for a very fun chat about the social lives of gorillas

Season 5 of Talking Apes launches with gorilla scientist Robin Morrison. Explore the social lives of mountain and western lowland gorillas and what they reveal about us. Watch: youtu.be/7PrtmObK0TU Listen: globio.org/robin

Passionate about conservation and primatology? Apply for the Ymke Warren Memorial Conservation Award, a £750 grant supporting fieldwork on wild gorillas and great apes.

🦍 Friendship isn’t always simple – even for gorillas. New research shows that social ties can boost or hurt health and reproduction, depending on context. 👉 Size of friend group matters 👉 Male/female differences Learn more: gorillafund.org/press-releases… #Gorillas #Conservation #Science #Friendship

This finding is something that might help us explain why such a range of social strategies can seemingly exist within species! And you can read more here theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Theres a lot to unpack but our overall message is that its not always as straight forward as strong and stable bonds -> better fitness. Patterns appear to be very context dependent and selection pressures on sociality likely vary considerably by age, sex, across groups and time!

Thrilled to have the first project in my @snsf_ch Ambizione fellowship published in @PNASNews this week. With @VictoireMartig2, @Samellisq and @SavingGorillas, we asked, what is a good social environment for a gorilla? And the answer was complicated... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Massive congrats to @DrRobinMorrison and @VictoireMartig2 on this super interesting paper on differences in social behavior in gorillas! theguardian.com/science/2025/m… 😍

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Field based research assistants wanted to work on baboons in South Africa expenses paid. See below 👇 Might be of interest @PsgbStudent @EFPrimatology @SocietyAfrican @IPS_PrimateNews @ASPvoice @AnimalOpps @LaSFDP @EthoGes @primatologie @asab_org

Less than 1 month left to apply for this PhD opportunity that asks how ecological disturbance shapes social networks with me in @CrabExeter funded by the @GW4plusDTP

Proud of our brilliant lab members for their fantastic talks at the FRESH 2024 conference ! 👏🥂 @VictoireMartig2 @ChiragChit64480 @ArunDeepshika ✨

Wrapping up the conference with a group picture ✨ cheers to our incredible team 🎉🎉 @andrea_migliano @VictoireMartig2 @seabllia @ArunDeepshika @ChiragChit64480

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC @GW4plusDTP. Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Post-doc opportunity to work with the fantastic not-on-X Linda Vigilant on great ape population genomics! Come join us at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig tinyurl.com/2czzc4we!

I absolutely loved doing my postdoc with @SavingGorillas! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about what its like to work there

POSTDOC ADVERT: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is hiring a postdoc on their NIH project examining how early life adversity influences aging. Particularly looking for someone who can support lab analyses of physiological biomarkers. Please share!