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

Very grateful for the opportunity to share some of the qualitative analysis we’ve been developing on such an important and emotive topic - the sense making process triggered in owners finding oneself considering relinquishing a dog 🐶

Great article about pioneer of the HAI field Sandra McCune! I love the advice to others: "Seize opportunities that come to you, take people with you, stay curious, watch your animals closely ... and keep talking to and learning from anyone who shares your passion for animals"

If you’re interested in cats but couldn’t get to #ISAZ2024 this year, Kris Hill summarises the feline talks and much else in this month’s Katzenworld Blog from SCAS

New kitten paper publication! Specialized educational videos were successful in helping improve people's ability to identify and rate kitten fear behaviour 🐱 Available open access here: jsmcah.org/index.php/jasv…

Working with PhD student Tim Simon, Kun Guo has a publication coming out in the Animal Behaviour journal titled "Lateralized behaviour in dogs during positive anticipation". Link here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ASAB

Do extreme head shapes in dogs correspond with altered brain morphology? The answer is yes, according to my newly published paper on skull-brain covariation in dogs! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to all of our amazing students! The posters were superb!

Some highlights from our research paper: 1. Cooperative working breed clades struggled more in the reversal learning phase but showed more perseverance in extinction. Ancient breeds on the other hand, adapted faster but disengaged quickly when rewards stopped during extinction.

Perfect example of if I fits, I sits

The last horses went through our reactivity test battery today in #smellslikewelfare We are in the last week of the experiment and tomorrow we start testing the horses in the #judgementbiastest 🐴 Johanna Stenfelt Rebecca Grut

New publication! We looked at kitten fostering practices and caretaker perspectives of socialization using mixed methods. Available open access in the journal of Animal Welfare: shorturl.at/wirj2 @KatieKoralesky Lee Niel Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare

Excited to share I am starting my PhD at Manchester Metropolitan Uni, exploring how #MachineLearning can improve welfare for kennelled dogs 🐾. Grateful to partner with Dogs Trust 💛🐶 Dogs Trust's Canine Behaviour & Research Teams 💛 for this project!

Fostering day 1 with Eli ❤️

Explore the science of dog-human communication at the College of Science’s first 2025 Lecture Series on March 6 at 7 PM! Join Dr. Emily Bray and Dr. Evan MacLean for a free lecture on the evolution of dogs from hunters to companions and their unique communication with humans.

Happy 11th birthday to my Suki ❤️

Flow - An animated feature film made by a small indie team using Blender. Golden Globe winner. Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Preprint up! My MSc research paper is under review. It is looking into the post-adoptive behaviour of Northern Canadian community dogs 🐕 using mixed-methods. I had the most supportive supervisors in Beth Ventura & Andrew Cooke 🐾 Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

📣 We're excited to share our latest Research "Year in Review", showcasing our Research team's activities, key findings & publications in 2024 🐶 Read all about how we're generating and sharing evidence to help dogs, and their owners, live happier lives 👉 bit.ly/4l0fulo

🐶 We're very excited to be at #CanineScienceForum this week, connecting with other dog scientists, hearing about the latest research and sharing findings from our own Dogs Trust 💛🐶 studies 🐕 📢 Do say hi to Research Manager Lauren and PhD researcher Dani 👇 if you see them 👋