Does puppy socialisation really end at 12 weeks? I'm looking for papers on dog socialisation published after the famous Scott and Fuller 1965 book. Is there hope for dogs such as my little foster who is very happy indoors but quite worried outside? 🐶📚🧾

Today we hit 500 followers! So what better time to showcase our wonderful community of researchers, research enablers, institutions, and research sector stakeholders, with the UK Reproducibility Network starter pack. Give them a follow too! #AcademicSky #Research #OpenResearch

New blog post 💻 Discover how to make your data available for others to reuse which can increase the validity, reproducibility, and impact of your research. 🔗 Read now: spr.ly/60017pcdJ #OpenData #OpenResearch

Science is getting more global and interdisciplinary. Using data from 50M+ papers across 50k journals, this study finds rising international and disciplinary diversity in research publishing, with notable differences across fields. buff.ly/OZYoIIo

Catch up with Damian Pattinson on @Epistemicast's podcast series about 'publish, review, curate' models for publishing, exploring new and existing methods for curating academic output.

"Who controls the scientific literature?" New guest blog post by @fionahutton.bsky.social, Damian Pattison and @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social explores the @elife.bsky.social model and the challenges of driving change in scientific publishing. Read it here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research? Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection! Ad below 👇🐶💙💛

🚨 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!

Help us raise funds for @behaviour2025.bsky.social! We are in a major crisis! We are looking for sponsors. Please spread the word! @animalbehaviour.live @leec-uspn.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

eLife assessments are designed to provide readers with richer and more nuanced assessments of articles than binary publishing decisions. Learn how we write them: buff.ly/OUlzq26

This latest announcement from Nature is a positive step towards greater transparency in science. We have been sharing reviews publicly since 2021 for all papers we review in a push for constructive, open assessment to replace journal-level metrics. Read more: elifesciences.org/about/?utm_s...

eLife assessments provide readers with richer and more nuanced assessments of articles. Find out how: buff.ly/Y8Lyz0I

How do you think research culture and research communication need to change? Have your say in this short survey: buff.ly/fn4E8X0

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

Just had a flick through the ‘Top 100 Scholars’ in the ScholarGPS citation rankings. Only one is female and she died in 2017. So before you promote your institution’s ‘Top Scholars’ stop and think whether being male and highly cited is really your definition of ‘top’. scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Pet passports for travelling to the EU are coming back. Best news ever! This orange dog is already packing her bags.

In @elife.bsky.social: Trends in self-citation rates in high-impact neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry journals doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @dscheinost.bsky.social

The publishing industry currently prioritises its needs over the research community. In a new article in @learnedpublishing.bsky.social, eLife’s Damian Pattinson and George Currie explore how scholarly communication can move towards science-led publishing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEW on Wonkhe: For day two of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson takes a trip to Poland to see how its student-led Juwenalia festivals create leadership, community, civic engagement and culture buff.ly/JhixWao

Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: buff.ly/wGQWNqs Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬

A lot of what we take for granted in publishing today stems from its history in physical print. So how would we design the process if we started today? buff.ly/xjrRogV

I'm very excited to share our paper, out now in Animal Cognition, where we show that dogs are able to detect meaningful (to them) phrases in a stream of meaningless speech, even if no exaggerated intonation is used. Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very cool to know that my brain has been reshaped by learning to speak a foreign language!

Good luck to everyone taking part in March Mammal Madness this year #2025MMM I have happy memories of working with @mammalssuck.bsky.social on this epic @elife.bsky.social article about MMM back in 2021 elifesciences.org/articles/65066

🔄 REPLAY FRIDAY 🔄 🎥 Inequities in academic publishing Prof. Yap Boum II & Dr. Cristiana R. Lages discuss: ✅ Decolonizing publishing ✅ Challenges in the Middle East & Africa ✅ Barriers for Global South researchers 📽️ Watch now 👉 youtu.be/Ppy2TEfSrqE #GlobalSouth #PublishingEquity

💡 In case you missed it: We’re looking back at two years of our publish, review, curate publishing model with headline figures, author testimonials, landmark papers and more #AcademicSky #OpenScience Take a look at the two-year update ⬇️ buff.ly/wRUSXdh

Six researchers share their personal experiences of part-time work in academia, discuss the benefits and barriers, and outline what individual academics, universities and funders can do to encourage and support part-time working patterns. buff.ly/4ulE0og

We’re pleased to join the UK Reproducibility Network (@ukrepro.bsky.social) as a stakeholder in support of a more open, transparent and reproducible research culture. Find out more:

Our webinar on ‘Mapping the Open Science Landscape in the Global South’ is now available online. From @elife.bsky.social's Global South Committee and special guests, watch now for insights into their experiences, challenges, and opportunities.

Have you seen the movie Flow yet? I watched it last night and felt all the feels!! The animals are all so endearing, I smiled, I cried, just loved this movie so much.

🎉 eLife is pleased to announce Timothy Behrens (@behrenstimb.bsky.social) as our new Editor-in-Chief! A distinguished neuroscientist and long-time supporter, Tim will lead our efforts in transforming research communication for all.

@xtallokitty808.bsky.social this is what we were talking about today. Too many papers!!

After listening to community feedback, we will provide a partial feed allowing 93% of eLife authors to continue being indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. We will also move from the Scopus Journals Collection to the Scopus Preprints Collection. Full update below.

📖 Excited to share our new article, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/102... Our annotated readling list on neurodiversity is a result of the collaborative efforts of a fantastic, multidisciplinary & neurodiverse team

All enthusiasts of #ethology #cognition #ecology #evolution #biodiversity have you been to the #Behaviour2025 website? Check out our stellar list of speakers behaviourindia2025.in/speaker.html. Pre-register now. Mark your calendars and make plans to visit #India!

"What makes Clarivate’s decision so counterproductive: journals, [..] traditional & confidential peer review model, remain indexed in the Web of Science even though [] they publish [] inadequate or incomplete evidence. The difference... they do not label these articles" www.coalition-s.org?p=5997

Yes!