@vernouilleta.bsky.social & Elias Garcia-Pelegrin put together such an interesting and varied symposium on Social Cognition in a Human World #ECBB2026 🌍🐤

Had such a fun week at @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Lots of exciting talks and so many lovely and inspiring people. Very grateful to the organisers & to ASAB for my travel grant! 🐤 #ecbb2026

Excited to share that last week I successfully defended my PhD thesis 🎉
I am beyond grateful for everyone who has supported me on this journey, I couldn’t have done it alone!
#PhDone

New paper out!

Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤
We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence

Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC

Had a nice break seeing friends, family, and (most importantly) Tabitha

New results means new punny titles

Full circle ! 🥚

Long overdue egg update 🐥

Had an amazing week in Kolkata at #Behaviour2025! Very grateful for the opportunity to present my work 🐥 Also super glad I got to explore the city and see some of it's wildlife, and to chat cool science with so many nice people!

On my way to Kolkata for #Behaviour2025 !! Still using the same joke in my titles but I promise new results and cute chick photos 🐥

Here we go again 🥚🤞

Nice day out with the @ecobird.bsky.social team! saw some birds, ate some snacks & embarrassed myself in some beach games 🥐🦆⛱️

Using my powers (ability to yap for ages about bird cognition research) for good (teaching msc students)

Finally, a photo I can use to answer the "what do you do at work" question

Can we give students extra marks for Good Meme Use?

444 feathers, ready for the next steps for corticosterone measurement 🪶

Hi Bluesky 👋 I’m a PhD student @ecobird.bsky.social investigating the effects of early-life social environments on the behaviour and cognition of birds 🐦🧠 Follow for cute chick pics, stay for cool science 🐤😎

Had a super fun week at the @eslr.bsky.social workshop! Learned a lot and enjoyed the nice collaborative vibe 😊 big thanks to the organisers, speakers and other participants! 🏞🐥💻