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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Germany? Got a TV? Home tonight? Watch a beautiful feature about the wonders of animal migration and the ICARUS scientists revealing the paths of some species for the first time. 📺 20:15 on ARD (or stream it via link 👇) @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/...

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Vorschau: Das Geheimnis der Tierwanderungen mit Dirk Steffens

Das Erste am 28.09.2026: Jeden Tag sind Billionen Tiere auf der ganzen Welt unterwegs – von winzigen Insekten bis zu den größten Walen der Erde. Dirk Steffens folgt den erstaunlichsten Tierwanderungen...

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No Easy Answers - Decided to start a Substack in conjunction with the new @onwisdom.bsky.social special series on navigating uncertainty, technological, political, personal... Irony in arriving rather late here: Waterloo alumni helped create this platform. igorgrossmann.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

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Subscribe to No Easy Answers

Exploring how we think, disagree, and act when the world resists easy answers. Click to read No Easy Answers, by Igor Grossmann, a Substack publication. Launched 34 minutes ago.

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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you have a #dog? Do you study/work with dogs? Do you just think dogs are awesome?! If you answered "yes" to any of the above, take the #ManyDogs survey and share your thoughts on what's interesting about dogs 🐶 🧪 Thank you for helping shape our future science! ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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ManyDogs general interest survey

MD survey for understanding what topics the dog community would like to see in future canine science research projects.

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Dr. Valentina Alaasam @vale-alaasam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New paper out with my fantastic colleagues of the @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐶 We outline some of the ways that #CanineScience can increase diversity, both in the dog populations we study and the researchers leading the work #BigTeamScience #OpenScience 1/2

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Blair Costelloe @blaircostelloe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If you'd like to get an idea of what a PhD with the WildBotics project will be like, check out our sister project WildDrone www.wilddrone.eu I'm happy to answer questions from any potentially interested applicants!

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WildDrone – Drones for Wildlife Conservation

An international training network funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions to research and develop the use of drones for wildlife conservation.

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

1/ We're hiring a postdoc in the Wisdom & Culture Lab @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social to lead a new SSHRC-funded project on cultural narratives & decision-making. Fall '26 / Winter '27 start. 🧵

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 together with Jürgen Huber & Michael Kirchler: “Massaging Significance in the Age of Open Science: A Satirical Tutorial,” which is a public service for anyone unwilling to let inconvenient data get in the way of a compelling narrative. 😉 Link to preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Suzanne does great work and is an awesome person, this would be the dream #postdoc position 🥳🙌 🧪

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New dog paper out! 📢 #CanineScience We used 2 timepoints of behavioral testing, a population pedigree, and genome-wide sequence data to estimate the heritability of various cognitive & behavioral traits in a population of assistance dogs. 🐕‍🦺🧬 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Characterizing the heritability of cognitive and behavioural traits across development in domestic dogs

Abstract. In humans, many behavioural and cognitive traits are moderately-to-highly heritable, with cognitive measures tending to increase in heritability

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Today at 9pm ET/PT is the US premiere of the @pbs.org NOVA documentary "Can Dogs Talk?". It covers the project @cclabucsd.bsky.social has been running with thousands of button trained dogs. It is a true honor to be on NOVA and we hope you will find it engaging: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

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Can Dogs Talk?

Do speech buttons really allow dogs to talk to us? Scientists investigate.

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 01/02/2026

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#CO3 is my conference home and I'm so excited that it's coming to Canada this year 🍁 Consider presenting your comparative work, there's still time to send in an abstract! If you're into running, I'm thinking we should organize a fun run up Mount Royal one morning 🙌😅

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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A chat w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social about animal cultures and animal conservation. Culture was once thought to be uniquely human. No longer. We now know culture is found throughout the natural world. How does this complicate conservation? Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Research can feel like shouting into the void. I’m deeply grateful that Emma Buchtel, Xu Jingya, & Betul Turel built on our “wise reasoning” work to tackle cultural diversity. They presented a large-scale study proposal at the 2025 @psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hey comparative cognition researchers, see you in Montreal next year?! 🇨🇦🍁🦝🦫

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

You know what our recent paper on early life adversity and #dog #behaviour DOESN'T say? Anything about pit-bull type dogs. No mention by us at all, @sciencex.bsky.social. So... how did they earn a callout for aggression and fear in your piece? phys.org/news/2025-10... 1/idk, as many as it takes 🧪

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Trauma in a puppy's first six months linked to adult aggression, says new study

As many dog owners can attest, their four-legged companions are delightful and loving. But for others, their animals have an aggressive side, such as biting and attacking strangers, which may ultimate...

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life 🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

📣 Prospective Canadian grad students, check out NIna's lab and research szeyuhninawang.com 🧪

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 15/08/2025

I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish. It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates + can validate existing projects

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Creating and validating standardized R project structures that are psych-DS compliant-ish

Making psychological code and data FAIR is hard, in part because different projects organize their code and data very differently. Sometimes this is for good reasons, such as due to the demands of a g...

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Immediately going at the top of my reading list 🙌🤓

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh! Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️ More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/07/2025

🚨Starting soon at 12pm ET: @cdelawalla.bsky.social joins @simonwdc.bsky.social and @jeremymberg.bsky.social to dig into Countering Trump’s War on Science. We can’t wait - going LIVE soon! Tune in here ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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LIVE SOON: Countering Trump's War On Science With Colette Delawalla and Dr. Jeremy Berg

Starting Jul 30 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

not sure how to get this across to non-academics but here goes, Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like. Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Pre-print alert📣 Interesting associations between guardian-reported early life adversity and problematic #behaviour in #dogs: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Along with Erin Hecht and colleagues, we found that adverse event timing, genetic ancestry, and environmental factors matter for dog behaviour 🐶🧪

The figure shows a 2-panel point-line graph of the mean C-BARQ scores for Aggression (left) and Fear (right) behaviour scales. Within each panel, data for 2 groups of dogs is summarized: mean scores those that have experienced early life adversity and those that have not. The Y axis indicates the mean score for on a 5-point rating scale with 95% confidence intervals around the mean. The X axis identifies the cohorts, Adversity = has a history of adversity in the first 6 months; No adversity = no adversity in the first 6 months. For both aggression and fear scores, dogs that have experienced adverse events in the first 6 months score significantly higher than those without early life adversity.

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Apparently the Emory faculty have been pressuring our president to sign onto this letter, but he refuses to "sign petitions".🤦🏽‍♀️🙄 Any Emory University alumni interested in adding pressure? #HigherEducation #HandsOffUniversities #StandUpForScience

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We're not giving in and we're not giving up.

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Dani Sorbie @dani-sorbie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Exciting update! 🚀 My MSc research has now been officially published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science! 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... Always happy to discuss this topic —get in touch! 🐕 #AnimalBehaviour #DogAdoption #Research @bethologist.bsky.social

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Zazie Todd PhD @zazietodd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Researchers at the University of Adelaide are seeking participants to complete a survey investigating sleep disturbances in older dogs. You can do the survey here: redcap.link/sleepdisturb...

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you're looking for a postdoc position that includes animals and a chance to work with two awesome #scientists & #WomenInSTEM, this is the one for you 🧪🐶

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