🚨PhD position available in insect cognition in my lab via the CSC scheme - Chinese applicants only. Friends with Chinese contacts - please circulate - thank you! Deadline January 31 findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

The ComparativeCognitionSociety Society is thrilled to announce the 2024 Early Career Award winner Christopher Krupenye !! Chris is an Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University Chris will give the ECA talk #CO3_2024 bit.ly/3SD4rm9

The February 2024 issue of Animal Behavior and Cognition issue is live! Featuring articles on bats, birds, capuchins, spiders, and more! animalbehaviorandcognition.org/issue.php?id=55 #AnimBehavCogn Amanda Melin (she/her) Janka Plate @twig_technology #OpenAccess

Do you have a working bio-detection dog? We need your help!   If you have a working bio-detection dog, please fill out the survey linked below!    tinyurl.com/biodetdogs

Frans de Waal was an astute observer of animal behavior who challenged the world to see animals as individuals with personalities and emotions and maybe even the seeds of politics and morality. He inspired generations and will be greatly missed news.emory.edu/features/2024/…

We have lost one of life's true greats- Frans de Waal. I am heartbroken A brilliant thinker, pioneer, mentor, friend & colleague. An exceptional observer of the natural world whose deep and brave curiosity enabled him to see things beyond the constraints of the status quo 1/5

Based on your feedback, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for #CSC2024 to April 30th. Keep'em coming!

Maze With Cheese In Center Enters Human Trials Following Decades Of Testing On Mice theonion.com/maze-with-chee…

🌟 Dive into the Minds of Animals! 🐶 Join us at #CO3 for a whirlwind of 5-minute talks unveiling the mysteries of comparative cognition! From Macaques to dogs, get ready for some crazy science. Don't miss out on this mind-expanding event! #CognitiveWonders #AnimalIntelligence

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how folks can reuse and remix open access work. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! So much, in fact, that Mark Swartz ComparativeCognition & I wrote an intro on how to do it! A hopefully handy starter! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Do dogs preferentially encode the identity of the target object or the location of others’ actions? Authored by Lucrezia Lonardo and colleagues Vetmeduni link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper in Cognition with Claudia Sehl and Stephanie Denison. Children aged 4-7 overlook how sunk costs bias actions but nonetheless anticipate how they affect emotions. Free version: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn….

What an incredible CO3 we had this year! Outstanding science, a fantastic new location, and lots of new faces and old. We hope you all found it as stimulating and fun as we did #CO3_2024 🐍🐒🦎🐀🐣🕷🐕 🦜🦍🐠🐿🦐🐬🙋‍♀️

Crows count out loud🐦‍⬛: An exciting new study trained crows to produce 1-4 vocalisations corresponding to a visual number & auditory cue, using different calls for each number. Use of the 'approximate number system' suggested #CompCogPapers #Science scim.ag/74f

New paper #psynomLB "Validation of a rodent model of episodic memory replay' by Sheridan et al. finds that rats are able to replay episodic memories. bit.ly/Sheridan_rats ComparativeCognitionSociety #episodicmemory #olfaction #familiarity #memorytracestrength #rat Psychonomic Society

New paper on episodic memory is part of a special issue in #psynomLB in honour of Nicola Clayton who received the CCS Research Award in April 2024 IU Psychological and Brain Sciences

The Birdsong Lab at the University of Lethbridge is seeking 1-2 motivated graduate students to join us starting in Fall 2025. Funding is available. (a🧵1 /6)

✨A (belated) introduction to our new CCS president: the one & only Noam Miller!! Anyone who knows Noam can speak to his passion & enthusiasm for truly comparative research, & his supportiveness of other researchers. We're very lucky to have him leading the way for the society!✨

This meant saying a fairwell to the wonderful Dr. Lauren Guillette (she/her) as president who worked tirelessly to lead the society forward, particularly in her contributions to the creation of the Equity Diversity & Inclusion committee, outreach & CO3 location change. Thank you from us all!🙏