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!
Mark O’Hara
@mohara.bsky.social
I like to watch the forest and its inhabitants.
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!
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!
This is a super cool opportunity for anyone interested in studying crow behaviour…🤩
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!
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!!
Wir stellen ein: Wissenschaftliche Projektbetreuung für Naturwissenschaften und Technik zur Betreuung von Förderanträgen und Begleitung des Begutachtungsverfahrens. Wir bieten eine unbefristete Vollzeitstelle mit vielen attraktiven Benefits. #Job 📑 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/jo...
Very sorry to hear about the passing of one of the champions for Orangutan research and conservation 😔
So sorry to hear of the death of Biruté Galdikas today at the age of 79. A visionary who brought the full extent of her observational genius to a species that had been largely ignored by other researchers, she will always be remembered. tinyurl.com/yc8hfhkc #WomenInSTEM #WHM #BioSky #HistSci 🦧
Very cool study! Congrats @matthiasloretto.bsky.social and colleagues
For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler
Honoured to be among such great colleagues @barbaraklump.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social @auersperga.bsky.social and Justus Piater, to study fundamental drivers of innovation. And hugely grateful to the @fwf-at.bsky.social to be able to continue the fieldwork on the Tanimbar Islands 🌴🕊️🤠
#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour
Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.
uu.nl
Ze Frank is the best, and "the Goffin's cockatoos make the New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian crows" (this it's an actual comment on YouTube!) Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!) "I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"
New True Facts : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9J...
📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event Join us for: • Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau • DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication. univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog... @ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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
eva.mpg.de
Excited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella! @auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Seizing opportunities: Object neophobia as a factor mediating technical innovation in Goffin´s cockatoos?
Most studies find substantial inter-individual differences in problem-solving performance within a species, which can drastically influence an individual´s fitness. It has been suggested that innovati...
doi.org
We had a most wonderful time @uparisnanterre.bsky.social and the opportunity for catching up with old friends and making new ones 🙌 Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶
Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂 sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂 sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
A while back @bmioduszewska.bsky.social and I did a bit with the fabulous @drracheldale.bsky.social and Megan Lambert, that you can check out here. As I’m lazy with my socials, they already have an new episode out with @goatswhostare.bsky.social… Also very worth listening to 👍
Why did some birds evolve to be so clever? Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska took on the challenge of studying wild Goffin's cockatoos on a small Indonesian island. Their exciting findings help answer that question. Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod Photo: Goffin Lab Tanimbar
Cognitive Science folks, do you have a few minutes to help us create a pool of words that describe aesthetic experiences in science? Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8... Please share for wider participation!
Berenika & I had a wonderful time visiting České Budějovice and the University of South Bohemia and talking a bit about the research on Tanimbar 🙌 Thank you so much @laniusondrej.bsky.social for the great experience and hosting us 🙏
It was great to finally host @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social in our department and to finally see each other after a while. #GoffinLabTanimbar was on a short visit to the Czech Republic! 🦜🐦🌴 😎
Anyone interested in doing research in Indonesia? The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions. Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually. More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id