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Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

#CO32026 is coming up! Register before April 1 to get Early Bird pricing comparativecognition.org/conference.php 🐦 And check out the preliminary conference schedule to see the exciting talks happening soon in Montréal www.comparativecognition.org/docs/2026_pr... 🧪 #CompCog #AnimalBehavior

The Cognitive Origins Lab @uwpsych.bsky.social is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Research Specialist (postbac) to work on non-invasive primate + child cognition research. Full-time, 2 years, starts June 2026. Apply here: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...

Applications are now open for a PhD on collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself. The deadline is soon (31st March) so get in touch with questions. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Multiple Academic Associate positions (funded PhD + GTA contract) in Psychology @yorkstjohn.bsky.social, including one on children's collaborative problem-solving with @shona-d.bsky.social & @nicolacutting.bsky.social Full details including project outlines: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

This is terrific. Writing is a way to think; waiting to write until you've worked everything out is counterproductive. On the discomfort of thinking through writing, from @patthomson.bsky.social

📢 We’re hiring! The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🔹 Associate Professor 📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

📺 Watch this space: PhD position in children's collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself to be advertised very soon! The application deadline will be in late March, so get in contact if you want to know more.

Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

Interested in discussing how Artificial Intelligence can be helpful or hurtful to academia? 🤖 As a newly minted UKRN (@ukrepro.bsky.social) Local Network Lead, I'm co-organizing a hybrid event about this next Friday (30th January) Join us at @livunipsyc.bsky.social or online via Teams!

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

Looking forward to this next week! During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas. And the Middle East. And parts of Asia. Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ. Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are advertising **11 new PhD positions** in the second cohort of our RTG on Curiosity (details on all 11 positions here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...). One of these positions is in my group looking at the role of curiosity in early word learning (www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...)

Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students! #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

#PhD position! Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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!🙏

New amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

📣 New paper alert! Capuchin monkeys showed selective information seeking behaviour, suggesting that this is a flexible & domain general behaviour, not just a foraging strategy 🧪 🐒 #CompCogPapers #ComparativeCognition #Monkey #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Come to YSJ! A 12-month Maternity Cover role is advertised. “Candidates will primarily be required to teach Qualitative methods. It would also be an advantage if the candidate were able to teach health psychology from a qualitative perspective.” www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPF766/l...

Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

Our new study on “Overimitation in Assistance Dogs and Family Dogs” has just been published 🥳😍 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #PhD #published #dogscience #assistancedogs #familydogs #overimitation #sociallearning

New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵 My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#BiologyLetters A new framework is proposed that can be used to test hypotheses about how animals solve problems. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #cognition

We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP. Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶 Interested? Get in touch with me.

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

The Journal of Comparative Psychology is offering one editorial fellowship for 2026. More details can be found in the link below. Submissions due by November 1. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

🐦 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

Next Friday 24th October at 1pm, I will be giving my Inugural Lecture! All are extremely welcome. If you would like to attend online (or in person), please can you complete this form? Then I can send you a meeting link and/or if you'd like the recording forms.gle/UZmAMt5VXNZN...

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐 Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea! October 28, 1pm GMT. Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h... @tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

You’ve got the idea. We’ve got the platform. Apply to the @cogscisociety.bsky.social × 🦍 grant for your chance to win a $1,980 grant prize to take your study further, faster. Don’t let a 500-word application proposal stand between you and fully funded research. 🎓 Apply - bit.ly/4pYeHnp

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What an incredible woman and life well lived ❤️ A childhood inspiration and role model for so many of us who have gone on to study animal minds & behaviour 🐵🦍🦧