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Lauren Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 22h

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 9d

Times is running out! ⏳

Submit your 5-min video for the CogSci Mind Challenge by Oct 17 📅

Question: How do different minds (humans, animals, AI) learn language, if at all?

💰Prizes up to $1000!
👉 Don’t miss it: cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

#CogSciMindChallenge

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve got the idea. We’ve got the platform.

Apply to the @cogscisociety.bsky.social × 🦍 grant for your chance to win a $1,980 grant prize to take your study further, faster.

Don’t let a 500-word application proposal stand between you and fully funded research.

🎓 Apply - bit.ly/4pYeHnp

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ESLR @eslr.bsky.social · 6d

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

ESLR | Membership

www.eslrsociety.com

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Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · 6d

What an incredible woman and life well lived ❤️ A childhood inspiration and role model for so many of us who have gone on to study animal minds & behaviour 🐵🦍🦧

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 6d

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.

Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 8d

1/2 Dogs are capable of forming mental categories of objects, despite not having language or being trained in symbols.

The dogs (mostly border collies) categorized new toys based on their experience with them.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 22d

Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc

I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team.

Application details here: https://bit.ly/4mlBd6x

Deadline 01 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

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Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · 26d

Editorial fellowship opportunities for ECRs, including for Developmental Psychology and Journal of Comparative Psychology! 👶🐒

APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 26d

Editorial leadership teams for APA journals are seeking nominations for editorial fellowship positions for early-career psychologists (ECPs). Nomination deadline: November 1, 2025. Qualifications, responsibilities, and how-to-apply here: https://bit.ly/46jRIKK #Psychology #PsychSciSky

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 27d

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · 28d

Tune in This Friday! Dr. @emmatecwyn.bsky.social and Dr. Ben Farrar, two leaders in the field will discuss the application of open science tools in comparative cognition (registration below) 🧪 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #WomenInStem #ComparativeCognition #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #BigTeamScience

Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩

🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟

📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom

🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...

#openscience #bigteamscience

Flyer for Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research webinar

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 29d

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 29d

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced."

By @maddipow.bsky.social

Research integrity needs a kindness agenda or we will lose ECRs

Responding to early-career researchers’ honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science, says Madeleine Pownall

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩

🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟

📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom

🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...

#openscience #bigteamscience

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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · Sep 3

Interested in animal welfare, education policy & social research? Fully funded PhD (UK home) on dog welfare in schools. Get in touch & apply: www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...
(Dog photo purely for attention and moral support)
#PhDopportunity #AnimalWelfare #DogsInSchools #CamDTP #SocialResearch

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social

🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

#AcademicSky

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Cover matter: Navigating Open Research A Guide for Early Career Researchers
From CONUL - consortium of national and university libraries #openResearch #irishResearch

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CEU Cognitive Development Center @cogdevceu.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 Call for Submissions! 🚨
The 16th annual BCCCD meeting (Budapest, Hungary, Jan 15–17, 2026) is accepting submissions for symposia, talks & posters.
⏰ Deadline: Sept 5, 2025
Share your work & be part of the conversation! #CogSci #PsychSciSky #BCCCD
bcccd.org/submission.htm

BCCCD 2026 :: Submission

BCCCD26<br>Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development

bcccd.org

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 16

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Aug 15

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator

As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

forms.gle

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

irisvanrooijcogsci.com

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.

AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.”

Yes. Everywhere.

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Wild Behavior Podcast @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social · Aug 12

🐘 HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAY! 🐘

If you're curious about these hugely intelligent gentle giants check out our ele ep:
open.spotify.com/episode/7kJT...

And our 'meet the hosts' ep:
open.spotify.com/episode/4piX...

Spotify or wherever you get your pods!
Photo: Rachel Dale
#elephant #SciComm

A photo of a male African elephant walking.

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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · Aug 11

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK

Find your ideal job at SEEK with 104 Psychology jobs found in All Otago. View all our Psychology vacancies now with new jobs added daily!

www.seek.co.nz

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The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal.

The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years.

eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

An Open Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of QJEP.

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor An…

eps.ac.uk

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Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social · Jul 23

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work with Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and WWT on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership!

🦉Join us as we inspire the next generation of nature lovers.🌳

krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Nature-based Learning Programme Development Manage - Cardiff University - Job Details

Job Details: Nature-based Learning Programme Development Manager (KTP Associate)School of PsychologyWe have an exciting new

krb-sjobs.brassring.com

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Emma Tecwyn @emmatecwyn.bsky.social · Jul 24

So many cool projects and resources! 👀
Congrats to all involved in this work 👏

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 24

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
buff.ly/rzTeLYL

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · Jul 22

Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c

How to Study Animal Minds

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - How to Study Animal Minds

www.cambridge.org

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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

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