Scenes from our Deep Time Cognition meeting in Edinburgh! A great pleasure to welcome our friends from Sweden, Czechia & USA. Our crew combines scientists who study animal behavior, brains & neurons, and fossils. We want to understand how cognition has evolved!

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The workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Deep Time Cognition grant team was amazing! Stimulating, inspiring, and so much fun! We worked hard by day & almost as hard at the pub in the evenings, plus a fossil-collecting excursion! See ALT for comments. More photos coming! 🧠

On Friday I took my *luckiest* and *most disgusting* wildlife shot so far: a California sea lion (Z. californianus) puking up a bunch of rocks! 🤮🪨 That's right - many pinnipeds use gastroliths. The gastroliths are in mid-air! 🦖🐬🦑 #nature #photography #sealion

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

Why is there a little velociraptor penguin shouting at me?

Here is an unbelievably determined crow parent. With feathers in this condition they had to carefully plan each leap into the air. Still, they stayed focused on finding food, breaking it into nestling-sized pieces, soaking those in water, then making the difficult climb back up to their nest #birds

Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)

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After a stimulating 1st day of our meeting of our Deep Time Cognition grant team, bringing together scholars from Lund Univ (Sweden), Charles Univ (Czech Republic), Univ. of Edinburgh (Scotland) & Ohio Univ (USA). Thanks to @stevebrusatte.bsky.social & his team for hosting us in Edinburgh!

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🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

#SundaySquirrel is prepared for landing Red squirrel, Scotland #UKwildlife #mammals

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We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de! Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21 🧪🌍🌿 Full details: tinyurl.com/yn8jkzcf

You may be cool but you’ll never be as cool as Merleau-Ponty lighting a cig

Les corneillons que je surveille n’ont pas encore quitté le nid mais je suis quand même tombé sur une paire à à peine un pâté de maison. Un au sol (photos), l’autre déjà capable de prendre de l’altitude. Les deux bien sûr surveillés par les parents. Cc @jastrow75.bsky.social

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Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 May 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn

We talked about manatees, so now we have to meet Dugongs! #LetsChangeThat

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

The Tropical Royal Flycatcher is a bird that nests in tropical riparian zones and they have an incredible crest that can be difficult to see. They display their crests during courtship, but they also spend a lot of time preening after catching insects and they'll often throw their crest then.

Happy Solitary Bee Week! 🐝 Did you know that most types of bee don’t live in colonies?

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I make tea from a wild plant used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans for medicine and beekeeping 🌿

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

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In honor of #TheMandalorianandGrogu coming out today, meet Yoda purpurata! #LetsChangeThat

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extreme extractive foraging - fieldwork with @theroesa.bsky.social

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Heavenly hornbills at Birdparadise singapore !

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...