"📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals" by Borbala Foris & Jean-Loup Rault.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

WG4 members met in Warsaw to advance communication efforts: drafting a PAW translation manuscript, planning upcoming social media, reviewing outputs, and developing a children’s book. They also explored “life after LIFT” and the future of the website and channels post–COST Action.

Behavioral diversity as a potential positive indicator of animal welfare in bottlenose dolphins Accredited zoological facilities are committed to fully understanding the behavioral, mental, and physical needs of each species to continuously improve the welfare of the animals under their professi...

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Behavioral diversity as a potential positive indicator of animal welfare in bottlenose dolphins" by Lance Miller and team.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This webinar series is a collaboration between the COST Actions LIFT, @affect-evo.bsky.social and IMPROVE.

Join us for the 4th Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare!

🎙 “What can rats teach us about positive animal welfare with a focus on play and tickling?”
👤 With Prof. Alistair Lawrence
📅 25 February 2026 | 13:00 CEST

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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment" by Karin Laurijs, Elodie Briefer, Inonge Reimert, and Laura E. Webb.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

LIFT’s very own podcast ‘Lifting Animals’ Lives’ is finally here! Our first episode with Dr Laura Webb, Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Vice Chair of the COST Action, is now live. Happy listening!

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Link to YouTube: youtu.be/pIEGkFBHA0M

The WG3 meeting in Barcelona (Jan 27–28, 2026) was intensive & highly productive: a warm-up, 5 focused work blocks, an invited talk, & 2 roundtables on outputs, manuscripts, deliverables & the #LIFTCostAction final workshop - with 22 attendees, including researchers and stakeholders, being involved.

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Inducing and measuring positive affective state in domesticated equines: A Delphi consultation" by Loni Loftus, Lucy Asher, and Matthew Leach.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.tv...

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🚨 Dairy farmers needed – urgent input requested! 🚨

We urgently need responses from dairy cattle producers for a survey on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW), carried out within our action (WG3).

🔗 Survey links (choose your language) are in the replies!

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "A dynamic concept of animal welfare: The role of appetitive and adverse internal and external factors and the animal’s ability to adapt to them" by S. Arndt, V. Goerlich, and J. van der Staay.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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This month's highlight: "Positive welfare: What does it add to the debate over pig welfare?" by Alistair B. Lawrence, Ruth C. Newberry and Marek Špinka.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/B978...

📢 Webinar on how gamification can inspire positive change in animal welfare research - happening Nov 3rd. Don’t miss it!

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Can positive welfare counterbalance negative and can net welfare be assessed?" by Donald M. Broom.

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Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb.

📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST
🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...

[Drew Altschul & Bernhard Voelkl] Strategies to optimize cross-institute collaborations YouTube video by Animal Welfare Slack

Recently I spoke about @manyprimates.bsky.social for @liftcostaction.bsky.social about distributed research projects and teams in animal sciences!
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If you're interested in BTS projects, comparative cognition etc, have a watch

We’d love your input on translating “Positive animal welfare” into local languages — esp. Spanish, Portuguese & Mandarin 🌍

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Another month, another successful meeting! 🐾

On Sept 3–4 in Teramo, WG1 held a workshop on “Fostering good lives for animals: Does Positive Animal Welfare move animal welfare further?”.

Huge thanks to @mchincarini.bsky.social & the University of Teramo for hosting us!

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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Positive Welfare in Science and Society: Differences, Similarities and Synergies" by Belinda Vigors, Peter Sandøe, and Alistair Lawrence.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

The room is buzzing! 🔊 18 breakout groups (!) are diving into open questions on positive animal welfare - great energy and engagement all around.

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After lunch, we’re now diving into indicators of positive animal welfare and how to translate lab findings into real-world, on-farm settings - bridging science and practice!

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Starting the workshop with four amazing overview talks on the conceptual framework of positive animal welfare (PAW) and many key aspects related to PAW - setting the stage for great discussions ahead! 🐾

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🚀 Kicking off the LIFT Satellite Workshop in Utrecht - just ahead of #ISAE2025! Our chair, Margit Bak Jensen, opens the day with a warm welcome and overview of the COST Action.

Looking forward to a day of productive discussions and networking!

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Does Smart Farming Improve or Damage Animal Welfare? Technology and What Animals Want" by Marian Stamp Dawkins.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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This month's highlight: "Human-animal interactions and machine-animal interactions in animals under human care: A summary of stakeholder and researcher perceptions and future directions" by Ellen Williams and colleagues.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1017/awf....

Join us for the 1st Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Adult neurogenesis as a valence marker” w/ Dr. Tom Smulders

📅 28 May 2025 | 🕓 16:00 CET
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🚨 New publication alert! 📄

Excited to share the results of a LIFT COST Action Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) — a fantastic collaboration between Slovenia and Italy!

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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "The Power of a Positive Human–Animal Relationship for Animal Welfare" by Jean-Loup Rault and colleagues.

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