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...

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...

🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition! Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds. 📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026 🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme More info & how to apply ↓ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

This was an amazing project led by the @themanybirds.bsky.social A similar Behavioural test was done across over 130 bird species! Species with a more specialist diet and migratory species were more afraid of novelty near there familiar food source. 1/2

Loved being involved in this project with so many others! Including the birds at York Bird of Prey Centre 🦅🦉 it’s super excited to see it published - a brilliant leadership team! 👏 My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team Science effort! 🌟

It was such an incredible, enriching, and fun experience — I learned so much ❤️ So thankful to the amazing leadership team who welcomed me! @drrmiller.bsky.social @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social @nomascus.bsky.social @stephanreber.bsky.social @cds-york.bsky.social Megan Lambert & Claudia Mettke-Hofmann

New paper out in PLoS Biology! A large international collaboration from the ManyBirds project, looking at variation in neophobia across a wide range of avian species globally. Delighted that the magpies were part of this large and diverse dataset!

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

Wonderful to see this project published! We were glad to contribute a small part to this impressive collaborative effort through ECoBird.

⚠️ PAPER ALERT! Stoked to be part of @themanybirds.bsky.social 1st paper on the evolutionary correlates of #neophobia in #birds on @plosbiology.org Contributing to this BTS project has been a truly enriching experience! 🦜🦉🐥🐧🦚🦅🦩🦆🪿 Kudos to @drrmiller.bsky.social for leading this titanic effort 💪🏻

So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!

🐦 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

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

Very cool to see results from the big collaborative effort Many Birds @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social #CO3_2025 🧪🐤🐦🦜🦆

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQB.... Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award! Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

Thank you very much!

Yes, big team science is for any and all taxa! If you're at #ASABWinter2024 you'll find reps from @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social @manygoatsproject.bsky.social ManyZoos and ManyFishes. Find your people!

Hello Bluesky! We are ManyGoats, an international network of goat scientists. Inspired by others like @manydogsproject.bsky.social @themanybirds.bsky.social, we aim to facilitate open, reproducible 🐐 behaviour & welfare science. How? By running multi-site behaviour studies worldwide! 🧵

My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team science project. My PhD supervisor, Prof Katie Slocombe, and I examined object neophobia in various birds of prey for this project 🦅🦉 a brilliant lead research team! 😃

I'm proud to have been one of >120 collaborators on the 1st @themanybirds.bsky.social project examining aversive behavior towards novelty (neophobia) in 136 bird species! Overall, neophobia was correlated with phylogeny, diet, & migratory behavior. Read the preprint here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 🧪

The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint! Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures. Very proud to be involved! 🧪🪶 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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/

The ManyBirds Project are now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for exciting project updates coming very shortly... 🦜 🦆 🪶 🦉 🦅