Currently en route to the Animal Welfare Research Network Annual Meeting! I can't wait to spend the next 2.5 days catching up with friends, and hearing all about the latest animal welfare research 🐘🦐🐒🐖🐁🦒🦓🐄

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Check out my article in The Conversation, all about our latest paper, which created an extensive catalogue of horse facial expressions 🐴 Thank you so much for inviting me to contribute! #TheConversation #equineresearch #facialexpressions

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And if you can't be bothered to read the full paper, here's a great article in the Guardian all about it 🐴 #equine #facialexpressions #socialbehaviour #horses

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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴

Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193...

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@uop-ccep.bsky.social

400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participants felt the discovery in the abstract was more important when the author was male & spent more time reading it(114s for male authored; 98s female). www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

There are just two weeks to go until the first of the UFAW and
AWRN seminar series: Influencing for impact - translating animal welfare research into law and policy.

🔗Sign up ➡️http://ufaw.org.uk/researchtopolicy

📅13.00 -14.30 (GMT+1) on select Thursdays, starting May 2025

I'm busy manning the camera at the AIBIO-UK meets AWRN workshop this morning. Ready for an exciting day learning about how we can use AI to improve Animal Welfare! #animalwelfare #AWRN #artificialintelligence #machinelearning

Characterisation of facial expressions and behaviours of horses in response to positive and negative emotional anticipation using network analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.02.636153v1

🔍 NEW STUDY: Researchers surveyed 677 experienced #horse sector participants, with 99.9% agreeing that horses are sentient beings.

Authors propose leveraging this knowledge of sentience to support implementation of the #FiveDomains model in policy.

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Do you work in primate care? 🐵 Know someone who does? We want to hear from you!

As part of research from the University of Sussex, we are looking to hear from primate carers from all over the world to understand their current wellbeing practices.

➡️https://forms.office.com/e/PRZqMuFh0t

Today marked the end of my time studying and working at UoP. I'm going to miss the team, especially the amazing members of @uop-ccep.bsky.social sooooo much! But I'm super excited to be moving into a FT research position - just don't tell the horses I'm leaving to work with monkeys 🫢 #traitor 🐒

Together with @leanneproops.bsky.social and Cressida Bowyer, we are looking for PhD applicants for a project using human behaviour change theory to develop educational programmes promoting the conservation of crested macaques. More information here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!

We are now on Bluesky 🥳

We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️

Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!

Yayyyyy!! Well done Sophie 🥳

Can I be added to please 👋