Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition
Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvche_v1
July 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Check our new preprint! Our systematic review of 206 reversal learning studies shows that behavioural flexibility research is heavily biased towards birds, rodents, and humans, with most animal diversity virtually untested. #Manymanys #BigTeamScience #ComparativeCognition
Goffins, shrikes, tits — I had the pleasure of talking about all of them at #VetMedUni in Vienna! 🇦🇹🪶🦜🦅
Thanks to @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social for the invitation. 🤩 It was fantastic to catch up with this wonderful group of brilliant people over good 🍻
#ComparativeCognition
Thanks to @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social for the invitation. 🤩 It was fantastic to catch up with this wonderful group of brilliant people over good 🍻
#ComparativeCognition
May 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Goffins, shrikes, tits — I had the pleasure of talking about all of them at #VetMedUni in Vienna! 🇦🇹🪶🦜🦅
Thanks to @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social for the invitation. 🤩 It was fantastic to catch up with this wonderful group of brilliant people over good 🍻
#ComparativeCognition
Thanks to @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social for the invitation. 🤩 It was fantastic to catch up with this wonderful group of brilliant people over good 🍻
#ComparativeCognition
ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
July 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
My first postdoc paper is out in #ScientificReports! 🥳
🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP
#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess
🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP
#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess
Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
Scientific Reports - Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
rdcu.be
October 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
My first postdoc paper is out in #ScientificReports! 🥳
🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP
#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess
🐘 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation
🔗 rdcu.be/eI4NP
#elephants #comparativecognition #openaccess
My hope is that CORVIDATA can support:
• large-scale comparative analyses
• theory-driven tests of ecological & social hypotheses
• conservation-relevant trait-based approaches
The dataset is openly available, and intended as a starting point (4/4) #Corvids #ComparativeCognition #BehaviouralEcology
• large-scale comparative analyses
• theory-driven tests of ecological & social hypotheses
• conservation-relevant trait-based approaches
The dataset is openly available, and intended as a starting point (4/4) #Corvids #ComparativeCognition #BehaviouralEcology
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
My hope is that CORVIDATA can support:
• large-scale comparative analyses
• theory-driven tests of ecological & social hypotheses
• conservation-relevant trait-based approaches
The dataset is openly available, and intended as a starting point (4/4) #Corvids #ComparativeCognition #BehaviouralEcology
• large-scale comparative analyses
• theory-driven tests of ecological & social hypotheses
• conservation-relevant trait-based approaches
The dataset is openly available, and intended as a starting point (4/4) #Corvids #ComparativeCognition #BehaviouralEcology
Tune in This Friday! Dr. @emmatecwyn.bsky.social and Dr. Ben Farrar, two leaders in the field will discuss the application of open science tools in comparative cognition (registration below) 🧪 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #WomenInStem #ComparativeCognition #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #BigTeamScience
Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩
🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟
📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom
🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...
#openscience #bigteamscience
🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟
📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom
🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...
#openscience #bigteamscience
September 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tune in This Friday! Dr. @emmatecwyn.bsky.social and Dr. Ben Farrar, two leaders in the field will discuss the application of open science tools in comparative cognition (registration below) 🧪 #OpenScience #Reproducibility #WomenInStem #ComparativeCognition #CompCog #AnimalBehavior #BigTeamScience
#ComparativeCognition research presented in the #Communication session reveals new findings on how information is conveyed and processed by #Primates, #Avians, #Honeybees, and #Dolphins #CO32026 🧪 🐒🐬🦜🐝
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
April 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
#ComparativeCognition research presented in the #Communication session reveals new findings on how information is conveyed and processed by #Primates, #Avians, #Honeybees, and #Dolphins #CO32026 🧪 🐒🐬🦜🐝
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
🐊 We’re ancient, social, adaptable — not “primitive”.
Studying us helps scientists understand how minds evolve… including yours.
🧠 Evolution leaves clues. We carry them.
evocroproject.github.io
#EvoCro #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehaviour #EUFundedProject #HorizonEurope #MarieCurieActions
Studying us helps scientists understand how minds evolve… including yours.
🧠 Evolution leaves clues. We carry them.
evocroproject.github.io
#EvoCro #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehaviour #EUFundedProject #HorizonEurope #MarieCurieActions
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🐊 We’re ancient, social, adaptable — not “primitive”.
Studying us helps scientists understand how minds evolve… including yours.
🧠 Evolution leaves clues. We carry them.
evocroproject.github.io
#EvoCro #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehaviour #EUFundedProject #HorizonEurope #MarieCurieActions
Studying us helps scientists understand how minds evolve… including yours.
🧠 Evolution leaves clues. We carry them.
evocroproject.github.io
#EvoCro #ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehaviour #EUFundedProject #HorizonEurope #MarieCurieActions
On October 30, I will be giving my LTT at the Center for Phil of Science in Pitts @center4philsci.bsky.social — you can find out more (including the Zoom link) here:
www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/luncht...
#comparativecognition #philbluesky #philosophy #appearance #ltt #pittsburgh
www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/luncht...
#comparativecognition #philbluesky #philosophy #appearance #ltt #pittsburgh
September 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
On October 30, I will be giving my LTT at the Center for Phil of Science in Pitts @center4philsci.bsky.social — you can find out more (including the Zoom link) here:
www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/luncht...
#comparativecognition #philbluesky #philosophy #appearance #ltt #pittsburgh
www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/luncht...
#comparativecognition #philbluesky #philosophy #appearance #ltt #pittsburgh
A reminder that Animal Cognition is always looking for exciting Special Collections (link.springer.com/journal/1007...)! If you have an idea for a topic and are interested in guest editing, please get in touch #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition
Animal Cognition
Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary ...
link.springer.com
August 3, 2026 at 11:25 AM
A reminder that Animal Cognition is always looking for exciting Special Collections (link.springer.com/journal/1007...)! If you have an idea for a topic and are interested in guest editing, please get in touch #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition
Who's the good boy? 🐶🐦⬛
Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️
Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️
Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
Can an old rook learn new tricks?
YouTube video by Cambridge University
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Who's the good boy? 🐶🐦⬛
Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️
Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️
Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
Always interesting to read this group's stuff on working memory & their comparison between humans and other animals => www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#comparativecognition #culturalevolution
#comparativecognition #culturalevolution
February 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Always interesting to read this group's stuff on working memory & their comparison between humans and other animals => www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#comparativecognition #culturalevolution
#comparativecognition #culturalevolution
Just read a paper on honeybees, with around 1 million neurons, bees show abstract numerical reasoning once thought unique to primates. Meaning:
✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5).
✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!!
#AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition
✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5).
✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!!
#AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction
Honeybees learn to add or subtract one item from a set using color cues and can interpolate operations to a novel number.
www.science.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just read a paper on honeybees, with around 1 million neurons, bees show abstract numerical reasoning once thought unique to primates. Meaning:
✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5).
✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!!
#AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition
✔️ They can count (up to about 4–5).
✔️ They can even add & subtract, when trained with colour cues!!
#AnimalCognition #Neuroscience #ComparativeCognition
Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect
33rd International Conference on Comparative Cognition is 15-18 April 2026 at the Delta Hotel in Montreal, Canada!
#CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social
comparativecognition...
#CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social
comparativecognition...
May 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
33rd International Conference on Comparative Cognition is 15-18 April 2026 at the Delta Hotel in Montreal, Canada!
#CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social
comparativecognition...
#CO3_2026 @ComparativeCog @compcogsoc.bsky.social
comparativecognition...
#Wallabies, #Hornbills, #Cows, #Pigs & #Wolves will all be featured in our #ProblemSolving session. #ComparativeCognition scientists will present their findings on individual and/or social object engagement. #CO32026 🐺🐷🐮 🧪
📷 @jcong91.bsky.social
#AnimalBehavior
📷 @jcong91.bsky.social
#AnimalBehavior
April 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
#Wallabies, #Hornbills, #Cows, #Pigs & #Wolves will all be featured in our #ProblemSolving session. #ComparativeCognition scientists will present their findings on individual and/or social object engagement. #CO32026 🐺🐷🐮 🧪
📷 @jcong91.bsky.social
#AnimalBehavior
📷 @jcong91.bsky.social
#AnimalBehavior
You know you wanna hear me talk to Tanya Shoot about plant cognition
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/08/epis...
#comparativecognition #plantcognition #podcast #psychology
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/08/epis...
#comparativecognition #plantcognition #podcast #psychology
Episode 29 (Season 3, Episode 2) - Tanya Shoot
Tanya's research is at the intersection of behavioural ecology, evolution, and animal and plant cognition. The main questions they ask revol...
www.spitandtwitches.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
You know you wanna hear me talk to Tanya Shoot about plant cognition
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/08/epis...
#comparativecognition #plantcognition #podcast #psychology
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/08/epis...
#comparativecognition #plantcognition #podcast #psychology
New developments in #RelationalLearning theories and supportive technology will be featured in the upcoming #Reasoning session #CO32026 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #ComparativePsychology
April 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
New developments in #RelationalLearning theories and supportive technology will be featured in the upcoming #Reasoning session #CO32026 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #ComparativePsychology
Join Jessica Bodily of Auburn University at Montgomery and me as we talk about suboptimal choices in reinforcement, gambling and other cool comparative cognition stuff! Oh yeah, also, Jess is @compcogsoc.bsky.social president.
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/09/epis...
#ComparativeCognition #Podcast
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/09/epis...
#ComparativeCognition #Podcast
Episode 31 (Season 3, Episode 4) - Jessica Bodily
Jess received her Bachelors in Psychology with Honors in 2007 from the University of Kentucky. She subsequently earned her MS (2010) and Ph....
www.spitandtwitches.com
September 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Join Jessica Bodily of Auburn University at Montgomery and me as we talk about suboptimal choices in reinforcement, gambling and other cool comparative cognition stuff! Oh yeah, also, Jess is @compcogsoc.bsky.social president.
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/09/epis...
#ComparativeCognition #Podcast
www.spitandtwitches.com/2026/09/epis...
#ComparativeCognition #Podcast
Opening remarks by CCS President Noam Miller commence #CO32026, setting the stage for a conference focused on advancing #ComparativeCognition research across diverse species! 🐒🐢🐀🐶🐥🐍🐟🐦⬛🕷️🦧🐝🐜🤓🌱 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology #Learning&Behavior
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology #Learning&Behavior
April 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Opening remarks by CCS President Noam Miller commence #CO32026, setting the stage for a conference focused on advancing #ComparativeCognition research across diverse species! 🐒🐢🐀🐶🐥🐍🐟🐦⬛🕷️🦧🐝🐜🤓🌱 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology #Learning&Behavior
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology #Learning&Behavior
It highlights learning, cooperation and flexibility across taxa, while showing how new technologies reveal cognition and human impacts on behaviour.
#MarineCognition #AnimalCognition #BehavioralEcology #MarineBiology #Evolution #ComparativeCognition #Neurobiology #OceanScience
#MarineCognition #AnimalCognition #BehavioralEcology #MarineBiology #Evolution #ComparativeCognition #Neurobiology #OceanScience
Client Challenge
doi.org
September 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It highlights learning, cooperation and flexibility across taxa, while showing how new technologies reveal cognition and human impacts on behaviour.
#MarineCognition #AnimalCognition #BehavioralEcology #MarineBiology #Evolution #ComparativeCognition #Neurobiology #OceanScience
#MarineCognition #AnimalCognition #BehavioralEcology #MarineBiology #Evolution #ComparativeCognition #Neurobiology #OceanScience
Join Dr. Jennifer Vonk for part 2 of the #OutstandingStudent presentation competition, where #Communication is a strong theme. From #AI to rope pulling tasks, our remarkable students hold the future of #ComparativeCognition. #CO32026 🤓 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
April 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Join Dr. Jennifer Vonk for part 2 of the #OutstandingStudent presentation competition, where #Communication is a strong theme. From #AI to rope pulling tasks, our remarkable students hold the future of #ComparativeCognition. #CO32026 🤓 🧪
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
#AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
In the #CO32026 #Memory session, Dr. Herbranson will present new findings in pigeon rule learning reversal. Cassandra Sheridan and Dr. Jon Crystal will follow with supportive olfactory evidence of #EpisodicMemory in rats, independent of familiarity 🐀 🧪
#ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehavior
#ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehavior
April 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
In the #CO32026 #Memory session, Dr. Herbranson will present new findings in pigeon rule learning reversal. Cassandra Sheridan and Dr. Jon Crystal will follow with supportive olfactory evidence of #EpisodicMemory in rats, independent of familiarity 🐀 🧪
#ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehavior
#ComparativeCognition #AnimalBehavior
The special lecture by Dr. Robert Cook is starting! 🎉 A leader in #ComparativeCognition, he is presenting work on #VisualPerception, #Learning, and #Memory, examining how #Animals, from pigeons to humans, process and act on complex sensory information #CO32026 🧪
#ComparativePsychology
#ComparativePsychology
April 18, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The special lecture by Dr. Robert Cook is starting! 🎉 A leader in #ComparativeCognition, he is presenting work on #VisualPerception, #Learning, and #Memory, examining how #Animals, from pigeons to humans, process and act on complex sensory information #CO32026 🧪
#ComparativePsychology
#ComparativePsychology
Studying very different species helps us understand what’s shared and what’s unique in how minds work.
Crocodiles offer a window into how cognition evolves across vertebrates.
www.instagram.com/p/DT8mWBICFF...
#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #ComparativeCognition
Crocodiles offer a window into how cognition evolves across vertebrates.
www.instagram.com/p/DT8mWBICFF...
#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #ComparativeCognition
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Studying very different species helps us understand what’s shared and what’s unique in how minds work.
Crocodiles offer a window into how cognition evolves across vertebrates.
www.instagram.com/p/DT8mWBICFF...
#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #ComparativeCognition
Crocodiles offer a window into how cognition evolves across vertebrates.
www.instagram.com/p/DT8mWBICFF...
#EvOCRO #CrocodileLessons #ComparativeCognition