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Lily Johnson-Ulrich

@wildcognition.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof studying urban coyotes and hyenas, she/her/hers 🏳️‍🌈

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Lily Johnson-Ulrich @wildcognition.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Mara Hyena Project is running a plushie fundraiser! Adopt Waffles- Queen of Serena North Clan as a soft plushie! www.gimmeswag.com/products/waf...
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Waffles, Queen of Serena North Clan
Why Support? Normally, we wouldn't recommend snuggling a hyena! Here is one you can! Take home one of the Mara Hyena Project's most famous hyenas AND support the research and conservation of spotted h...
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Lily Johnson-Ulrich @wildcognition.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My takeaway from #co32026: "Nothing in cognition makes sense except in the light of adaptive function."
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Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) @sonnenbird.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Hmm that link seems to be broken. Here is another! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Genes and gene networks underlying spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees
Mountain chickadees rely on specialized memory for recovering cached food sources, and variation in this trait has strong effects on fitness. Semenov et al. identify genes and gene networks underlying...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
New publication on maternal care by cougars and the influence it has on kitten survival rates! TLDR: more experience + more care = better kitten survival. Details @ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪
Female cougar with GPS collar and two kittens at a kill site, caught on a camera trap.
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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
The European Conference on Behavioural Biology will be hosted by the Animal Behaviour group at the University of Zurich. Abstracts opened today! Visit www.ecbb.uzh.ch for all the details.
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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
🚀 🎉 🚀 Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org
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Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
My lab at University of Alaska Fairbanks is recruiting an NSF-funded postdoc to study the evolution of ice-binding proteins in intertidal species. Field and labwork in beautiful places! 2 years of support at $67K/yr. Applications accepted until 3/16. Please share! careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/52...
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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Here's the winning story: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/harsh-m.... Now off to rewrite the bio I use for everything to start out "Rebecca Heisman is an award-winning science writer..."
allaboutbirds.org
Harsh Mountain Winters Have Made Chickadees Smarter
A decade of research has revealed how the cognitive abilities of chickadees are shaped by their surroundings. Now scientists have begun to peer inside the black box of genetics, uncovering the variati...
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Lily Johnson-Ulrich @wildcognition.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
New article out on curiosity in meerkats and other mongooses (and how habituation towards humans affects multiple aspects of exploration in contrasting ways).
animalbehaviorandcognition.org
Advancing the comparative study of behavior
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
I described these estimates last week in my intro lecture for the human evolution core course at my institute. Surprises a lot of ppl. And odd for a primate to be ~half mammal biomass, given how insignificant other primates are. More bat biomass than non-human primate. Humans are weed monkeys.
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Lily Johnson-Ulrich @wildcognition.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
New publication on the use of parametric speakers (such as the SoundLazer) for animal communication studies.
royalsocietypublishing.org
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