@louisemackie.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Konstanz β’ PhD at Messerli Research Institute π π€Έ π΅ MSc was at the University of St Andrews Scottish π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ she/her www.louisemackie.org
Also knew airport security would flag me for this apparatus π π€£
Two exciting conferences in a week is a lot π ( @cultconf.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at ), topped with many catch ups and events (@raccoonologist.bsky.social) in between, I've ended up knocking myself out this weekend π€. So forever grateful to my scientist connections in Europe, thanks for having me β€οΈ
A lovely visit to the CASCB at University of Konstanz! Thank you for having me this week @uni-konstanz.de β€οΈ
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! β€οΈβπ₯
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Have you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? π Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! π€© Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ππΎ very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
We aren't so"old" :')
Nothing like unwinding after #ASABWinter2025 with friends old and new in the pub π» Iβm truly knackered!
Soo many of us attending #ASAB25 ! @asab-meetings.bsky.social
It's retro now...
Going to make a collage of posters presented at #ASABWinter2025! Want to be included like these awesome ladies? Drop a photo below β¬οΈ
Maybe only humans have a call for Mushroom Mushroom ππ±π¦‘π
π Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux π who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" ποΈ supervised by Fumihiro Kano π
MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 π
To new beginnings π₯
Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too π π₯€
An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! π¦§π¦§π¦§
Months ππ, but an essential part of the recovery process is gossip girl time β€οΈ
Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
Congratulations Dr.!!! π₯³
Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning π₯΄
Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!
Does spotting geese count as birdwatching? #behaviour2025
Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! πΆ
@manydogsproject.bsky.social
We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!
manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
#behaviour2025
@manydogsproject.bsky.social
Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025!
We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!
manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
Was macht uns sozial? π€ Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und HΓΌndin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. πΆπ§βπ¬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlΓΌsseln, die fΓΌr unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. ποΈ
Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research?
Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection!
Ad below ππΆππ
My first paper of the goat cognition project is published! It describes the very first step in starting a project with animals: training the animals. I also tested odd-item search in goats. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
Great idea here, can I be added too? Thank you ππ
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