My first publication! Grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this with such an amazing and global team – and good fun to work the on the press and social media releases.

FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology@africanornithology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🐜🐟🐦‍🐬👩‍🔬 What does it take for completely different species to work together? A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #AfricanOrnithology

📢 Hi Bluesky, it's us again! If you prefer, submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2026! Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord! 📅 Nov 12 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍Studying Behaviour In A Changing World 🔗 Learn more, register, submit Register here: lnkd.in/eGs--Ueq

I am happy to share that the second paper of my PhD has been published 🥳 I got to work with dog puppies at the age of 6 to 8 weeks 🐶😍 and test them in an Overimitation task: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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!

New 🫏 🔽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2026. Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task. new from us, led by @chimpsahoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

What is better than one dog playing? Seventeen dogs, of course 😊 🐶 Check out our open Zenodo dataset on dog sounds during social play zenodo.org/records/1897...

1/10 Each species lives in a different temporal world. Just as each species lives in its own “Umwelt”, this Umwelt includes a “timescape”. The authors of this study (@singhal.bsky.social, J. Birch, and A. Seth) propose five “windows” to study it. (paper) linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

Goats can find food by following a human voice. 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

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We need a few more people, please consider participating in this very short study - you can also win something! 😁

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)@helenahartmann.com · 2mo ago

Im Rahmen einer Bachelorarbeit untersuchen wir, wie unterschiedliche Schreibstile das Textverständnis beeinflussen 🔤 Die Teilnahme an der Studie ist anonym und dauert nur wenige Minuten. Es werden vier 20 € Amazon-Gutscheine verlost bzw. 0,5 VP-Stunden vergeben. ➡️ s2survey.net/Wissensfrage...

Is your cat truly happy? New research provides answers 🥼 We all think our cats are doing great 🐈 our study of 400+ caretakers found an average quality of life score of 89/100. But when we looked more closely, the picture was more nuanced 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #CatWelfare #AnimalWelfare #Cats

1/16 Do other species understand death? In this study with cockatoos, we approach this question from its foundation, by studying one of its central components: sensitivity to the permanent loss of a function. I will explain it in this thread (with videos) (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After years of working with Gifted dogs, this paper marks the end of that chapter for me 🐕 We compared gifted and typical dogs and found that what sets gifted dogs apart may not be curiosity, but their social motivation Grateful to the dogs and their humans 💙 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Toy exploration in gifted word learner dogs and typical dogs - Animal Cognition

Labelling has a pronounced effect on increasing infants’ attention to objects. At the same time, infants actively seek social cues when presented with novel objects and early signs of communicative in...

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Our preregistered systematic review & meta-analysis published in Nature Mental Health shows that nature exposure is linked to small-to-moderate reductions in self-reported pain (SMD = .53; N = 4,439). But high heterogeneity and moderate-to-high risk of bias call for a cautious interpretation (1/5)

Nature exposure reduces self-reported pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health

The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies, including more than 4,400 participants across 21 countries, to investigate the effects of nature exposure on self-reported pa...

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Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

I’m thrilled to share that our paper “Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs. pro-environmental decisions” is now published in Communications Psychology! 🌿 OA link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/6

Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...

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Just posted a new preprint! Our project builds on @maleenthiele.bsky.social's earlier work and came together through a collaboration with her and @christophvoelter.bsky.social Preprint link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

✨My first first-author paper is out✨ Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ rdcu.be/eLRm2 Big thanks to everyone ‪@isabellacwagner.bsky.social‬, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, @olejensen.bsky.social, @doellerlab.bsky.social, @clauslamm.bsky.social

Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation

Nature Communications - Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in...

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It’s been a long time coming. To commemorate August 2024, we celebrate one era at a time, each with a wonderstruck study and a sparkling canine mind. Welcome to The Mind Tour, Dogs’ Version! 🎉

In meiner Forschung untersuche ich die neuronalen Grundlagen sozialer Kognition von Hunden. Ich möchte verstehen wie Umweltfaktoren das Hundehirn evolutionär so geprägt haben, dass Hunde besonders gut mit Personen kommunizieren und Bindungen eingehen 1/2 #IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien