Amazing finding with an awesome video but also my favourite line from a paper in a while: "Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."🐮

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

Would you like to share your research skills with the ESLR community? Starting next year, we will be hosting regular online sessions serving as a platform of mutual exchange and support among early-career researchers. Please do get in touch if you are interested in hosting a session!

Interested in sensory information & animal behaviour but you are in Germany (or close by) and Edinburgh is far? We are hosting a @asab-meetings.bsky.social Hublet in Berlin! Join us for free next week (15-16/12) to follow the conference together😁 More👉 www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/hublet...

Was language ever an issue in an academic conference for you or are you too cool to admit it? @janirecas.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social and I are collecting experiences and opinions to make conferences more comfortable for everyone, regardless of their language proficiency!

🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6... #DEI #JEDI #EDI #Academia #AcademicChatter

Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔 Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025! Thank you to everyone who came along! @asab.org @behaviour2025.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined our #LanguageBarriers workshop! 🎉 We had fantastic discussions and brainstormed practical solutions. We will work on these and bring them together, so watch this space! @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social #Behaviour2025

Our workshop on Language Barriers at academic conferences is tomorrow! 📅 27th August 2025 1.10pm 📍Hall 7 Hope to see you all there! #Behaviour2025 #LanguageBarrier #DEI #EDI #JEDI

Does language have to be a barrier for academic conferences? If you think that we can do things better, join our workshop at #Behaviour2025 and fill out this short survey - we'd love to hear your experiences and ideas!

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏

Think bold animals are the best problem-solvers? Think again. 🐭 New research shows shy mice are more persistent—and that makes all the difference. 🔍 Innovation is about showing up, not just being brave. 🔗 More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3813083/mice... #AnimalBehavior #Science

Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/oik....