Val Kuhlmeier
@valkuhlmeier.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University 🇨🇦 — Developmental Psychology and Animal Cognition — Assistant Director at ManyDogs
This survey is still open! Help us shape canine cognition research!
ManyDogs Project@manydogsproject.bsky.social · last mo.What do YOU want to know about dog behavior? 🐶 Take our survey, which will help shape the direction of future research. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19, worldwide! 🐕 Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share widely! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience
Growing up, my dog sang along with music. We were a family of singers, so maybe he thought he was joining the pack howl, but it sure made practice challenging. 🎶 What do YOU want to know about dog behavior? 🐶 Take the ManyDogs survey to guide future studies! 📋 ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
What do YOU want to know about dog behavior? 🐶 Take our survey, which will help shape the direction of future research. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19, worldwide! 🐕 Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share widely! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience
What do YOU want to know about #Dogs? Tell us through the new @manydogsproject.bsky.social survey 🐶🤓 Your input will help guide our future #BigTeamScience studies: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to all dog enthusiasts 19+ 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
ManyDogs general interest survey
MD survey for understanding what topics the dog community would like to see in future canine science research projects.
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🦮 Attention dog owners! One of my trainees is examining the relationship between dogs and toys, and their owner’s thoughts about that relationship. Want to help? If you have a few minutes, you can complete the survey here: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize
PAMBA Prize — PAMBA
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Primate Cognition II (Tomasello & Call) - is about to be available! The first volume (of two) will be on primate social cognition. See: academic.oup.com/book/58927
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We're hiring an assistant professor in developmental science, in the psych department at the University of Alberta! Ideally their research should focus on motivation/reward processing and development (across the lifespan). Please share!
PsychUAlberta@psychualberta.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are recruiting for an AGRI Research Chair in Gambling, Mental Health, and Technology! This is a full-time tenure-track faculty Assistant Professor position- anticipated start July 1 2025. See details below apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...
📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌
New bowerbird paper! Male great bowerbirds build display courts that are linked to mating success, and we found that object availability 🧱 rather than male building ability 👷 explains variation in court quality rb.gy/vznmm7
We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4
Big things happening over at @manydogsproject.bsky.social! Join us for a virtual Town Hall introducing ManyDogs2: Overimitation in Dogs on Wed, Nov 29 - 7a PT / 10a ET / 3p CET Everybody is invited to ask questions and learn how to get involved! Register to attend: bit.ly/3G1tzeY
Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14! To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig. www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...
Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Such a cool twist on an old design: Roosters warn each other when a hawk is circling overhead. But when they’re alone and a predator is near, they stay silent to avoid attracting attention. Importantly, they don’t warn their own reflection. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/s...
A Mirror Reveals a Surprise About Bird Brains
A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.
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Yay! PAMBA is now on Bluesky, this makes me so happy. Give us a follow to stay up to date on the latest in philosophy of animal minds and behaviour @pamba.bsky.social
More good news to share 😁 The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team! Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams #devpsyc #psychscisky
Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in ea...
Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition to in-person eye-tracking in the lab. However, there is a lack of systematic researc....
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Pleased to announce that the MB-Demographics paper is now officially published (open access!) doi.org/10.1037/dev0... Congrats to lead author @lehersingh.bsky.social and the whole team! Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-Demographics #devpsyc #psychscisky
ManyBabies@manybabies.org · 3y agoThe manuscript for our MB-Demographics project has been accepted by Developmental Psychology! https://psyarxiv.com/agt3d/
Article from 2021 that NY Times reposted today. I needed tissues by the end. www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/h...
Long Overlooked, Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus (Published 2021)
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
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