Jenny Michlich

My squirrel friend is getting bolder

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Taylor swift
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
Jenny Lewis
Adrianne Lenker
Mikey Cyrus
Songs for Moms
Camera Obscura
Anri

IUB OER Programs Save Students $2M+ IUB OER programs saved students $2M+ by funding faculty to create free, open course materials.

IUB OER Programs Save Students $2M+ | Indiana University Libraries https://libraries.indiana.edu/iub-oer-programs-save-students-2m-0

Thank you so much for writing this.

New publication! ✨

Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?

@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.

🔓Link in reply

Reading it now!

An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

🚨 Calling researchers, students, technicians in cognition 🚨

We’re running a 10-min anonymous survey on how animal cognition is defined and studied across disciplines (from ecology, ethology, psychology, neurology, etc). 🧠✨

Scan the QR code & share widely

#AnimalCognition #ResearchSurvey #Science

Basic Principles of Cognition 1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

AI and animals | Balancing risks and opportunities 6.30pm Tues 30 Sept | Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Leonie Bossert Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

My new Centre for Animal Sentience will launch on 30 Sept with a public event on "How AI is helping - and harming - animals" and you can register for a free ticket now. Please join us! www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A stone carving of two toads, on an image of ruined ancient foundation, with the caption "Giant, wobbling iceberg gets too close to town for comfort"

I've seen icebergs, Weather Network. This is certainly an unusual one.

🌐 Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2025!
September 18–19 | Free Virtual Conference

✨ Keynote by Dr. Maureen O’Leary
✨ Talks on morphology, FAIR data, and open science
✨ Hands-on workshops & curation office hours

👉 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Orcas Sometimes Give Humans Presents Of Food And We Don’t Know Why Combined with their recent fad for sinking yachts, killer whales are starting to look like the Robin Hoods of the sea.

🐋 Wild orcas offer prey to humans

In a rare set of encounters, killer whales were observed giving fish, mammals, & even seaweed to humans at sea. Scientists suggest it may be a form of interspecies altruism.

🔗 www.iflscience.com/orcas-someti...

#SciComm #AnimalBehaviour #Orcas 🧪

😙 Whistle while you sing 😙

Preprint from Smith et al. (@evolbrain.bsky.social) on biomechanics of singing mouse song

🐭 larynx emits pitch w/out vocal membrane vibration -> whistle mechanism
🐭 relies on laryngeal air sac
🐭 ablations narrow down to edge or cavity model

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Maybe worth emphasizing that yes this dataset contains 10 (astral) years of near continuous wild mouse tracking

We’ve made it fully open source for the first time here: bit.ly/4lfFBEk

Explanations of data tables at the link above and in our supp info: bit.ly/4lb1Bjs

We hope people explore it!

Graphical abstract for "Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice." The abstract has, from top to bottom, a title, four middle image panels, and two bottom text panels. Image title: "Vocal communication in social groups of wild-free living house mice" Middle image panels from left to right: (1) An aerial snap shot of the region where the study site is located, an agricultural landscape in rural Switzerland. (2) An image of the study site, a small barn in the forest inhabited by mice. (3) An image of a radio frequency identification (RFID) box used to track mouse social interactions. A mouse is entering the box from the left while another sits outside. (4) A spectrogram showing example vocalizations - one low frequency squeak and one ultrasonic call - recorded from an RFID box. Bottom panels: Left: Data Collection  - 10 years of RFID-based tracking data (from 6,946 mice) - 15 months of acoustic monitoring (totaling 6,594 hours) - Machine learning for vocal detection and labeling (CNN) Right: Key Findings - Vocalization is seasonal (most in spring and summer) - Vocalization is associated with the presence of pups - Vocalization is correlated with social group dynamics

Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc‬!

10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁

paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD
data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx

#bioacoustics #neuroskyence

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emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Photo of four philosophers standing in a row: Tony Chemero, Mel Andrews, Zvi Biener, Angela Potochnik

Congratulations to Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social for successfully defending their dissertation, The Math is Not the Territory: On the Uses & Abuses of Machine Learning & Other Mathematical Modelling Strategies! #philsky #philsci @ucphilosophy.bsky.social

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴

Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193...

@leanneproops.bsky.social
@uop-ccep.bsky.social

just saw @paleopragmatist.bsky.social reading this

Looking for internship student who would like to learn about pig behaviour and cognition. When: July-August 2025, Where: Warschau, Poland

I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app

The effect of social structure on vocal flexibility in monk parakeets | Royal Society Open Science The social complexity hypothesis argues that communicative complexity arises as a result of social complexity, with this occurring through mechanisms including plasticity and selection. Most research to date has focused on ultimate drivers of repertoire ...

Our latest paper just came out. We found that more social parrots have a better vocabulary and females produce more variable call types than males. You can read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.... (PS: the bird in the picture is not a parrot but the cover of RSOS.)

NYU Launches the Wildlife Inclusive Local Development (WILD) Lab New lab will advance research and policy to support wild animals in urban environments

1/ The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is growing! Thanks to a generous grant from the New York Community Trust, our team is thrilled to announce a brand-new, first-of-its-kind project at the science-policy nexus: the Wildlife Inclusive Local Development (WILD) Lab.

Sylvia found her cousins!

Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys Metacognition, or monitoring and controlling one's knowledge, is a key feature of human cognition. Accumulating evidence shows that foundational forms of metacognition are already present in young in...

Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys - by @yiyunh.bsky.social & @alexrosati.bsky.social #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/desc...

AS LONG AS THERE IS LOVE, THERE WILL BE GRIEF. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved. As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisles of stores we once frequented, in the half-finished bottle of wine we pour out, in the whiff of cologne we get two years after they've been gone. Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, "Love was here." In the finer print, quietly, "Love still is." HEIDI PRIEBE

“As long as there is love, there will be grief….Grief is a neon sign…broadcasting loudly, ‘Love was here.’ In the finer print, quietly, ‘Love still is.’”

Sharing this with deep gratitude to author @heidipriebe.bsky.social.

Vocal communication between humans and animals In this article, we review the scientific literature examining vocal communication between humans and other animals, with a focus on dog-human interac…

Your dog understands you (& vice-versa). But why and how? 👇 New review paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research & Co.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bioacoustics #dog