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!

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Don't miss our Fieldwork preparation workshop tomorrow 8th of July from 🕓 4 p.m to 6 p.m! How to join you ask? Easy here's the link: meet.google.com/tha-xcuy-yqo

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Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

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!

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!

Opportunity to pursue a doctoral thesis in the Goffin Lab and the Kea Lab The research will focus on play, exploration, and problem-solving abilities in cockatoos and kea. If exploring the minds of other species fascinates you, I highly recommend this opportunity.

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!!

NEW PAPER! 🐒 Cooperation experiments in animals are often done with one cooperation apparatus, creating a specific highly monopolisable setting. We found that presenting multiple apparatuses significantly changed macaques' partner preference compared to one apparatus. doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

My dear friend @poppylambert.bsky.social (ethologist by day, science communicator in between) hosts a wonderful podcast launching TODAY 🚀 I know how hard she's worked for months on this and I couldn't be prouder! Enlightening conversations with brilliant biologists led by a stellar human being ✨

SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · last mo.

🧬 Coming this Friday! #LivingBiology, the new podcast from the @SEBiology , launches on 27 June. Explore the people, ideas and discoveries shaping modern biological research. 🎧 Trailer: www.sebiology.org/ressources/seb-podcast.html #SEBpodcast

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

Our new Paper with @susanamonso.com and @biotay.bsky.social is out. It tests one of the components of Susana Monso's minimal concept of death in a Touch Screen Setup: sensitivity to permanent non-functionality. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

1/4 Bumblebees can solve a task inspired by Köhler’s famous test with chimpanzees. They had to reach an artificial “flower”, and to do so they had to integrate prior information about a ball that could be used to reach it. (paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... by @olliloukola.bsky.social

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

Two post doc positions at the Messerli Institute of Vetmeduni Vienna, including a few topics on parrots! Deadline July 26. www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

extreme extractive foraging - fieldwork with @theroesa.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Gabriella Smith (@explanimals.bsky.social) for a successful PhD defensio at Vetmeduni Vienna! Read more about her thesis work on curiosity in parrots: 🦜 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

Our first ARAA book club event went really well! We discussed the representation of animal cognition and other themes in @aptshadow.bsky.social’s Children of Time 🕷️🚀✨📚 Shout out to @zewaldj.bsky.social for the creative powerpoint summary and @kiwiow.bsky.social for the themed make up 😍

New #dog #eyetracking paper: Pupil size changes reveal that dogs have expectations about the usual response to some conventional human gestures in a third-party context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... led by Lucrezia Lonardo and w/ Ludwig Huber.

Our “Bird Research at Schönbrunn Zoo” day went super well! We had an official guided tour, talks by Barbara Steininger on bald Ibis and @guillmcivor.bsky.social on crows, “Bird Behaviour Bingo,” a picnic and a photo contest 😍🪶☀️

There and back again... A year ago, I started a new field study with long-tailed macaques in tropical Bali, Indonesia. Then, I visited the snowy prairies in Alberta, Canada. I've met many great people and playful monkeys along the way. I'm very thankful for all the support during this adventure 🗺🐒

Happy to see our elephant multimodal communication paper among this collection of articles celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday!

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 3mo ago

🪲To mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, we have compiled a retrospective collection of articles. Today we celebrate the enduring legacy of a naturalist and scientific communicator of unmatched talent who has inspired generations of scientists. www.nature.com/collections/...

1/2 Adult play Although phylogeny predicts which primates play as adults (if play exists in one species, it is more likely to exist in close ones), it is whether or not the society is tolerant (and not despotic) that best predicts this behavior (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 3mo ago

Adopting novel food is vital to colonize novel environments, but what is the role of social learning? Study of urban #cockatoos by @clevercockierp.bsky.social shows them to rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

"I've sometimes been accused of degrading mankind, or insulting human dignity, of making man beastly" "This surprised me because I like animals and I feel proud to call myself one. I've never looked down upon them, so to call human beings animals is not, to me, degrading."

PaleoAnthropology@qafzeh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy to share our recent publication on 🐒 macaque self-directed behaviours w/ Eva van Dijk Roos de Vries Charlotte Kluiver Mia Valomy Adam Zeeman & Jorg Massen Link to the @royalsocietypublishing.org paper - doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Many facets of self-directed behaviours in macaques

Abstract. Emotional states like anxiety are adaptive, assisting individuals during social uncertainty and threats. Humans can self-report anxiety, whereas

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Update: we've extended our timeline! Review of applications will now begin March 24. Still plenty of time to put together an app! disi.org/apply/

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI@divintelligence.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

Nice end to a fun PhD 🎉