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Julia Espinosa
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Postdoc in comparative psychology, biology, & neuroscience @YorkU & @Harvard | Interested in individual differences and life experiences shaping canine social behaviour | #ManyDogs Founder & Co-Director | My job is just dog 🐶 | she/her/ella #LatinaInSTEM
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igi.bsky.social
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
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
Hey comparative cognition researchers, see you in Montreal next year?! 🇨🇦🍁🦝🦫
compcogsoc.bsky.social Comparative Cognition Society @compcogsoc.bsky.social · Oct 16
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
Comparative Cognition Society - Conference (CO3)
comparativecognition.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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drrmiller.bsky.social
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!
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
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
jespinosa.bsky.social
📣 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...
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
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thomasserre.bsky.social
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
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September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
📣 Prospective Canadian grad students, check out NIna's lab and research szeyuhninawang.com 🧪
September 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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ianhussey.mmmdata.io
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
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
jespinosa.bsky.social
Immediately going at the top of my reading list 🙌🤓
christinewebb.bsky.social Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Jul 22
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
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asab-meetings.bsky.social
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/
Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
🚨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/...
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
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oceanfilly.bsky.social
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
jespinosa.bsky.social
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
manydogsproject.bsky.social ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · Jul 22
🚨 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!
A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!
July 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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aidangcw.bsky.social
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
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ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
Up over 10,000 now! But we're aiming for 100,000! #StandUpForScience and join us.

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
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:
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
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 🐶🧪
The figure shows a 2-panel point-line graph of the mean C-BARQ scores for Aggression (left) and Fear (right) behaviour scales. Within each panel, data for 2 groups of dogs is summarized: mean scores those that have experienced early life adversity and those that have not. The Y axis indicates the mean score for on a 5-point rating scale with 95% confidence intervals around the mean. The X axis identifies the cohorts, Adversity = has a history of adversity in the first 6 months; No adversity = no adversity in the first 6 months. For both aggression and fear scores, dogs that have experienced adverse events in the first 6 months score significantly higher than those without early life adversity.
May 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ggnanadesikan.bsky.social
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
jfallows.bsky.social James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 23
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.
April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
We're not giving in and we're not giving up.
haw-uaw.bsky.social Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · Apr 4
Our statement in response to the Trump administration's attack on Harvard, together with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social, the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union, the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, and @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social.
Header centered at top, in Crimson text: Our Resolve Statement beginning in black text: We all know that Harvard is not perfect. We, the workers who fulfill this University’s core teaching and research missions, consistently strive and organize to better this institution. We also know that the Trump administration’s attack on Harvard has nothing to do with antisemitism. Simply put, this is an assault on learning, academic freedom, and critical inquiry. Destroying the good that Harvard does by cutting its federal funding will not address antisemitism on campus. If anything, weaponizing allegations of antisemitism as a transparent pretext for destroying American higher education—threatening life-saving research, outstanding teaching, and cutting-edge innovation—only causes more harm to our Jewish colleagues, members, and students. Institutions of higher education, including Harvard, do good in society. We work here because we believe in educating future generations who will continue to build a better world. We work here because we believe in the importance of research conducted to benefit the public, not to turn a profit. And we work here because we believe that this institution has the potential and the will to become a place where everyone, regardless of background or belief, can succeed. Our resolve is to continue this work of the University—together. In the face of this multifaceted political attack, we will resist authoritarian intimidation by continuing our research and teaching, and by organizing in solidarity with one another. We call on the University administration to resist this intimidation with us, marshalling Harvard’s considerable resources and power to fulfill the promise of the University’s vital mission. Signed, Harvard Academic Workers Organizing Committee Harvard Graduate Student Union Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter HUCTW Rank & File Movement
April 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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dani-sorbie.bsky.social
Exciting update! 🚀 My MSc research has now been officially published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science!

📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Always happy to discuss this topic —get in touch! 🐕

#AnimalBehaviour #DogAdoption #Research

@bethologist.bsky.social
Redirecting
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March 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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zazietodd.bsky.social
Researchers at the University of Adelaide are seeking participants to complete a survey investigating sleep disturbances in older dogs. You can do the survey here: redcap.link/sleepdisturb...
There's a photo of dog with its head between its paws, the logo of the University of Adelaide, a QR code and ethics approval H-2025-032. The text reads, Does your senior dog wake you up at night? University of Adelaide researchers are seeking participants to complete a survey focused on understanding the experience of caring for senior dogs that suffer sleep disturbances. Your participation is entirely voluntary. All responses will be kept anonymous and confidential. To be eligible, you must be over the age of 18 years; currently be the primary caregiver for a dog aged 8 years or older, and have lived with that dog for at least one year; have observed your dog waking at nighttime and/or are disturbed by your dog's nighttime activity. If you are interested in participating, please follow the link or scan the QR code to access the survey (link above).
February 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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emilymullin.bsky.social
Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06
February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
jespinosa.bsky.social
If you're looking for a postdoc position that includes animals and a chance to work with two awesome #scientists & #WomenInSTEM, this is the one for you 🧪🐶
kerrirodriguez0.bsky.social Kerri Rodriguez, PhD @kerrirodriguez0.bsky.social · Jan 21
🚨 Postdoc Opening! 🚨
Join our human-animal interaction research group at
@uarizona.bsky.social, receive dual mentorship from myself & @dremilybray.bsky.social + contribute to a funded study investigating the impact of pets on mental health and wellbeing. Open until filled! bit.ly/3CenLAE
January 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
jespinosa.bsky.social
With talks from Dr. Rachael Miller (@drrmiller.bsky.social), AND one of the most inspiring leaders in the field, Dr. Suzanne MacDonald, #CO3_2025 is going to be one of the best yet! 🎉
Haven't registered? What are you waiting for: www.comparativecognition.org/index.php
@compcogsoc.bsky.social 🧪
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM