Julia Espinosa
@jespinosa.bsky.social
Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Studying the nature & nurture shaping social behaviour in diverse dog populations 🐩🐕🐕🦺 | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director | she/her/ella #LatinaInSTEM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 AM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden.
#AcademicSky #ScienceJobs
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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Today at 9pm ET/PT is the US premiere of the @pbs.org NOVA documentary "Can Dogs Talk?". It covers the project @cclabucsd.bsky.social has been running with thousands of button trained dogs. It is a true honor to be on NOVA and we hope you will find it engaging: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
Can Dogs Talk?
Do speech buttons really allow dogs to talk to us? Scientists investigate.
www.pbs.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Today at 9pm ET/PT is the US premiere of the @pbs.org NOVA documentary "Can Dogs Talk?". It covers the project @cclabucsd.bsky.social has been running with thousands of button trained dogs. It is a true honor to be on NOVA and we hope you will find it engaging: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...
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Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.
After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.
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I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
You don't have to dirty your soul to be a successful academic or a scientist. Have some fucking pride. Have some fucking principles.
If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.
If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.
February 1, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
#CO3 is my conference home and I'm so excited that it's coming to Canada this year 🍁 Consider presenting your comparative work, there's still time to send in an abstract! If you're into running, I'm thinking we should organize a fun run up Mount Royal one morning 🙌😅
There's still time to submit your abstract for #CO32026! 🙌 The submission deadline is on Friday Dec 12th, all information about registration, membership, and the conference is on the website: www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php 🧪
See you in Montréal! 🐶🐝🐟🐦🐀🐍🦧🦝🐢🐘🐬🦦🕷️🐖🐆
#CompCog #AnimalBehavior
See you in Montréal! 🐶🐝🐟🐦🐀🐍🦧🦝🐢🐘🐬🦦🕷️🐖🐆
#CompCog #AnimalBehavior
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
www.comparativecognition.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#CO3 is my conference home and I'm so excited that it's coming to Canada this year 🍁 Consider presenting your comparative work, there's still time to send in an abstract! If you're into running, I'm thinking we should organize a fun run up Mount Royal one morning 🙌😅
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Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
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New episode!! 🎙️🎉
A chat w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social about animal cultures and animal conservation.
Culture was once thought to be uniquely human. No longer. We now know culture is found throughout the natural world. How does this complicate conservation?
Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...
A chat w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social about animal cultures and animal conservation.
Culture was once thought to be uniquely human. No longer. We now know culture is found throughout the natural world. How does this complicate conservation?
Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New episode!! 🎙️🎉
A chat w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social about animal cultures and animal conservation.
Culture was once thought to be uniquely human. No longer. We now know culture is found throughout the natural world. How does this complicate conservation?
Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...
A chat w/ @pbrakes.bsky.social about animal cultures and animal conservation.
Culture was once thought to be uniquely human. No longer. We now know culture is found throughout the natural world. How does this complicate conservation?
Listen: disi.org/the-value-of...
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Research can feel like shouting into the void. I’m deeply grateful that Emma Buchtel, Xu Jingya, & Betul Turel built on our “wise reasoning” work to tackle cultural diversity. They presented a large-scale study proposal at the 2025
@psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity
@psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Research can feel like shouting into the void. I’m deeply grateful that Emma Buchtel, Xu Jingya, & Betul Turel built on our “wise reasoning” work to tackle cultural diversity. They presented a large-scale study proposal at the 2025
@psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity
@psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity
Hey comparative cognition researchers, see you in Montreal next year?! 🇨🇦🍁🦝🦫
Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
comparativecognition.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Hey comparative cognition researchers, see you in Montreal next year?! 🇨🇦🍁🦝🦫
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So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia
Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...
journals.plos.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
You know what our recent paper on early life adversity and #dog #behaviour DOESN'T say? Anything about pit-bull type dogs. No mention by us at all, @sciencex.bsky.social. So... how did they earn a callout for aggression and fear in your piece? phys.org/news/2025-10... 1/idk, as many as it takes 🧪
Trauma in a puppy's first six months linked to adult aggression, says new study
As many dog owners can attest, their four-legged companions are delightful and loving. But for others, their animals have an aggressive side, such as biting and attacking strangers, which may ultimate...
phys.org
October 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
You know what our recent paper on early life adversity and #dog #behaviour DOESN'T say? Anything about pit-bull type dogs. No mention by us at all, @sciencex.bsky.social. So... how did they earn a callout for aggression and fear in your piece? phys.org/news/2025-10... 1/idk, as many as it takes 🧪
📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Influence of early life adversity and breed on aggression and fear in dogs
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
Apply - Interfolio
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September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
📣 Prospective Canadian grad students, check out NIna's lab and research szeyuhninawang.com 🧪
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📣 Prospective Canadian grad students, check out NIna's lab and research szeyuhninawang.com 🧪
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I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish.
It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates
+ can validate existing projects
It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates
+ can validate existing projects
Creating and validating standardized R project structures that are psych-DS compliant-ish
Making psychological code and data FAIR is hard, in part because different projects organize their code and data very differently.
Sometimes this is for good reasons, such as due to the demands of a g...
mmmdata.io
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I wrote an R package that creates standardized R project structures that are compliant with @mekline.bsky.social's psych-DS...ish.
It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates
+ can validate existing projects
It also creates additional features for reproducibility and teaching like a readme, license, .gitignore and Quarto templates
+ can validate existing projects
Immediately going at the top of my reading list 🙌🤓
The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit.
August 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Immediately going at the top of my reading list 🙌🤓
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ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️
More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
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🚨Starting soon at 12pm ET: @cdelawalla.bsky.social joins @simonwdc.bsky.social and @jeremymberg.bsky.social to dig into Countering Trump’s War on Science.
We can’t wait - going LIVE soon! Tune in here ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...
We can’t wait - going LIVE soon! Tune in here ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: Countering Trump's War On Science With Colette Delawalla and Dr. Jeremy Berg
Starting Jul 30 at 12:00 PM EDT
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨Starting soon at 12pm ET: @cdelawalla.bsky.social joins @simonwdc.bsky.social and @jeremymberg.bsky.social to dig into Countering Trump’s War on Science.
We can’t wait - going LIVE soon! Tune in here ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...
We can’t wait - going LIVE soon! Tune in here ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?
Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
July 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition
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Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
June 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
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Up over 10,000 now! But we're aiming for 100,000! #StandUpForScience and join us.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Up over 10,000 now! But we're aiming for 100,000! #StandUpForScience and join us.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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not sure how to get this across to non-academics but here goes,
Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like.
Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:
Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like.
Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
not sure how to get this across to non-academics but here goes,
Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like.
Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:
Imagine if you were suddenly told 'we decided not to pay your salary', that's kind of what the grant cuts felt like.
Now imagine if you were suddenly told 'we are going to set your dog on fire', that's what this feels like:
Pre-print alert📣 Interesting associations between guardian-reported early life adversity and problematic #behaviour in #dogs: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Along with Erin Hecht and colleagues, we found that adverse event timing, genetic ancestry, and environmental factors matter for dog behaviour 🐶🧪
May 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Pre-print alert📣 Interesting associations between guardian-reported early life adversity and problematic #behaviour in #dogs: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Along with Erin Hecht and colleagues, we found that adverse event timing, genetic ancestry, and environmental factors matter for dog behaviour 🐶🧪
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Apparently the Emory faculty have been pressuring our president to sign onto this letter, but he refuses to "sign petitions".🤦🏽♀️🙄
Any Emory University alumni interested in adding pressure?
#HigherEducation #HandsOffUniversities #StandUpForScience
Any Emory University alumni interested in adding pressure?
#HigherEducation #HandsOffUniversities #StandUpForScience
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Apparently the Emory faculty have been pressuring our president to sign onto this letter, but he refuses to "sign petitions".🤦🏽♀️🙄
Any Emory University alumni interested in adding pressure?
#HigherEducation #HandsOffUniversities #StandUpForScience
Any Emory University alumni interested in adding pressure?
#HigherEducation #HandsOffUniversities #StandUpForScience