📣 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...

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

On Monday, October 6th I’ll be presenting the @manydogsproject.bsky.social at the @btscon.bsky.social. 🐕✨ Looking forward to introducing the ManyDogs Project ☺️ #btsconference #manydogs2 #manydogsproject #onlineconference

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

I am looking for an intern to work with captive crows this winter semester. Please feel free to share, or contact me if interested !

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Job Alert! Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection. 👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

Excited to share the latest (but still not the last!) study I had the chance to work on with the Family Dog Project 🐶🇭🇺 We found that Gifted Word Learner dogs' talent goes beyond what we expected; they can generalise words based on function, not just looks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Welcome to the world, little book! Cover photo by @jeffreyrstevens.com. @holidayhouse.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social @wd4c.bsky.social #BookBirthday #MG #NF #K-12 #KidLit #Dogs #Conservation #InvasiveSpecies #SnifferDogs #STEMeducation #STEM #STEAM

I have another book on the horizon! When Beavers Move In tells the tale of how the Tulalip Tribes Beaver Project is transforming the Cascade Mountains. Gorgeous illustrations by the uber talented Natasha Donovan. @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

I'm super excited to promote @alisonpstevens.bsky.social Detective Dogs for International Dog Day. I got to help research this and even took the cover photo! Comes out Sept 16. Preorder at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752555...

Fantastic new job, advert now live - Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour, Dept Biology, Oxford. Closing date 8th Oct. Come and join us! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Velcrow Birds of a feather stick together. www.worldofmoose.com/products/vel...

When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

#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...

In case you didn't know: You can run your package unit tests with {testthat} in parallel with two simple steps (see testthat.r-lib.org/articles/par...): tldr: 1. Add `Config/testthat/parallel: true` to DESCRIPTION. 2. Add `TESTTHAT_CPUS=8` to your .Renviron and restart R. #rstats

Doh! I have this extension installed (via @grrrck.xyz 's Positron +1e, open-vsx.org/vscode/item?...), but didn't know about it and haven't been taking advantage of it!

About that mysterious new project in my department....

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Civilization, visualized Positively mesmerizing: www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2...

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets. No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files. #rstats

The #manypigs poster is up at #Isae2025! Stop by number 107 to hear more about us and what we want to do. 🐷🐗🐖 You can also spots us wearing the ManyPigs pins - feel free to ask anything about the initiative.

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Cool neuroscience job at the Nike Sport Research Lab, working on cool products, with cool people, at a cool company, in a cool place. The amount of cool has been verified by my inside sources. #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neurojobs nike.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/nke/job/Beav...

Y’all have got to watch this 😭

Hello #dataBS! I'm facilitating a new free @dslc.io Advanced #RStats adv-r.hadley.nz cohort soon! It's been 5+ years since I read this excellent book by @hadley.nz, so I'm giving it a re-read. Let's learn to embrace {{ tidy evaluation }}, purrr::reduce() repetition, and count S/R #OOP systems!

Join us for ManyDogs 2!

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

#WorldChimpanzeeDay seems a great time to share 2 #PhD opportunities on creativity in wild #chimps and #bonobos at University of Zurich @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social

In honor of Prime Days, why not buy a book from an indie bookstore to spread climate hope through Little Free Libraries? Link below. #climate #kidlit #IndieBookstores @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Bookshop apparently has free shipping right now, a good time to pick up my book and others! 😊 SQL for Data Scientists bookshop.org/p/books/sql-...

🐕Predatory Motor Patterns doggiedrawings.net/blogs/whats-... 🐕LINK to download: doggiedrawings.net/products/pre...

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

My paper on brain-behavior differences in premodern and modern breed dogs is officially published — and my dog Tamsin made the cover! 🐶 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...

Deadline this Monday! Talk and poster submissions for FOSSIL 2025 (FlyOver State Scientists Integrating Evolution) are due by July 7th! Don’t wait and miss out; go submit now at fossilconference.mystrikingly.com

Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️ The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will be October 6-8! More information coming soon about invited speakers, submissions, and schedule. Get excited! (hosted by your BTS friends @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social)

Lund University is offering 2-year visiting professorships (20% time) for full professors, with a deadline of August 17. Women are encouraged to apply. More info: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:835541/ #job

Proud to share our newest gecko paper published @ecol-evol.bsky.social! We raised geckos either with or without their parents and found some effects on the development of behaviour and cognition! Read the rest here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Position open: Technician (Animal Behaviour) at the University of Lincoln. jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/

I told you we’d be back

New open-access course: Doing Data Analysis with AI gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis. Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.

Updated my "AI, LLMs, and bullshit" mini-lecture post in my dataviz class with a new section on vibe coding datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

An oldie that was partly inspired by a conversation with the great birder Laura Erickson. The name Bufflehead actually comes from the buffalo.

Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test. Amazing research! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...