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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

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Gwen Wirobski @gwenwiro.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

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Leslie-Ann Eickhoff @leslie-ann.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

first poster presentation ✅ I had the pleasure of presenting the first study of my PhD on causal perception in dogs and infants at the Austrian-Bavarian Child Development meeting last weekend! Thanks for some great discussions and input from researchers in the region 🥨

Leslie, a short-haired woman with glasses, is standing next to a poster. She's wearing a black top and holds a glass of water while showing off her poster. The title of the poster is "Dogs' and infants' perception of causality in launching events". The poster contains a picture of a dog with it's snout on a chin-rest for eye-tracking and a colorful graph depicting pilot data from infant participants of the study.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird

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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨 We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8... Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

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Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

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Guillotine Hunger Force @handle.invalid · 17/05/2025

typical corrupt science

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The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

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Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 01/04/2025

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 05/03/2025

🐶🐕🐩 My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb. #dogs

Advertisement for study at Department of Ethology, Eotovos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Image includes face of black and brown dog with its nose buried in a blanket. Text reads: Why do you have a dog? We need your help! This questionnaire is part of a research project conducted at Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. Our main goal is to identify factors associated with perceived (dis)advantages of sharing life with a companion dog.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

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Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

PhD position in parrot tool use
Job offer: applications opening 19th of February 2025.
We are looking for a PhD student (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, FWF) for a doctoral project in the field of animal behaviour and cognition
Project Title:
Dexterity in the tool use of the Goffin’s cockatoo
https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/PAT2728324
Project Location:
The Messerli Research Institute is located at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Its division on Comparative Cognition investigates cognitive abilities in both the social and physical domain of various, free-living as well as domesticated, animal species including Goffin’s cockatoos, keas, dogs, goats and pigs.
https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/messerli
This PhD project will be conducted at the Goffin Lab in Lower Austria.
https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/cognition/goffin-lab
Academic Supervision:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Auersperg (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
Project Description:
The Goffin’s cockatoo uses and builds tool -based technologies rivalling higher primates, both in captivity as well as in the wild. While we already understand a lot about what kinds of tools animals use in which context, we still know very little about the innovative process and fine-scaled mechanisms underlying such behaviour: how are the cockatoos able to innovate tool use in the first place?
Thereby, it is important to consider behavioural as well as physical barriers that animals face when using tools. We currently predict that tool use techniques are strongly affected by the different properties of the tasks the birds are operating their tools upon. This PhD project aims to test to what extent the tool use techniques invented by aviary cockatoos in Austria manifest in a predictable manner based on specific tool and task properties. To achieve this, we plan to blend behavioural analysis and material physics. The findings of this project will help to understand the onset and mechanisms underlyi…

Deadline and project start:
Please send your application before 1th of June 2025. The successful candidate can start in July at
the earliest (we would like to have started the project by September of this year).

Requirements
• A master’s degree
• A master’s thesis with a topic related to animal cognition/animal behaviour/comparative psychology or material science.
• Genuine Interest in animal behaviour and cognition
• At least some experience in direct interaction with animals (experience with animal testing is highly appreciated).
• Comfortable with direct contact with parrots
• Statistical knowledge (preferably experience in General Liner Mixed Models, PCA, Survival Analysis etcetera.)
• Experience with R.
• Excellent English skills written and spoken (additional German skills are highly appreciated)
• Excellent teamworking and communication skills

What we offer
• Employment at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna via a FWF funding for a minimum of three years.
• Access to institutional support (administrative support, statistician, IT manager, technician for experimental apparatuses).
• Various scientific events including weekly seminars of comparative cognition researchers
• Opportunity to visit international conferences.
• Opportunity to visit social events for PhD students studying avian cognition in Vienna.
• An international and interdisciplinary work environment at the Messerli Research Institute for Human-Animal Interaction.

How to apply:
Applications (email: alice.auersperg@vetmeduni.ac.at) will be considered until the 1st of June 2025
Only complete submissions will be taken into consideration.

Your application should contain the following information:
1. A Cover Letter detailing your motivation for the research topic, relevant experience, and expectations for the position (max. 2 pages)
2. A Curriculum Vitae including copies of relevant university degree certificates
3. Contact details for two references (incl. email)

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Jeroen Zewald @zewaldj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Giuseppe Gangarossa 🧠👨‍🔬🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @peppeganga.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Please consider answering to this Climate Survey for #LGBTQIA+ Academics in Psychology and Neuroscience!!! It is extremely important for us (@network-alba.bsky.social) and hopefully for the whole community. 👉 www.alba.network/lgbtqia-clim... Please share widely! 🙏

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