Christian Nawroth

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

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📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Just posted a new preprint!

Our project builds on @maleenthiele.bsky.social's earlier work and came together through a collaboration with her and @christophvoelter.bsky.social

Preprint link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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The inner dynamics of positive human-animal interactions: Investigating the roles of oxytocin, opioids, dopamine, serotonin and the proteome Research on the neuroendocrine basis of positive interactions has predominantly focused on oxytocin (OT), although dopamine (DA) and opioids also play…

The inner dynamics of positive human-animal interactions: Investigating the roles of oxytocin, opioids, dopamine, serotonin and the proteome

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The statistical fragility of animal cognition findings: a meta-meta-analytic reappraisal

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📢 Webinar on how gamification can inspire positive change in animal welfare research - happening Nov 3rd. Don’t miss it!

Imagine if you make preprints and have them freely and transparently peer review with @peercomjournal.bsky.social ? 😇😇

📢Webinar alert📢

Gamification for positive animal welfare?

Join us & @liftcostaction.bsky.social as Bahadir Odevci explores how digital tools, using challenges, rewards, storytelling & feedback, can inspire positive change.

⏰ 5 pm CET
📅 November 3rd

🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So we made this little Ark Nova Crown 👑 — whoever wins the last game gets to pin it on their office door until someone else takes the throne. 🦁🐐🦉🐟🃏

#boardgames #boardgamestats

📌 Special issue of the 2025 ISAE International Congress 📌

“A Good Life for All Animals”.

Find out more: www.applied-ethology.org/Applied_Anim...

A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social

Getting side-eyed in the barn

Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25.
But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social

Impressions from #gradmeet25 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 — with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits 🐒🐇

@chiarazulberti.bsky.social

#gradmeet25

Kicking off day 3 of #GradMeet25 with more talks on sociality — linking it to dispersal, cognition, and endocrinology! From social dispersal in burying beetles to hormonal changes in cheetahs 🐘🐅🦀🪲

@paulhuber.bsky.social @carolin-schlarb.bsky.social @robotowilliam.bsky.social

We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜

🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️

Great conversations today at our discussion round on perspectives in academia! Thanks to everyone who shared their insights and experiences.

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Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb.

📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST
🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...

Our last session of the day is all about the socials — structure, interactions, and information! From relationship quality in ravens to cooperative behaviour in vampire bats 🐦🐒🦇

@sofiaepsilva.bsky.social

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In our first session of day 2 at #GradMeet25, it’s all about sending and receiving information — from chemical communication in spiders to alarm calls in monkeys. 🕷️🦇🐒

@michellebeyer.bsky.social

Inspiring talk about raven sociality and cognition from Thomas Bugnyar at #gradmeet25. Impressively shows how important long-term studies and observations in the wild are! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social

The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!

Our 2nd session of the morning focuses on personality and flexibility — from aggression rates in lemurs to inhibition in cichlids, showcasing again the incredible diversity of behavioural research! 🐒🐀🐟

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@jannesdoesscience.bsky.social @saskiasp.bsky.social

A buzzing 🐝 poster session at #GradMeet25 — great science, great conversations, great energy! ✨

Our first keynote speaker is Thomas Bugnyar from @univie.ac.at, exploring social complexity and intelligence in ravens!

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Our second session of the day dives into methodologies in animal behaviour research — from facial action coding in wolves to clicker training goats for eye-tracking. Fantastic talks all around!

@nataliekes.bsky.social

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We are almost there - we are looking forward to three exciting days of animal behaviour science and networking!

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