Elodie Mandel-Briefer
@ebriefer.bsky.social
Associate Professor in vertebrate social behaviour, University of Copenhagen. Research: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, emotions, cognition, welfare. Mom of 2
New study with collaborators from the INRAe showing that people recognise horse negative facial expressions more accurately than positive ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Humans can accurately categorise negative but not positive emotional facial expressions in horses
Recognising emotional facial expressions plays a key role in communication, both within and between species. Many non-human animals, including horses,…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New study with collaborators from the INRAe showing that people recognise horse negative facial expressions more accurately than positive ones www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Goethe University Frankfurt hiring Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) für Evolutionäre Ökologie der Hymenopteren in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | LinkedIn
Posted 11:13:19 PM. Die Professur wird zunächst auf sechs Jahre befristet besetzt, nach erfolgreicher Evaluation…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
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New paper out! 🧪
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New paper out! 🧪
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
On reconstructing dinosaur cognition through contemporary cognitive science - a primer on the function of neurons and cognition, the role of extant animals, thermobiology, tools, arms races, foraging, and model-based cognition.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics for the 26-27 academic year are now open. Please spread the word!
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
International Master of Bioacoustics
Home page of the International Master of Bioacoustics
www.masterofbioacoustics.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics for the 26-27 academic year are now open. Please spread the word!
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
More info here 👇 www.masterofbioacoustics.com?lang=fr
#bioacoustics
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New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social
Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins
Communications Biology - Across 40 years of behavioural and epigenetic data, male dolphins with stronger social relationships show lower epigenetic ages and therefore appear to age slower compared...
rdcu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
Like friendship itself, the slower ageing is more than just skin deep.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Friendship is magic: male dolphins with close friends age more slowly
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
theconversation.com/friendship-i...
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Our newest research in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
December 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Our newest research in @currentbiology.bsky.social:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We find dominant baboons have more interrupted and less rest at night.
Author list and story in comments below :-)
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
1/5 Consciousness does not seem to depend on the frontal cortex
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
1/5 Consciousness does not seem to depend on the frontal cortex
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
When participants are not asked to report when they detect the auditory stimulus, the brain activity that correlates with consciousness is that of the posterior regions.
(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
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POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
POSTDOC ALERT🚨
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today!
We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January.
Collaboration with
@dustinrubenstein.com
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.
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Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
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The Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…
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📖Published📖
Vuilliomenet et al developed acoupi, an open-source Python framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of bioacoustic devices. It integrates audio, AI data processing, data management and real-time wireless messaging into a unified framework🌍 🧪 🕊️
Read more:
Vuilliomenet et al developed acoupi, an open-source Python framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of bioacoustic devices. It integrates audio, AI data processing, data management and real-time wireless messaging into a unified framework🌍 🧪 🕊️
Read more:
buff.ly
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📖Published📖
Vuilliomenet et al developed acoupi, an open-source Python framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of bioacoustic devices. It integrates audio, AI data processing, data management and real-time wireless messaging into a unified framework🌍 🧪 🕊️
Read more:
Vuilliomenet et al developed acoupi, an open-source Python framework that simplifies the creation and deployment of bioacoustic devices. It integrates audio, AI data processing, data management and real-time wireless messaging into a unified framework🌍 🧪 🕊️
Read more:
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US:
Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
FRIAS, CoF and ZuKo: Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026
uni-tuebingen.de
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US:
Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
New paper by MSc student Alice Fratesi showing that long-tailed macaques are often featured in unethical or exploitative content in online posts, emphasizing the need to promote responsible online engagement: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ediminin.bsky.social @behaveco.bsky.social
@ediminin.bsky.social @behaveco.bsky.social
“Monkey influencers”: conservation culturomics of human-macaque (Macaca fascicularis) interactions
Conservation culturomics can offer insights into the online presence of threatened primate species, such as the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicular…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New paper by MSc student Alice Fratesi showing that long-tailed macaques are often featured in unethical or exploitative content in online posts, emphasizing the need to promote responsible online engagement: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ediminin.bsky.social @behaveco.bsky.social
@ediminin.bsky.social @behaveco.bsky.social
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Are you a UK national/resident and identify as Black, Asian, or a minoritised ethnic community? You can apply for a PhD with me and colleagues at Swansea as part of our NERC CROCUS doctoral training programme... and we develop the topic together. Please get in touch if eligible and interested!
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Are you a UK national/resident and identify as Black, Asian, or a minoritised ethnic community? You can apply for a PhD with me and colleagues at Swansea as part of our NERC CROCUS doctoral training programme... and we develop the topic together. Please get in touch if eligible and interested!
If anyone wants to learn a bit about our work on vocal expression of emotions, here is a recording of the talk I gave at @oredev.org conference last month in Malmö: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPS...
Elodie Mandel-Briefer - Deciphering animal emotions using machine learning and vocalisations
YouTube video by Øredev Conference
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December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If anyone wants to learn a bit about our work on vocal expression of emotions, here is a recording of the talk I gave at @oredev.org conference last month in Malmö: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPS...
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Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology:
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎
Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
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Excited to see this paper out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
> 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors
🐟🔊🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
> 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors
🐟🔊🧪
Knock knock, who's there? Identifying wild species‐specific fish sounds with passive acoustic localization and random forest models
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a useful non-destructive tool for evaluating species presence, diversity and abundance. However, in marine environments, a dearth of tools and methods for identif....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Excited to see this paper out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
> 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors
🐟🔊🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
> 1,000 fish calls from 8 fish species identified including 5 whose wild calls had never been documented. The paper shows species-specific sound characteristics that offers a foundation for future species-specific detectors
🐟🔊🧪
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
2025. #Bioacoustics - Bat 'besties' start to sound alike over time [reminds me of goat kids!] phys.org/news/2025-12...
Bat 'besties' start to sound alike over time, study finds
Ever suddenly realize you had picked up certain words or ways of speaking from a close friend? It turns out that humans are far from the only animals who copy the sounds of their closest companions—a ...
phys.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
2025. #Bioacoustics - Bat 'besties' start to sound alike over time [reminds me of goat kids!] phys.org/news/2025-12...
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Our new paper is out! Orangutan long calls are strongly isochronous, yet surprisingly they can also shift into double-meter patterns — a small but intriguing clue to the roots of musical rhythm.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our new paper is out! Orangutan long calls are strongly isochronous, yet surprisingly they can also shift into double-meter patterns — a small but intriguing clue to the roots of musical rhythm.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals
Abstract. Using the voice to produce sound is a widespread form of communication and plays an important role across diverse species and contexts. Variation
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸.
Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations.
Open access here:
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#bioacoustics #animalcommunication
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
We asked U.S. adults (~1k, representative) about their level of acceptability to standard animal agriculture practices, such as extreme confinement & painful mutilations. Unsurprisingly, most people don't approve 👇. Check out the full @faunalytics.bsky.social study: faunalytics.org/public-accep...
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We asked U.S. adults (~1k, representative) about their level of acceptability to standard animal agriculture practices, such as extreme confinement & painful mutilations. Unsurprisingly, most people don't approve 👇. Check out the full @faunalytics.bsky.social study: faunalytics.org/public-accep...
Reposted by Elodie Mandel-Briefer
⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026!
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
⏰ Reminder: 10 days left to submit your abstract for Culture Conference 2026!
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/
🧠 Workshop details are now live! Join us for a hands-on day on cutting-edge tools for analysing social networks & social transmission (registration opens soon).
Find all details here: culture-conference.com/workshop/