Ever wonder if science can help you pick out the best toys for your pup? TDC Director Dr. Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere explains how dogs’ perception of color might affect how they view and interact with their toys. lifehacker.com/should-you-rea…

We are hiring! Need 3 dedicated team players for unique hybrid Lecturer/Project manager roles at Bristol Zoological Society! Teaching the next generation of conservationists and implementing conservation and sustainability actions on the ground in 🇬🇧&🌍1/4 environmentjob.co.uk/jobs?utf8=%E2%…

It's been a productive few weeks. Two papers and one encyclopedia entry accepted for publication. Congrats to the amazing Hunter College ABC students Gabriella E. Smith M.A. @SashaPrasad_ and Nicolette Becker 🖤 for having their first papers published! Can't wait to share soon!

🗣We’re hiring a wildlife faculty member!! Please apply to join us University of Arizona and help lead the critically important (and funded) Mount Graham red squirrel project. And please RT! Full details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Every Friday, the Animal Behavior Society highlights a study in #ConservationBehavior (ABS Conservation): The influence of human disturbance on #wildlife nocturnality by Kaitlyn Gaynor Cheryl Hojnowski @neilhcarter & Justin S. Brashares (Science Magazine): tinyurl.com/8s58uhcj

Congratulations to Nicolette Becker 🖤 and @SashaPrasad_ on their first publication! In this Thinking Dog Center at Hunter College study we aimed to replicate a spontaneous-choice illusion task in dogs and we learned A LOT about all the things that could go wrong! A quick 🧵 animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id…

Research Assistants wanted Taï Chimpanzee Project - If you want to observe the behaviour of wild chimpanzees in the last remaining primary rain-forest patch in West Africa - than apply: eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/…

So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibility in Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus) has just been published in AABS! #IfIFitsISits #CatSquare #CitizenScience #CommunityScience

Check out recent ABC MA alum Gabriella Smith's newly published paper. This study is the first community science project conducted on cat cognition and was entirely conducted and published during the pandemic. So cool. Congrats! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to Hunter College alum Gabriella Smith (MA '20), whose study "If I Fits I Sits" (the 1st cat study from Hunter's Thinking Dog Center ) was just published in Applied Animal Behavior Science...and people are loving it! Dr. Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere Gabriella E. Smith M.A. Hunter College Psychology Thinking Dog Center at Hunter College

NEW POSITION AVAILABLE We are hiring a full-time, lab manager for our human-animal interaction research group. We would love to have YOU join our team! Learn more: vet.purdue.edu/chab/ohaire/in… Apply: careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafay…

NEW COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROJECT!! Brought to you by the #IfIFitsISits team, "Seeing Things" is a NEW illusion 🌀 community science project. This time, we are recruiting both dogs 🐶 and cats 😺! Sign up below⬇️

Please retweet! We're hiring a paid, short term (~6 week) technician to help investigate cougar clusters, monitor VHF tagged pigs, and maintain camera grids in California! wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/short-ter…

I'm a sucker for research on pets but I've mainly found dog studies...until now! Here's an example of a within-groups experimental design for students to work with. Features work by Gabriella E. Smith M.A. (see her bio for a video preview!) everydayresearchmethods.com/2021/06/cat-in…

Interested in #HumanBehaviourChange? 🤷‍♂️ Interested in #Dogs and #AnimalWelfare ? 🐾 How about working for Dogs Trust 💛🐶 - fabulous new post available - see here: careers.dogstrust.org.uk/vacancies/1874…

We are hiring! Come work with the Technological Primates Research Group at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig! We study tool use and the material culture of primates in the wild. Follow this link for more information on how to apply: eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

#LightsOutNYC legislation was just PASSED UNANIMOUSLY by the New York City Council! Int. 271 & 274 will significantly reduce lighting from buildings owned and used by the City during peak migration from 11pm-6am, helping to prevent the 230,000 bird collisions that happen in NYC annually!

Thread of INTERNSHIPS currently available with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! The following ALL include a direct hire benefit or may be converted directly to perm jobs (Pathways Program). One of the best ways to get into the Service! Students please apply! Profs please share!