💥👋 Animal Behaviour researchers currently at #DZG2026 - join us for the behavioural biology section meeting on Thursday, 1pm 10.09.2026, room F1🤗🤗🤗 See very old-fashioned paper post with info 😅 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @goatswhostare.bsky.social
Christian Nawroth
@goatswhostare.bsky.social
Researcher at FBN | Alumnus of University of Halle, Queen Mary University of London & Agroscope | Interests: animal cognition & welfare | Goat aficionado | Boardgame enthusiast | Mycophile | he/him christiannawroth.wordpress.com
Our last session today covers bats' ability to (echo)locate in large groups, and offspring cooperation in burying beetles. Great talks delivered by @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social and @paulhuber.bsky.social! #DZG2026
Lots of exciting topics in our first afternoon session of the second day of #DZG2026, ranging from cuttlefish camouflage strategies and spider silk use to trade-offs between self-interest vs prosocial motivation. Talks by @christiandrerup.com, @maitryjani.bsky.social, and Sasha Engelhardt.
Our second session also deals with environmental influences - how does heat affect coping in small mammals? How does UV-A lighting affect laying hen behaviour? Great talks by Marion Varga and Alfie Prettyman! #DZG2026
Session #1 was all about change - novel diets in wild house mice, the impact of heatwaves on behav differences in woodlice, & how cities are changing the social lives of animals! Top presentations by our speakers Ekaterina Gorshkova, @urban-squirrel.bsky.social and @averymaune.bsky.social! #DZG2026
#DZG2026 has taken off - and we are looking forward to 16 amazing talks and 23 posters focusing on behavioural biology! Don't forget to join us for our section meeting on Thursday at 1 pm!
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
This week there were lots of cool talks on urban wildlife, anthropogenic noise and other fun things at #ISBE2026 We are still looking for submissions for our special issue so maybe your work fits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Ethology Call for Papers Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions
Ethology is a top international behavioral biology journal, covering physiological mechanisms, function, and evolution across all species.
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At this year's DZG meeting in Münster @ahanaaurora.bsky.social @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social, me and others are organizing a symposium titled: Non-invasive Methods in Behavioural Ecology: Use of Thermography. We have some free spots. You can register here: dzg-meeting.de/en/satellite...
Satellite Symposia | DZG Meeting
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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026
Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Our postdoc @roald-arboel.com made a thing! #Croppy is #free and awesome for fast and effective #video #editing and it has a #GUI! Need to crop a part of a video? Need to trim a video? Need to combine videos? Need to compress a video? roald-arboel.com/croppy/
This new #RSOS study tested whether #goats can follow the direction of human voices as cues in an object-choice task: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @chimpsahoi.bsky.social @goatswhostare.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social
Call for collaborators! Join a global study on reversal learning across animal species ManyManys - manymanys.github.io Invite - calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0... Registration - forms.fillout.com/t/n4fxVFpHQWus Questions - email both nicolas.alessandroni@concordia.ca and lpretot@pittstate.edu.
Goats picked the hidden-food bucket about 60% of the time when a human voice was directed toward it. When the person stayed silent or faced away, success dropped to roughly chance. doi.org/hb72rr
Goats listen to human voices to find hidden food treats
Goats appear to have a rare ability not shared by many in the animal kingdom, and that is being able to follow the direction of a human voice to locate hidden objects.
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The deadline for the abstract submission got extented to July 1st.
Rebecca Rimbach@urban-squirrel.bsky.social · 4mo agoJoin us for the next DZG meeting in Münster (September 7-11 2026). The line up is amazing! Looking forward to seeing many people here. 🐭🐸🐖🐟🕷🦇🧪🧬🦴
Paper here, published open access: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task
Abstract. An underexplored dimension of vocal referentiality is the ability to process the direction in which a vocalization is emitted as a cue towards it
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Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds
Experiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcher
theguardian.com
📢Webinar alert📢 Discover how light wavelength and beak treatments directly impact turkeys' behaviour, health, and production. Join Domenica Victoria Medina Sanchez in our upcoming webinar to unpack the latest research on poultry lighting! ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 June 8th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Christian Nawroth@goatswhostare.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉 New year, new Applying Ethology webinars! 🐾 📅 See the schedule + past recordings: tinyurl.com/applyingetho... 🎤 Interested in presenting? Sign up here: tinyurl.com/applyingetho...
📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)! Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers! 📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026 🌍 @uni-muenster.de Abstract submission will open soon.
We are pleased to invite you to the final workshop of the COST Action LIFT – “Lifting Farm Animal Lives: laying the foundations for positive animal welfare” 🐄🐑🐖 📍 Location: Royal Veterinary College 📅 Date: 26 June 2026 🎟️ Attendance is FREE of charge 👉 Register here: event.au.dk/events/cost-...
Join us in Münster this autumn!
DZG section Behavioural Biology@dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)! Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers! 📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026 🌍 @uni-muenster.de Abstract submission will open soon.
📢Webinar alert📢 Join us for our new webinar, together with @liftcostaction.bsky.social, as Dr Kat Wehrheim explores the philosophical journey of inter-species kinship & what indigenous perspectives can teach us about agency in relationships. ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 May 4th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Christian Nawroth@goatswhostare.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉 New year, new Applying Ethology webinars! 🐾 📅 See the schedule + past recordings: tinyurl.com/applyingetho... 🎤 Interested in presenting? Sign up here: tinyurl.com/applyingetho...
dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪
Welcome | DZG Meeting
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📢Webinar alert📢 Join Dr Rebekah Humphreys for a thought-provoking talk on shared language, interspecies trust, and ethics - inspired by Vicki Hearne's work. Don’t miss this fascinating exploration and tune in! ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 April 13th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Christian Nawroth@goatswhostare.bsky.social · 2y ago🎉 New year, new Applying Ethology webinars! 🐾 📅 See the schedule + past recordings: tinyurl.com/applyingetho... 🎤 Interested in presenting? Sign up here: tinyurl.com/applyingetho...
Join us in Münster this autumn!
DZG section Behavioural Biology@dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · 6mo ago📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)! Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers! 📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026 🌍 @uni-muenster.de Abstract submission will open soon.
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.
OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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