Mark O’Hara

Thank you ☺️🙏

Honoured to be among such great colleagues @barbaraklump.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social @auersperga.bsky.social and Justus Piater, to study fundamental drivers of innovation. And hugely grateful to the @fwf-at.bsky.social to be able to continue the fieldwork on the Tanimbar Islands 🌴🕊️🤠

Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.

#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Well deserved 🫶

Ze Frank is the best, and "the Goffin's cockatoos make the New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian crows" (this it's an actual comment on YouTube!)

Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!)

"I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"

📢 #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

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...
Please share / apply!🙏

Seizing opportunities: Object neophobia as a factor mediating technical innovation in Goffin´s cockatoos? Most studies find substantial inter-individual differences in problem-solving performance within a species, which can drastically influence an individual´s fitness. It has been suggested that innovati...

Excited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella!

@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org

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How cool! Thanks Jolyon et al. 🙏
I guess Christmas came early this year 😁

We had a most wonderful time @uparisnanterre.bsky.social and the opportunity for catching up with old friends and making new ones 🙌
Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶

Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂

sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org

A while back @bmioduszewska.bsky.social and I did a bit with the fabulous @drracheldale.bsky.social and Megan Lambert, that you can check out here. As I’m lazy with my socials, they already have an new episode out with @goatswhostare.bsky.social… Also very worth listening to 👍

Cognitive Science folks, do you have a few minutes to help us create a pool of words that describe aesthetic experiences in science?

Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8...

Please share for wider participation!

Thanks again for the great experience 🙏

Berenika & I had a wonderful time visiting České Budějovice and the University of South Bohemia and talking a bit about the research on Tanimbar 🙌 Thank you so much @laniusondrej.bsky.social for the great experience and hosting us 🙏

Anyone interested in doing research in Indonesia?
The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions.
Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually.
More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id