Ivo Jacobs

A carrion crow lying down in a meadow, surrounded by grass and small flowers.

"Corvids are so sinister, mysterious, and ominous"
Meanwhile, corvids in real life:
#photography #birds

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Thanks Rob!

A Eurasian nuthatch clinging upside down and vertically against a tree trunk in its typical pose, while holding a sprouted seed in its bill tip.

The trophy of a nuthatch
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Just silly little muppets

Three little grey-brown birds with yellow bills looking around while perched on a mossy stone

Three black redstart fledglings waiting for the next food delivery
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Close-up of a rainbow bee-eater from the side, showing its vibrant colourful plumage, red iris, and decurved bill, against a brown-grey background.

Portrait of a rainbow bee-eater
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Thank you!

Monochrome picture of several trees, with a crow perched in one, with thick smoke covering the grasses and termite mounds on the ground.

A Torresian crow in the smoky aftermath of a bushfire.
NT, Australia
#photography #birds

A monochrome image showing the silhouette of a black kite - its tail turned diagonally compared to its horizontal wings - through thick smoke with soot particles flying around, and dark branches of a dead tree on the side.

Masterfully navigating through thick smoke and rising soot, a black kite forages for flying insects escaping the blaze.
NT, Australia
#photography #birds

A dark image of a nankeen night heron juvenile facing the camera directly, with most of its body too dark to see details except some light on its back, bill, and yellow eyes.

Gaze upon this nankeen night heron, and despair
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Dark monochrome picture of a Torresian crow - its bright eyes standing out - perched on top of a metal sign that says "Registered sacred site. Beyond this point lies a site of traditional significance to Aboriginal people. Please respect the sanctity of this area."

Torresian crow with an important message.
#photography #birds

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

The fledgling Eurasian nuthatch and its parent appear to be on a horizontal trunk, but are actually clinging vertically to a big tree trunk, surrounded by moss and bark.

A nuthatch fledgling watches closely as its parent looks for bugs on a tree trunk (shot vertically up the tree).
#photography #birds

Thanks! Neuroscience often does its own thing in parallel to animal cognition, which I think will benefit from its models and simulation aspects. The Pezzulo et al. paper has a good introduction if you're interested.

The link above should give free access for 50 days, but if it doesn't work for you just shoot me an email

Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck In a recent article in TiCS, Lind and Jon-And [1] argued that the sequence memory of animals constitutes a cognitive bottleneck, the ‘sequence bottleneck’, and that mental simulations require faithful representation of sequential information. They therefore concluded that animals cannot perform mental simulations, and that behavioral and neurobiological studies suggesting otherwise are best interpreted as results of associative learning. Through examples of predictive maps, cognitive control, and active sleep, we illustrate the overwhelming evidence that mammals and birds make model-based simulations, which suggests the sequence bottleneck to be more limited in scope than proposed by Lind and Jon-And [1].

Online Now: Model-based animal cognition slips through the sequence bottleneck

Thanks! Indeed, and unfortunately we couldn't get everything in with the strict word limit.

Side view of a fledgling black redstart in a garden, holding a dead bug in its bill

A black redstart fledgling unsure what to do with this dead bug it found
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Our letter is out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

We argue against a recent claim that animals cannot make mental simulations because they supposedly do not reliably memorize sequences. The evidence for model-based animal cognition is too overwhelming. 🧪
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKMt_V1r-...

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

We're hiring📢📢📢
To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

Just a handsome black kite with soot-covered feet
#birds

Job opening: Collections Editor The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is seeking a full-time Collections Editor for HRAF’s online databases. Position Summary HRAF seeks a knowledgeable and experienced Collecti...

Reminder: HRAF is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Collections Editor (full-time) to manage document content production for the HRAF’s online academic databases of ethnography and archaeology (eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology).

hraf.yale.edu/job-opening-...

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

Job alert! Assistant professorship in humanities (including cognitive science) at Lund University (deadline 17 Aug).

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

See the Cognitive Zoology group: www.lucs.lu.se/research/cog...

And the recent focus on Deep Time Cognition: www.deeptimecognition.lu.se/start

In case you didn't know, galah fledglings sounds like toy machine guns when being fed
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Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

Job alert! Assistant professorship in humanities (including cognitive science) at Lund University (deadline 17 Aug).

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

See the Cognitive Zoology group: www.lucs.lu.se/research/cog...

And the recent focus on Deep Time Cognition: www.deeptimecognition.lu.se/start

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Black kites gather at Australian bushfires to hunt flying insects fleeing the blaze
#birds

A monochrome picture of a dead branch against a grey sky with several woodswallows perching, arriving, or leaving on the wing in a dynamic composition.

White-breasted woodswallows come and go to hunt flying insects
#photography #birds