Bring your questions Why do animals do what they do? Bring your questions—and your research—to Vienna! XXXIX International Ethological Congress - Behaviour 2027 University of Vienna | 23–27 August 2027 behaviour2027.eventsairsite.com #behaviour2027 #animalbehaviour @univie.ac.at 📸 Ph. Raffelsberger

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Calling all postdocs! JEB encourages the involvement of postdocs in peer review, so let your PI know that you are keen to get involved the next time JEB invites them to review a manuscript Find out more @ journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/re... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

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It was a delight to Co-Chair the symposium on Curiosity-like behaviour at @ecbb2026.bsky.social #ECBB2026 with @monteirotiago.bsky.social today -thanks again to our fantastic line-up of speakers! Exciting to see the resurgence in animal curiosity research across model systems and taxa

What do YOU want to know about #Dogs? Tell us through the new @manydogsproject.bsky.social survey 🐶🤓 Your input will help guide our future #BigTeamScience studies: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to all dog enthusiasts 19+ 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology

📣 Call for Papers! Guest Editors (Victor Ajuwon, Laura S. Lewis, and Tiago Monteiro) for Animal Cognition are seeking papers for a special issue on curiosity and information-seeking in animals. Manuscripts due November 30, 2026! Curious already? Check it out 👇🏼 link.springer.com/collections/...

I am delighted to be a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in Animal Cognition on Curiosity in Animals (along with @victorajuwon1.bsky.social and @monteirotiago.bsky.social) We seek papers that investigate curiosity across contexts and taxa. Get in touch for more info! link.springer.com/collections/...

If you enjoyed #ISBE2026, the next one to look forward to is #ECBB2026. Registration closes August 17th, so sign up quickly! www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

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We are absolutely buzzing about the #ECBB2026 programme we have to share with you next week! Still haven't registered yet? Remember, the early bees get the pollen! (That's a saying, right? Right?)

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

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Finally out! I'm happy to share our latest review led by fantastic @siqiyangfu.bsky.social. Amazing team effort with —not on Bluesky— Chris Menne, Chiara Canori, Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Oli Green and Friederike Range. links.springernature.com/f/a/HlqnsUag... #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition

On the (limited) use of touchscreen-based behavioural and cognitive research with dogs: potential causes and future directions - Animal Cognition

Dogs (Canis familiaris) are an increasingly popular model in comparative cognition research. Traditional research paradigms often rely on heavy experimenter involvement, which can introduce biases and inconsistencies. Touchscreen-based automated systems offer a solution by enhancing standardization, reducing experimenter effects, and improving data quality, and have been widely adopted for research with diverse species. However, their adoption in dog research has remained underexplored. This systematic review quantified dog behaviour and cognition literature in relation to touchscreen-based methodologies and evaluated existing touchscreen-based approaches. Our search confirmed that while the field of dog cognition continues to grow, touchscreen-based studies are exceptionally rare, with only fourteen such publications identified for the entire indexed record. We explored the potential reasons for this limited adoption by categorizing them into three main barriers: technical, such as the need for interdisciplinary skills; practical, including high costs and lengthy training requirements and Umwelt, relating to the dogs’ species-specific constraints. Finally, we propose strategies to overcome these obstacles, including the use of open-source solutions, establishing multi-lab collaborations, and designing interfaces better aligned with dogs’ Umwelt. We conclude that despite being underutilized, touchscreen-based methods hold significant promise for advancing canine research. By addressing current challenges through collaborative, open, and dog-centred practices, the field can integrate touchscreen-based methods more widely, enhance reproducibility, accelerate discovery, and obtain objective indicators of dogs’ behavioural and cognitive capabilities.

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New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience

Last days to apply to our Symposium...come join us in beautiful Cambridge!! @animalbehaviour.live @asab.org @compcogsoc.bsky.social #ECBB2026 #upcomingconference #CompCog #AnimalBehavior

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Looking forward to co-chairing a symposium on 'Methods to study curiosity-like behaviours in animals' with @monteirotiago.bsky.social at the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (@ecbb2026.bsky.social). Consider applying by 30th April if your work is curiosity/information-seeking related!

New tools are transforming #canine #cognition! This symposium covered eye-tracking and scent-based research, as well as soundboards and touchscreens. Through these methods, this symposium showed us innovative ways to study how dogs perceive, learn, and communicate across various contexts. #CO32026

Get ready for #CO32026! This week #ComparativePsychology and #AnimalBehavior researchers will gather in Montréal for the 33rd International Conference on Comparative Cognition, we've got a very exciting lineup of talks and posters! Stay tuned here for highlights 🤩 🧪

Looking forward to co-chairing a symposium on 'Methods to study curiosity-like behaviours in animals' with @monteirotiago.bsky.social at the European Conference for Behavioural Biology (@ecbb2026.bsky.social). Consider applying by 30th April if your work is curiosity/information-seeking related!

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings doi.org/10.7554/eLif... I'm really happy to see this one out @elife.bsky.social. Awesome Cara Glynn and I describe and reflect on a year-long, low-cost practice that transformed our group meetings. #researchculture #ECR #labmeetings

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings

Sharing positive and negative experiences at lab meetings can make a career in science a little less hard, a little more pleasant, and a little more human.

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From wag to affect: Tail kinematic signatures of canine emotional states in computer-controlled environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.708848v1

Online survey for dog owners on cold and heat stress and its implications for dog welfare (in English or Portuguese): survey.vetmeduni.ac.at/index.php/83... Please share, participation is anonymous, and we hope to identify indicators and risk factors of thermal stress in dogs

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

There's still time to submit your abstract for #CO32026! 🙌 The submission deadline is on Friday Dec 12th, all information about registration, membership, and the conference is on the website: www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php 🧪 See you in Montréal! 🐶🐝🐟🐦🐀🐍🦧🦝🐢🐘🐬🦦🕷️🐖🐆 #CompCog #AnimalBehavior

Nearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

Pleased to have this review out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. In it we discuss various aspects of the intersection between foraging behaviors and neuroscience, and offer some future directions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience

The study of foraging is central to a renewed interest in naturalistic behavior in neuroscience. Applying a foraging framework grounded in behavioral …

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Demonstrating inferential reasoning through behavioural choices: an experimental analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678036v1

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦