Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅
Ivo Jacobs
@ivojacobs.bsky.social
Cognitive zoologist investigating the evolution of animal cognition, particularly in response to fire (pyrocognition). Amateur wildlife photographer based in southern Sweden. More interested in rare behaviours than rare species.
How do birds respond to active fire? This has been studied in various fire-prone regions (brief review included), but less elsewhere. Here, I observed Swedish birds mainly ignoring fire, and some even continued singing. Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Presence and Behaviour of Birds at Two Prescribed Fires in Sweden
Shifting fire regimes pose immediate threats to animal conservation. Swedish birds appear to mostly ignore prescribed fire, and some species even continue to sing. Behavioural plasticity towards fire...
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How do birds respond to active fire? This has been studied in various fire-prone regions (brief review included), but less elsewhere. Here, I observed Swedish birds mainly ignoring fire, and some even continued singing. Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Presence and Behaviour of Birds at Two Prescribed Fires in Sweden
Shifting fire regimes pose immediate threats to animal conservation. Swedish birds appear to mostly ignore prescribed fire, and some species even continue to sing. Behavioural plasticity towards fire...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
📣 Interested in a 4-year postdoc in the movement ecology group? @univie.ac.at is recruiting outstanding female researchers through the E-STEEM programme. @pesumas.bsky.social is a registered host and welcomes applications from potential candidates. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
New preprint out!🧪🌍🔥 I observed 17 bird species at two prescribed fires in Sweden. They appeared to mostly ignore the fire, and some (such as this skylark) even sang through the smoke - an important comparison with birds from fire-prone regions (reviewed here). www.authorea.com/users/102018...
How do curiosity and surprise intersect following a violation of expectation? Read our paper here🔥 @auersperga.bsky.social @ivojacobs.bsky.social @elifduran.bsky.social
Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 7mo agoPhysio-behavioral manifestations of 'surprise' in two parrot species: kea (Nestor notabilis) and Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana): doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #RSOS #cognition
New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Magic, thermal imaging, and birds - it's got everything!
Gabriella E. Smith, PhD@explanimals.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published! Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 AFE Photo Contest! 🔥🎉Read each photo's caption and see all the photos that were submitted this year by searching Photo Contest 2025 (or the name of the photo) at https://fireecology.org/photo-gallery (1/7)
📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀 All details below👇
Andrew King@shoalgroup.bsky.social · 9mo agoPhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146
Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging
Come join the wonderful CogSci dep at Aarhus Uni, Denmark! Fantastic students, wonderful colleagues, and great work/life balance! We are looking for applicants with teaching experience in the field of computational modelling of cognitive and/or social processes. international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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For the people in the back: - String pulling isn't tool use. - Categorising a behaviour as tool use doesn't inherently make it more interesting or "intelligent".
David Grimm@david-grimm.bsky.social · 9mo agoA female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology. Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏 Please apply no later than 25 November. 👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc
Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles? Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time? Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition? Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project! e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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