MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓 To new beginnings 🥂

Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤

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

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

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!

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

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

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. 🗝️

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 👇🐶💙💛

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...

Life lately

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

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...

A long work day trip to the countryside 😆 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

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

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...

🐳 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

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

"Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend!" The final talk already of #cultureconference2025 on mate copying in wild Drosophilia simulans by Sabine Nöbel @cultconf.bsky.social @sabinenoebel.bsky.social

Learning about those mischievous wild cockatoos with Lisa Fontana from the Australian National University #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

Elif Karakoç from the DPZ (German Primate Research Centre) presenting on social learning in redfronted lemurs in Madagascar #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

Wanna know about pigeons in a smart barn, which can track who and what they are looking at? Mathilde Delacoux can help you in her talk at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social

Now, Dharanish Rajendra from the University of Würzburg at #cultureconferencr2025 sharing work on the risks of learning, and the importance of safe parental environments @cultconf.bsky.social

"following" the great tits talk from Chimento, Luca Hahn from the University of Exeter is talking about jackdaws and their social relationships helping information gathering 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @lucahahn.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

The final keynote speaker of #cultureconference2025 is Michael Chimento, with his work on methods and models of ephemeral animal cultures 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social

Out of mama's shadow, but not too far... Mawa Dafreville talking about vervet monkeys' socialisation @cultconf.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Peering into chimp culture 🐵: Nora Slania on social learning in chimpanzees, from the Max Plank Institute of Animal Behaviour @cultconf.bsky.social @noraslania.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Be good like those around you! Saein Lee talking about prosociality and conformity in adults of different ages, across the USA and South Korea @cultconf.bsky.social @saeinlee.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

🧠 Brains and bonds 🫂: Wouter Wolf next, to talk about cultural cognition shaping social bonding activities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Claudia Kupelian from the University of Toulouse on communication skills in non-verbals: infants in urban and rural Mozambican communities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Lucas Molleman from the University of Amsterdam reeling us back in from coffee to talk about social learning strategies and traits @lucasmolleman.bsky.social at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social 🇳🇱

Georgia Tuohy joining @cultconf.bsky.social online to talk about mother's experience of gender roles and children's socio-emotional development in Uganda @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconferencr2025

Laura Simone Lewis at @cultconf.bsky.social talking about curiosity, particularly cultural curiosity in children 👧👦🎁 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Day 2 begins for the fantastic Culture Conference at Utrecht University! Dr. Maleen Tiele kicking it off as a keynote speaker on the nature of joint attention 👀 @maleenthiele.bsky.social #cultureconference2025

Come find my 🐶 11:40 talk 🐶 today in the Animal Behaviour I session of PhD Academy 2025! @univie.ac.at #phdacademy2025

Gotta get that Pistachio Latte fix

Exciting new research with the goffin cockatoos! 🎉

A student at the University of Edinburgh has asked me to share this. Would you like to help them with their research? Details continue in the thread below."Are you a dog guardian who has faced the heartbreaking decision of euthanizing a beloved pet? If so, I need your help."

Happy to have had the honor of representing @manydogsproject.bsky.social at #ASABWinter2024

Hi #ManyMany, #bigteamscience world, @asab.org & anyone interested in #goats! Our ManyGoats project is now on BlueSky, please give us a follow if you enjoy #animalbehaviour #animalcognition, #animalwelfare, & please get in contact if you’re keen to join the network ⬇️

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

Thanks to everyone yesterday for the fantastic poster sessions! #ASABWinter2024

Presenting at the #ASABWinter2024

Great talk on CCE (cumulative cultural evolution) in chimpanzees and its connections to genetic variation by Andrew Whiten @asab.org #ASABWinter2024

Representing the doggos today at @asab.org Winter Conference 2024 in Edinburgh! The second @manydogsproject.bsky.social is on this very topic too 🐶🐾😉

NEW RESEARCH: Social Play fosters cooperation in wild adult chimpanzees out in Current Biology. More great work from @lirsamuni.bsky.social, @alexmielke.bsky.social on our Tai Chimpanzees kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

1/13 Goffins in the gym Goffin's cockatoos choose and transport lighter objects in a “weight training” that has helped us reveal their amazing decision-making skills. (paper) https://buff.ly/4hRMvyz by @celestineadelmant.bsky.social

Motivated by all these other animal-centric starter packs to fill in another niche: comparative cognition! go.bsky.app/5yu5SDr Let me know if you want to be added, or know someone who ought to be in the pack. Would be great to have representation from loads of species and places.

My collaborator's vs my laptop - what a beast 😱. Also, in general and totally unrelated, how many laptop stickers are too many...? 😅

1/3 In the footsteps of Frans de Waal 89% of the scientists consulted in this study (n 100) consider anthropodenial to be dangerous for science, and only 49% consider anthropomorphism to be dangerous. (paper) https://buff.ly/4fyNiCX