Congrats to Dr. Gabriella Smith (@explanimals.bsky.social) for a successful PhD defensio at Vetmeduni Vienna! Read more about her thesis work on curiosity in parrots: 🦜 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

Yesterday was a truly special day as I returned to my beloved Vienna to receive a prize for a book that I conceived and wrote in that same city. Moved by the presence of friends in the audience and so thankful to everyone who voted for me.

Here's @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about converting Complexly into a nonprofit, why more people should just ask the billionaires for money, and why my platform / AI nihilism isn't inevitable. An all-time Decoder, really www.theverge.com/podcast/8820...

My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.) We have been the sole owners for all that time...

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Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Cows itch, just like us. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands. Or rather: into her mouth. Scientists say it’s the first experimentally verified instance of cattle using a tool. https://wapo.st/3NzJ84A

Formatted version of our new #allometry paper is out! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Thrilled for my 2021 paper “If I Fits I Sits” to be featured in @derstandard.at! Tis the season for empty boxes 😻 www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Hello! My name is Gabriella and in April '26 l will graduate with my PhD in compcog from VetMedUni Vienna🤩👩🏻‍🎓🦜🐒🐕🇦🇹 With this in mind, I am excited to soon extend my passion for animal behavior/cognition in a post-doc/job position, so any recs/ connections would be greatly appreciated!! Website below☺️

@hankgreen.bsky.social makes an intriguing case for doomscrolling being more similar to overeating rather than any other addiction. Great video! m.youtube.com/watch?v=9euK...

Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

bluesky’s public launch was one year ago today

@hankgreen.bsky.social on Bluesky: "It’s where the nerds are, and so, five years from now, it’s where everyone will be."

day 1 getting crows to eat raspberries

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

I really enjoyed this interview with @vox.com about why I continue to be broadly in favor of humans. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I can't dwell on past egrets, I need to focus on the heron now.

Honestly, big shout out to the bordertown pair of Mexicali and Calexico...I doubt anyone in the world has done it better.

My book Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death is now available for preorder on @princetonupress.bsky.social's website! And it's pink! I bet you've never seen a pink book on death! Or a book on what animals think of death, for that matter! Aren't you intrigued?! Preorder and scratch that itch👇

Save the date! The next European Conference of Behavioural Biology will be in Cambridge for 2026 😊 #ECBB2024 #ECBB2026

Mme. Punaise

Paco Calvo included my Playing Possum in his list of “best books to grasp (once and for all!) that we, humans, are not that special” 🤩

Broken Model xkcd.com/2945

My book finally has a cover and I love it!!!

Frans de Waal’s passing is very sad and a huge loss for the field of animal behaviour 🙁 t.co/OYTz8YIT4J

Very sad to hear that primatologist Frans de Waal has left us. In his honour, we will remind you of some of our articles discussing his work.

My book 'Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death' is already announced on @princetonupress.bsky.social 's website! Sadly no cover yet, but we do have a publication date: October 15. Stay tuned!! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Polly Dips Her Crackers In Water, Like People Dipping Theirs In Coffee | University of Vienna & University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, published by Royal Society Publishing Biology Letters by @GrrlScientist #parrots🦜 #ornithology #innovation #food #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Look at that beautiful white-to-gray plumage! 10/10 pigeon, would meet again 👌

My very first attempt at training a crow face detection AI and it's already working so well! This would've been black magic 10 years ago and now it's a matter of two afternoons of playing around. I'm super excited about what the future brings! 🤓 youtu.be/5dtzd4hoYd8

Move over parrots and crows, there’s another clever bird in town! Katie Harrington @phalco.bsky.social presents a fascinating new research species for problem solving, the striated caracara from the Falkland Islands 🦅 🪶 #ASABwinter2023

How certain are bumblebees about their perceptions? Well we at least are certain that was a very interesting (and ambitious) experiment by Andrew Crump! 🐝 #ASABwinter2023

Wait, a video abstract on a DOG study, in a WES ANDERSON style?! These are my two favourite things in the world! This video made my day 😍 (Oh and cool results, by the way 🤭) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMt... #Mammals

Super impressive (and cute!) video of the problem-solving caracaras by Katie Harrington and team. Now published in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... vimeo.com/884319892

Nestling

This thread made me extremely bitter about the lack of crows in my city.