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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Also knew airport security would flag me for this apparatus 😅🤣

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Two exciting conferences in a week is a lot 😅 ( @cultconf.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at ), topped with many catch ups and events (@raccoonologist.bsky.social) in between, I've ended up knocking myself out this weekend 🤒. So forever grateful to my scientist connections in Europe, thanks for having me ❤️

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A lovely visit to the CASCB at University of Konstanz! Thank you for having me this week @uni-konstanz.de ❤️

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Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published! Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️‍🔥 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Have you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? 😔 Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! 🤩 Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Immature orangutans require cultural knowledge to develop mature diets - Nature Human Behaviour

Over a decade of data on wild orangutans were used to program an agent-based model of orangutan diet development. Adult-like diets were attainable only if simulated immature individuals learned from o...

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Nothing like unwinding after #ASABWinter2025 with friends old and new in the pub 🍻 I’m truly knackered!

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ASAB Spring 2027 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Going to make a collage of posters presented at #ASABWinter2025! Want to be included like these awesome ladies? Drop a photo below ⬇️

Louise posing with a poster Do chimpanzees "over-imitate"? A first test with conspecific models.

Nikki with a poster labelled sniffing birds

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Maybe only humans have a call for Mushroom Mushroom 🍄😱🦡🐍

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓 To new beginnings 🥂

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning 🥴 Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶 @manydogsproject.bsky.social We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025! We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 22/08/2025

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬 Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research? Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection! Ad below 👇🐶💙💛

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Jie Gao (D.Sc.) @drjiegao.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My first paper of the goat cognition project is published! It describes the very first step in starting a project with animals: training the animals. I also tested odd-item search in goats. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒

A researcher stands next to her poster at Culture Conference, explaining an eye-tracking project with chimpanzees and children.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

1/7 Pet monkeys for capuchin monkeys Capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island (Panama) have begun kidnapping howler monkey babies. It is a culturally widespread custom that appears to have no benefit whatsoever. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A long work day trip to the countryside 😆 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Pint of Science hits Vienna on the 19th of May! I will be there to give a talk about my PhD journey studying imitation in man-and-womankind's best friend: the domestic dog. pintofscience.at/event/so-hum...

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Getting ready for tomorrow! We’re going with my avian research group here in Vienna #StandUpForScience

Joelle manufacturing a picket sign in their PJs

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend!" The final talk already of #cultureconference2025 on mate copying in wild Drosophilia simulans by Sabine Nöbel @cultconf.bsky.social @sabinenoebel.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Learning about those mischievous wild cockatoos with Lisa Fontana from the Australian National University #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Elif Karakoç from the DPZ (German Primate Research Centre) presenting on social learning in redfronted lemurs in Madagascar #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Wanna know about pigeons in a smart barn, which can track who and what they are looking at? Mathilde Delacoux can help you in her talk at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Now, Dharanish Rajendra from the University of Würzburg at #cultureconferencr2025 sharing work on the risks of learning, and the importance of safe parental environments @cultconf.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"following" the great tits talk from Chimento, Luca Hahn from the University of Exeter is talking about jackdaws and their social relationships helping information gathering 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @lucahahn.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The final keynote speaker of #cultureconference2025 is Michael Chimento, with his work on methods and models of ephemeral animal cultures 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Out of mama's shadow, but not too far... Mawa Dafreville talking about vervet monkeys' socialisation @cultconf.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Peering into chimp culture 🐵: Nora Slania on social learning in chimpanzees, from the Max Plank Institute of Animal Behaviour @cultconf.bsky.social @noraslania.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Be good like those around you! Saein Lee talking about prosociality and conformity in adults of different ages, across the USA and South Korea @cultconf.bsky.social @saeinlee.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🧠 Brains and bonds 🫂: Wouter Wolf next, to talk about cultural cognition shaping social bonding activities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Claudia Kupelian from the University of Toulouse on communication skills in non-verbals: infants in urban and rural Mozambican communities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lucas Molleman from the University of Amsterdam reeling us back in from coffee to talk about social learning strategies and traits @lucasmolleman.bsky.social at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social 🇳🇱

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Georgia Tuohy joining @cultconf.bsky.social online to talk about mother's experience of gender roles and children's socio-emotional development in Uganda @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconferencr2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Laura Simone Lewis at @cultconf.bsky.social talking about curiosity, particularly cultural curiosity in children 👧👦🎁 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Day 2 begins for the fantastic Culture Conference at Utrecht University! Dr. Maleen Tiele kicking it off as a keynote speaker on the nature of joint attention 👀 @maleenthiele.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Come find my 🐶 11:40 talk 🐶 today in the Animal Behaviour I session of PhD Academy 2025! @univie.ac.at #phdacademy2025

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Louise Mackie, PhD @louisemackie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Exciting new research with the goffin cockatoos! 🎉

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