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Can't resist posting this interview with the awesome philosopher @zoophilosophy.bsky.social on how we should treat animals. The video comes with a lesson plan if you want to use it in classrooms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaCJ...

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Hey look a portal open to public submission, hope no one floods it with the Bee Movie script to the point of being unusable or something

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New, at Can We Still Govern? Defenders of draconian federal cuts to research say that university endowments can cover the losses. @epopppp.bsky.social explains why this won't work. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...

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🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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We've gotten a lot of questions about who's behind #standupforscience2025 - and in the spirit of transparency, we made a starter pack of our core team ☀️ We're a group of early-career scientists who are passionate about the ability of science to drive progress! go.bsky.app/SHLNvG1

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I am devastated. For these talented scientists, for their families, and for farm animal welfare science in the United States. US folks, please call your reps to protest these & all the sweeping & sudden cuts made to federal employees this week. This is untenable.

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Science/academia are under siege. Slashed funding from NIH, NSF, and NASA, etc.—plus loss of Pell Grants—will cripple universities. Next, massive endowment taxes aim to deliver the final blow. Research and education are on the line. Call your representatives. Spread the word. Take action. #scicomm 🧪

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The number of UK universities actively making redundancies has now risen to 89. As predicted here, soon that number will rise to 90 and then 100. The process is inexorable, inevitable. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

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Incredibly cool study by my labmate and good friend @zewaldj.bsky.social 🦜 Flavouring behaviour is incredibly rare in animals, and there is almost no data on it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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New week, new paper! Led by Bethany Moyer, PhD student in our ABC Welfare Group #UniversityofLincoln, this paper presents owner perspectives of the adjustment period in adopted dogs. Spoiler: it's longer than suggested in the adoption literature... tinyurl.com/59ksbudj

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This is a 5 alarm fire that will affect not only every US academic, but every American citizen.

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Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

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This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

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For all my scientist friends wondering if you are going to get a grant termination letter from NSF and what to do if you do it.

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EU Reference Centre for Animal Welfare - Ruminants & Equines is part of the exodus from X. We have created an account on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/eurc... Subscribing to our newsletter is a great way to keep up-to-date with our work: www.eurcaw-ruminants-equines.eu/newsletter/ 😀

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Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

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Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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👋 #job #permanentposition #research #INRAE ✅ Junior research scientist on the production of services by livestock systems 👉 jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... 🕥 March 4, 2025, 17:00 Contact: [email protected] [email protected] #agroecology #grass #ecosystemservices #circularity

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Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We are always looking for more recordings of pet parrots to help us understand language, musicality, and interaction of various information types in vocal signals. #manyparrots #bioacoustics www.manyparrots.org

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New paper out today in Frontiers in Animal Science, lead by Dr Stuhlträger. The review considers the visual abilities of farmed ungulates (🐷🐴🐄🐑🐐) and how photoperiod ⏰, illumination 💡, and colour 🌈 affects their housing and welfare. doi.org/10.3389/fani... #ungulate #vision #farmanimalwelfare

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Don't miss out on the chance to present your work at this year's UFAW conference, deadline approaching!

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 35 days ago • 1661 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

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"Positive Animal Welfare" can be defined as the animal flourishing through the experience of predominantly positive mental states and the development of competence and resilience. Read more at 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #animal #emotion #goodlife #welfare #flourishing #happiness #pleasure

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Consensus on definition of Positive Animal Welfare bit.ly/4areBNM “Flourishing through positive mental states, resilience and competence”. Thanks to a great team effort @LIFTCostAction.bsky.social #PositiveAnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience

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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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Excited to share our new definition of Positive Animal Welfare at next week live seminar! #PositiveAnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience @LIFTCostAction.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 23rd Jan ⏰ 13h15 CET @RSocPublishing cassyni.com/events/qGM3k...

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ISAE 2025: 30 days until abstract submission deadline! Submit your abstracts now through (deadline 15 February 2025): lnkd.in/egBs9F3d Travel awards are available (deadline to apply 15 February 2025): lnkd.in/eyxgwiQH Registration fees are available: lnkd.in/efmRajDt

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There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025 ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in Make sure you also follow @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social & @behaviour2025.bsky.social for updates 😄

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📝 #ISAE2025 30 days until abstract submission deadline! Submit your abstracts now through (deadline 15 February 2025): lnkd.in/egBs9F3d #ISAE2025 #appliedethology

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Two new papers from my lab, led by Gabrielle Clark, now out in @animal-welfare.bsky.social: 1. how perinatal environmental enrichment affects mink kits www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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📢 Abstract submissions for talks and posters at the UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference close on 10 February. 🔍 We’re particularly interested in abstracts featuring novel and innovative approaches to #AnimalWelfare science. 🔗 Don't miss out! Submit your abstract here: ufaw.org.uk/conf25

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Sharing again, our paper on welfare issues of concern facing captive parrots! 🦜

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🚨PhD opportunity🚨 Deadline Feb 13th 2025

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Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Hot off the JDS press; a very thorough review from Dr. Miller-Cushon and Dr. Jensen on social housing dairy calves! www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S002...

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Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Our ASAB 2025 conference is now open for registration! Sign up now to make sure you don't miss a spot 📝 🔗https://tinyurl.com/884wzzsy

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New paper is up!! Assessing the impact of a human behaviour change intervention to reduce owner-related barriers to interactive cat play www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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So important to remember! Even though it feels nice to 'clear the plate' before the break, a rushed pre-Christmas submission is likely to be worse than one you can spend a bit more time on early in the new year.

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A little bit over a year since our farm animal research was featured by @science.org . 🙌 Huge thanks to @david-grimm.bsky.social for the excellent coverage! 'What are farm animals thinking?' 🧠🐾 www.science.org/content/arti...

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We have a very exciting line up of plenary speakers for ISAE 2025, so make sure to submit your abstracts for the congress before 15 February 2025(isae2025.exordo.com/login)! The info on the plenary speakers can be found here: isae2025utrecht.nl/plenary-spea...

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Christian out here being a god amongst men…

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