Looking forward to representing @manyprimates.bsky.social at @btscon.bsky.social this year. We will be sharing some initial insights into the ManyPrimates 2 project on delay of gratification. Schedule and registration info: bigteamscienceconference.github.io

This survey is still open! Help us shape canine cognition research!

ManyDogs Project@manydogsproject.bsky.social · last mo.

What do YOU want to know about dog behavior? 🐶 Take our survey, which will help shape the direction of future research. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19, worldwide! 🐕 Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share widely! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience

Save the date! The animal behaviour community is coming to Vienna. XXXIX International Ethological Congress - Behaviour 2027 University of Vienna | 23–27 August 2027 behaviour2027.eventsairsite.com #behaviour2027 #animalbehaviour @univie.ac.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social

We have made a user-friendly python package `envisionboxbio-apetrack` that combines several tools (Owlv2, ByteTrack, OpenApePose) to track multiple apes without any labeling or finetuning. Check it out: `pip install envisionboxbio-apetrack` github.com/WimPouw/envi...

"How reliable is the evidence in animal cognition research?" Interesting new preprint, looking forward to seeing this in press: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #metaanalysis #animalcognition

1/17 Body awareness in cockatoos For the first time, we have adapted the “body-as-an-obstacle” task to birds, a paradigm originally designed to study the development of body awareness in children. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

Distinguishing between involuntary displays and flexible, intentional signals remains central to understanding whether human language evolved from… Primate Communication by Katja Liebal https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.54c9be0b #CognitiveScience

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

Some days I think about how we’ve been carefully developing and validating metacheck for two years now, with limited and always-optional local LLM use, and worry it’s just going to be lumped in with quickly vibe-coded AI agents.

The Metascience Observatory@metascienceobs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fraud problem in science, summarized. This is part of our motivation for building the Forensic Metascience Agent, a AI agent orchestration system designed to enable a thorough audit of a scientific paper, including images, tables/data, statistics, and supplementary files. (🔗 w/ more info below)

I enjoyed writing this piece for The Transmitter. AI is a seismic change for science. What we make of it is up to us, but it’s a decision we can only make collectively. I hope more labs, and the field at large, will engage in finding a shared view of how we want to use AI.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With agentic AI’s rapid infiltration into science, researchers need to develop AI use policies and practices, writes @nicoschuck.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

We’re seeking highly motivated MSc and PhD students to join the Animal Cognition Research Group at the University of Alberta in Fall 2027! 🐦 All positions are funded: MSc: 2.3 years PhD: 5 years Applications: Sept. 1–Dec. 1, 2026 sites.psych.ualberta... PsychUAlberta 🧪 1/2

📣 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/...

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Evidence that the use of tools to forage for oysters was an established cultural trait among chimpanzees in 17th century Sierra Leone - Primates

We discuss a historical report of chimpanzees Pan troglodytes using stone tools to forage for large oysters Crassostrea tulipa at the Sierra Leone River estuary in 1678, a behaviour that was also note...

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I'm delighted and honoured to share that I've taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of Animal Cognition! This journal has shaped how we think about cognition across species. Huge thanks to Debbie Kelly for 10 years of vision and leadership, and for all her guidance during my time as associate editor.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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!

i see a particular grievance regularly on here: "a paper I reviewed came back to me at a diff journal. the authors didn't address my concerns at all." seriously what are you doing accepting to review the same paper? let people breathe & have another chance. let them decide what's worth addressing.

Matt Weiner@mattweiner19.bsky.social · 3mo ago

will the next reviewer have the same objection? if you revise to address the objection, will the next reviewer say "I don't see why the paper spends so much time addressing this objection that no one could possibly have"? who knows

We are approaching venue capacity to register for the ASAB & PSGB Winter Meeting - sign up soon to secure your spot! When capacity is reached we'll be operating a waiting list. More details about the meeting and registration at: asabpsgbwinter.github.io//2026/

You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.

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!

Are bowers artwork? 🖼️ Do we (humans) like the same bower designs that the choosy females like? Please fill in this short survey asking you to "RATE MY BOWER" No expertise needed. We just want your aesthetic judgment🎨🖌️ exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Takes <10 mins

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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Does it matter whether you use focal sampling or scan sampling to collect animal behaviour data? We used simulations to find out, testing how accurate and precise each method is across a range of behaviours, study systems, and observation protocols.

Lauren Brent@ljnbrent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are currently accepting applications for two positions on this project! Research Fellow/Post doc : tinyurl.com/postdocNTU PhD Student: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU Come work with us! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social @neuroprimato.bsky.social

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 5mo ago

Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of mapping social networks. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/jwhi...

direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... maybe there's a way to study metacognitive monitoring w/o collecting confidence? could be handy for studying animals and infants?

Response Time as a Proxy for Decision Confidence: Insights From Type-2 ROC Analysis

Abstract. This study explores the use of response time (RT) data in type-2 receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, a method traditionally used to examine the relationship between confidence ...

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New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

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Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

📣NEW paper📣 To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPCAMM...