During his lifetime he not only never apologised for his role in supporting Nazi ideology, but he straight out lied about it and denied any involvement. Recommended reading: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and for German speakers: czernin-verlag.com/buch/die-and... #ASABwinter2023
Konrad Lorenz is still often mentioned in a romanticised way at Animal Behaviour conferences. We must not forget he gained several positions including his first professorship during the Nazi era as NSDAP member propagating Nazi-type terminology and arguments. #ASABwinter2023
what a great @asabnews.bsky.social conference #ASABwinter2023. Well done to the organising committee for putting together such a great conference
Speaking of Instagram, we just put up the “ASAB after hours” photos for anyone who wants to check them out 🍻 #ASABwinter2023
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Audience at the conference
And of course, thanks to everyone who attended #ASABwinter2023 both in Edinburgh and online 😁
Kelsey Felder, Rebecca Sumner, Agnese Crisante, Erin Rickman & Maria Dimitriou
Lastly a thank you to our fantastic #ASABwinter2023 volunteers: Kelsey Felder, Rebecca Sumner, Agnese Crisante, Erin Rickman & Maria Dimitriou! Thanks for ensuring everything ran incredibly smoothly (and on time!)
Josh Madden, Andy Whiten, Lauren Guillette, Vivek Nityananda, Stephan Reber & David Hosken
Also a thank you goes out to Meetings Secretary Josh Madden & our wonderful session chairs: Andy Whiten, Lauren Guillette, Vivek Nityananda, Stephan Reber & David Hosken 🤗 All of the sessions went exceptionally well (and thanks to all who asked such good questions) #ASABwinter2023
Anna Wilkinson, Elisa Frasnelli, Tom Pike & Tim Simon
We have a few thank yous to make for #ASABwinter2023, but first and foremost we need to extend an especial gratitude to this year’s conference organizers: Anna Wilkinson, Elisa Frasnelli, Tom Pike & Tim Simon
Elana holding up her poster tube victoriously
Congratulations to ElanaHobkirk for winning the poster competition at #ASABwinter2023! 🐺 🐺 🐺
Thank you to @asabnews.bsky.social for choosing my video for the council prize of the #ASABwinter2023 conference!
Research on birds and wildfires in Australia with @ivojacobs.bsky.social and Kata Horváth. Watch it here:
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Winter 2024 slide “Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour” 12-13 December Edinburgh
Closing remarks from Jo Madden - #ASABwinter2023 has gone so fast!
A slide with zebra finches and their nests
Last talk of the conference is by Lauren Guillette, whose lab has been looking at differential pressures on zebra finches depending on sex (what’s up with the males?)🪶 It was great having the president of CO3 to visit us! #ASABwinter2023
A slide of a tree branch with a bonobo, chimp and Jane Goodall
It appears chimps can combine calls non-randomly, but can their close cousins the bonobos do so also? Follow @berthetmelissa.bsky.social to find out more! #Primates #ASABwinter2023
Nothing like a good meeting for starting to use social media. Having a lot of fun at #ASABwinter2023. Thank you SPE, the Portuguese Ethological Society, for funding my travels and accomodation, and thank you ASAB for such a wonderful meeting. ❤️
Slide with the gofish apparatus design with cameras recording a tank from above
Using the “GoFish” apparatus, Tiago Monteiro was able to examine paradoxical choice (or lack thereof) in goldfish! 🐟#MarineLife #ASABwinter2023
Slide reading Open Arena Interception Task Task: intercept moving antelope within 60 sec Participants: 2 chimpanzees (144 trials) 5 chimpanzees (12 trials)
Sea lions aren’t the only ones playing video games at this conference, the chimpanzees are “great ape gamers” trying to intercept virtual prey (but it’s hard!). Fun work by Sarah Koopman #Primates #ASABwinter2023
Slide reading “A Sense for Animacy: Imprinting, Predispositions and the Building of a Social Brain Giorgio Vallortigara”
Excellent Tinbergen lecture by Giorgio Vallortigara, “A sense for animacy: imprinting, predispositions and the building of a social brain.” We were as hypnotized by this wonderful talk as chickens! 🐓 🐣 🧠 #ASABwinter2023
A collage with a group of people at a table, fancy tacos and a pride flag saying every one is welcome here
The LGBTQ+ and allies lunch went off both successfully and deliciously! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 😋 Thanks everyone for coming out! #ASABwinter2023
Ben Hatchwell holding the ASAB medal
Congratulations to the winner of this year’s ASAB metal Ben Hatchwell! A worthy recipient indeed. 🏅 #ASABwinter2023
Thank you slide with fish and a thermometer
Heatwaves affect many facets of guppy cognition! Could be problematic as the world gets warmer… Great talk by Merel Breedveld 🐟 #MarineLife #ASABwinter2023
Slide of great ape baby faces reading “Methods • 5 species of great apes • 8 adults and 8 infants for each species • 97 landmarks bonobo chimpanzee gorilla human orangutan • Geometric morphometrics (#size and orientation adjustment) & PCA”
Why do infant great ape and human faces have different features? Yuri Kawaguchi has conducted some fascinating morphometric analyses and wants to know why! 🦍 🦧 👶 #Primates #ASABwinter2023
A slide with a caracara (a dark bird of prey)
Move over parrots and crows, there’s another clever bird in town! Katie Harrington @phalco.bsky.social presents a fascinating new research species for problem solving, the striated caracara from the Falkland Islands 🦅 🪶 #ASABwinter2023
Slide labelled “Understanding collective behaviour across systems and scales”
What are the principles of collective behaviour across species? Research from fish 🐟 to bees 🐝 presented by Jitesh Jhawar #ASABwinter2023
A slide showing birds and primates have non REM and rem sleep labelled “similar sleep states in birds”
We know everyone had a fun time after the conference yesterday night! However a good night’s sleep isn’t only important for us, but Australian magpies too according to @johnsson_d 🪶 #ASABwinter2023
Slide labelled “The only extant animals with tachymetabolic endothermy - independent evolution” with phylogenic trees
Mathias Osvath is looking at cognition from deep time 😯🦕🦖🐊 🪿 We can learn about archosaurs by comparing birds and reptilians #ASABwinter2023
A slide of a dog watching an experimenter looking away while being held by their owner
Our best friends 🐕 are playing close attention to what we look at! Intriguing dog talk by Ludwig Huber, especially the breed differences seen between terriers and border collies on false beliefs tasks. #ASABwinter2023
A photo of the two plenary speakers from day 1 Alice Auersperg and Gilly Forrester with conference organizer Elisa Frasnelli
Did you know ASAB has an Instagram? Go check out our photos from last night’s poster session (might explain why @raccoonologist was acting like the paparazzi last night) #ASABwinter2023
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Elli Leadbeater at a lectern in front of a slide with bees dancing
Kicking off Day 2 with a fantastic plenary from Elli Leadbeater. We cannot get enough of watching bee dancing 🐝 💃🏻 🐝 💃🏻 🐝 Also we ask everyone: do not poison the bees please ☠️ #ASABwinter2023
A conference room with a slide showing hypotheses about queen bee cognition
A conference room with a slide showing multiple pictures of primates
The outside of a building in Edinburgh
A night picture of a street in Edinburgh
Yesterday was a blast at #ASABwinter2023 - looking forward to another great day learning about animal cognition! 🧠🐝🐖
A crowd of people looking at posters
Poster session is popping! Check it out while there’s still time, it’s clearly the place to be #ASABwinter2023
