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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And we’re done! Fab talk from @sophieridgway90.bsky.social #proudsupervisor moment. Now off to the conference dinner shortly!

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Excited to see everyone & be immersed in new research @ecbb2026.bsky.social! Updates on @themanybirds.bsky.social research from me at 11am Wed 2nd, & on the Cognition & Conservation Chough Project from @wildpathtodrsoph.bsky.social PhD at 11.15am Thurs 3rd. Come say hi! 👋 #animalbehaviour #ECBB

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@themanybirds.bsky.social, @manyprimates.bsky.social, @manydogsproject.bsky.social - big thank you to these fantastic networks & supportive collaborators & to other renowned networks paving the way to advance big team open science initiatives & support early career researchers! 2/2

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CONNECT partnership @connect-btss.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New article in Nature about Big Team Science with lots of quotes from CONNECT members! @manybabies.org @themanybirds.bsky.social @manydogsproject.bsky.social @cos.io

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Christina Bergmann @chbergma.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Big Team Science projects like @manybabies.org @themanybirds.bsky.social etc. are brilliant for more reasons that this short piece can cover, including their openness to researchers from all contexts and backgrounds - you don't even need to have access to the target population! #OpenScience

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds @ecobird.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition! Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds. 📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026 🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme More info & how to apply ↓ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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Kees van Oers @keesvanoers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This was an amazing project led by the @themanybirds.bsky.social A similar Behavioural test was done across over 130 bird species! Species with a more specialist diet and migratory species were more afraid of novelty near there familiar food source. 1/2

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Ella Williamson @ellawilliamson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Loved being involved in this project with so many others! Including the birds at York Bird of Prey Centre 🦅🦉 it’s super excited to see it published - a brilliant leadership team! 👏 My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team Science effort! 🌟

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Jimena Lois-Milevicich @jimeloism.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It was such an incredible, enriching, and fun experience — I learned so much ❤️ So thankful to the amazing leadership team who welcomed me! @drrmiller.bsky.social @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social @nomascus.bsky.social @stephanreber.bsky.social @cds-york.bsky.social Megan Lambert & Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

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Mandy Ridley @mandyridley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New paper out in PLoS Biology! A large international collaboration from the ManyBirds project, looking at variation in neophobia across a wide range of avian species globally. Delighted that the magpies were part of this large and diverse dataset!

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 15/10/2025

Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN

Left: Examples of novel objects used. Each black/white bar is 5 cm long. The objects ranged in size from a third to half the size of the subjects: (a) Southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius, (b) Moluccan eclectus, Eclectus roratus, (c) Rüppell’s vulture, Gyps rueppelli, (d) gray-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans, (e) common waxbill, Estrilda astrild. Right: Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) at Adlerwarte Berlebeck, Germany, interacting with a novel object. Image credit Kai Caspar.

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Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds @ecobird.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Wonderful to see this project published! We were glad to contribute a small part to this impressive collaborative effort through ECoBird.

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Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa @pialdecoa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

⚠️ PAPER ALERT! Stoked to be part of @themanybirds.bsky.social 1st paper on the evolutionary correlates of #neophobia in #birds on @plosbiology.org Contributing to this BTS project has been a truly enriching experience! 🦜🦉🐥🐧🦚🦅🦩🦆🪿 Kudos to @drrmiller.bsky.social for leading this titanic effort 💪🏻

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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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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQB.... Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

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ManyBirds Project: Potential ManyBirds Studies

This is a form for submitting proposals for potential ManyBirds Project future studies (www.themanybirds.com). Full submissions are confidential and will be reviewed by the ManyBirds Core Team Leads ...

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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award! Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you very much!

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Drew Altschul @dremalt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Yes, big team science is for any and all taxa! If you're at #ASABWinter2024 you'll find reps from @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social @manygoatsproject.bsky.social ManyZoos and ManyFishes. Find your people!

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ManyGoats Project @manygoatsproject.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hello Bluesky! We are ManyGoats, an international network of goat scientists. Inspired by others like @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social, we aim to facilitate open, reproducible 🐐 behaviour & welfare science. How? By running multi-site behaviour studies worldwide! 🧵

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Ella Williamson @ellawilliamson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team science project. My PhD supervisor, Prof Katie Slocombe, and I examined object neophobia in various birds of prey for this project 🦅🦉 a brilliant lead research team! 😃

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Christine R. Lattin, PhD @clattin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm proud to have been one of >120 collaborators on the 1st @themanybirds.bsky.social project examining aversive behavior towards novelty (neophobia) in 136 bird species! Overall, neophobia was correlated with phylogeny, diet, & migratory behavior. Read the preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 🧪

Color-coded latency difference scores (latency to touch food in the novel object condition minus latency in the control condition; measured in seconds) for all bird species included in ManyBirds study 1 (n = 136).

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint! Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures. Very proud to be involved! 🧪🪶 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Phylogenetic tree of the 136 studied avian species with neophobia scores mapped onto it.

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The ManyBirds Project are now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for exciting project updates coming very shortly... 🦜 🦆 🪶 🦉 🦅

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