Already at #SciFAW100 for the centenary conference. Thanks to Dr Robert Kirk’s excellent talk, I’ve just discovered I may suffer from zoophil-psychosis: a passion for animals! #AnimalWelfare #WildAnimalWelfare
Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD
@janirecas.bsky.social
🦜 Researcher at @wildanimalinitv.bsky.social 🐒 #AnimalWelfare Postdoc at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Opinions are my own (she/her)
The work grew out of a multidisciplinary workshop we hosted at the SLU Umeå 🇸🇪 and VetMedUni Vienna 🇦🇹. Led by Laura Saggiomo. With: Bruno Esattore, @janirecas.bsky.social, Michaela Másílková, @valmazza.bsky.social, Sarah Gore, and Pizza K. Y. Chow
What do we mean by calling an animal "wild"? A zoo tiger? A city fox? A feral cat? Nobody agrees 😅 We asked 358 wildlife experts, and "wild" isn't just one thing 🐾 It isn't just the opposite of "domestic," but exists along a spectrum with multiple dimensions. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Addressing the Elephant in the Room: A Quantitative Approach to Understanding 'Wild'
When applied to non-human animals,'wild' is a poorly defined concept despite its central role in conservation, wildlife management, and environmental policy. Numerous attempts have been made to define...
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Great #AFFECTEVO meeting in Prague this week! Such a pleasure to be part of this group of brilliant minds. ✨
AFFECT-EVO@affect-evo.bsky.social · 3mo agoDay 2 in Prague and a wrap on the AFFECT-EVO WG3 meeting! We spent the final day in sub-groups, refining our methodological approaches and mapping out future collaborations. Highly productive session strengthening our scientific direction within the Action! #AFFECTEVO #COSTAction #AnimalWelfare
Day 2 in Prague and a wrap on the AFFECT-EVO WG3 meeting! We spent the final day in sub-groups, refining our methodological approaches and mapping out future collaborations. Highly productive session strengthening our scientific direction within the Action! #AFFECTEVO #COSTAction #AnimalWelfare
🐾 Help run ISSABC! We’re looking for student organisers for the next animal behaviour conference 🎤 Great experience + great people 👀 Apply 👉 forms.gle/9Z2DtXjSXWHh... #AnimalBehaviour #PhDlife
Expression of interest to organise next ISSABC conference
The ISSABC is the International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition. The symposium is run by students, for students, and as such, the committee is entirely made up of student researche...
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Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences
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An innovative event in Lagos Nigeria used storytelling as its central framework, placing film, medical insight and cultural reflection side by side to explore how silence and stigma continue to influence women’s health outcomes in Nigeria.
ÀJOSE: Stakeholders demand open dialogue on women’s health, bodily autonomy
Professionals in filmmaking, healthcare and the creative industries have demanded that more attention be paid to maternal mortality, medical ethics, safe and unsafe abortion, consent and the social pr...
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TAKE ACTION: Current attempts to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in American waters put our country’s cherished wildlife, oceans, beaches, and people in peril. Speak up against this plan using AWI’s Action Center by January 23: awionline.org/offshoredrilling
How would a shift towards large-scale plant-based meat consumption impact the economy of the United States? This Faunalytics study explores two hypothetical paths and outcomes. https://faunalytics.org/plant-based-economic-impacts/
The Economic Impacts Of A Plant-Based Transition: Exploring Two Growth Scenarios - Faunalytics
How would a shift towards large-scale plant-based meat consumption impact the economy of the United States? This Faunalytics study explores two hypothetical paths and outcomes.
faunalytics.org
2025. The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...
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Lovely encounter this morning with this elegant gentleman. Look at those big horns 🐐!
🌍 Academia loves to call itself global. But conferences often speak one language only. Ever struggled to ask a question? Skipped networking because it felt exhausting? 📝 Take our 2 minute survey and help redesign conferences to be inclusive. 👉 forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6... #DEI #EDI #LanguageBarrier
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Springer Nature retracting papers based on bonkers dataset www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e... Good. #autism
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
thetransmitter.org
2025. The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review - Ambio
Human–wildlife conflict is a pressing worldwide issue with consequences that are experienced differently across groups of people. Societal expectations and gender norms ensure that the consequences of...
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#PhD opening for a project on wild & captive #animalwelfare, related to heat stress and climate change @bristoluni.bsky.social with Dr. Benjamin Lecorps! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I talk with my Research Methods students about publishing during the semester... and I was had a difficult time explaining why I personally avoid Frontiers similar to MDPI. I will have less difficulty this coming year. From: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐼 Pandas, 🦁 lions, 🐢turtles … get the spotlight while less cute species quietly vanish. charisma driven conservation is not just flawed, it can be harmful. If we want real biodiversity, we must look beyond the photogenic. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Are we over-conserving charismatic species?
Is all conservation good? This Perspective argues that the prevalent strategy of focusing on charismatic species may be counterproductive if conservation impact measures are oversimplistic and do not ...
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As a follow up, we are now focusing on language barriers. To make conferences inclusive for everyone, we need to understand peoples experiences with language at academic events. Please take a moment to fill in our survey and help shape more accessible conferences 🌍✍️ forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...
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Lately I cannot stop thinking about this. Within my lifetime (and I’m not that old) the difference is shocking. Insects are just GONE! 🦟🪰🐝🦋🪳
EcoInventos@ecoinventos.bsky.social · 8mo agoMás del 75% de los cultivos alimentarios dependen de insectos polinizadores...
📢 In our paper Beyond barriers, towards diversity, we explored how hybrid student conferences can improve accessibility and inclusion across academia. If you missed it, you can read it here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38288786/ #JEDI #EDI #AcademicChatter #Inclusivity
Beyond barriers, towards diversity: how hybrid student conferences can drive accessibility - PubMed
The third International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition (ISSABC) aimed to address barriers for early career researchers, hosting a conference both in-person and online at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The conference, attended by 101 in-person and 79 virtual …
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🧠🐒 When chimps vocalise, human brains spark in a unique pattern that we do not show for other primates. Not bonobos, not macaques, just chimps. ✨It is like evolution left a little secret button in our heads and chimps know exactly how to press it✨ doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Sensitivity of the human temporal voice areas to nonhuman primate vocalizations
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1,000 butterfly and moth genomes have been sequenced… and guess what they are using them for? Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋 phys.org/news/2025-11... #Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter
Using 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes to investigate evolution and climate change resilience
A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes almo...
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🐒💡 Gelada mums are don’t mess around New research shows they fake fertility when a new male arrives to protect their babies from infanticide. phys.org/news/2025-11... #Geladas #PrimateScience
Gelada baboons fake fertility to protect their young from infanticide when new males take over
In nature, it is not usual for animals to be deceptive, as evolution has typically favored communication that benefits both the sender and receiver by conveying reliable information. But, there are ex...
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Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 8mo ago2025. Gelada baboons fake fertility to protect their young from infanticide when new males take over phys.org/news/2025-11...
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🦜 A cute reminder that social bonds matter in every species. Mutual grooming helps parakeets stay calm, connected, and cosy together.