Elodie Mandel-Briefer
@ebriefer.bsky.social
Associate Professor in vertebrate social behaviour, University of Copenhagen. Research: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, emotions, cognition, welfare. Mom of 2
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New research from #BiologyLetters: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #DevelopmentalBiology
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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New research from #BiologyLetters: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #DevelopmentalBiology
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
New research from #BiologyLetters: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #DevelopmentalBiology
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Our newest paper is out! "Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete" is now published in Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology.
doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03630-3
Led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social with our collaborators @raincoast.org & GREMM. Check out Jaclyn's thread 👇.
doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03630-3
Led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social with our collaborators @raincoast.org & GREMM. Check out Jaclyn's thread 👇.
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Our newest paper is out! "Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete" is now published in Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology.
doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03630-3
Led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social with our collaborators @raincoast.org & GREMM. Check out Jaclyn's thread 👇.
doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03630-3
Led by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social with our collaborators @raincoast.org & GREMM. Check out Jaclyn's thread 👇.
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2026. Pūkeko birds (Porphyrio melanotus melanotus) combine sound elements to create complex call sequences for communication phys.org/news/2026-01...
Pūkeko birds combine sound elements to create complex call sequences for communication, study reveals
Pūkeko use sound elements to create calls and combine them to create complex call sequences in order to expand the range of options for expressing themselves—these are the findings of an international...
phys.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 AM
2026. Pūkeko birds (Porphyrio melanotus melanotus) combine sound elements to create complex call sequences for communication phys.org/news/2026-01...
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📖Published!
animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉
🔎 Find out more:
animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉
🔎 Find out more:
buff.ly
January 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
📖Published!
animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉
🔎 Find out more:
animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics
A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉
🔎 Find out more:
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2026. Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology
Olfaction is the most widespread sensory modality animals use to communicate, yet much remains to be discovered about its role. While most studies focused on intraspecific interactions and reproductio...
dx.plos.org
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 AM
2026. Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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My second PhD paper is out
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was lucky to work on this project with Elodie Briefer (@ebriefer.bsky.social), Katarzyna Pisanski and Florence Levrero.
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was lucky to work on this project with Elodie Briefer (@ebriefer.bsky.social), Katarzyna Pisanski and Florence Levrero.
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods?
Investigating how animals perceive and interpret emotional signals across a variety of species is essential for deepening our understanding of the complexities underlying animal communication and soc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
My second PhD paper is out
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was lucky to work on this project with Elodie Briefer (@ebriefer.bsky.social), Katarzyna Pisanski and Florence Levrero.
What do we know about vocal communication of emotion between different species of terrestrial tetrapods? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I was lucky to work on this project with Elodie Briefer (@ebriefer.bsky.social), Katarzyna Pisanski and Florence Levrero.
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Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry habitats and predator-rich landscapes.
go.nature.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
go.nature.com/4qNGo1I
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If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
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Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover!
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
January 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover!
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
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Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
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Lovely start to the year - 1st paper of #PhD student #NatalieTegtman out in latest issue of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Lovely start to the year - 1st paper of #PhD student #NatalieTegtman out in latest issue of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
How a novel #call changes responses to #alarms:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
CONGRATULATIONS Natalie; thanks #RobMagrath; Happy New Year all. 🎉
#animalcommunication #birds #fairywren
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Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New study with collaborators from the INRAe showing that people recognise horse negative facial expressions more accurately than positive ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Humans can accurately categorise negative but not positive emotional facial expressions in horses
Recognising emotional facial expressions plays a key role in communication, both within and between species. Many non-human animals, including horses,…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New study with collaborators from the INRAe showing that people recognise horse negative facial expressions more accurately than positive ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Goethe University Frankfurt hiring Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) für Evolutionäre Ökologie der Hymenopteren in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | LinkedIn
Posted 11:13:19 PM. Die Professur wird zunächst auf sechs Jahre befristet besetzt, nach erfolgreicher Evaluation…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
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New paper out! 🧪
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New paper out! 🧪
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
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Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics for the 26-27 academic year are now open. Please spread the word!
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
International Master of Bioacoustics
Home page of the International Master of Bioacoustics
www.masterofbioacoustics.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics for the 26-27 academic year are now open. Please spread the word!
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
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New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social
Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins
Communications Biology - Across 40 years of behavioural and epigenetic data, male dolphins with stronger social relationships show lower epigenetic ages and therefore appear to age slower compared...
rdcu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social
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Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
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Our newest research in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
December 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Our newest research in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
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1/5 Consciousness does not seem to depend on the frontal cortex
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
1/5 Consciousness does not seem to depend on the frontal cortex
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
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POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
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Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...