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Matthias Allritz
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Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
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sophiemilward.bsky.social
Come and do a PhD on the development of social cognition across diverse cultures! The successful candidate would be fully funded and have the opportunity to travel to Kenya for data collection. Please contact me if interested. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Beyond the dyad: Development of task co-representation of multiple co-actors across cultures at University of Portsmouth on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Beyond the dyad: Development of task co-representation of multiple co-actors across cultures at University of Portsmouth, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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lrrenner.bsky.social
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?

Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!

Deadline 23 Jan 2026

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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alexisjbreen.bsky.social
There's still time left to apply to join us for the 2026 field season! Deadline: Dec 1 👇🏝️🏕️📊👥
alexisjbreen.bsky.social Alexis Breen @alexisjbreen.bsky.social · Oct 27
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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primbehavecol.bsky.social
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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cornishjackdaws.bsky.social
New paper, led by our former PhD student Victoria Lee. Wild jackdaws recognise the contact calls of their mate: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@uniexecec.bsky.social @guillmcivor.bsky.social
Wild jackdaws recognise the contact calls of their mate - Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition - In stable social environments, the ability to recognise other group members and integrate individual cues with previous experience is likely to be beneficial in mediating social...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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gilbertroberts.bsky.social
I used to enjoy impressing people by identifying birds from a faint call in a wood. Now, thanks to the phenomenal success of the Merlin app, many people are telling me about the birds they have heard. Interesting to read the story of the Merlin app here - www.birds.cornell.edu/home/the-mag...
The Magic of Merlin
Imagine the world as you know it. Now, add 10 million people who care about birds. Did your world just get a little brighter? Ten million. It’s an astronomical number. And yet that is exactly wha...
www.birds.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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andyradford.bsky.social
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:

Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation

UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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jennifer-morinay.bsky.social
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
Colour-ringed long-tailed tit
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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elmanubohn.bsky.social
⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️

🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍

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

Please share/apply!

Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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wild-minds.bsky.social
PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Ella holds a fluffy and sleepy looking toutouwai chick during banding and fits an orange band to its leg
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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christophvoelter.bsky.social
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!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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mikolajhernik.bsky.social
Happened to me: anonymous reviewer requested (the only comment!) some not-directly-relevant refs co-authored by ... the editor. The same was visible in several *publicly available* anonymous reviews under the same editor. After raising this with the publisher's ethics team the editor lost the gig.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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explanimals.bsky.social
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: [email protected]
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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davidpritchard.bsky.social
#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...
From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?
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November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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behavecobie.bsky.social
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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laurasn.bsky.social
We have an open position for a PhD student or postdoc in our group (iSearch Lab with Azzurra Ruggeri at TU Munich): portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... Application deadline is Nov 23, start date early next year.
TUM - Doctoral Candidate or Postdoctoral Researcher (iSearch Lab)
Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München
portal.mytum.de
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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c3polab.bsky.social
Cordyceps—the fungus featured in The Last of Us—is actually real😱 and oh so spooky!🍄

Shout out to @blackforager.bsky.social for knowing all the fungi facts and keeping us safe😂

What’s your favorite spooky animal (or fungi)?

#cordyceps #thelastofus #fungi #zombieantfungus #scicomm
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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symbolicstorage.bsky.social
The deadline for Evolang 2026, the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, has been extended to November 3rd.
Do consider submitting, it's my favourite conference and will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the age-old "city of the seven hills"! #language #linguistics
a picture of Plovdiv
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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alexisjbreen.bsky.social
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
April 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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comparativeminds.bsky.social
We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Shaped by domestication: Did the evolution of facial muscle anatomy and ear morphology in dogs reflect adaptations to humans’ unconscious preferences?
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October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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compcogsoc.bsky.social
Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
comparativecognition.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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delphinedemoor.bsky.social
Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*?

In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts.

tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7
The Adaptive Relationships Framework illustrating how broad socioecological pressures shape the social solutions animals use to meet these challenges, and how these lead to social strategies and emergent structures that help them gain access to those solutions.
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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themanybirds.bsky.social
🐦 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
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 ...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM