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#NewResearchAlert "The history, implementation, and application of personality tests in livestock animals and their links to performance" By Woodrum Setser et al. Get the article share-link here: applied-ethology.org/M_M_Woodrum_Se… #personalitytest #performance #livestock

Have you marked your calendar for #UFAW2024? Join us in Porto, Portugal 10-11 July 2024 for our International #AnimalWelfare Conference. Stay connected for abstract submissions, keynote speaker reveals and registration details coming soon! ➡️ufaw.org.uk/porto2024

Register for the 2024 World Congress on Pain to experience a world-class lineup of speakers, cutting-edge research, and insights from leading experts in the field of pain. bit.ly/47lGftd #WC2024

There is still time to nominate someone for the UFAW Early Career Animal Welfare Researcher of the Year Award! The Award is open to students currently studying for a doctoral degree and to individuals within six years of the end of their PhD work ➡️ ufaw.org.uk/ecr24

📢 Attention Postdocs: Get the chance to visit our institute and present & discuss your research! We invite postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our emerging scientist talk series. Apply until February 29th:

📚 Academia is more than science! Excited to team up again with ISAE for our virtual training webinar series on transferable skills. Join us for our second training session "Leading from the Front". 📆 December 4th ⏰ 1900h CET 🔗us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Welcome to the newest member of our LINKS scheme! Our LINKS scheme is an international outreach initiative encouraging engagement with animal welfare science at a global network of participating universities and colleges. Find out more ➡️ ow.ly/Viw250PPczg

Results from newly published research clearly demonstrate the emergence of simultaneous resistance to anthelmintic drugs used against intestinal parasites in cattle; suggesting farming practices will need to change to maintain productivity. More: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iAH815DeCaO…

Are there culprits to those random high egg and lungworm counts? We followed 200+ farmed deer over 6 months to find out... Our latest farmed deer parasite paper! Funded by Deer Industry NZ & AgResearch sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Goats Are Not Stupid buff.ly/3X7iwst

SCIENCE STARS: Well done to Aswathi Soni (early career researcher), Stephen Goldson (individual/lifetime achievement), and our Animal Biosecurity Research Team (Team category) - our AgResearch winners at tonight's 2023 Science New Zealand Awards 👏🏆 ..... /3

What's this goat thinking? Farm animals may have surprisingly complex minds and emotions, a growing field of research is revealing. My latest feature story for News from Science Science Magazine! science.org/content/articl…

“The reality is that in future farmers will have to move away from total reliance upon drenches. The only ones doing it at the moment are those hit with triple resistance" - our principal scientist Dave Leathwick. More 👇 farmersweekly.co.nz/farm-managemen…

We have just published a new study looking into how five countries address current animal welfare concerns associated with live animal transportation. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… A thread to explore our main results 👇 Eugénie Duval Essex Law School UBC Animal Welfare @Bristol_Vets

New One Welfare Book!!! 🟢 Deep dive into Section 3 of the One Welfare Framework 🟢 Co-edited by Dr. Rebeca García Pinillos & Stella Maris Huertas_BA certificaciones 🟢 Foreword Andrea Gavinelli, 🟢 7 chapters and 9 case studies 🟢 21 renowned expert authors from 10 countries. cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.10…

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and our early career rising star Caitlin Hyde gave her thoughts on this year's theme: "If we truly want a new era for sustainability, we have to do things differently. It’s not just about having women in the room" ..... /2

Our own Chrystal O’Connor's research into native caterpillars as a new superfood has earned her a trip to Japan to rub shoulders with a roomful of Nobel Prize winners. Go Chrystal! @Chrystal2177 Lincoln University More at: lincoln.ac.nz/news-and-event…

My DMs are open for ECRs interested in discussing potential farm animal cognition projects!

Changes in salivary oxytocin in response to biologically-relevant events in farm animals: method optimization and usefulness as a biomarker frontiersin.org/journals/physi…

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!