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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Sep 9

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

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

Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social
@drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Feb 27

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQB.... Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

ManyBirds Project: Potential ManyBirds Studies

This is a form for submitting proposals for potential ManyBirds Project future studies (www.themanybirds.com). Full submissions are confidential and will be reviewed by the ManyBirds Core Team Leads ...

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Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award!

Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

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Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) @drrmiller.bsky.social · Jan 17

Thank you very much!

Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award!

Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

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Drew Altschul @dremalt.bsky.social · Dec 13

Yes, big team science is for any and all taxa! If you're at #ASABWinter2024 you'll find reps from @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social @manygoatsproject.bsky.social ManyZoos and ManyFishes. Find your people!

Louise Mackie @louisemackie.bsky.social · Dec 13

Happy to see our fellow big team science project, ManyPrimates, presented at #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org ! Join the Manys ;) 🐵🐶

ManyPrimates3, big team science, "learn more" presentation slide at ASAB Winter Conference.

ManyDogs2 project information is placed at the bottom of a scientific poster at ASAB Winter Conference. The topic is overimitation in dogs and data collection will begin in 2025.

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ManyGoats Project @manygoatsproject.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hello Bluesky! We are ManyGoats, an international network of goat scientists.

Inspired by others like @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social, we aim to facilitate open, reproducible 🐐 behaviour & welfare science.

How? By running multi-site behaviour studies worldwide! 🧵

a herd of goats are walking across a dirt road .

ALT: a herd of goats are walking across a dirt road .

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Ella Williamson @ellawilliamson.bsky.social · Nov 29

My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team science project. My PhD supervisor, Prof Katie Slocombe, and I examined object neophobia in various birds of prey for this project 🦅🦉 a brilliant lead research team! 😃

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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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 30

Thanks Ella, a pleasure to work with you and Katie on this!

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks so much for all your hard work on the core team, Vedrana!

ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 26

A pleasure to work with you, Vanessa!

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks for all your hard work on this, Kai! (love this figure you created for the paper!)

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 26

Great to work with you, Christine!

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 26

Wonderful to work with you!

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Christine R. Lattin, PhD @clattin.bsky.social · Nov 25

I'm proud to have been one of >120 collaborators on the 1st
@themanybirds.bsky.social project examining aversive behavior towards novelty (neophobia) in 136 bird species! Overall, neophobia was correlated with phylogeny, diet, & migratory behavior. Read the preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 🧪

Color-coded latency difference scores (latency to touch food in the novel object condition minus latency in the control condition; measured in seconds) for all bird species included in ManyBirds study 1 (n = 136).

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · Nov 25

The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint!

Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures.

Very proud to be involved!
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doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Phylogenetic tree of the 136 studied avian species with neophobia scores mapped onto it.

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Home - Many Birds Projects

A Big-Team Open Science approach to avian cognition and behaviour research.

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

We are also excited to officially open the call for submission of potential future studies: forms.gle/8WASqR1fvU1w.... Please see link for all info on process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies! 5/

ManyBirds Project: Potential ManyBirds Studies

This is a form for submitting proposals for potential ManyBirds Project future studies (www.themanybirds.com). Full submissions are confidential and will be reviewed by the ManyBirds Core Team Leads ...

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

You can find a recording of our recent Big-Team Science conference talk about this MB1 study from Co-Founder @Dr_RMiller here: youtu.be/oQGEgr62Blo?... 4/

BTSCON 2024- ManyBirds Study 1: Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade

YouTube video by Psychological Science Accelerator

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

A huge thank you to the wonderful ManyBirds core and Study 1 Leadership team (see recent team photo: @drrmiller.bsky.social, Vedrana Slipogor, @jimeloism.bsky.social, Stephan Reber, @nomascus.bsky.social, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Megan Lambert) and to all of our collaborators! 3/

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 25

This has been a mammoth effort involving 129 collaborators at 77 institutions from 23 countries worldwide to test object neophobia in 1439 subjects from 136 bird species and 25 taxonomic orders! 2/

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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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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Nov 21

The ManyBirds Project are now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for exciting project updates coming very shortly... 🦜 🦆 🪶 🦉 🦅

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