Benefits of this online short course:
- Free
- Available from 17 April, including three live sessions
- 6 hours CPD
- Study online, at your own pace
Delivered by leading behaviour practitioners, including Dr Sarah Heath, Dr Loni Loftus and Dr Kevin McPeake.
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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.
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We have a new paper out! Wonderful work from PhD student Katharine.
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...
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
New list of medieval dog names just dropped.
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!
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🚨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
A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
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!
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
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
Yep... the whole thread is GOLD.
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.
I completely agree. There are so many reasons it is awful, but I do rather like this analogy!
bsky.app/profile/stre...
🚀 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: https://rb.gy/w8ikcn
Perfect timing! One of our MSc students is interested in doing her dissertation project on dogs soundboard use.
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
This is so lovely - with an important underlying message
This study isn't great news for the romantic partners of dog owners... 😂
This is such a great thread. I am taking notes 😁
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
Very magnanimous. What they did was awful... how they did it was pretty unforgivable.
The penguins have faced him down and the penguins have won.
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.
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!
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.
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/...
The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live!
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
