We have a new paper out! Wonderful work from PhD student Katharine.

Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤 A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls? Find out by filling out our new questionnaire! Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...

Minnesota Zoo is hiring an Animal Behavior & Wellbeing Specialist to work on their animal welfare team! A new position, bachelors-level with at least 3 years experience. Apply by Oct 28. #job #animalwelfare #zoo #captivewildlife #aza www.aza.org/jobs?job=48841

New list of medieval dog names just dropped.

Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 . If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you! lnkd.in/edHgUPap

🚨Dream job alert! Assistant Professor of Animal Cognition, Primate Cognition, or Animal Welfare CUNY Hunter College (NYC!) Part of their world-leading animal behavior and conservation grad program! tinyurl.com/hunter-animal

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Happy International Friendship Day! Let's cherish the special bond we share with our fur buddies. ❤️🐶 🐾Let's create longer, healthier lives together—join the Dog Aging Pack at dogagingproject.org!

Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

whew, that's a wrap on my recording of the audiobook for the new edition of "Inside of a Dog". I mispronounced many words, laughed a lot, and cried at my own ending

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

ChatGPT is the mediocre white man of computers. Ask it a question and it will stridently answer you even if it doesn't know anything about the topic.

🚀 New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What They’re Thinking? with @federicorossano.bsky.social   Join this lecture and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication! 🐶💭 📆Saturday, May 17 ⏰4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST 🔗Register here: https://rb.gy/w8ikcn

Your dog understands you (& vice-versa). But why and how? 👇 New review paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research & Co. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics #dog

This is so lovely - with an important underlying message

This study isn't great news for the romantic partners of dog owners... 😂

This is such a great thread. I am taking notes 😁

Final Call! Our team is conducting research on the spinal health in Frenchies and Dachshunds. We are interested in hearing from you whether you have experienced spinal problems or not in any dog(s) you own/have owned. Follow the link to take part in a 10-minute survey. www.surveymonkey.com/r/spines

The penguins have faced him down and the penguins have won.

More dreamy #buyastrangerabook day magic! @redwellyfeats.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to £15! So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch. UK only.

Meet the adorable Winnie, one of our latest #dogsoftheoffice! 🐾We can’t wait to share all the cute moments and fun she’ll bring along! Stay tuned!

Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations. Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.

Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! 🐖🐔🐟 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live! news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

We are excited to announce the release of our fourth year of data for the #openscience #dogagingproject. The latest release, available to scientists around the world, includes over 80 million data points on 50,000 dogs! 🧵 1/n

2025. How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge. Scientists around the world are recognizing that their research method isn’t the only way. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dream PhD opportunity studying self-recognition in apes, with an incomparable team of mentors!

Incredible. And I appreciated the final post of the thread.

Excellent! Looking forward to reading this.

This sounds fascinating! I may be biased with my interest in border collies/ working sheepdogs though!

This will be great!

A simulation indicates wolves could have self-domesticated into dogs within 8,000 years, suggesting early human interactions may have facilitated this evolutionary process. doi.org/g842k2

Interesting - always fascinating to see how other fields approach, and their discussion of, the human - dog relationship

Thrilled to be a co-author on this paper with these legends! ✨ Enikő Kubinyi, Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi Our study shows how dogs use gazing behaviour to communicate in uncertain situations—shaped by personality, emotional bond and breed 👀🐕 www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

Horrific

Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New paper w/ L.Huber, P.van der Wolf, M.Menkveld & S.Riemer providing evidence that dogs prefer to steal from a plate unseen by a human when the human's presence has to be inferred from sound cues.

More amazing dog content from @moudhy.bsky.social So interesting that these names all suggest the value of dogs being in their guarding/ protection. And then to consider how these behaviours are no longer wanted today. Yes, there has been time to select away, but it's a fairly recent change.

ETHOLOGY: Have you ever be consoled by your dog? 🐕⚡💝 Rial et al. show that dogs are capable of showing victim-directed affiliation after a dispute, and may also show signs of stress behaviour, depending on intensity of the conflict. Read the full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

At alpha=0.05, the probability that two independent studies on the same topic will both make a type 1 error is 0.0025. That illustrates how important even a single replication study is in improving the credibility of a discovery. #science #researchsky #academicsky #statsky #datascience #dataliteracy

happy Burns Night to those who celebrate

'No give, just throw' - I've shared this before but thought newer folk might like to see it 😊

Want to join us at Edinburgh for a PhD in One Welfare and One Health? It's a lovely supervisory team, and Edinburgh is great! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

You: “are you a morning, afternoon, or evening writer?” Me: “I’m an 11:15-11:30 then 14:25-14:45 writer”

Terribly sad to hear of the passing of Karen Pryor, but a life well lived. She was instrumental in the move to positive reinforcement in animal training, and sharing that knowledge and experience with a wide audience and different fields. Amazing person. karenwpryor.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Come and work with us (Edinburgh University R(D)SVS) on an equine welfare project! We have a post doc position on behavioural indicators of racehorse welfare. Apologies for the horrible and not very official looking link! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/.../CX_1001/...

Some super ideas for interesting assessment

I feel that if you aren't C minor you aren't getting the true academic experience!

Delighted to share our new systematic review of public perceptions of zoo animal welfare, led by PhD student Nicki Phillips. Relevant to #zoo professionals, #animalwelfare advocates, and anyone interested in #captivewildlife. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...