The inner dynamics of positive human-animal interactions: Investigating the roles of oxytocin, opioids, dopamine, serotonin and the proteome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

📢 Webinar on how gamification can inspire positive change in animal welfare research - happening Nov 3rd. Don’t miss it!

Imagine if you make preprints and have them freely and transparently peer review with @peercomjournal.bsky.social ? 😇😇

📢Webinar alert📢 Gamification for positive animal welfare? Join us & @liftcostaction.bsky.social as Bahadir Odevci explores how digital tools, using challenges, rewards, storytelling & feedback, can inspire positive change. ⏰ 5 pm CET 📅 November 3rd 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So we made this little Ark Nova Crown 👑 — whoever wins the last game gets to pin it on their office door until someone else takes the throne. 🦁🐐🦉🐟🃏 #boardgames #boardgamestats

📌 Special issue of the 2025 ISAE International Congress 📌 “A Good Life for All Animals”. Find out more: www.applied-ethology.org/Applied_Anim...

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

Getting side-eyed in the barn

Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25. But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social

Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇 @chiarazulberti.bsky.social #gradmeet25

Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲 @paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social

We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜 🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️

Great conversations today at our discussion round on perspectives in academia! Thanks to everyone who shared their insights and experiences. #gradmeet25

Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by @affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE! “Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb. 📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST 🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...

Our last session of the day is all about the socials — structure, interactions, and information! From relationship quality in ravens to cooperative behaviour in vampire bats 🐦🐒🦇 @sofiaepsilva.bsky.social #gradmeet25

In our first session of day 2 at #GradMeet25, it’s all about sending and receiving information — from chemical communication in spiders to alarm calls in monkeys. 🕷️🦇🐒 @michellebeyer.bsky.social

Inspiring talk about raven sociality and cognition from Thomas Bugnyar at #gradmeet25. Impressively shows how important long-term studies and observations in the wild are! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!

Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟 #gradmeet25 @jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social

A buzzing 🐝 poster session at #GradMeet25 — great science, great conversations, great energy! ✨

Our first keynote speaker is Thomas Bugnyar from @univie.ac.at, exploring social complexity and intelligence in ravens! #gradmeet25

Our second session of the day dives into methodologies in animal behaviour research — from facial action coding in wolves to clicker training goats for eye-tracking. Fantastic talks all around! @nataliekes.bsky.social #gradmeet25

We are almost there - we are looking forward to three exciting days of animal behaviour science and networking! #gradmeet25

One of the perks of being a section speaker of @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social - providing opportunities for young researchers to showcase their projects, discuss results, and network with peers. Three of the best days of the year are ahead of us! 😍

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

We’d love your input on translating “Positive animal welfare” into local languages — esp. Spanish, Portuguese & Mandarin 🌍 Share your translation here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Recently I spoke about @manyprimates.bsky.social for @liftcostaction.bsky.social about distributed research projects and teams in animal sciences! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrA... If you're interested in BTS projects, comparative cognition etc, have a watch

Excited to share the latest (but still not the last!) study I had the chance to work on with the Family Dog Project 🐶🇭🇺 We found that Gifted Word Learner dogs' talent goes beyond what we expected; they can generalise words based on function, not just looks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Thanks for covering our research in your book, Shane!

It’s not black and white: Perspectives of Western Canadian beef farmers on dairy-beef production journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Just wrapped up our 3rd behavioural biology session 🚀 We had fascinating talks ranging from male bee behaviour 🐝 to primate sleep patterns 🐒💤 #DZG2025 @nadjageiger.bsky.social

Kicking off our invited talks in the Behavioural Biology section! First up, @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social shares insights into spider sleep and future directions in this exciting field. 🕷️💤 Fantastic talk with amazing visuals! #DZG2025

Someone please call the ant ambulance! In our second invited talk, @etf1989.bsky.social highlights his research on wound care behaviour in various ant species. Another fantastic talk, with impressive videos of these behavioural displays! 🐜🐜🐜 #DZG2025

We just wrapped up our 2nd behavioural biology session 🧠✨ Great chats about clever fish & insects — and how their smarts connect to genetics and the environment. #DZG2025 @chiaratenne.bsky.social @tyroneluconxiccato.bsky.social

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Positive Welfare in Science and Society: Differences, Similarities and Synergies" by Belinda Vigors, Peter Sandøe, and Alistair Lawrence. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

Another month, another successful meeting! 🐾 On Sept 3–4 in Teramo, WG1 held a workshop on “Fostering good lives for animals: Does Positive Animal Welfare move animal welfare further?”. Huge thanks to @mchincarini.bsky.social & the University of Teramo for hosting us! #LIFTCostAction

And #DZG2025 is officially open! Great opening event at the @mfnberlin.bsky.social - what a stunning venue! We are looking forward to a great conference!

Kicked off our first behaviour session with 6 fascinating talks—covering everything from spiders, electric fish, and fossil insects to sex pheromones and how parental behaviour shapes immunity. 🌍🕷️🐟🪲 #DZG2025 @janka-p.bsky.social @andifischer10.bsky.social @leo-theo.bsky.social

Great start to our "Wildlife in Urban Spaces" symposium! This morning, two excellent speakers, @tanjastraka.bsky.social & Jannis Gottwald, shared insights on interdisciplinary approaches & the latest technical advancements in measuring and understanding human-wildlife interactions. #dzg2025

🕷️ 🚨 Are you at the #DZG in Berlin next week? @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social my PhD @nadjageiger.bsky.social and I are very excited to tell you the latest about our spider sleep 💤 work! Come check out our talks on Friday and ask all your questions! :) 🚨 🕷️

From pigeons to foxes—urban jungles are wilder than you think! We’re hyped for our Wildlife in Urban Spaces symposium, kicking off right before #DZG2025 sweeps us into 3 fantastic days of conferencing in Berlin! dzg-meeting.de/en/program/

Ontogeny of dogs’ sensitivity to the human’s attentional state: Do the eyes have it? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

August was packed with mostly smaller games and the rediscovery of Azul. 😍 #bgstats #boardgames

Join us tomorrow, Sept 1st!