Special thanks to Pablo Recio for doing the last talk at #ASSAB2026 about "Hormonal mechanisms of pair bonding in long-term monogamous reptiles"

Amazing talk by my partner @pablorecio93.bsky.social at ASSAB 2026 (@animbehav.bsky.social), and funnily, about pair bonding in reptiles

Amazing talk by @lisafontana.bsky.social at #ASSAB2026 @animbehav.bsky.social

New paper alert! 🦜 We gave wild cockatoos puzzle boxes across Canberra’s urban gradient. The finding? Urban birds approach faster, but are not better solvers. Our results suggest that urbanization shapes neophobia independently from cognitive performance. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...

A new study shows how the handling of small ectotherms 🐸 can impact recordings of their body temperatures 🌡️. A modified Foerster forcep may help reduce heat transfer during handling & provide more accurate measurements of body temperature. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Italian friends! Sono stata invitata a partecipare ad un episodio di ‘Disco scienza’ con Andrea Bellati, se siete curiosi di saperne di più sulle mie ricerche andate ad ascoltare 🦜 open.spotify.com/episode/3sFz...

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is approaching 1000 members! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Excited to share insights on urban cockatoos innovations at the Australasian Ornithological Conference 2025, in Perth

Big day yesterday, CleverCockie lab member Lisa Fontana @lisafontana.bsky.social finished the last day of data collection for her PhD, completing an experiment on social learning in cockatoos. Congratulations Lisa! 🎉

📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species #Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Heat or stress hormones experienced in early life often impair cognition. A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that spatial learning is unaffected in lizards when the eggs experienced such stressors. 🦎🥚 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @pablorecio93.bsky.social @danielwanoble.bsky.social

Join Pablo Recio Santiago, PhD Candidate from the Noble Group, for his presentation on 6 June 2025 at 3pm! Details: rb.gy/agqx6d