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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very grateful to have been invited as a plenary speaker at the @cteeer2025.bsky.social organised by @ethophilia.bsky.social and supported by @biologists.bsky.social. 🥰 🇮🇳

Due to personal circumstances I sadly could not join in person, but have truly enjoyed our scientific exchanges. ✨ 💚

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Aug 27

📣 New paper out (and my first one on ravens)! ❤️ "Startling ravens Corvux corax at foraging: Differences in anti-predator behaviour can be explained by age rather than personality" by Janina Weißenborn, @pesumas.bsky.social, Thomas Bugnyar and myself, out now in Journal of Avian Biology! ✨️😊

Konrad Lorenz Research Center @klf-univienna.bsky.social · Aug 26

Do ravens have personalities?
We tested how free-flying ravens respond to predator calls & gunshots. No consistent boldness across individuals, but:
🖤 Juveniles fed sooner than adults
🦅 All reacted more cautiously to raptors than gunshots
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
@avianbiology.bsky.social #univienna

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions)

Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture.

Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation"

More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

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Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research @cteeer2025.bsky.social · Jul 22

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social
is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting)
Website: sites.google.com/view/cteeer-...
@ethophilia.bsky.social
@cteeer2025.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social

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Ethophilia Research Foundation (ERF) @ethophilia.bsky.social · Jul 21

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting) @cteeer2025.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣 Our new preprint is out! Check out @epronizius.bsky.social great summary thread on it below... ✨️

Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Jul 13

Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 1

Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvche_v1

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Jun 8

From 22.-25.05 in Mystères de l' @unil.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social, our amazing student helpers and I conducted a fun series of workshops entitled "Parlez-vous primate?", sharing our passion for science and primate communication with children and adults! 🐒 👀👂Hope to repeat it soon! 🥰✨️

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Rebecca Rimbach @urban-squirrel.bsky.social · May 12

📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196

City life does not change a small mammal community composition

Context Urbanization is a global phenomenon with profound forms of land-use change. Urban areas are characterized by habitat fragmentation and replacement of natural habitat by human-made structures, ...

www.publish.csiro.au

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Apr 10

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

www.leuphana.de

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 3

Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans

Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts, study suggests Bonobos use a combination of calls to encourage peace with their partner during mating rituals, research suggests. The discovery is part of a study that suggests our close evolutionary cousins can string together vocalisations to produce phrases with meanings that go beyond the sum of their parts – something often considered unique to human language. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Sense Innovation and Research Center @thesensech.bsky.social · Feb 27

🌍🤝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐱 𝐈𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩

On Feb 20, researchers met to share insights, highlight synergies & explore future collaborations.

Pr. Micah Murray: "We anticipate concrete mechanisms to foster collaborations."

#Research #Innovation #Collaboration #TheSense #Idiap

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hi Ondra, I'd like to be added. Thanks! 😊

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William O'Hearn @williamohearn.bsky.social · Mar 5

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Feb 20

Exciting PhD position in a wonderful team! ✨️ 😊

Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · Feb 19

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

PhD position in parrot tool use
Job offer: applications opening 19th of February 2025.
We are looking for a PhD student (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, FWF) for a doctoral project in the field of animal behaviour and cognition
Project Title:
Dexterity in the tool use of the Goffin’s cockatoo
https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/PAT2728324
Project Location:
The Messerli Research Institute is located at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Its division on Comparative Cognition investigates cognitive abilities in both the social and physical domain of various, free-living as well as domesticated, animal species including Goffin’s cockatoos, keas, dogs, goats and pigs.
https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/messerli
This PhD project will be conducted at the Goffin Lab in Lower Austria.
https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/cognition/goffin-lab
Academic Supervision:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Auersperg (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
Project Description:
The Goffin’s cockatoo uses and builds tool -based technologies rivalling higher primates, both in captivity as well as in the wild. While we already understand a lot about what kinds of tools animals use in which context, we still know very little about the innovative process and fine-scaled mechanisms underlying such behaviour: how are the cockatoos able to innovate tool use in the first place?
Thereby, it is important to consider behavioural as well as physical barriers that animals face when using tools. We currently predict that tool use techniques are strongly affected by the different properties of the tasks the birds are operating their tools upon. This PhD project aims to test to what extent the tool use techniques invented by aviary cockatoos in Austria manifest in a predictable manner based on specific tool and task properties. To achieve this, we plan to blend behavioural analysis and material physics. The findings of this project will help to understand the onset and mechanisms underlyi…

Deadline and project start:
Please send your application before 1th of June 2025. The successful candidate can start in July at
the earliest (we would like to have started the project by September of this year).

Requirements
• A master’s degree
• A master’s thesis with a topic related to animal cognition/animal behaviour/comparative psychology or material science.
• Genuine Interest in animal behaviour and cognition
• At least some experience in direct interaction with animals (experience with animal testing is highly appreciated).
• Comfortable with direct contact with parrots
• Statistical knowledge (preferably experience in General Liner Mixed Models, PCA, Survival Analysis etcetera.)
• Experience with R.
• Excellent English skills written and spoken (additional German skills are highly appreciated)
• Excellent teamworking and communication skills

What we offer
• Employment at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna via a FWF funding for a minimum of three years.
• Access to institutional support (administrative support, statistician, IT manager, technician for experimental apparatuses).
• Various scientific events including weekly seminars of comparative cognition researchers
• Opportunity to visit international conferences.
• Opportunity to visit social events for PhD students studying avian cognition in Vienna.
• An international and interdisciplinary work environment at the Messerli Research Institute for Human-Animal Interaction.

How to apply:
Applications (email: alice.auersperg@vetmeduni.ac.at) will be considered until the 1st of June 2025
Only complete submissions will be taken into consideration.

Your application should contain the following information:
1. A Cover Letter detailing your motivation for the research topic, relevant experience, and expectations for the position (max. 2 pages)
2. A Curriculum Vitae including copies of relevant university degree certificates
3. Contact details for two references (incl. email)

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Neeltje Boogert @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social · Dec 5

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · Jan 27

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Dec 23

📢 Our new comment on challenges and promises of big team science in comparative cognition research has just been published in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. 😍🥳 Read more below!👇

Ekaterina Pronizius @epronizius.bsky.social · Dec 18

Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
rdcu.be/d30KP

Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition

Nature Human Behaviour - Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling...

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Debottam Bhattacharjee @debottam1991.bsky.social · Dec 6

Excited to share our (w/ @Kate Flay and @amcell.bsky.social) first Water Buffalo 🐃 paper published in @cellpress.bsky.social iScience

doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

We show that female buffalo show temporally stable preferential bonds or friendships and that friendships are influenced by personalities.

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · Oct 21

Have you ever had to go back through old files for a project from 5 years ago (ahem, I have) & just hated Past You for leaving it such a mess?

Yeah, me too. It sucks. Here's a post I made about easy data management tips you can do to help Future You
laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2020/08/03/k...

Keeping a paper trail: data management skills for reproducible science – Laskowski Lab at UC Davis

laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu

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Michael Bertram @michaelgbertram.bsky.social · Dec 3

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others

I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews

Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

www.science.org

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi Maria, I would love to be added. Thank you!

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hi Hannah, could I be added? Thank you!

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Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social · Nov 26

Very happy and proud to announce that our ManyBirds Study 1 pre-print is now available! 🥰🐦🥳
It has truly been a pleasure and an honour to contribute to this study involving 136 species and 1439 subjects within Core and Study 1 Leadership Team, working with more than 120 amazing collaborators. ❤️

ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

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