Uniting animal care professionals and academics (across disciplines and taxa) who share common #ZooResearch, open-science goals | Tweets by Leadership Team
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🖐️🐘Is touching an animal important for visitors? Does species matter for making a connection?
Check out our paper comparing stingray and elephant experiences, and touch vs. in-person vs. video experiences 📹 @okczoo #visitorstudies #conservationintent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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🚨 Event Alert! 🚨Curious about putting #OpenScience into practice in comparative cognition? 🐦👶Join our FREE OPEN #webinar on Sept 12 with @emmatecwyn & Dr. Ben Farrar🐸🐐Open to ALL interested in animal & comparative cognition🐒🐙Details & registration: manymanys.github.io/events/
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🥳News update!!!🤩 MM has won an Open Scholarship Catalytic Award by @ORCA_Open! The award will support #OpenScience training for our network as we get closer to data collection for MM1. Stay tuned for details on upcoming open webinars! Learn more here: manymanys.github.io/2025-07-…
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If anyone can help my PhD student by answering a questionnaire on canine obesity we'd be supremely grateful!
Please share as more responses are needed for my PhD questionnaire 😊🐕❤️ @HarperAdamsUni
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Back from a fabulous day @dudleyzoo with the @HarperAdamsUni first years, giving a flavour of the sorts of industries our animal sciences students may go on to work in! Amazing talks by Eve and Ollie. And a lovely day with @PowlesJayne and Emma!
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Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbvWg9
ALT Reversal learning with humans and non-human primates.
ALT Reversal learning with ungulates, rodents, fishes, and marine invertebrates.
ALT Reversal learning with birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
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Apply for a conservation, research or captive care grant up to the value of £1250! Applications must be submitted by the 1st March. For information about how to apply, and previous projects funded by PSGB, see the grants page of our website: buff.ly/48dv99h
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Stay tuned for this new conference on Animal Behaviour and Cognition happening in hybrid mode! Check @ISCABC_ page for more info on how to attend :) #coolscienceevents2025
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Feeling v lucky! First Ghanaian sunset, ice cream and sheeps (not goats, goats are later!). Being a more common and less clever version of @SkylarkHolly for the week, supporting @EMashatise on a scoping exercise identifying areas for sustainable goat production in Africa!
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There’s a lot of important dates coming up for #ASABSpring2025 & #Behaviour2025
ASAB Grants: asab.org/grant-overview
ASAB Spring: asabspring2025.github.io
Behaviour: behaviourindia2025.in
Make sure you also follow @ASABSpring2025 & @Behaviour2025 for updates 😄
ALT ASAB Important Upcoming Dates Logo of animals crossing the street as in the Beatles Abbey Road 2025 Asab SPRING MEETING Liverpool, UK Apr 23-25 Feb 1: ASAB travel grants due Feb 12: Abstracts due Apr 1: Registration ends Logo of a stylised tiger looking up at a tree and sun Behaviour Kolkata India 2025 Aug 25-30 Jan 31: Abstracts due Feb 28: Early bird registration ends Apr 1: ASAB travel grants due Apr 30: Regular registration ends
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I am truly honoured to receive the @ComparativeCog Early Career Award & invite to present at the CO3 conference in March 2025, Albuquerque, US. Incredibly grateful to my family, friends, colleagues, collaborators, mentors & mentees for all your support – thank you so much! 🥰❤️
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🦍 🤮 Gorillas in zoos sometimes regurgitate & reingest their food! Check out our paper to learn about the effects of a high-fiber, low-starch diet on R/R and coprophagy 💩
doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21885
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❗️📢PAPER ALERT📢❗️@TheManyManys just made it to @NatureHumBehav! 🤩🥳 Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: rdcu.be/d30KP. DOI here: doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-0…. @SpringerNature, #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
ALT Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
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Excited about 3 upcoming student opportunities (to start Sept 2025)!
Funded MRes (heifer enrichment) & PhDs through a doc training partnership, 1 = long-term impacts of heifer enrichment 2=understanding personality of small mammals (with @DrElliephants)
Message me for details!
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I have a really exciting PhD opportunity on a highly novel topic: flow state in animals! This is open to students worldwide, drawing on the University of Bristol's strengths in animal cognition, animal welfare and human game design lnkd.in/eJZ4U3jt
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🚨Call for abstracts🚨 CO3 is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 26-29th 2025, and features 5- and 10-min talks, posters, the Early Career Award talk, and a Master Lecture by Professor Suzanne MacDonald. Don't miss it! Deadline: December 13, 2024.
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Interested in applying to the the ABS Student or Developing Nations Research Grants? Join us 10/14 at 11:30 am ET for the ABS Members at Larges' workshop on writing statements, the review process, and the Grant Language Editing Program!
Register here: spltrak.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
ALT The ABS logo with the name of the workshop is in white on turquoise on a top banner. Beneath it, the date and description of the workshop is in dark blue against white.
ALT Descriptions of the grants in black over light grey.
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Wanna learn how you can get involved in @TheManyManys Study 1? Join us at 15:30 UTC / 11:30 ET here: bigteamscienceconference.git… #BTS @TheManyFishes, @ManyPrimates, @Many_Babies, @TheManyGoats, @TheManyBirds, @ManyDogsProject, @ManyZoosProject
🚨Interested in joining a #BigTeamScience collaboration that investigates Reversal Learning across animal taxa?🐡🐵🐶🐭🐦⬛Learn how you can get involved by joining our Lightning Talk session, along with @ManyDogsProject and @Many_Babies, at 15:30 UTC / 11:30 ET @BigTeamSciCon!
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We are thrilled to share the calendar for #ABMABehaviorMonth2024 and invite you all to follow along on the ABMA Facebook Page to join in the fun!
Use the code "Behavior Month" for $5 off
ABMA membership for NEW members only
Valid from September 15th-October 31st 2024
