The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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🐶 As Section President for this year’s British Science Festival, I’m honoured to represent the amazing work we do at UoP Dog Cognition Centre, uncovering incredible cognitive abilities of dogs! #DogCognition #AnimalCognition #BritishScienceFestival www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/announc...

Announcing our British Science Festival 2026 Section Presidents

The British Science Association has announced the Scientific Section Presidents for the 2026 British Science Festival, which takes place from 16-20 September in Southampton, hosted by the University o...

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It was our #CCEPScienceDay yesterday!! We put on a fab day of presentations, poster sessions and activities to talk to students about our staff and student projects 📚🌍👩🏻‍🔬 and showcase the range of research happening across our centre!! 🐴🐶🐘🙊🦧

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Some dogs can pick up hundreds of words – do they learn like children?

Some dogs can remember the names of hundreds of objects.

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We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP. Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶 Interested? Get in touch with me.

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! lnkd.in/edHgUPap

🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal. Apply by 31st July 2025. #publishing #editor #job More details: www.asab.org/opportunities PLEASE share widely.

Opportunities — ASAB

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Excellent talks, nice chats, great city! #CSF2025 #Hamburg

Donations to Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary (needed in part due to shuttered USAID) can be made at www.tacugama.com

Famous chimpanzee sanctuary faces existential threat from illegal land grab

Tacugama has grown to become Sierra Leone's most popular tourist attraction over the last three decades. But in a stand against the fast-approaching illegal encroachment, the sanctuary has closed its ...

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Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!

Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology@uop-ccep.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open! Join our international expert team to explore minds across species. We study: 🐒 Primates 🐕 Dogs 🐘 Elephants 🐴 Donkeys and horses 🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #MSCA

It’s #worldbeeday. Give them space and they will come! 🐝🐝🐝

Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!

Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology@uop-ccep.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open! Join our international expert team to explore minds across species. We study: 🐒 Primates 🐕 Dogs 🐘 Elephants 🐴 Donkeys and horses 🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #MSCA

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

A reminder that we have a full PhD scholarship open at ARU in Cambridge, UK, open to candidates of any nationality. The project is on "the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx" and links to bioacoustics, evobio, anatomy, socioecology, etc. Please r/t and reach out with questions.

Jacob C. Dunn@jacobcdunn.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to advertise a 3 year fully funded PhD, generously funded by @camphilsoc.bsky.social on the evolution of the mammalian larynx, hosted @angliaruskin.bsky.social Full details here: findaphd.com/phds/project... Please pass it on!

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Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can do learn to do better

Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.

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It was a book about Kanzi that sparked my interest in comparative psychology. 😔 www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

Interested in #comparativecognition? Keen to work with #dogs? Interested in applying for a Newton International Fellowship? Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society

This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities: nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

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🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

RIP Julia Cissewski (1973-2025), Department Administrator of MPI-EVA's linguistics department (1998-2015). Every linguist who was at MPI-EVA during Bernard Comrie's tenure remembers her well (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sclp...). Julia is survived by her partner, linguist Greville Corbett.

Thank you Finland! 👏👏👏⬇️⬇️⬇️ #mdpi #Frontiers

Tanja Pyhäjärvi@pyhatanja.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Congratulations to @louiseloyant.bsky.social, winner of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social 2024 Napier Medal for her PhD work on inhibitory control across macaque species. What an achievement 🥳💪🥇

@primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to our winner of the 2024 Napier Medal: Dr Louise Loyant - a fantastic talk on her PhD research investigating inhibitory control across macaque species. #PSGBBristol

📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications! See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...

We are so excited for our annual winter meeting tomorrow in Bristol! The programme for the event can be found on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Don't forget to tag your posts with #PSGBBristol

Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:

Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!

We are now on Bluesky 🥳 We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️ Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉 Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current 👀 for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨