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Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8

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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

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Congratulations to Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social for successfully defending their dissertation, The Math is Not the Territory: On the Uses & Abuses of Machine Learning & Other Mathematical Modelling Strategies! #philsky #philsci @ucphilosophy.bsky.social

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴 Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193... @leanneproops.bsky.social @uop-ccep.bsky.social

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just saw @paleopragmatist.bsky.social reading this

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Looking for internship student who would like to learn about pig behaviour and cognition. When: July-August 2025, Where: Warschau, Poland

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I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app

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Our latest paper just came out. We found that more social parrots have a better vocabulary and females produce more variable call types than males. You can read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.... (PS: the bird in the picture is not a parrot but the cover of RSOS.)

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1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is growing! Thanks to a generous grant from the New York Community Trust, our team is thrilled to announce a brand-new, first-of-its-kind project at the science-policy nexus: the Wildlife Inclusive Local Development (WILD) Lab.

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Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys - by @yiyunh.bsky.social & @alexrosati.bsky.social #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/desc...

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“As long as there is love, there will be grief….Grief is a neon sign…broadcasting loudly, ‘Love was here.’ In the finer print, quietly, ‘Love still is.’” Sharing this with deep gratitude to author @heidipriebe.bsky.social.

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Your dog understands you (& vice-versa). But why and how? 👇 New review paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research & Co. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #dog

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Join us on May 20, 9 am (PT) for the 6th Reproducibility Rounds - 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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This issue has become more acute in recent years. A narrow view of "mechanistic" experiments holds us back. "A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology" journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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What role does the vocal membrane play in the larynx? Yamamoto et al. build a silicon model of a rhesus macaque larynx based on CT scans, then run physical expts www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/... #prattle 💬 #bioacousrics 1/2

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I am grateful for Pope Francis, for his gentleness and compassion, for his resolute commitment to justice for migrants and the poor, and for developing Catholic Social Teaching toward an integral ecology that showed that a Christian vision of social life must also take responsibility for the earth.

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1/2 Chimpanzees share alcohol. They recorded and studied for the first time how chimpanzees (Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau) actively seek out fermented fruit and consume it in company (70 occasions). The "sharing" was mostly tolerating other nearby chimpanzees. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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🐸 We're excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Animal Communication 📅Save the date... see you in Valencia! 🔗: decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-ani...

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Super happy! Published teaching module: Understanding Natural Selection: Definitions, Historical Development, Mechanisms, and Usage in Contemporary Times qubeshub.org/publications... @juleyvc.bsky.social @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social @tyandresbray.bsky.social 🧪🧬👩‍🔬 #newPI #RIE2 #TeachingEvolution

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Thank you @ucnewsroom.bsky.social for creating this informative and even handed representation of the challenges and opinions around pets pushing buttons to communicate with humans. See below a few papers we published on it. We have 3 more on the way (one about cats) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTnV...

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Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Please share with students interested in #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies Call for papers closes 16 June: #AIP2025 is a perfect opportunity for 1st-time presenters to present, network, & learn. Check out website for FAQs & links to resources: anthrozoologyconference.com

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"Formant analysis of vertebrate vocalizations: achievements, pitfalls, and promises" - New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co 👇 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #bioacoustics

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Coinciding with our arrival on Bluesky, we are happy to announce that a new 📃 has been accepted in @philscijournal.bsky.social! We analyze whether the 'tooling' framework is a good replacement for discussions of #ToolUse in non-human organisms 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #evosky

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The neurodivergent need and want to ask questions to better understand something or someone but also not asking because the vast majority of times society likes to add a negative spin or meaning that does not exist in the question at all. #neurodivergent #inclusion #DifferentWaysOfThinking

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Hello! We are a collaborative philosophy group, led by Grant Ramsey, interested in the life sciences—esp. #evobio, paleoanthropology, and the behavioral & cognitive sciences. We will share our research updates and highlight exciting work across philosophy & science! #philsci #HPbio #CogSci #philsky

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🚨 New BBB Seminar 🚨 Join us next week to learn about names from Mickey Pardo (🐘) and David Omer (🐒) 🗓️ April 17th @ 10:00 EDT ✅ Register here: braincoustics.com

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For her project 'Within 15 Minutes', artist Alma Haser made identical jigsaw puzzles out of portraits she’d taken of identical twins and then swapped every other piece when putting them together, creating fragmented portraits #womensart

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ETH Zurich's Anatomical Collection of Domestic Animals is now digitized and accessible worldwide via the #nahima database. Explore 2,000 objects with detailed photos, animations, and 3D models! 🐾🔍 usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even... @ethzurich.bsky.social

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We need your help! Who wants an #openaccess web app for visualizing & analyzing sounds? For teachers, students, & audiophiles: no installation or login. Please help fund a free tool for everyone! Indiegogo link 👇 a @galacticpolymath.com project #bioacoustics #birds 🧪🐸 youtube.com/shorts/7vfT_...

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My talk at COSYNE is up: "Discrete actions are a unit of both behavior and evolutionary selection" with @akautt.bsky.social and @dattalab.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/Y8Ke6HC...

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I am very happy to share this piece with you, exploring the link between inventiveness and play in nonhuman animals. It was written with care and a sincere desire to convey what science and philosophy can teach us about this fascinating topic. I hope you enjoy reading it! aeon.co/essays/how-e...

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An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

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A thread of my papers. The first was recently published with Cell Press, coauthored with Andy Smart and Abeba Birhane. It tackles the connections between epistemic deficiencies in deployed ML and ethical consequences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Interested in learning more about #preprints and publishing? Join me and @maurineneiman.bsky.social on the @royalsocietypublishing.org ProcB Editorial Preprint Team! We are now accepting applications from #ECR to assess preprints for potential submission to Proceedings B! 1/3

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We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use! osf.io/preprints/os...

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PaBST is back. Let me know if you're coming out for it and want to hang out! I'll be doing freshman orientation that week but I'm sure we could make things happen.

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1/7 Mice that save other mice It has been discovered that mice perform a series of very specific resuscitation maneuvers for those they find unconscious. It appears to be innate and mediated by oxytocin (associated with empathy in rodents).

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Harvard Museums lecture "The Power & Bias of Measurements" with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Pablo F. Gómez, & Gabriela Soto Laveaga Thursday, February 27th at 6 p.m. for exhibition Measuring Difference. Lecture is free & open to public, in person & online. #HPS hmsc.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...

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This was a mistake. We must RETVRN to "Natural Philosopher"

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We are talking about meta-analysis with @mikemalekahmadi.bsky.social on Thursday March 27th, 2025 11 AM ET/ 4PM CET All are welcome! Register here -->

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Has anybody out there made science zines (I know you have). And if so, would you be down to let me put them in my little free science zine library 🥺

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Mushrooms playing the keyboard. youtu.be/kmlF2rw1weo?...

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Hi everyone! I started this project in 2024 to encourage other English speakers to learn Spanish in order to try to address some of the language and accessibility barriers in ecology. I'm a seabird scientist so here's a little about what I do (in both English and Spanish)! 😊

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