Reposted by Thibault BoehlySteve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 6hApplications 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 032
Reposted by Thibault BoehlySteve 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...jobs.ac.ukPostdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of EdinburghApply 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. 24050
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyGabriella E. Smith, PhD @explanimals.bsky.social · 5hSeeking 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 042
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyCanadian Geographic @cangeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A 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 612026
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyRobin 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 3118
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyAlejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 14/09/2026My 📗 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! 14521
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 14/09/2026Very 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 🥰 062
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026For 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!🙏😮💨 062
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Goffin lab camping trip brought out the full Canadian in @labellejoel.bsky.social and me haha 🇨🇦 082
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026The first ever Goffin lab camping trip was a complete success, despite the surprise autumnal cold snap! 🍂 092
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 12/09/2026Very successful visit to the Goffin lab: the birds were met, the birds were pet, then showed off how clever (and mischievous) they can be 094
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 13/09/2026We were so happy to have you! Thanks for coming all the way out to see us and give such a cool talk 🐊 🦅 021
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyARAA @araa.at · 12/09/2026It 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 🥰 0144
Thibault Boehly @thibhly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Big 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. 🦜 141
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A 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!). 2216
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026In 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...monroelab.comThe AGI InquisitionMany 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… 16329
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyIris 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...irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing 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… 917467
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyThe 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... 1146
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/09/2026Just 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. 13913
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/09/2026We 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. 47520
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In 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. 413834
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyIain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This. 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. 5356
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyPeter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The 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.socialroyalsocietypublishing.orgVolume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the life sciences. 211753
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Everyone said go punting in Cambridge, so I did as instructed at #ECBB2026 Can you spot who we are taking the selfie with? 1133
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyKaty Willcox, PhD @katywillcox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Had 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 0246
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyKate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 19/08/2025I'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... 13116
Reposted by Thibault BoehlySusana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 04/09/2026The 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!ecologicalvalidity.wordpress.comEVACCSecological validity in comparative cognitive science 1207
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026But 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. 19516
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyUniversity of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · 03/09/2026Congratulations 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...news.exeter.ac.ukDr Rachael Miller awarded ERC Starting GrantDr 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... 1277
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean 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...) 1355
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If 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)! 0285
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Some 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 0237
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyTim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 30/08/2026This 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 1830355
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How can we improve the study of lizard cognition? @birgitszabo.bsky.social opens with first explaining why we study lizard cognition! 0327
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyDr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The difference between cognition and intelligence according to @stephanreber.bsky.social : Trump is human, ergo Trump has human cognition - but not necessarily intelligence 😆 #ECBB2026 0153
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#ECBB2026 Crocodile cognition? Say more, @stephanreber.bsky.social, please! 0173
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean 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! 0204
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean 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?) 0194
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyEuropean 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. 094
Reposted by Thibault BoehlyFoxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 22/07/2026When 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. 9446125