📢 The Call for Symposia for #FRM2027 is now open! 📍 İstanbul, Turkey 🗓️ 26–29 May 2027 🚨 Submission deadline: 1 November 2026 👉 Read more and submit your proposal: buff.ly/AW9JI2C @frm2027ist.bsky.social
Ljerka Ostojic
@ljerkaostojic.bsky.social
Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
A reminder that Animal Cognition is always looking for exciting Special Collections (link.springer.com/journal/1007...)! If you have an idea for a topic and are interested in guest editing, please get in touch #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition
Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary ...
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Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Part of the Special Issue on Biases in Animal Behaviour - the publication accompanying my all time favourite conference, the @asab.org Winter Meeting that happened in 2024, organised by the ASAB EDIA Committee
New paper alert: “Scientific publishing and diversity in science: geographical bias of articles published in Animal Behaviour” authors.elsevier.com/c/1nUlRmjMDu5O with @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social
Join Xerces and make art that supports conservation! 🐝✍🏽 Job Title: Science Illustration Intern 🌎Location: Remote 💲Compensation: $24/hr, 20hrs/week 📅Duration: Sep-Dec 2026 ❗Apply by: July 31, 2026 Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
📢 We're looking for a Research Software Engineer (100%) in Geneva, working on the NCCR Evolving Language Task Library. 👉 Check out the full job advertisement and application process here: evolvinglanguage.ch/wp-content/u... Share widely with anyone who might be interested!
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We do conduct, write up and publish with our doctoral students. But in 18 months you don’t have time to understand the existing literature, and make a significant contribution to knowledge. 18 months is a Masters, not a PhD.
A science PhD can be completed within 18 months: supervisors should involve doctoral students with conducting, writing up and publishing experiments straight away, says Adrian Furnham #PhDs #research #supervision #academicsky https://ow.ly/5Fxb50ZpZ4O
This year, we cannot travel to Edinburgh for @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social so @edlegg.bsky.social had the idea to host a local hublet! If you are near, come join us!
We are organising a Local Hublet for the ASAB Winter Meeting 2026 cogsci.uniri.hr/events/winte...! If you are in travel distance to Rijeka, come join us! 🐝🐒🐦⬛🐕
📢 @asab.org Conference Attendance Grants for developing country applicants: deadline 1st AUGUST 📢 Up to £2500!!! Joint Winter Conference of ASAB and PSGB: “Social Learning and Culture” @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social #ASABWinter2026 @asab-meetings.bsky.social Full details: www.asab.org/conference-g...
Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…
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We've been wondering about what happened to Behaviour :) Glad to see this, see you Vienna!
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!
🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...
Polyadic grooming in primates
survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species
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Interested in a postdoc position? Olfaction in poison frog tadpoles! Based in Germany with some field work in Costa Rica (bilateral funding, 3 years). Please share with your froggie and neuro/behavior contacts 🐸 www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
JOB ALERT! We are recruiting at @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social - a lecturer (Grade 8) or associate professor (Grade 9) in primate or human evolutionary anatomy (research and teaching). Contact Susan Evans or myself for further details. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRZ412/l...
Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy at UCL
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer / Associate Professor in Primate or Human Evolutionary Anatomy opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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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
1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...
PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"
PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...
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We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!
More of a field person? We have a work contract available on walnut dropping in carrion crows within the @wwtf.at funded project on "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours". More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
I will soon be recruiting a postdoc for projects on auditory perception in people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, based here in Auckland. It will probably be a 2-yr post If you're looking for a postdoc and are keen to live and work in NZ, you can submit an expression of interest here
Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest
Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit, but is not associated with any specific position. We will soon be advertising for a 2-year position focusing on au...
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Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]
🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork
And when you bring it up, either as an author, a publishing professional, a librarian, whatever, you get hit with “you’re right, it’s concerning” with zero plans to address it. Straight people do not think it’s a real problem. Queer kids will.
What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...
I wonder if they got permission from the students to put the essays into the model 🤔
"Researchers have used top Generative #AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately": www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u... #ethics #tech
We already have many interesting submissions and we're very excited for July! Submissions have been extended for another week, so you can still join (or encourage your students to join)!
Submissions for the Student Symposium have been extended until 6 June! Come to Rijeka to present your research!
More information and application: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share widely!
2-year postdoc in large-herbivore ecology, trophic rewilding, and novel ecosystems - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
Ich suche eine neue KollegIn als Co-RedaktorIn der Fachzeitschrift "Ornithologischer Beobachter". Es handelt sich um eine unbefristete 40%-Stelle an der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte Sempach. Bitte bewerben oder weiterleiten! www.ala-schweiz.ch
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Ala Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Vogelkunde und Vogelschutz, Ornithologischer Beobachter
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In 2009, @scienceanna.bsky.social, you were driving us home in the 'Christmas car' from the lab - so glad that we are still making science memories together!!
Spending time in lovely Rijeka this week with @ljerkaostojic.bsky.social and @edlegg.bsky.social - what could be better than sunshine and science with friends! :)