My chemical bromance: a reptilian perspective. ⚗️🦎👅

If that made you giggle, check the thread on our most recent paper 🧵

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#ecoevo #SciComm #BehCog #BehavioralEcology #Ethology #AcademicSky #BehSci #wildlife #behaviour #ecology 🌍

Excited to share my 3rd PhD paper was published at New Year in Appetite, & provides valuable insights into cognitive & motivational mechanisms that promote binge eating in the community. Read the open access full text here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
#CogSci #Cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #BehCog #PhDSky

AI is transforming our understanding of animal emotions. Researchers have developed a machine-learning model that accurately decodes positive and negative emotions in seven ungulate species by analyzing their vocal patterns. Are we on the verge of reading animal emotions?
#BehCog #CogSci #Ethology

Corvids cache food—surprisingly much in equatorial zones! breeding system, trophic niche, and habitat breadth not found to affect whether a species is a specialist or generalist cacher

specialist caching (seasonal, seeds/nuts for long-term retrieval) likely ancestral state

#BehCog behav eco evo 🧪

In parallel, new technologies, from AI-driven analyses to human brain organoids, are allowing scientists to investigate biological questions about language itself without subjecting animals to invasive experimentation.

#AnimalRights #Bioethics #BehCog #PhilMind #ConSci #prattle💬

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Pretty cool study on training's impact on cognition and inhibitory control. 🧠🐕 #cognition #dog #DogTraining #BehCog #CogSci #PositiveReinforcement

Call for abstracts and scholarship deadline for the Animal Behavior Management Alliance conference. 🧠 #behavior #cogsci #ethology #birds #mammals #zoo #AnimalBehavior #BehCog

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