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

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

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 🐵🦍🦧

1/2 Dogs are capable of forming mental categories of objects, despite not having language or being trained in symbols. The dogs (mostly border collies) categorized new toys based on their experience with them. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team. Application details here: https://bit.ly/4mlBd6x Deadline 01 Dec 2025 Please share widely! (1/3) 1/3

Editorial fellowship opportunities for ECRs, including for Developmental Psychology and Journal of Comparative Psychology! 👶🐒

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Tune in This Friday! Dr. @emmatecwyn.bsky.social and Dr. Ben Farrar, two leaders in the field will discuss the application of open science tools in comparative cognition (registration below) 🧪 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #WomenInStem #ComparativeCognition #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #BigTeamScience

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩 🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟 📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom 🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv... #openscience #bigteamscience

Interested in animal welfare, education policy & social research? Fully funded PhD (UK home) on dog welfare in schools. Get in touch & apply: www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur... (Dog photo purely for attention and moral support) #PhDopportunity #AnimalWelfare #DogsInSchools #CamDTP #SocialResearch

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... #AcademicSky

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

🚨 Call for Submissions! 🚨 The 16th annual BCCCD meeting (Budapest, Hungary, Jan 15–17, 2026) is accepting submissions for symposia, talks & posters. ⏰ Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 Share your work & be part of the conversation! #CogSci #PsychSciSky #BCCCD bcccd.org/submission.htm

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

🐘 HAPPY WORLD ELEPHANT DAY! 🐘 If you're curious about these hugely intelligent gentle giants check out our ele ep: open.spotify.com/episode/7kJT... And our 'meet the hosts' ep: open.spotify.com/episode/4piX... Spotify or wherever you get your pods! Photo: Rachel Dale #elephant #SciComm

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years. eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work with Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and WWT on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership! 🦉Join us as we inspire the next generation of nature lovers.🌳 krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

So many cool projects and resources! 👀 Congrats to all involved in this work 👏

Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Call for Abstracts Extended! 🌟 Join us this September in Sheffield for 'Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence', an ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop. @asab.org @sheffielduni.bsky.social #ArtificialIntelligence #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience I #AcademicWorkshop #ASAB

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

🚨Second PhD chapter is out today! We show that elephants gesture intentionally to ask humans for food using many different gesture types! Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/elephant-int... 🧵TLDR 1/16

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

#OpenScience principles help students gain lots of useful skills that are an advantage on the job market in and beyond academia. Read our latest book chapter where we provide tips for educators to bolster employability through open science: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Big thanks to @bartlettje.bsky.social for making the trip to @yorkstjohn.bsky.social today to introduce psychology staff and PGRs to using R for reproducible research - we thoroughly enjoyed your workshop and learned a lot! Highly recommended 🤓📊

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We did some science. We found some things. Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends. Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🐐 Do you have an image of what it's like to work with goats? Was Jurassic park part of that image? Dr Christian Nawroth explains how to avoid horns to the face and other tips for interacting with goats! #goat #JurassicPark #pasta Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod @goatswhostare.bsky.social

We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

What if you want to deviate from you preregistration but keep the label "confirmatory"? Cas Goos introduces multi-stage registration as a solution. Read all about it in the semi-new (I somehow missed a month of blogging?) blog post from the Meta-Research Center: metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/5/...

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

1/2 Sidney's cockatoos have learned to use drinking fountains It's a tricky mechanism that requires turning and holding a handle. They've figured out how to do it using their own weight, and now it's cultural : ) (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... by @lucymaplin.bsky.social‬

We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops! Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud! This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm

I've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types. This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!

Starting a research site on an Indonesian island must be easy, right? Find out about field work challenges in TALES FROM THE JUNGLE 🐦🌴 linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @drracheldale.bsky.social #FieldWork #indonesia #academiclife #AnimalBehaviour