Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

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” 🧵

Do tou wanna share an office with me and work in an amazing team on farm animal emotions? Here you go! There's usually always chocolate and snacks in my office. Just sayin 😋

Today is big day, it's a happy and sad day. I am moving from Finland to Sweden. I spent 7 years in Turku, this is the longest I have ever spent in one place. I'll cherish the memories and friendship I've built here forever. Thank you Turku, hello Lomma.

She was an inspiration to many of us, and she will continue to be. Thank you for all of work ❤️

doi.org/10.1080/0892... New paper out! Validation of the human-horse attachment styles survey. Glad to be co last author on this piece with @millasalonen.bsky.social. Congrats to our respective students Alisa and Aada for the amazing work they put in this study.

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...

I reviewed a paper for BMC Veterinary Research. Clear missunderstanding of animal cognition, inappropriate methodology, anthropocentric issues... 5 reviewers, 4 rejections. Still the decision is " Revise". So much waist of my time and energy. Do not submit in this journal. @springernature.com

Data collection is underway! We're using mobile eye tracking to study action comprehension in dogs. Django is helping us understand how dogs see and interpret our actions — more coming soon! 🐶👁️ #Science #DogResearch #CognitiveScience Thanks @asab.org for funding this project!

Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out. My new perspective explores this crisis. #STEM #AcademicBlueSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia. PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sometimes research is spending 20 min at the store to look for the optimal bowl size for the kitty experiment of the amazing student Veera Riihonen i am cosupervising with @millasalonen.bsky.social

Are you looking for more scientists to follow? Of course you are. Then how about a thread with 50 amazing scientists and/or science writers, along with reasons why you should follow them? (No particular order) Unfortunately, I forgot to put any dudes on the list again. Silly me.

We wrap up the second day of #AffectEvo-Lisbon25 meetup with some more great discussions. #AffectEvo

Fascinating discussions this morning. My brain is fusing with ideas. It is really stimulating to exchange with experts from many fields and that have different approaches to the concept of affective state.

Next up, we had Mike Mendl (Bristol, UK) giving us a brief tour of some emotion concepts and theories and their translatable characteristics. #AffectEvo #AffectEvo-Lisbon25

And the last keynote of the day was a tour de force by David Anderson (Caltech, USA) on neural dynamics and the encoding of emotion primitives.

Carrie Figdor (Iowa, USA) delivers the first keynote: “From Affect and Emotion Theories to a Phylogeny of Affect and Emotion”

Very excited to be in person for the first meeting of @affect-evo.bsky.social ! The program is sick and will be the place for fascinating discussion to refine our vision of animal affective state and its evolution across species.

The advantage of having an #astronomy nerd for housemate, you get front raw for partial #solareclipse viewing 😁!

Academia is such a trap... Unemployment doesn't count as a career break. So now I give lectures, I supervise 2 PhDs and 1 MSc, I go to conferences and consortiums, work on my papers while applying for grants, all of that for free! Not sure how long I can keep going. #academia #postdoclife #burnout

@melissa-gagniere.bsky.social presented her PhD work at the Aura symposium. She works on 🦊🦡🦝 behavior following an urban gradient in Finland. Follow her for more update to come or even to participate in her study!

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hi women of Science! Anyone who ever started initiatives to support peer women in your department? Safe peer group or so to get input regarding everyday life sexism and how to address it. We want to initiate something, but IDK where to start #womeninscience #womeninsresearch #sexism #academia

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great roller-coaster ride for Xmas, I have been assessed qualified for a postdoc with + comments on my profile. Then got an email saying that based on that assessment they won't go further with my application. A bit ironic for a position on animal + emotions and welfare. #postdoclife #Ineedajob

Paul Watson is free!! #freepaulwatson Now DK it is time to stop killing whales and support illegal massacre of sentient and endangered species!

Global research shows that it takes non-native English speaking scientists 51% more time to write a paper! Barriers and biases in academia with respect to language. Thought-provoking plenary by Tatsuya Armano at #asabwinter2024 👏🏼 #biasesinscience #languagebarriers

Dogs show a shape bias at first glance but rely on texture once they touch objects, revealing how perception shapes their object generalization. This sheds light on cognitive processes in non-verbal, non-tool-using species. 🐾🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm loving this idea of microfeminism. About how every day habit the little things can change the world. I'm especially loving the school teacher that calls the dad first. These acts are not insignificant they sometimes matter more. What is your act of micro feminism? www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g...

Hi, Bluesky community! #firstpost I'm Christian! I am a researcher at FBN Dummerstorf studying how 🐐🐐🐐 & other farm animals perceive and interact with their physical and social world. 🐖🐏🐔🐮 Follow this account for posts about farm animal cognition, open science, 🍄🍄🍄, & board games 🎲!

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Resharing for new users to find collaborations or just people posting cool #animal #research! I think I've got a decent mix of taxonomic groups of interest, so hopefully this will be useful 🐟🦍🐠🦎🦗🦈🐧🦂🐬🕷️🐌🐢🐙🦟🐳🦁🦋🐊🐜🦆🐘🦃🦘🐛 DM to be added 😊 go.bsky.app/9CV3PAd #Behavior

Still finding it hard to reconnect with everyone from Twitter (X) so here’s an attempt at finding all animal behaviourists, ethologists, behavioural ecologists etc, working with animal behaviour. Just pop a comment and I’ll add you to the list - let’s reconnect 😃 #appliedethology go.bsky.app/8oJ3A8E

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

Welcome new followers to the Good Place! If you're wondering what monkeys at bonfires and birds hunting at bushfires reveal about animal cognition and human evolution, my Aeon article is an accessible read. aeon.co/essays/how-a... 🧪 For the rest, I mainly post bird pictures (with a big backlog).