The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

Myself and Prof Katie Slocombe finished data collection this week for @manydogsproject.bsky.social study 2! This Big Team Science project is studying over-imitation in dogs 🐕🐩🦮🐕‍🦺 in multiple labs across the world 🌍 Participant Turbo pictured below helping take down the equipment post testing! 😅

My next study for my PhD! Please share with your teacher networks ✨

Most UK racing greyhounds are gone from the track within two years of their first race - and what happens next is largely undocumented. We used AI agents to follow the dogs from public records. Open access: doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2026.1868726 #AnimalWelfare #Dogs #Science #AIForGood

AI tool spotlights welfare concerns in greyhound racing industry | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @unimelb.edu.au @unimelb-secan.bsky.social

#RSOS in @science.org | The ‘Doginburgh Inventory’: from hands to paws in assessing canine motor laterality: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Had an awesome time at the Canine Science conference at UBC in Vancouver! 🐶🐺🦊 Met loads of incredible dog people including some of the awesome leadership team from the @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕🐾🐩 I presented my PhD research and won best poster! 🌟 A fantastic 1st conference experience 🙌

Super first day at the Canine Science conference in Vancouver. It’s so nice to learn from and be around like-minded dog people 🐶🐩🐕🐕‍🦺🦮 #CSC26 #CanineScienceSociety #CanineScienceConference

(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans. 📍 Vienna 📅 Application deadline: 26 July 2026 ℹ️ shortifyme.co/p3NjN

My lovely dad is currently 30 miles into a 200 mile non-stop ultra-marathon to raise money for Dove House Hospice and Health Stars (Hull). 🏃🏻‍♂️ there’s a heatwave right now in the UK making the run extra tough ☀️🥵 any donations welcome to spur him on into the first night! givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

Paid Undergraduate Research Internship within the Department of Psychology at the University of York, funded by NIHR. An 8-week summer placement is open to undergraduate students in Psychology (or related disciplines) interested in memory research. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/flepx

🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

I'm close to finishing data collection for my PhD- if anyone is York based and would like to take part in an intervention or experiment, please take a look! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🧠 @alexandrapike.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social

Finally had chance to try out our new CaniX gear! Definitely a game changer at around 4 min 20s /km 😆🐕‍🦺🏃‍♀️

We’re running a short dog owner survey 🐶 examining dog social cognition & trainability - which could be used in future by assistance dog charities to help selection for breeding 🦮 £50 Amazon voucher if completed again in 1 week (eligibility UK residents only) york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm job hunting for animal science and/or psychology jobs inside and out of academia! I've work with: Primates Canids Zoo animals I specialize in animal welfare, personality, and cognition and have citizenships to the US and UK 💜🧪🐒🐺🐧 Feel free to send along relevant ads, help is appreciated!

This new #RSOS study shows that play may be more important than training for strengthening the emotional bond between #dogs and their owners: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Live in #Yorkshire and want to help your local #wildlife and #community? Join us as a #volunteer! See details below. #CoexistProject 🦊🦔🦜🦡🦌🧠🧩🌃🌍

Extremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!

Job 🚨 Please share!! We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De... @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

Come work with me! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex... #postdoc #animalwelfare #TeamHappyDogs #science

We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...

When something doesn't work properly, can your dog tell if the object is broken or if you just don't know how to use it? I'm pleased to share my group @jhu.edu's first study with pet dogs (!!), now out in @plosone.org Led by Amalia Bastos: Do dog rationally infer the causes of failed actions? 1/4

#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

New research on Gifted dogs is out, in @science.org! Huge congrats to SHANY DROR for her effort and this incredible achievement. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

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...

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! 🌟

I arrived in Göttingen this week to complete a 3 week linear models course at the German Primate Centre lead by Roger Mundry. Enjoying the course so far and looking forward to learning more 📚

📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life 🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Dogs and drones: how scientists are saving Washington’s endangered orcas

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 🐵🦍🦧

My lovely dad has supported bereaved families in my hometown, Hornsea, as a funeral director for nearly 30 years now. Next year, he plans to run 6 ultra marathons to raise money for the charities affected by the alleged malpractice of a funeral director in Hull. Watch here: videopress.com/v/eoHrDJcj

@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/...

Look what arrived in the post today! 📚 The updated version of ‘Inside of a dog’ by @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social 🐶 the boys won this copy through a recent photo competition by Dr Horowitz - we’re excited to read! 📖 (and retrieve in Russo’s case)

Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025 Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :) www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...

This is Jude. He had a long day and just wants to relax with his tunes. Which he can notably turn on all by himself. 13/10 (TT: heyjudethebeagle)

Had a lovely few days away from PhDing on annual leave last week including two agility comps with my Russo. Bagged his first clear KC jumping run at grade 1 🥇made all his contacts in an agility run placing 2nd 🥈and placed 3rd in a Helter Skelter special 🥉 Ready to get stuck back into my projects! 🐶

Alongside my PhD I tutor GCSE Maths and Psychology and all of my tutees have absolutely smashed their exams! 🌟📝 100% pass rate (or higher!) 🙌 It’s days like this which remind me teaching did have its good days. I feel very fortunate to be able to continue teaching through private tuition ☺️

"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0

Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 . If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you! lnkd.in/edHgUPap