Marie Hébert

🚨Job Alert plz RT!

Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!

We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals

Open-rank

apply.interfolio.com/178146

If you are interested in animal cognition and birds, a reminder to apply for this PhD opportunity in our lab! Applications close December 10th

3D printed Song Sparrow finished!

Just a few days left!

Interested in avian behaviour—especially reproductive and social behaviour— and looking for a Research Assistant position? We’d love to hear from you!

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More info and apply here: tinyurl.com/577cx9tj

The surprising crab-trap–pulling behavior is described in this article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We recently published a paper on how animal tool use is conceptualized, offering a framework to make sense of its different forms 👇📃 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #evosky #philsci

Vienna dog owners! Clever Dog Lab researchers and I have new study for your pups to participate in😊

Only need one visit to the lab to play with their favorite toy😍
Email to participate today! Rita.goetz@vetmeduni.ac.at
@asommese.bsky.social

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🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches.

tinyurl.com/577cx9tj

Deadline: 03/12/2025
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🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨

Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis From two avian neurobiologists, a captivating deep dive into the mechanisms that control avian behavior.The last few decades have produced extensive resear

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies.
#neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶

direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Hello! My name is Gabriella and in April '26 l will graduate with my PhD in compcog from VetMedUni Vienna🤩👩🏻‍🎓🦜🐒🐕🇦🇹

With this in mind, I am excited to soon extend my passion for animal behavior/cognition in a post-doc/job position, so any recs/ connections would be greatly appreciated!!
Website below☺️

The primary duty will be to video score reproductive and social behaviours of paired zebra finches, to ultimately combine these data with large physiology datasets as part of our BBSRC funded grant: gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

St Andrews based position, not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches.

tinyurl.com/577cx9tj

Deadline: 03/12/2025
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Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification” Two “mummies” of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens preserve a fleshy crest over the neck and trunk, an interdigitating spike row over the hips and tail, and hooves cappi...

Really cool! Edmontosaurus had hooves!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My first official post to say see you at #SfN2025! I'm presenting some new ephys work with @healeylab.bsky.social looking at auditory responses to chick calls in zebra finch parents! 🐦🧠🔊🐣 Tuesday @ 2pm (PSTR346, Vocal/Social Communication). ALSO ~ my lab is opening soon and we're HIRING!! (see ⬇️)

From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?

#PhD position!

Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees

Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.

Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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A wide range of abiotic and biotic variables leaves most variation in bird nest architecture unexplained | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Nests are the locations or containers for offspring, and mediate interactions between offspring and the environment. However, understanding how environmental factors shape the evolution of nest archit...

New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍

From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews.

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Anthropocentric bias may explain research disparities between animal tool use and nest building Scientists are not immune from bias. Studying nonhuman species objectively is inherently challenging, especially for ‘charismatic’ and ostensibly huma…

Anthropocentric bias may explain research disparities between animal tool use and nest building www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in London’s Natural History Museum

Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton now be on display in London’s Natural History Museum

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.

Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8

Fig. 1 from the article: nests of Dartford warblers.

Fig. 2 from the article: The composition of nest materials and nesting habitats of Dartford warblers. (a) Nest materials were separated into different material categories, (b) Types of nesting habitats included.

NEW PAPER: Dartford warblers use nest materials based on local habitat, but material type doesn't affect insulation or breeding success—suggesting flexible, functional nest-building across environments.

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#ornithology #birds #reproduction #nest @shokosugasawa.bsky.social

Opinion | I Love Finding Birds’ Nests, but What’s in Them Troubles Me

"Yes, it is heartbreaking for what this says about the world we humans have made. But I still find wonder in the stories these nests tell about the lives and circumstances of their architects and the deliberate choices they made." Dr. Vanya Rohwer's #naturewriting. #birds #birding #nature

Atlantic Puffin legs with worn out plastic band.

After years of seeing the faded plastic band on this puffin and being unable to re-sight it, we finally re-captured it and replaced its bands. This bird was first banded as chick in 1996 making it 29 years old (!) and among the oldest in our records. 🦑🪶🧪

Egg-laying mammal thought to be extinct rediscovered — ABC News The long-beaked echidna had not been documented since the 1960s.

Timeline cleanse, the best kind: Egg-laying mammal thought to be extinct rediscovered - ABC News

YouTube video by The Philosopher "The Ethics of De-Extinction": Jay Odenbaugh in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou

ICYMI: Jay Odenbaugh in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou on
"The Ethics of De-Extinction"
Is it scientifically possible, is it conceptually possible, and is it ethically permissible to bring back a species whose environment is gone?
#Philosophy #philsci #moralphil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh9j...

Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders

Artificial feeders have allowed the Anna’s hummingbird to expand their range out of Southern California up to the state’s northern end.

They have also driven a transformation of the birds themselves.