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www.TheBehaviourForum.org is an unique online to discuss all about animal behaviour: experimentation, protocols, articles, pro-tips, welfare, legislation, conferences, networking! Created and hosted by COST_TEATIME.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Leonardo Restivo, @marionrivalan.bsky.social Rivalan & James McCutcheon presented the ethogram & ontology development for hashtag #homecage monitoring and @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social. #behavior #animalresearch @costprogramme.bsky.social #mouse #ontology #ethogram
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you missed the live workshop on depression like models, it's not too late! The Replay is here 👇
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Registration Deadline extended for the Behaviour Conference 2025 👇
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COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Our member @davorvirag.bsky.social presented @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social at the SLAS & CroLASA Symposium on laboratory animals in Zagreb, Croatia, this week. #animalresearch #behavior #homecage @costprogramme.bsky.social
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A 3R starter pack 👇
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COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Celebrated annually on February 11, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science highlights the remarkable contributions of women in STEM while addressing persistent gender disparities that limit progress. Get ready to celebrate #WomenInScienceDay with us! @costprogramme.bsky.social
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
ONLY 2 days before our first UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR virtual workshop, on Modelling depression-like behaviors in rodents! It's still time to register ! 🧪 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #animalbehavior 🧠📈🐭🐾
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🎉 2,000 followers !! This community of animal behavior enthusiasts is incredible. From deep discussions to fun discoveries, I’m grateful for every shared curiosity! 🐾🧪🧠📈🐭 👇ONLY ONE PLACE 👇 www.thebehaviourforum.org #neuroskyence #animalresearch
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Vootele Voikar @vvoikar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It was a great webinar - a lot of information shared on how and why we need to talk about #AnimalResearch (open, transparent, understandable) @eara.eu @tvvde.bsky.social @dhuzard.bsky.social @neuromancing.bsky.social @scinuno.bsky.social @cost-teatime.bsky.social @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚀 Join @open-neuroscience.com for a talk on Open Hardware for Neuroscience! 🧠🔬 📅 Feb 7, 2025 | 11:30 AM ET 📍 The Neuro (Montreal) & Zoom 🎙️ Dr. André Maia Chagas (@iamchagas.bsky.social) on affordable, customizable, open-source tools for research! #OpenScience #Neuroscience #OpenHardware #SciComm
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎥 Big Announcement! On Feb 5th at 13:00 CET, we kick off the 1st edition of our UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR live workshop experience ! 🧠 Emma Robinson will dive into modelling depression-like behaviours in rodents, from assay limitations to innovative approaches. #Neuroscience #BehavioralResearch
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Behaviour 2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
📣🚨 Abstract submission deadline extended!!! 🚨📣 In response to continued interest from prospective contributors, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended. 🗓New submission deadline: 15th February 2025. 🗒️Submission requirements: A 300-word abstract.
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🎥 Webinar Alert! Join us on Feb 5th at 13:00 CET for the 1st TheBehaviourForum Webinar Series! 🧠 Prof. Emma Robinson will discuss Modelling Depression-Like Behaviours in Rodents & new approaches to enhance translational validity. ✅ Register: cost-teatime.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?... 🧪🧠📈🐭
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Stress responsiveness and survival: "We show that individuals with greater stress responsiveness to previous droughts later had higher survival across a severe El Niño drought."
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"• Female rats engage in structured patterns of sexual bouts and time-outs. • Higher receptivity leads to more sexual bouts and shorter time-outs. • Sexual bouts serve as an indicator of copulatory intensity." #animalbehaviour #behavioralresearch #neuroskyence
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Join the discussion here: www.thebehaviourforum.org/t/eln-and-ma...
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📚 Searching for the perfect Electronic Lab Notebook or lab management software? Key needs: workflows, 📊 data export and🔍 Task tracking Tools: Seatable.io, JupyterHub, and eLabFTW.. What do you use? Share below! 👇 #LabManagement #ResearchTools #BehavioralScience #OpenSource #ScientificData
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Ever dreamt about 'a “language” capable of capturing the details of any behavioral protocol' ? We surely did and Leonardo Restivo had the answer, here: www.thebehaviourforum.org/t/controlled... #neuroskyence #animalbehaviour #behavioralresearch #ontology 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
How to study behavior in vertebrates with focus on fish and rodents - a research training course organized by Upsala University Behavioral facility (UUBF). For more information see the Forum link: www.thebehaviourforum.org/t/research-t... #animalbehavior #trainingschool
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Do Not miss this training school on the use of homecage monitoring solutions: #neuroscience #animalbehavior #homecagemonitoring 🧪🧠📈🐁🐾
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
@socneuro.bsky.social @cost-teatime.bsky.social @liftcostaction.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social @eurbehavpharm.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @animalbehaviour.live
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📣 Open call to neuroscience, ethology & behavioral societies! 📣 Add www.TheBehaviourForum.org to newsletters, PhD schools, and resource lists. Let’s boost collaboration! Share widely with your networks & organizations. 🌐 🧪🧠📈🐭🐾 #Neuroscience #BehavioralScience #OpenScience #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
2024 rocked for TheBehaviourForum! 🥳 To the best community of animal behavior scientists! Sharing, discussing & creating new projects. Free, open & positive vibes only! ✨ Share the link, invite colleagues. Let's grow together in 2025! 🚀 www.thebehaviourforum.org #AnimalBehavior #neuroScience
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OpenBehavior @openbehavior.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you're working with LFP data in Python, ghostipy is worth checking out. It provides a really nice implementation of the continuous wavelet transform and other unique analyses. #opensource #neuroscience Read about it in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...
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COST TEATIME @cost-teatime.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
🧩Why, What, Who, How, When Maša Čater breaks down the 5Ws of successful communication in animal research: strategic planning + thoughtful design = effective outreach.🎯 Learn to create impactful websites, social media, infographics, and more to build trust in science. helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy 2025! Wishing all the best behavioral research to all ! And if you have any questions or topics to share, please join us at www.thebehaviourforum.org ! 🧪 #neuroscience #animalbehavior 🧠🐾🐁🐭
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
👇 a great starter pack to strongly start 2025 with serious behavioral scientists! 🙏 @ebbsociety.bsky.social
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A "Behavioral Neuroscience" room is missing though ;)
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Daniel Dautan @2dneuro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
2DNEURO wish you a merry Christmas. Do not hesitate to contact us for your wireless optogenetic/electrical solutions.
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Quick survey for a new metadata management tool 👇
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Bonus resource: www.thebehaviourforum.org is here to Help 💙
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Save the date 👇
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Are you a researcher or innovator from an ITC country? 🌍 Work on home-cage monitoring & want to present at an international conference? 🚀 Apply for the @cost-teatime.bsky.social Conference Grants! Up to €2000 for in-person or €500 for virtual events🧪📢 #ResearchFunding #ScienceGrants #neuroskyence
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Social hierarchy in mice: "two neuronal populations show opposite changes in activity during effortful pushes in competition. In vivo and in vitro electrophysiology recordings revealed inhibition from the lose-related pathway to the win-related pathway"
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Join the growing community at the Behaviour Forum and start using movement to transform your research today! 🚀 Thank you @niksirbi.bsky.social for sharing this ! #PythonTools #AnimalResearch #ScientificCommunity
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🖥️ Stay connected with movement’s blog for: 🆕 Version updates 📅 Community calls 🎯 Roadmaps Explore it here: movement.neuroinformatics.dev
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movement — movement
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🔑 Designed for researchers, it computes essential metrics like velocity—not behavior interpretations (for now 😉). 💡 Lightweight behavior classification is on the horizon. Share your ideas in the discussion on the Behaviour Forum! #BehavioralResearch
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📊 movement brings a unified approach to analyzing pose estimation data with features like: 🧹 Data cleaning 📐 Kinematics (velocity, acceleration) 👀 Interactive visualization No machine learning expertise required! #DataScience
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🐾 Exciting news from the Behaviour Forum: Meet movement, a powerful Python package for animal behavior research! 🚀 Developed with the community in mind, it’s here to simplify body movement analysis. Let’s dive in! 👇 #AnimalBehavior #OpenSource #Python
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🖥️ Webinars 📆 Dec 12: @cost-teatime.bsky.social webinar with @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social. Discover behavioral insights using the DeepOF tool—register now: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 📆 Dec 2, 2024: @protocolsio.bsky.social shared tips on advancing reproducibility. Were you there? 🎥
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: TEATIME webinar: Dr. Mathias V. Schmidt (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...
Title: Behavioral Phenotyping applications using DeepOF
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🖼️ Infographics for Best Practices Simplify complex ideas! Check out our infographics on animal welfare and behavioral tests. Easy-to-use resources for researchers 🐾💡 #AnimalWelfare #BestPractices
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📊 FAIR Data in Animal Research Make your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)! Explore strategies to implement these essential principles in your work. 🧬 #FAIRData #AnimalResearch
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📅 Virtual Workshop Series We’re kicking off our first webinar using TheBehaviourForum as a discussion tool! The topic? Depressive-like behaviors in mice. 🎤 Have a speaker in mind? Share your suggestions here: www.thebehaviourforum.org/t/virtual-wo...
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🐾 Here’s your recap of key updates and events from The Behaviour Forum! Let’s dive in 👇, a thread 🧵 #BehavioralResearch #AnimalWelfare #PreclinicalScience
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Damien Huzard @dhuzard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
" aggression selectively activates GABAergic neurons in the posterior substantia innominata (pSI), an extend amygdala region critical for aggressive behaviors in both sexes of mice, with males exhibiting higher neuronal activity during the attack. "
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Lenny Teytelman @handle.invalid · 05/12/2024
And a related note that the journal Lab Animal has partnered with us and now explicitly welcomes protocols for peer review. 2/2
Dropdown of peer review journal options on protocols.io, allowing submission of protocols from the platform for publication.
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TheBehaviourForum.org @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Unfortunately it is full. If a lot of people are in we can build a second one!
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