Regrettably, this post and the paper severely misrepresent our stance and arguments. I've posted our peer review response as a comment to this blog post, to provide interested readers with the full picture (after hopefully having read the published papers from all three sides).

How do curiosity and surprise intersect following a violation of expectation? Read our paper here🔥 @auersperga.bsky.social @ivojacobs.bsky.social @elifduran.bsky.social

New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper out! 🧪 On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Magic, thermal imaging, and birds - it's got everything!

Thrilled to be among the winners! 🪶📷🔥🌏

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 AFE Photo Contest! 🔥🎉Read each photo's caption and see all the photos that were submitted this year by searching Photo Contest 2025 (or the name of the photo) at https://fireecology.org/photo-gallery (1/7)

📢We have a brilliant #PhD opportunity on collective animal behaviour across vertebrates! Deadline early 2026 so plenty of time to prepare, feel free to reach out for more info if you are interested in applying 👀 All details below👇

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

Come join the wonderful CogSci dep at Aarhus Uni, Denmark! Fantastic students, wonderful colleagues, and great work/life balance! We are looking for applicants with teaching experience in the field of computational modelling of cognitive and/or social processes. international.au.dk/about/profil...

For the people in the back: - String pulling isn't tool use. - Categorising a behaviour as tool use doesn't inherently make it more interesting or "intelligent".

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology. Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏 Please apply no later than 25 November. 👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc

A late galah for headless bird Halloween #photography #birds

Walk like an Egyptian (gosling) #photography #birds

Swan in heaven #photography #birds

Tufted duck is suspicious #photography #birds

Crashing wave of Egyptian goslings #photography #birds

Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles? Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time? Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition? Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project! e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Fight club - Egyptian geese edition got an update: now with anime backgrounds #photography #birds

APA is offering paid editorial fellowships for early-career researchers. 🧪 I was the editorial fellow at Journal of Comparative Psychology last year and I can highly recommend it! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

Don't disturb the wild boarlet lakeside siesta #mammals #photography

Tiny dinosaur in the form of a long-tailed tit early in the blueish morning #photography #birds

Celebratory galah! 🪶

Befuddled Egyptian gosling #photography #birds

The bread thief is ever watching from afar #photography #birds

Egyptian gosling #photography #birds

Starlings are always unbelievable #photography #birds

Great crested grebe parents with their four grebelets #photography #birds

Preening coot trying to distract me from its feet #photography #birds

New ballet coming soon: Coot Lake #photography #birds

The coot family is hungry #photography #birds

Young Eurasian coot #photography #birds

One small step for crow, one giant leap for crowkind #photography #birds

"Corvids are so sinister, mysterious, and ominous" Meanwhile, corvids in real life: #photography #birds

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

The trophy of a nuthatch #photography #birds

Three black redstart fledglings waiting for the next food delivery #photography #birds

Portrait of a rainbow bee-eater #photography #birds

A Torresian crow in the smoky aftermath of a bushfire. NT, Australia #photography #birds

Masterfully navigating through thick smoke and rising soot, a black kite forages for flying insects escaping the blaze. NT, Australia #photography #birds

Gaze upon this nankeen night heron, and despair #photography #birds

Torresian crow with an important message. #photography #birds

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

A nuthatch fledgling watches closely as its parent looks for bugs on a tree trunk (shot vertically up the tree). #photography #birds