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Verity Bowell

@verityb.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Clinical Animal Behaviour. Particular interest in animal training, assistance dogs, human-animal interactions, and human behaviour change. Lapsed primatologist. She/her.

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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Evolution of Clinical Animal Behaviour provides insights into establishing a career within the field, the benefits of working collaboratively with allied professionals and putting research into practice. To register: www.shortcourses.ed.ac.uk/.../evolutio....
An image of a black cat and a red spaniel dog, both lying down. Above the image text reads 'The University of Edinburgh. The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine. Online. Free. The Evolution of Clinical Animal Behaviour. Below the image text reads 'Register now. 6 hours of CPD. Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We have a new paper out! Wonderful work from PhD student Katharine.
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Behavioural and Acoustics Research for K9 Sounds @barkslab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤 A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls? Find out by filling out our new questionnaire! Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
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Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Minnesota Zoo is hiring an Animal Behavior & Wellbeing Specialist to work on their animal welfare team! A new position, bachelors-level with at least 3 years experience. Apply by Oct 28. #job #animalwelfare #zoo #captivewildlife #aza www.aza.org/jobs?job=48841
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Jemaine Clement @jemaineclement.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New list of medieval dog names just dropped.
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 . If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you! lnkd.in/edHgUPap
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🚨Dream job alert! Assistant Professor of Animal Cognition, Primate Cognition, or Animal Welfare CUNY Hunter College (NYC!) Part of their world-leading animal behavior and conservation grad program! tinyurl.com/hunter-animal
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Jobs | City University of New York
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."
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Dog Aging Project @dogagingproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Happy International Friendship Day! Let's cherish the special bond we share with our fur buddies. ❤️🐶 🐾Let's create longer, healthier lives together—join the Dog Aging Pack at dogagingproject.org!
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
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Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us
Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a sense of body ownership similar to our own
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Alexandra Horowitz @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
whew, that's a wrap on my recording of the audiobook for the new edition of "Inside of a Dog". I mispronounced many words, laughed a lot, and cried at my own ending
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
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Trailer Park Orthopod @stresshoop.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
ChatGPT is the mediocre white man of computers. Ask it a question and it will stridently answer you even if it doesn't know anything about the topic.
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Interspecies Internet @interspecies-io.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚀 New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? with @federicorossano.bsky.social   Join this lecture and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication! 🐶💭 📆Saturday, May 17 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: rb.gy/w8ikcn
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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Your dog understands you (& vice-versa). But why and how? 👇 New review paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research & Co. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #dog
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Vocal communication between humans and animals
In this article, we review the scientific literature examining vocal communication between humans and other animals, with a focus on dog-human interac…
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is so lovely - with an important underlying message
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This study isn't great news for the romantic partners of dog owners... 😂
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is such a great thread. I am taking notes 😁
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Dr Claire Brand @clbrand.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Final Call! Our team is conducting research on the spinal health in Frenchies and Dachshunds. We are interested in hearing from you whether you have experienced spinal problems or not in any dog(s) you own/have owned. Follow the link to take part in a 10-minute survey. www.surveymonkey.com/r/spines
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Calling All Dachshund and French Bulldog Owners
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 09/04/2025
The penguins have faced him down and the penguins have won.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
More dreamy #buyastrangerabook day magic! @redwellyfeats.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to £15! So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch. UK only.
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Dog Aging Project @dogagingproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Meet the adorable Winnie, one of our latest #dogsoftheoffice! 🐾We can’t wait to share all the cute moments and fun she’ll bring along! Stay tuned!
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations. Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Veronica White @veronicaawhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live! news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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Researcher to tour England by bike to interview women in farming
A University of Exeter researcher will cycle hundreds of miles across England to interview women in farming about their visions for the future. PhD student Veronica White will set off from Land’s End ...
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Daniel Promislow @dpromislow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We are excited to announce the release of our fourth year of data for the #openscience #dogagingproject. The latest release, available to scientists around the world, includes over 80 million data points on 50,000 dogs! 🧵 1/n
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
theconversation.com/humans-are-b...
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Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can do learn to do better
Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
2025. How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge. Scientists around the world are recognizing that their research method isn’t the only way. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge
Scientists around the world are recognizing that their research method isn’t the only way.
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Dream PhD opportunity studying self-recognition in apes, with an incomparable team of mentors!
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Incredible. And I appreciated the final post of the thread.
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Excellent! Looking forward to reading this.
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This sounds fascinating! I may be biased with my interest in border collies/ working sheepdogs though!
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This will be great!
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A simulation indicates wolves could have self-domesticated into dogs within 8,000 years, suggesting early human interactions may have facilitated this evolutionary process. doi.org/g842k2
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Simulation shows wolves had time to self-domesticate and evolve into dogs
A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and Valparaiso University, all in the U.S., has found new evidence that wolves had ample time to self-domesticate and evolve into modern dogs.
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Interesting - always fascinating to see how other fields approach, and their discussion of, the human - dog relationship
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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Thrilled to be a co-author on this paper with these legends! ✨ Enikő Kubinyi, Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi Our study shows how dogs use gazing behaviour to communicate in uncertain situations—shaped by personality, emotional bond and breed 👀🐕 www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
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Dogs’ Gazing Behavior to Humans Is Related to Their Liveliness, Aggressiveness, and the Emotional Comfort They Provide
Gazing toward humans is fundamental in dog–human communication. This study aimed to characterize companion dogs based on their gazing behavior and to explore the potential links between gazing, person...
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Maddy Arden @maddyarden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Horrific
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New paper w/ L.Huber, P.van der Wolf, M.Menkveld & S.Riemer providing evidence that dogs prefer to steal from a plate unseen by a human when the human's presence has to be inferred from sound cues.
Graphical abstract: In a stealing task, dogs had to choose between two plates with food; During prior exploration, only one of the plates was in line of sight of a human; In the test, the human was absent but indirect auditory cues signaled her presence; Despite being alone, dogs stole forbidden food from where they could not be seen
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
More amazing dog content from @moudhy.bsky.social So interesting that these names all suggest the value of dogs being in their guarding/ protection. And then to consider how these behaviours are no longer wanted today. Yes, there has been time to select away, but it's a fairly recent change.
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Ethological Society @ethoges.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ETHOLOGY: Have you ever be consoled by your dog? 🐕⚡💝 Rial et al. show that dogs are capable of showing victim-directed affiliation after a dispute, and may also show signs of stress behaviour, depending on intensity of the conflict. Read the full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict
Domestic dogs' behavior after witnessing a conflict between their owners.
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Mark Ramos @mframos.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
At alpha=0.05, the probability that two independent studies on the same topic will both make a type 1 error is 0.0025. That illustrates how important even a single replication study is in improving the credibility of a discovery. #science #researchsky #academicsky #statsky #datascience #dataliteracy
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
happy Burns Night to those who celebrate
Mr Burns from The Simpsons
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
'No give, just throw' - I've shared this before but thought newer folk might like to see it 😊
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Want to join us at Edinburgh for a PhD in One Welfare and One Health? It's a lovely supervisory team, and Edinburgh is great! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Predicting emerging issues of One Welfare and One Health and improving the care of Scotland’s animals at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Predicting emerging issues of One Welfare and One Health and improving the care of Scotland’s animals at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
You: “are you a morning, afternoon, or evening writer?” Me: “I’m an 11:15-11:30 then 14:25-14:45 writer”
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Terribly sad to hear of the passing of Karen Pryor, but a life well lived. She was instrumental in the move to positive reinforcement in animal training, and sharing that knowledge and experience with a wide audience and different fields. Amazing person. karenwpryor.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Karen Pryor
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Come and work with us (Edinburgh University R(D)SVS) on an equine welfare project! We have a post doc position on behavioural indicators of racehorse welfare. Apologies for the horrible and not very official looking link! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/.../CX_1001/...
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Some super ideas for interesting assessment
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Verity Bowell @verityb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I feel that if you aren't C minor you aren't getting the true academic experience!
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