Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our postdoc @roald-arboel.com made a thing! #Croppy is #free and awesome for fast and effective #video #editing and it has a #GUI! Need to crop a part of a video? Need to trim a video? Need to combine videos? Need to compress a video? roald-arboel.com/croppy/

This new #RSOS study tested whether #goats can follow the direction of human voices as cues in an object-choice task: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @chimpsahoi.bsky.social @goatswhostare.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

Call for collaborators! Join a global study on reversal learning across animal species ManyManys - manymanys.github.io Invite - calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0... Registration - forms.fillout.com/t/n4fxVFpHQWus Questions - email both [email protected] and [email protected].

Goats picked the hidden-food bucket about 60% of the time when a human voice was directed toward it. When the person stayed silent or faced away, success dropped to roughly chance. doi.org/hb72rr

The deadline for the abstract submission got extented to July 1st.

Paper here, published open access: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

New paper out with the Buttercups goats!

📢Webinar alert📢 Discover how light wavelength and beak treatments directly impact turkeys' behaviour, health, and production. Join Domenica Victoria Medina Sanchez in our upcoming webinar to unpack the latest research on poultry lighting! ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 June 8th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 Mark your calendars for the Joint Graduate Meeting 2026, sponsored by @ethoges.bsky.social and the German Zoological Society (DZG)! Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to showcase your research & network with peers! 📆 30.09. - 02.10.2026 🌍 @uni-muenster.de Abstract submission will open soon.

We are pleased to invite you to the final workshop of the COST Action LIFT – “Lifting Farm Animal Lives: laying the foundations for positive animal welfare” 🐄🐑🐖 📍 Location: Royal Veterinary College 📅 Date: 26 June 2026 🎟️ Attendance is FREE of charge 👉 Register here: event.au.dk/events/cost-...

Join us in Münster this autumn!

📢Webinar alert📢 Join us for our new webinar, together with @liftcostaction.bsky.social, as Dr Kat Wehrheim explores the philosophical journey of inter-species kinship & what indigenous perspectives can teach us about agency in relationships. ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 May 4th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪

📢Webinar alert📢 Join Dr Rebekah Humphreys for a thought-provoking talk on shared language, interspecies trust, and ethics - inspired by Vicki Hearne's work. Don’t miss this fascinating exploration and tune in! ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 April 13th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us in Münster this autumn!

WG4 members met in Warsaw to advance communication efforts: drafting a PAW translation manuscript, planning upcoming social media, reviewing outputs, and developing a children’s book. They also explored “life after LIFT” and the future of the website and channels post–COST Action.

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

doi.org/10.1186/s131... #SPEetologia #AppliedEthology #ResearchTransparency #FAIRPrinciples #AnimalResearch #ScientificIntegrity #Reproducibility #EthicsInResearch

doi.org/10.1186/s131... #SPEetologia A survey of Applied Ethology researchers reveals limited adoption of Open Science practices. Preprints and preregistration remain uncommon, data sharing is inconsistent, and awareness of FAIR principles is low, with lack of training identified as a key barrier.

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #OpenScience "Exploring open science in applied ethology: practice and attitudes among researchers" Nawroth et al. with SPE members Anna Olsson @ BMC research notes

📢Webinar alert📢 Join Dr Rebekah Humphreys for a thought-provoking talk on shared language, interspecies trust, and ethics - inspired by Vicki Hearne's work. Don’t miss this fascinating exploration and tune in! ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 April 13th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Motivation in cognitive tests and its outcome on test performance in pigs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conventional systematic reviews can become outdated before they're even published. In our new @nathumbehav.nature.com piece, we discuss how living systematic reviews can help keep evidence current by continuously integrating new evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert with Stephan Kaufhold, Mia Borzello and David Kirsh! How well does cognition studied in the lab reflect cognition in the real world? Much of what we think we know about cognition rests on methodological assumptions that have become so established that they often go unexamined.

February 2026 boardgame stats: Duck & Cover had a short but very intense phase. Zenith is already a solid 2-player staple. 🎲

Rethinking self-awareness: insights and biases from self-recognition research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This one took a while, but we’re happy to finally have it out! We were wondering how prevalent different Open Science practices are in applied ethology. To find out, check this pre-proof version that is already available. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us for the 4th Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare! 🎙 “What can rats teach us about positive animal welfare with a focus on play and tickling?” 👤 With Prof. Alistair Lawrence 📅 25 February 2026 | 13:00 CEST 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment" by Karin Laurijs, Elodie Briefer, Inonge Reimert, and Laura E. Webb. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Exploring open science in applied ethology: practice and attitudes among researchers | BMC Research Notes | Springer Nature Link https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-026-07685-x

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

This one took a while, but we’re happy to finally have it out! We were wondering how prevalent different Open Science practices are in applied ethology. To find out, check this pre-proof version that is already available. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

LIFT’s very own podcast ‘Lifting Animals’ Lives’ is finally here! Our first episode with Dr Laura Webb, Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Vice Chair of the COST Action, is now live. Happy listening! Link to RSS website: rss.com/podcasts/lif... Link to YouTube: youtu.be/pIEGkFBHA0M

📢 Deadline approaching! There are only a few days left to submit your abstract for UFAW's Centenary Conference 2026. Submissions close on 6 February. Don't miss your chance to speak at our biggest event to date ➡️ https://ow.ly/na8g50Y7xeB #ScienceForAnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfare

January board game stats - not a bad start to 2026! @bgstatsapp.bsky.social

The ISAE 2026 congress website is now officially open! isae2026delhi.in Abstract submission is also open, please visit the website to learn more about deadlines and topics. #ISAE2026 #ISAEcongress #appliedethology

Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

First paper of 2026 just got accepted! 🚨🎆

Una #vaca demuestra por primera vez un uso flexible de #herramientas y desafía lo que sabemos sobre la cognición animal @goatswhostare.bsky.social 

Online survey for dog owners on cold and heat stress and its implications for dog welfare (in English or Portuguese): survey.vetmeduni.ac.at/index.php/83... Please share, participation is anonymous, and we hope to identify indicators and risk factors of thermal stress in dogs

About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual... My latest for @science.org about the first documented case of tool use in cattle!

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

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Absolutely terrific study! Check the video footage in the ESM! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Is dogs’ tendency to follow human misleading communicative cues influenced by humans’ auditory perspective? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Chimpanzees’ working memory is not affected by the presence and activity of zoo visitors link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Smart Ungulates: What Sheep and Goats' Performances in a Reversed-Reward Contingency Task Tell Us About the Evolution of Cognitive Flexibility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...