We have a new paper out! Wonderful work from PhD student Katharine.
06.11.2025 18:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@verityb.bsky.social
Lecturer in Clinical Animal Behaviour. Particular interest in animal training, assistance dogs, human-animal interactions, and human behaviour change. Lapsed primatologist. She/her.
We have a new paper out! Wonderful work from PhD student Katharine.
06.11.2025 18:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Do you want to help us with our new study?๐๐ค
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
Minnesota Zoo is hiring an Animal Behavior & Wellbeing Specialist to work on their animal welfare team! A new position, bachelors-level with at least 3 years experience. Apply by Oct 28.
#job #animalwelfare #zoo #captivewildlife #aza
www.aza.org/jobs?job=48841
New list of medieval dog names just dropped.
12.09.2025 22:07 โ ๐ 284 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 5Our PhD student, Anna Sydรคnheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their ๐ถ .
If you are a dog owner from the ๐ฌ๐ง or ๐ซ๐ฎ, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!
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๐จDream job alert!
Assistant Professor of Animal Cognition, Primate Cognition, or Animal Welfare
CUNY Hunter College (NYC!)
Part of their world-leading animal behavior and conservation grad program!
tinyurl.com/hunter-animal
A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
08.08.2025 11:10 โ ๐ 10054 ๐ 2045 ๐ฌ 249 ๐ 341Happy International Friendship Day! Let's cherish the special bond we share with our fur buddies. โค๏ธ๐ถ
๐พLet's create longer, healthier lives togetherโjoin the Dog Aging Pack at dogagingproject.org!
Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
21.07.2025 18:00 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0whew, that's a wrap on my recording of the audiobook for the new edition of "Inside of a Dog". I mispronounced many words, laughed a lot, and cried at my own ending
21.07.2025 20:43 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Mฤori prof (Ross Ihaka)ย โ and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
Yep... the whole thread is GOLD.
07.05.2025 14:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ChatGPT is the mediocre white man of computers.
Ask it a question and it will stridently answer you even if it doesn't know anything about the topic.
I completely agree. There are so many reasons it is awful, but I do rather like this analogy!
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๐ย New talk: Can Our Pets Tell Us What Theyโre Thinking? with @federicorossano.bsky.socialย ย
Join this lecture and explore the potential and limitations of button-based devices for interspecies communication! ๐ถ๐ญ
๐Saturday, May 17 โฐ4 pm GMT |12 pm EST |9 am PST ๐Register here: https://rb.gy/w8ikcn
Perfect timing! One of our MSc students is interested in doing her dissertation project on dogs soundboard use.
07.05.2025 10:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Your dog understands you (& vice-versa). But why and how? ๐ New review paper by ENES Bioacoustics Research & Co.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#bioacoustics #dog
This is so lovely - with an important underlying message
01.05.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This study isn't great news for the romantic partners of dog owners... ๐
25.04.2025 17:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is such a great thread. I am taking notes ๐
24.04.2025 09:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Final Call!
Our team is conducting research on the spinal health in Frenchies and Dachshunds.
We are interested in hearing from you whether you have experienced spinal problems or not in any dog(s) you own/have owned.
Follow the link to take part in a 10-minute survey.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/spines
Very magnanimous. What they did was awful... how they did it was pretty unforgivable.
16.04.2025 20:47 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The penguins have faced him down and the penguins have won.
09.04.2025 19:45 โ ๐ 243 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 4More dreamy #buyastrangerabook day magic!
@redwellyfeats.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to ยฃ15!
So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch.
UK only.
Meet the adorable Winnie, one of our latest #dogsoftheoffice! ๐พWe canโt wait to share all the cute moments and fun sheโll bring along! Stay tuned!
09.04.2025 20:50 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. Iโve done shits with more mutations.
Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.
Do you have a research interest in how AI can harm or benefit non-human animals? I'm recruiting a Research Officer to drive forward the "Animals and AI" priority area of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE. Please apply by 6 May! ๐๐๐ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
08.04.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 69 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1The @uniofexeternews.bsky.social press release for my upcoming #PhDbyBike is live!
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
We are excited to announce the release of our fourth year of data for the #openscience #dogagingproject. The latest release, available to scientists around the world, includes over 80 million data points on 50,000 dogs! ๐งต 1/n
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