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Thibault Boehly

@thibhly.bsky.social
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Researcher affiliated to the Cognitive Zoology Group of Lund University. I study the evolution of cognition in crocodylians, dinosaurs ands birds. | he/him Also on Mastodon: @thibhly@ecoevo.social

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 2h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 6h
Applications open now! We are seeking interdisciplinary scientists, particularly those with experience in statistical analysis of large datasets, using Bayesian phylogenetic comparative methods. Application deadline is October 23 Position starts in January 2027
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 6h
🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Gabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 5h
Seeking a reliability coder of capuchin monkey videos! Great for the CV for students eager to get into the world of animal behavior and cognition. Write me at: gabriella.smith@vetmeduni.ac.at
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Canadian Geographic @cangeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A raven settles among the changing autumn trees near Thunder Bay, Ontario, staying calm and observant long enough for Can Geo Photo Club member Curtis Craig to capture the scene. #PhotoOfTheDay Join the Photo Club, or tag #ShareCanGeo for a chance to be featured: bit.ly/3z9QSOi
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Robin Isnard @robinisnard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🦖 Quelle différence de cognition entre les animaux ? Nous recevrons @thibhly.bsky.social qui apportera certains éléments de réponse provenant directement de sa thèse ! Rendez-vous demain à 11h00 ici : ▶️ twitch.tv/toutsecomprend
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: two sharks are sitting in a cafe. A smaller shark holding a teacup says discreetly to the other, “okay, look at this couple behind you - but don’t make it obvious.” Panel 2: the other shark, a Great White shark, turns its gigantic head in the most obvious way possible to look across the room at some sharks chatting at another table.
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 14/09/2026
My 📗 is #openaccess thanks to the D2O program of @mitpress.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... This initiative for equitable access to scholarship has just opened its new funding cycle: mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres... 🙏 help spread the word & if you represent a library, do consider joining!
Promotional image of the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative of the MIT Press that allows academic books to be read open access. Promotional graphic on a beige background for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press, 2026) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. The book cover appears in the center of the image and has a green gradient background. The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis).
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ARAA @araa.at · 14/09/2026
Very lovely view at the top of Dunkel Stein! We had a picnic and signed the guest book. Safe to say the first ever Goffin camping trip was a success 🥰
Folks walking on a grassy trail into the trees from behind. Martina is striking a poseA group of smiling folks in front a valley view. Jen has a walking stick and Lona and Martina are holding paper cranes Group of folks smiling at a picnic table with a checkered picnic basket in the woods Louise signing a guest book in front of Jen by a box, Eva is sneaking to half pop up behind the box
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ARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026
For our hike up to Dunkel Stein 🪨, the campers had the “tool trail” to solve (20 pictures of tools - had to guess which species used which and for what 🛠️) Extra points for each origami crane they found on the path!🏅 Kudos to @zewaldj.bsky.social who made it and got up super early to set it up!🙏😮‍💨
Folks gathered around trees with signs on them writing on paper Kiwi pointing to a crane, Lona holding a small frog and Thibault picking up a crane from a stump
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Goffin lab camping trip brought out the full Canadian in @labellejoel.bsky.social and me haha 🇨🇦
Joelle posing in front of the fire with an axe Jen in a cowboy hat and western fleece with a guitar in front of the fire beside Louise
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ARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026
The first ever Goffin lab camping trip was a complete success, despite the surprise autumnal cold snap! 🍂
Group of folks around the campfire including a dog. Alice is imagine the guitar A series of tents on a field. Folks putting up those tents with Martina giving a thumbs up. Beautiful sun hitting an old Austrian house
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ARAA @araa.at · 12/09/2026
Very successful visit to the Goffin lab: the birds were met, the birds were pet, then showed off how clever (and mischievous) they can be
Group of smiling folks in front of the aviary, little white goffins cockatoos are watching from the other sideFolks watching a demo in the aviary, there is a bird on a table approaching a puzzle box and two scientists watching
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ARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026
We were so happy to have you! Thanks for coming all the way out to see us and give such a cool talk 🐊 🦅
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ARAA @araa.at · 12/09/2026
It was a cozy fit getting everyone into the office at the Goffin lab HQ but we managed for some fantastic talks by @theroesa.bsky.social 🐦 @thibhly.bsky.social 🐊 and Lona Lalić 🥰
A crowd of people in an old fashioned room, photos of Theresa, Thibault and and Lona on the floor by laptops and a big screen
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Thibault Boehly @thibhly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Big thanks to the organizers and to all the participants for this couple of days visiting the Goffin lab! 🤩 It was great to meet new people, and the famous Goffin's cockatoos. We had a wonderful demonstration of the parrots' wit, and mischief. 🦜
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A great thread rounding up some of the "AGI" critiques that are worth reading now that OpenAI is, predictably, declaring it's here. (Includes a few of my own, so you know where I stand!).
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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
In this essay, a consideration of one of the motivations for the increase in the harassment of researchers such as @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social from 'AGI' doomers: desperation: monroelab.com/2026/09/09/t...
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The AGI Inquisition
Many people, particularly women, who are in what is loosely and pejoratively called the ‘anti AI’ cohort, have commented on an increase in rhetoric about ‘artificial general intelligence’ (a meta m…
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
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Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🦖✨ New issue alert, spotlighting a timely and fascinating scientific debate: How should we infer cognition in extinct dinosaurs? Two recent papers dive headfirst into this debate — and they do not agree. Full issue here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/09/2026
Just Stop Oil staged a smaller, wholly peaceful & respectful, protest a few days ago. They blocked some roads, so the police broke up the protests and made arrests. But when fascists blocked a couple of ports, no action.
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/09/2026
We now have a mob of masked, violent fascists, threatening & abusing charity workers & their families to stop them saving drowning people. They’ve disrupted ports & intimidated passengers & workers. Still no action from the police & the weakest possible statement from the PM. It’s disgusting.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In other news, thousands of climate scientists say for decades that climate change could kill huge numbers of people and destabilize the world, and experience shows they were right all along, but it's deemed less thrillingly doomy to tackle seriously, so here we are.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This. I'm a computer scientist who got into bioinformatics when it was the big new thing. ME IN 2006: Cool, biology will soon be solved! ME IN 2026: Biology is so not going to be solved.
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social
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Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an underwater submersible opens a latch and drops a red, pill-shaped crappy Bluetooth speaker. A scientist narrates, “we built a Bluetooth speaker to withstand 2000 meters.” Panel 2: the scientist, speaking directly to the camera, continues: “the squids responded really well to Nelly.” Panel 3: on the dark depths of the ocean floor, a group of squids are dancing enthusiastically around the sunken Bluetooth speaker. A couple of them are getting kinda nasty with it to be perfectly honest
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everyone said go punting in Cambridge, so I did as instructed at #ECBB2026 Can you spot who we are taking the selfie with?
7 scientists in a boat with a heron in the background
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Katy Willcox, PhD @katywillcox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Had such a fun week at @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Lots of exciting talks and so many lovely and inspiring people. Very grateful to the organisers & to ASAB for my travel grant! 🐤 #ecbb2026
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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025
I'm still seeing a fair few downloads of the uncorrected pre-print for 'A Drive to Survive – so just re-upping that the proofed and finalised #OpenAccess PDF is available completely free here. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 04/09/2026
The website of our research project is live! We will be announcing soon a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD with us. Stay tuned!
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EVACCS
ecological validity in comparative cognitive science
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
But I saw how you quote tweeted my post on Twitter & how clear it is that you're a bad faith actor, the type who wastes my time. I saw how Dr. Heidy Khlaaf tried to break things down for you and the disrespect with which you engaged with her. So let me repeat here what I said to you on Twitter.
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University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to @drrmiller.bsky.social, who has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a study entitled “Avian Minds: Investigating the Evolution of Executive Function" she'll be based in @uniexecec.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Dr Rachael Miller awarded ERC Starting Grant
Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a groundbreaking study into the minds of birds. The project, based at the Cen...
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Thomas Bugnyar winning today's best research question on a slide: Why do Ravens Ride Boars? (this is not a real competition but if it was...)
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
how it feels not to care
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: breaking news drone footage of an overturned truck with a giant barrel in place of a cargo bed, floating in a body of water. A fire truck and some locals surround the scene. On screen text reads: “BREAKING; Whisky truck crashes into Loch Ness” Panel 2: the Loch Ness monster is facedown in a bush, totally passed out. A local Scot security guard is passing by in a golf cart. He exclaims, “Crikey— what’s this!?”
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you're at #ECBB2026 and want to learn more about our work with Goffin's cockatoos, check out my session today (Weds) at the Communication & Cognition 1 session (LAB026) later this afternoon. My labmate @annaek.bsky.social also has a talk tomorrow afternoon at Communication & Cognition 2 (LAB026)!
A goffin's cockatoo holding a tool to knock a cashew off a plinth. Photo by Bene Croy
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some of the most passionate folks in reptile cognition, all in one room! #ECBB2026 🤩 🦎 🐊 🐢 @xiscacassola.bsky.social @annawilkinson.bsky.social @stephanreber.bsky.social @birgitszabo.bsky.social
Francesca, Anna, Stephan and Birgit
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 30/08/2026
This is an older shot for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Parenting. Captured is a split second moment of a parent arriving with food for her young Barn Swallows. #birds
Four young barn swallows sit on a cattail with their mouths open. Their parent arrives with a meal and is placing it in one of the bird's mouths.
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How can we improve the study of lizard cognition? @birgitszabo.bsky.social opens with first explaining why we study lizard cognition!
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Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The difference between cognition and intelligence according to @stephanreber.bsky.social : Trump is human, ergo Trump has human cognition - but not necessarily intelligence 😆 #ECBB2026
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Crocodile cognition? Say more, @stephanreber.bsky.social, please!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Why is neophobia important? Well @drrmiller.bsky.social shares this and more in the second talk focusing on curiosity-like behaviour in animals!
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 Megan Lambert delivering the second keynote of curiosity-like behaviours in animals, Animal Curiosity: context, causes, and consequences. (Possibly also getting the unofficial award for best videos of the morning?)
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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#ECBB2026 @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social answering the question Do reptiles know what another reptile can see? as part of this morning's symposium on practical and theoretical challenges in reptile and amphibian cognition.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: an exhausted detective leans over his desk with a spread of paperwork and folders. He says, “I’m in too deep. Where is the Spaghetti Man?” Panel 2: on a photograph littered among the evidence, a single small drop of marinara sauce drops with a “plip!” Panel 3: viewed from below, the detective examines the drop of sauce with his finger. Behind him, in a ceiling corner, a rotund chef with a mustache - presumably the Spaghetti Man - holds himself like a spider against the walls.
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When you accidently use the Hose of Summoning while trying to do chores. ✨️The Hose of Summoning✨️ (Common Wondrous Item) This battered garden hose hums with faint chaos energy. Casts Summon Emu. Roll d20 to determine # of emus that instantly materialize into the middle of whatever you are doing.
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