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Leanne Proops

@leanneproops.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK · comparative psychology · evolution · social cognition · thanatology · equid behaviour · animal welfare · working equids 🐎 · she / they 🏳️‍🌈

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Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very excited to be a part of this symposium exploring animal responses to death and dying! Free to attend, online or in person. Hopefully see you there 💀😁
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Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Webinar: Donkeys as Agents of Drought Resilience for Pastoralist Communities 5th February at 11am GMT/2pm EAT port-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89107947069 We are pleased to invite you to our webinar and panel discussion sharing the findings from our British Academy-funded project. Hope to see you there!
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Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I had an interesting and inspiring time at #ReadEmo25, thanks for inviting me! It was great to catch up on the latest in human emotion research and to bring horses to the event (not literally!) 🐎😁
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Kate Lewis @kate-lewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Check out my article in The Conversation, all about our latest paper, which created an extensive catalogue of horse facial expressions 🐴 Thank you so much for inviting me to contribute! #TheConversation #equineresearch #facialexpressions theconversation.com/horses-have-...
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Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates
The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.
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Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Something we've been meaning to do for years - documenting horse facial expressions during social interactions using EquiFACS. Well done @kate-lewis.bsky.social! And thanks for the netFACS support @jmicheletta.bsky.social 🐴 @parkerlab.bsky.social
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Kate Lewis @kate-lewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴 Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193... @leanneproops.bsky.social @uop-ccep.bsky.social
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An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function
Understanding cause and function of animal facial behaviour can provide key insights into the animal’s cognitive and emotional state. The Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) has characterise...
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open! Join our international expert team to explore minds across species. We study: 🐒 Primates 🐕 Dogs 🐘 Elephants 🐴 Donkeys and horses 🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #MSCA
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Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application
These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.
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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
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Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We had a fantastic time showcasing our research at the Science is Wonderful! fair organised by the European Commission in Brussels. Thanks to #MSCA for the invitation and to all children who visited our booth 😃 🐒 @francescadp.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social
Dr Teresa Romero, Dr Jerome Micheletta, Dr Marine Joly and Dr Francesca De Petrillo in front of their booth „Smart monkeys: how primates think and why they need your help!“A paper cup with a face of a macaque Pledge wall with post-it notes left by children who visited the boothDr Francesca De Petrillo and Dr Marine Joly present their cognitive tasks using hands-on activities to children
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
The back corner of the LSB
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thanks to the Bristol Zoological Society for hosting such a great @primatesocietygb.bsky.social meeting! It was nice to catch up with our @uop-ccep.bsky.social PhD students: Luke Collins, @louiseloyant.bsky.social, @sarahsalphati.bsky.social and Amanda Bartlett.
Luke Collins, Louise Loyant, Sarah Salphati, Amanda Bartlett and Marine Joly
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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?! www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.
Dusky langurs - an example of primate natal colouration
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I’m very excited to have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study co-representation across 3 cultures (Uganda, Republic of Korea and UK) in dyads and groups. I’ll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc. More details to follow, but please drop me a message if you’re interested! 😊🌍
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Dr Heather Browning (Veit) @zoophilosophy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We should be worried about the UK's capacity to adequately monitor and enforce animal welfare regulations www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK failing animals with just one welfare inspector for every 878 farms – report
Only 2.5% of more than 300,000 farms were inspected at least once in 2022 and 2023, researchers find
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Michał Parniak @michal.parniak.pl · 21/11/2024
Predatory publisher MDPI is trying to influence the Polish government to prevent them from giving low scores for predatory journals, asking scientists to support them in this letter. I encourage Polish scientists to do exactly the opposite, and support the current project proposed by our government.
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New episode!! 🎉🎙️ A conversation w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social and Dr. Michael Huffman! We think of medicine as a quintessentially human art. But animals—from bees to bears—have long healed themselves. And, in fact, we humans long learned from their medicinal ways. Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...
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Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA. #sediments #aDNA #eDNA For further details, please see: scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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