A centre for research on bird intelligence at the University of Cambridge has been saved from closure by a campaign kickstarted by a @NewScientist article, which raised £500,000 from public donations in a matter of weeks newscientist.com/article/232999…

We are thrilled to announce the second ever global #AnimalBehaviour #TwitterConference, co-organized by Animal Behavior Society, @asab_tweets & Education Officer Taking place Jan 18 & 19 2023! Follow #AnimBehav2023 & check the website for info! animbehav2023.com

CogEvo returns! The #Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution is packed with compelling speakers and chances to present your exciting new work. Abstracts: June 10 Registration: June 20 Conference: July 6-7 in Trentino, Italy event.unitn.it/cogevo/ #CIMeCevents #CogEvo2023

Registration is open to this wonderful workshop: Fantastic Brains and Where to Find Them (in Rovereto, where else?) event.unitn.it/cogevo/ Posters welcome! Elena Lorenzi Maria Bortot Matilde Perrino Elisa Frasnelli

🎉The program of CogEvo 2023 is finally out! 🗣️Check it on our website to have a glimpse of our wonderful plenary talks: event.unitn.it/cogevo/#progra… 👉Abstract submission by June 10th 👉Registration by June 20th Giorgio Vallortigara Matilde Perrino Elena Lorenzi Elisa Frasnelli

"To know the facts is to see at once that change is needed" - my review of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation Now" for Nature is out today, and you can read it for free here: rdcu.be/dfedX.

Here we go! 😄 The first full day of CogEvo kicks off with Mercedes Bengochea of Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute, bringing us “Behavioral and neural basis of numerical discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster” #CIMeCevents #CogEvo2023 Mercedes Bengochea

And the first morning of #CogEvo2023 continues with Niels Rattenborg presenting "A bird's-eye view of sleep" 🕊️💤 #CogEvo2023 #CIMeCEvent Giorgio Vallortigara Elisa Frasnelli Elena Lorenzi Matilde Perrino

Recordings of five symposia from the ASSC are now available to watch online: “Animal Consciousness Beyond Mammals”, with Jonathan Birch (Jonathan Birch), Andrew Crump, Matilda Gibbons, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Peter Godfrey-Smith), and L. Syd M. Johnson (@LSydMJohnson) youtu.be/Uyxxmjgbz4s

The first chunk of a very long interview by The Well is out and I've been asked to post the link: youtube.com/watch?v=0a3xg4…

We Lucia Regolin Pierfrancesco ferrar are organizing a wonderful workshop on #Minimal_Cognition next Summer in Erice (Sicily) - stay in touch! Ranieri Bizzarri Martin Giurfa Peter Godfrey-Smith @Docteur_Drey @RomainBrette @brembs Hessam Akhlaghpour

Mourning the death of John Tooby: Brilliant mind, saintly human being, beloved friend. edge.org/memberbio/john…

We are hiring! 2 PhD positions will be open soon under my ERC *GALA* (Gates to Language). If you have some experience with/are interested in - neonates/infants/fNIRS 👶🧠 - rats/animal cognition 🐀 Please get in touch! 📍Barcelona. Start date Summer/Fall 2024.

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Registration is open for MINIMAL COGNITION: BRAINED OR BRAINLESS BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE centromajorana.it/minimalcogniti…

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naive baby chicks biorxiv.org/content/10.110… I love this title... I love this figure... I love this preprint 🐣

Late registration by May 31: Join us in Erice, Sicily! centromajorana.it/minimalcogniti…

Erice conference on Minimal Cognition. The organizers... Lucia Regolin #Pier_Ferrari

Group photo at #CogEvo2025 #Rovereto Thank you all! Anastasia Morandi-Raikova Orsola Rosa Salva Andrea Messina Elisa Frasnelli Paola Sgadò @[email protected] Lucia Regolin

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠 Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI w/ Lucia Regolin MariaLoconsole #Cognition #AvianNeuroscience #NatureReviews