Leanne Proops

Thank you! See you at the next one 😁

28.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had an interesting and inspiring time at #ReadEmo25, thanks for inviting me! It was great to catch up on the latest in human emotion research and to bring horses to the event (not literally!) 🐎😁

28.06.2025 09:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.

Check out my article in The Conversation, all about our latest paper, which created an extensive catalogue of horse facial expressions 🐴 Thank you so much for inviting me to contribute! #TheConversation #equineresearch #facialexpressions

theconversation.com/horses-have-...

10.06.2025 20:50 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Something we've been meaning to do for years - documenting horse facial expressions during social interactions using EquiFACS. Well done @kate-lewis.bsky.social! And thanks for the netFACS support @jmicheletta.bsky.social 🐴
@parkerlab.bsky.social

29.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function Understanding cause and function of animal facial behaviour can provide key insights into the animal’s cognitive and emotional state. The Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) has characterise...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴

Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193...

@leanneproops.bsky.social
@uop-ccep.bsky.social

28.05.2025 09:44 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.

📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open!
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.

We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses

🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA

13.05.2025 12:41 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.

Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.

Please share widely!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

27.05.2025 18:39 — 👍 16    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

Dr Teresa Romero, Dr Jerome Micheletta, Dr Marine Joly and Dr Francesca De Petrillo in front of their booth „Smart monkeys: how primates think and why they need your help!“

A paper cup with a face of a macaque

Pledge wall with post-it notes left by children who visited the booth

Dr Francesca De Petrillo and Dr Marine Joly present their cognitive tasks using hands-on activities to children

We had a fantastic time showcasing our research at the Science is Wonderful! fair organised by the European Commission in Brussels. Thanks to #MSCA for the invitation and to all children who visited our booth 😃 🐒 @francescadp.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social

15.03.2025 09:30 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

The back corner of the LSB

We want you to work with us!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

17.12.2024 12:35 — 👍 57    🔁 72    💬 0    📌 3

Luke Collins, Louise Loyant, Sarah Salphati, Amanda Bartlett and Marine Joly

Thanks to the Bristol Zoological Society for hosting such a great @primatesocietygb.bsky.social meeting! It was nice to catch up with our @uop-ccep.bsky.social PhD students: Luke Collins, @louiseloyant.bsky.social, @sarahsalphati.bsky.social and Amanda Bartlett.

13.12.2024 13:05 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Dusky langurs - an example of primate natal colouration

🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?!

www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.

22.11.2024 11:46 — 👍 54    🔁 58    💬 3    📌 3

I’m very excited to have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study co-representation across 3 cultures (Uganda, Republic of Korea and UK) in dyads and groups.

I’ll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc. More details to follow, but please drop me a message if you’re interested! 😊🌍

28.11.2024 09:00 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 0

UK failing animals with just one welfare inspector for every 878 farms – report Only 2.5% of more than 300,000 farms were inspected at least once in 2022 and 2023, researchers find

We should be worried about the UK's capacity to adequately monitor and enforce animal welfare regulations
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

24.11.2024 13:14 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Predatory publisher MDPI is trying to influence the Polish government to prevent them from giving low scores for predatory journals, asking scientists to support them in this letter. I encourage Polish scientists to do exactly the opposite, and support the current project proposed by our government.

21.11.2024 10:51 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Now hiring! Hunter College CUNY - Assistant Professor in Psychology, Animal Behavior & Conservation. bit.ly/abcjob

Applications are now open for an Assistant Professorship in Animal Behavior & Conservation, Psychology at Hunter College, CUNY 🐿️ Come join our fabulous faculty!! 🐘 Find more information and apply here: bit.ly/abcjob

20.11.2024 02:30 — 👍 40    🔁 51    💬 1    📌 2

New episode!! 🎉🎙️

A conversation w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social and Dr. Michael Huffman!

We think of medicine as a quintessentially human art. But animals—from bees to bears—have long healed themselves. And, in fact, we humans long learned from their medicinal ways.

Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...

18.11.2024 19:41 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA.
#sediments #aDNA #eDNA

For further details, please see:
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

19.11.2024 01:45 — 👍 65    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 2

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12.11.2024 22:43 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0