Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow YouTube video by Antonio Jose Osuna Mascaró

I have prepared a video summarizing the study. Please come back here after reading the thread : )

youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ English

also
youtu.be/CETjjZBMT5c Spanish
youtu.be/tkpjlCxDJZA German

(Thanks to Esau Dharma for providing the Spanish voice for Witgar Wiegele!)

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

Do cities make people think WEIRD? Our answer might surprise you. We tracked 1,400 teenagers as they moved across China—some to giant cities like Shanghai, others to small towns like Zhoukou, Henan. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!

Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨We have an open part-time paid position for an *Austria-based* master student in #ComputerScience (incl. adjacent fields) to help develop an automatic stress assessment in wild #GreatTits 🐦
More info in the job description below
Remote work is also possible for non-Viennese students🇦🇹
#AnimalWelfare

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation

My first postdoc paper is out in #ScientificReports! 🥳

🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation

🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP

#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess

A young raccoon perches in an ornamental crab apple tree surrounded by leaves and orange apples.

A sleepy raccoon keeps an eye on the photographer from its perch high in a poplar tree.

A raccoon balances on a rock on the water's edge and looks over its shoulder at the photographer.

Happy #RaccoonAwarnessDay! I know they're often referred to as trash pandas, but I get to experience them in their more 'natural' habitat where I live. I love them. They are intelligent, curious and best appreciated from a safe distance. #mammals 🌿

maybe I *should* get tiktok

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Animated Animals and Their Impact on Wildlife Awareness If you grew up watching animated movies, you likely remember that breathless feeling of sadness as Simba mourned the loss of his father or the heartbreak when Bambi’s mother was killed by a h…

Here’s an article about how animated animals in movies can have a real impact—raising awareness about nature and helping us care more about the world around us.
🎬🦊🦌🐟🦁🐶🦓🐻📽️🍿
#SciComm #NatureAwareness #AnimatedAnimals #EnvironmentalEducation #ConservationThroughArt #NatureInspired #Nature #Movies #Film

Do dogs form reputations of humans? No effect of age after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation - Animal Cognition Animals can form reputations of individuals through direct interactions or by observing interactions with a third party, known as eavesdropping. Given their cooperative relationship with humans, consi...

Better late than never...
I'm delighted to share that the last study from my PhD is finally out!

🐩 Do dogs form reputations of humans? No effect of age after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation

🔗 rdcu.be/etVIn

#dogscience #animalcognition #openaccess

I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶

Introducing the Guidelines for Creating a Introducing the Guidelines for Creating a

We encourage you to incorporate it into lab settings such as journal clubs, progress report meetings, or when welcoming new members. research-integrity.web-ac.jp/info/post-273/

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation Visual attention has mostly been studied in primarily visual species, such as dogs and nonhuman primates. Although elephants rely more on acoustic and olfactory cues, they also use visual displays and...

Excited to share my first ever #preprint on @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social!

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation 🐘

🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.27.650167

Hear me out….

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

How lynx and wolf reintroductions to Britain could be shaped by preconceptions and psychology Psychology may shape the success of carnivore reintroductions much more than ecology, politics, economics and philosophy ever can.

Psychology is key for successful human-environment coexistence.

bit.ly/4gSCy30

It’s crazy how talking with a science buddy is simultaneously what’s most likely to move the project forward and the thing that’s least prioritized in our schedule.

The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene Dogs have the potential to be an exceptional resource for studying ecological, behavioural and evolutionary processes. However, several widespread mis…

Clive Wynne and I wrote a review about dogs, and how their great potential as a model species in behavioral ecology and evolution is overlooked.

Several misconceptions have likely led to this and I will break them down in a thread...1/6

🧪 🐶 🦊 🌍 #AcademicSky

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Scientists develop novel techniques to help stop human-elephant conflict in Thailand YouTube video by 60 Minutes

The elephant-human relationship in Thailand goes back thousands of years. As human populations increase this relationship understandably gets more complicated.

We need more behaviour-focused science to help foster cohabitation to protect both species.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpi...

Want to know what is going on in this pic? I'm presenting a virtual poster about this experiment at #ASABWinter2024, and it's free to attend!

Can we give students extra marks for Good Meme Use?

@zoecology.bsky.social

Me collecting data with the coolest species in Thailand 🐘 #ScienceInAction

Hi, please could you add me? Thank you :)

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

‘Old’ animals offer wisdom and stability, need protection: Study In many animal societies, elderly individuals are critical contributors to their species’ survival, a new study has found. That’s why wildlife conservation must account for older animals, researchers ...

Older animals with their experience & knowledge which they pass on to younger individuals, such as elephants, are critical for the survival of many species

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Original article in Science

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