Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN

Attending my first international conference, Behaviour 2025, was an amazing experience😊 I got to meet so many people interested in the same field and received a lot of valuable feedback. Excited to turn this work into a publication! #vetmeduni #Behaviour2025 #kea #poster

Presented my research at our IMHAI (Interdisciplinary MSc in human-animal interactions) symposium 😊 Our class organised this mini conference as the final event of our master's programme :) All that's left is to finish writing my thesis and get ready for an exciting project in Australia 😊 #vetmeduni

Poster presentation of my first experiment on scent preferences in kea 😊 Kea exhibited a strong inter-individual variability in their olfactory interest, preferences and tendency to sniff, with one individual being a clear outlier! #kea #olfaction #vetmeduni #MSc #poster

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/