Vedrana Šlipogor

Very grateful to have been invited as a plenary speaker at the @cteeer2025.bsky.social organised by @ethophilia.bsky.social and supported by @biologists.bsky.social. 🥰 🇮🇳

Due to personal circumstances I sadly could not join in person, but have truly enjoyed our scientific exchanges. ✨ 💚

📣 New paper out (and my first one on ravens)! ❤️ "Startling ravens Corvux corax at foraging: Differences in anti-predator behaviour can be explained by age rather than personality" by Janina Weißenborn, @pesumas.bsky.social, Thomas Bugnyar and myself, out now in Journal of Avian Biology! ✨️😊

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions)

Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture.

Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation"

More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social
is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting)
Website: sites.google.com/view/cteeer-...
@ethophilia.bsky.social
@cteeer2025.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting) @cteeer2025.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social

📣 Our new preprint is out! Check out @epronizius.bsky.social great summary thread on it below... ✨️

@fbm-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social

Mystères de l'Unil

From 22.-25.05 in Mystères de l' @unil.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social, our amazing student helpers and I conducted a fun series of workshops entitled "Parlez-vous primate?", sharing our passion for science and primate communication with children and adults! 🐒 👀👂Hope to repeat it soon! 🥰✨️

City life does not change a small mammal community composition Context Urbanization is a global phenomenon with profound forms of land-use change. Urban areas are characterized by habitat fragmentation and replacement of natural habitat by human-made structures, ...

📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. First published study with @mdammhahn.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

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Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts, study suggests Bonobos use a combination of calls to encourage peace with their partner during mating rituals, research suggests. The discovery is part of a study that suggests our close evolutionary cousins can string together vocalisations to produce phrases with meanings that go beyond the sum of their parts – something often considered unique to human language. Continue reading...

Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans

🌍🤝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐱 𝐈𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩

On Feb 20, researchers met to share insights, highlight synergies & explore future collaborations.

Pr. Micah Murray: "We anticipate concrete mechanisms to foster collaborations."

#Research #Innovation #Collaboration #TheSense #Idiap

Hi Ondra, I'd like to be added. Thanks! 😊

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Exciting PhD position in a wonderful team! ✨️ 😊

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02

📢 Our new comment on challenges and promises of big team science in comparative cognition research has just been published in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. 😍🥳 Read more below!👇

Excited to share our (w/ @Kate Flay and @amcell.bsky.social) first Water Buffalo 🐃 paper published in @cellpress.bsky.social iScience

doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

We show that female buffalo show temporally stable preferential bonds or friendships and that friendships are influenced by personalities.

Have you ever had to go back through old files for a project from 5 years ago (ahem, I have) & just hated Past You for leaving it such a mess?

Yeah, me too. It sucks. Here's a post I made about easy data management tips you can do to help Future You
laskowskilab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2020/08/03/k...

‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others

I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again

www.science.org/content/arti...

Hi Maria, I would love to be added. Thank you!

Hi Hannah, could I be added? Thank you!

Very happy and proud to announce that our ManyBirds Study 1 pre-print is now available! 🥰🐦🥳
It has truly been a pleasure and an honour to contribute to this study involving 136 species and 1439 subjects within Core and Study 1 Leadership Team, working with more than 120 amazing collaborators. ❤️

A huge thank you to the wonderful ManyBirds core and Study 1 Leadership team (see recent team photo: @drrmiller.bsky.social, Vedrana Slipogor, @jimeloism.bsky.social, Stephan Reber, @nomascus.bsky.social, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Megan Lambert) and to all of our collaborators! 3/

This has been a mammoth effort involving 129 collaborators at 77 institutions from 23 countries worldwide to test object neophobia in 1439 subjects from 136 bird species and 25 taxonomic orders! 2/

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/