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Louise Mackie

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Doctorate in Comparative Psychology • Messerli Research Institute • 🐕 Dogs 🤸 Children 🐵 Chimpanzees Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition MSc was at the University of St Andrews Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 she/her

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email [email protected] / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · 14d

MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓
To new beginnings 🥂

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · 16d

Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤

Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · 16d

My favourite Starbucks work-buddy is now a doctor/dogtor 🐕 🎓 !!!! Congrats @louisemackie.bsky.social, we’re all so proud of you ! 🥂🍾

Jen and Louise who is wearing grad cap and holding a giant Frappuccino collage card

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · 19d

An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · 22d

Months 😭😭, but an essential part of the recovery process is gossip girl time ❤️

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Dr.!!! 🥳

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Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · Aug 29

Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning 🥴

Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!

Jen in front of a slide with a picture of a cockatoo holding an object and Alice Auersperg, reading Object Combinations
and the Onset of Tool Use in Animals Jennifer Colbourne & Alice
Auersperg
vetmeduni

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Does spotting geese count as birdwatching? #behaviour2025

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26

#behaviour2025

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26

@manydogsproject.bsky.social

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025!

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email [email protected] / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Aug 22

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Jul 27

Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research?

Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection!

Ad below 👇🐶💙💛

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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Jie Gao (D.Sc.) @drjiegao.bsky.social · Jul 17

My first paper of the goat cognition project is published! It describes the very first step in starting a project with animals: training the animals. I also tested odd-item search in goats. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

www.mdpi.com

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Jul 18

Great idea here, can I be added too? Thank you 🙏🙏

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Jun 27

Life lately

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Jun 7

A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒

A researcher stands next to her poster at Culture Conference, explaining an eye-tracking project with chimpanzees and children.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · May 29

1/7 Pet monkeys for capuchin monkeys

Capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island (Panama) have begun kidnapping howler monkey babies. It is a culturally widespread custom that appears to have no benefit whatsoever.

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

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · May 28

A long work day trip to the countryside 😆
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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · May 19

In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25

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Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · May 6

Looks like you had a great time! Fun having you in Vienna 🇦🇹🦜!

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Apr 17

Pint of Science hits Vienna on the 19th of May! I will be there to give a talk about my PhD journey studying imitation in man-and-womankind's best friend: the domestic dog. pintofscience.at/event/so-hum...

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Mar 26

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

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Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social · Mar 6

Getting ready for tomorrow! We’re going with my avian research group here in Vienna #StandUpForScience

Joelle manufacturing a picket sign in their PJs

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