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Dr Fay Clark @drfayclark.bsky.social · Jul 4

Just returned from a @affect-evo.bsky.social ‬in Latvia, where we discussed how to map out affective states across phylogeny. No easy feat! Very proud to co-lead the 'joy' subgroup & will try my best to represent captive wildlife. A super challenging yet exciting COST Action to be a part of!

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Jul 9

Members of #AffectEvo Working Group 1 met in Riga last week for some very productive discussions on affective states across species.

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Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social · Apr 9

Lots of good preparatory work done in Lisbon, looking forward to what is to come! #AffectEvo

AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 9

And here we are - all basking in some Lisbon sunshine ☀️

#AffectEvo-Lisbon2025

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 9

And here we are - all basking in some Lisbon sunshine ☀️

#AffectEvo-Lisbon2025

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you to everyone who joined the first #AffectEvo meetup for three inspiring days of talks and discussions.

#AffectEvo-Lisbon25

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 3

Final day of #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 begins with a recap of breakout room discussions. What are the benefits of taking a phylogenetic mapping approach to study affect?

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 2

We wrap up the second day of #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 meetup with some more great discussions.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 2

We are back for our afternoon session at #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 ready to go back to discussions on dimensional approaches to affect and discreet emotions such as fear or disgust.

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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · Apr 2

Day 2/3 of the first #AffectEvo MeetUp! Great discussions and plenaries.

Excited for the outputs that will come out from this meetup.

#AffectEvo-Lisbon25

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 2

Great discussions emerging from Working Group 1!

#AffectEvo-Lisbon25
#AffectEvo

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 2

Day 2 of our first meeting in Lisbon. This morning we divided into 3 groups to discuss the definitions of Valence and Fear as an exercise to help us think on the optimal ways to map affective states of animals. #AffectEvo #AffectEvo_Lisbon25

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

And the last keynote of the day was a tour de force by David Anderson (Caltech, USA) on neural dynamics and the encoding of emotion primitives.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Edmund Rolls (Warwick, UK), in his keynote, gave a comprehensive overview of emotion, motivation, reasoning, and how they are related in terms of brain structure-function.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Next up, we had Mike Mendl (Bristol, UK) giving us a brief tour of some emotion concepts and theories and their translatable characteristics.
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#AffectEvo-Lisbon25

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

We are in the beautiful @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Oeiras campus for our first in-person meeting of #AffectEvo.
#AffectEvo-Lisbon25 is the hashtag we are using.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

We continue with Liz Paul (Bristol, UK) presenting on how to define affective terms for use in animals.

#AffectEvo #AffectEvo-Lisbon25

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Carrie Figdor (Iowa, USA) delivers the first keynote: “From Affect and Emotion Theories to a Phylogeny of Affect and Emotion”

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Oceane Liehrmann @oliehrmann.bsky.social · Apr 1

Very excited to be in person for the first meeting of @affect-evo.bsky.social ! The program is sick and will be the place for fascinating discussion to refine our vision of animal affective state and its evolution across species.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Rui Oliveira, WG1 lead and the local organizer for the meeting, discusses the WG1 aims, meeting overlook and goals.

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Our chair Tom @smulderslab.bsky.social
opening the meeting with his welcome address.

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Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social · Apr 1

The first in person @affect-evo.bsky.social meeting is about to start with a mammoth program! Looking forward to 3 days of discussion on phylogeny, affect & welfare!

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Ready to kick-off the first in person meeting of our COSTaction here at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social

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Jatin Nagpal @jatinnagpal.bsky.social · Mar 31

On my way to Lisbon to hear and discuss all about the terminology and frameworks of #affective states across species in our meeting of the @affect-evo.bsky.social EU COST Action.

#Behaviour #Affect #Phylogeny

@costprogramme.bsky.social
@smulderslab.bsky.social
@pierafilippi.bsky.social

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AFFECT-EVO @affect-evo.bsky.social · Mar 31

Excited for our first meeting in Lisbon this week.

We will be welcoming COST action members and keynote speakers:
Carrie Figdor, Iowa
David Anderson, Caltech
Edmund Rolls, Warwick
Liz Paul, Bristol
Mike Mendl, Bristol

Discussing terminology & frameworks of #affective states across species.

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