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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 13h

🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🦖✨ New issue alert, spotlighting a timely and fascinating scientific debate: How should we infer cognition in extinct dinosaurs? Two recent papers dive headfirst into this debate — and they do not agree. Full issue here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Starlings are too brilliant for this world. #photography #birds

A common starling seen from the side walking away from the camera through a field of flowers and grass with dew drops. The morning light reveals its brilliantly coloured plumage.

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Help, how do I put my crow back together? #photography #birds

A carrion crow seen from the side in a stubble field. It has just finished scratching its head and is in the middle of retracting a foot, captured against its back in this shot, giving it an odd posture.

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Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

How do birds respond to active fire? This has been studied in various fire-prone regions (brief review included), but less elsewhere. Here, I observed Swedish birds mainly ignoring fire, and some even continued singing. Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The Presence and Behaviour of Birds at Two Prescribed Fires in Sweden

Shifting fire regimes pose immediate threats to animal conservation. Swedish birds appear to mostly ignore prescribed fire, and some species even continue to sing. Behavioural plasticity towards fire...

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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The Presence and Behaviour of Birds at Two Prescribed Fires in Sweden

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A fledgling carrion crow delighted to receive a piece of roadkill from a parent #photography #birds

The fledgling seen from the side, with distinctive pale eyes and pink inside the beak, turning its head with beak open, while the parent places food in its beak

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Konrad Lorenz Research Center @klf-univienna.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

New preprint out!🧪🌍🔥 I observed 17 bird species at two prescribed fires in Sweden. They appeared to mostly ignore the fire, and some (such as this skylark) even sang through the smoke - an important comparison with birds from fire-prone regions (reviewed here). www.authorea.com/users/102018...

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Egyptian gosling, nature's mowing machines #photography #birds

An Egyptian gosling feeding on grass and flowers, two of its siblings napping in the background

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Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

How do curiosity and surprise intersect following a violation of expectation? Read our paper here🔥 @auersperga.bsky.social @ivojacobs.bsky.social @elifduran.bsky.social

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A graph comparing the number of neurons in the telencephalon of reptiles, birds, and two estimates for T. rex. Even the lowest of these estimates suggests the telencephalic neuron count of T. rex to be similar to that of a pygmy falcon or blackbird - several times more than the largest telencephalic neuron count of extant reptiles.

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Magic, thermal imaging, and birds - it's got everything!

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thrilled to be among the winners! 🪶📷🔥🌏

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 AFE Photo Contest! 🔥🎉Read each photo's caption and see all the photos that were submitted this year by searching Photo Contest 2025 (or the name of the photo) at fireecology.org/photo-gallery (1/7)

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Marina Papadopoulou @marinapapa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀 All details below👇

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

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Carina Nebel @carinanebel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

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Marc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Come join the wonderful CogSci dep at Aarhus Uni, Denmark! Fantastic students, wonderful colleagues, and great work/life balance! We are looking for applicants with teaching experience in the field of computational modelling of cognitive and/or social processes. international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

For the people in the back: - String pulling isn't tool use. - Categorising a behaviour as tool use doesn't inherently make it more interesting or "intelligent".

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Rachael Shaw @wild-minds.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Ella holds a fluffy and sleepy looking toutouwai chick during banding and fits an orange band to its leg

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Department of Biology, Lund University @biologylu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology. Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏 Please apply no later than 25 November. 👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles? Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time? Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition? Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project! e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

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Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Fight club - Egyptian geese edition got an update: now with anime backgrounds #photography #birds

Two geese flying low over a lake - one flying to the side of the frame and the incoming goose flying in from the top of the frame, ready to attack with wings spread and bill open. The background reflections on the lake form streaks of light.

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Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

APA is offering paid editorial fellowships for early-career researchers. 🧪 I was the editorial fellow at Journal of Comparative Psychology last year and I can highly recommend it! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!