The Pruetz Lab

Welcome to the Pruetz Lab Twitter Account! We are lab led by PI: Dr. Jill Pruetz at Texas State University. Give us a follow for all things primatology, anthropology, conservation, and longhorns.

Finished my artwork for the #aaba2026 art symposium that I’ll be presenting!! It’s a showcase of various primates and their offspring 🥹 Definitely not just an excuse to draw a bunch of babies 🗣️

Great presentations from the Pruetz Lab at the Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists Meeting! Thanks for hosting UTRGV @txstanthro

Come meet the Pruetz Lab at the @ASPvoice conference in Chicago. Our grad students are talking about chimps, conservation, and care research. @txstanthro #ASPChicago2025 #monkeybusiness

Welcome back @txstanthro PhD students 🐵

@txstanthro @txst @TXSTGradCollege

😍 updates from the field 😍 Masters student @lydiaklehman is collecting data at @camaquiri for her thesis on prehensile tail use #primatology

The P.E.O. Scholar Awards are competitive, merit-based awards intended to recognize academic excellence by women in doctoral-level programs. #TXSTNews #TXSTStudentExperience news.txst.edu/student-experi…

Still catching up on good news from @PruetzLab this semester - @maiyahoko passed her Masters proposal defense with flying colors - she will research seed dispersal by monkeys in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 @camaquiri

At 80 years old, Ian Whitehead earned a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from TXST, capping off a decades-long academic journey inspired by a life of global travel and curiosity. To read the story, visit ow.ly/5zaf50VMiwG

Congrats to @PruetzLab graduate student @lydiaklehman for successfully defending her Masters thesis research proposal today! 👏

PhD student Hannah Furchak presented at the @txst STEM Conference today about her self-made primatology education materials. Go Hannah! PANT HOOTS!!!

It’s time #aaba2025

@txstanthro Pruetz Lab is here! 🐒 @BiologicalAnth

A letter to all the incredible women in primatology, #InternationalWomensDay

Reworked the little gorilla I had for my capstone project in undergrad so I could use it for my aaba poster, style change after 3 years goes crazy

Thanks to the @UChicagoPress for featuring me on their blog! I talk about my new book & give some @txst shout outs (or pant hoots). pressblog.uchicago.edu/2025/02/20/fiv…

Primatology PhD Candidate receives research grant from the Primate Society of Great Britian Katie Gerstner, from the Pruetz Lab, received a small research grant to support her dissertation research,

In this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience please give these @PruetzLab scientists a follow if you haven’t already: @KatieFGerstner @maiya_okohira @lydiaklehman @MrsFurchak’s daughter, Hannah 😉 and Lace Lively - more to come!

Pant hoots accolade 🐵

Congrats, Katie!