Listen up folks and please spread the word. Call for abstracts for #ISBE2024 is now open!! See you all in Melbourne! Behavioral Ecology isbe2024.com/call-for-abstr…

📢 This week I joined ACT Office of Nature Conservation. 🥳 The night before my first day, I had a horrible food poisoning, but decide to go to office anyway. Within the first hour I felt dizzy, fainted, and collapsed. That's how I've met my new colleagues who helped me get up :]

🚨 Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) at Max Planck Institute for Human Development and work with me, Rui Mata, Marcel Binz, and Susann Fiedler on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences and other topics related to LLMs. The positions

The effect of inbreeding on animal cognition is unexplored outside human and rodent models. We showed that inbreeding impaired cognition in guppies, but only when fish developed at a higher, more stressful temperature.🪕🐟🧠

Delayed life update 🎓: As of August 2024, I’m convening the Research Presentation Course at ANU until the end of the year. Below is a photo of me and my peers attending this same class in 2018, taught by Dr. Rachael Remington. Thrilled to now teach a course I once loved!

Highlights from ANU emails: ·Salaries/operations cut $100m/$150m ·Health & Med College 'dis-established' ·HDR/ECR research allowances cut 50% ·Fewer course tutors ·Parking fees TRIPLED ·PhDs: finish on time or be deported ·We small, but we strong ·Mental health support availible

During my first semester teaching Research Presentation Skills, a highlight was a workshop where students invented studies based on given AI illustrations and R plots, then presented their "findings." It developed scientific thinking and pitching skills, and was creative and fun!

The beauty of Wildlife ~ A Thread 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody.

Not too thrilled about adding another social app, but to stay in touch, I’m now also on Blue Sky: bsky.app/profile/cognii…

🧵1/4. New book finally coming out on 26 December 2024. This has been a monumental effort and I take the opportunity to thank my co-editor Ulrika Candolin, all of the amazing contributors, chapter reviewers and the team at Oxford Academic. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Interesting meta-analysis on the role of ChatGPT in student learning. The accessibility of the Internet shifted education from memorization to problem-solving. Now, with AI solving complex tasks for students, I’m curious how educators will adapt. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: scim.ag/41ZVpVc News from Science

1/ 🚨It’s been a journey (20+ yrs) but today we finally publish the results of the IUCN Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment: 24% of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish & shrimp species are at risk of extinction! iucn.org/press-release/…

What does life after a #PhD look like? Here’s my own (n=1) experience with #academicjobs visualised after ~1.5 years and 60+ job applications. I’ve secured 4 short-term roles. All 4 were offered through my prof network and were not advertised. Make of that what you will.