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Louise Mackie
@louisemackie.bsky.social
Searching for postdocs in Comparative Psychology 👀 • Messerli Research Institute • 🐕 Dogs 🤸 Children 🐵 Chimpanzees

Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition

MSc was at the University of St Andrews

Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 she/her
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Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓
To new beginnings 🥂
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤
My favourite Starbucks work-buddy is now a doctor/dogtor 🐕 🎓 !!!! Congrats @louisemackie.bsky.social, we’re all so proud of you ! 🥂🍾
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning 🥴

Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025!

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
August 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research?

Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection!

Ad below 👇🐶💙💛
🚨 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!
July 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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My first paper of the goat cognition project is published! It describes the very first step in starting a project with animals: training the animals. I also tested odd-item search in goats. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
www.mdpi.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Life lately
June 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒
June 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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1/7 Pet monkeys for capuchin monkeys

Capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island (Panama) have begun kidnapping howler monkey babies. It is a culturally widespread custom that appears to have no benefit whatsoever.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A long work day trip to the countryside 😆
🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
May 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25
May 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Pint of Science hits Vienna on the 19th of May! I will be there to give a talk about my PhD journey studying imitation in man-and-womankind's best friend: the domestic dog. pintofscience.at/event/so-hum...
April 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Getting ready for tomorrow! We’re going with my avian research group here in Vienna #StandUpForScience
March 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend!" The final talk already of #cultureconference2025 on mate copying in wild Drosophilia simulans by Sabine Nöbel @cultconf.bsky.social @sabinenoebel.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Learning about those mischievous wild cockatoos with Lisa Fontana from the Australian National University #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Elif Karakoç from the DPZ (German Primate Research Centre) presenting on social learning in redfronted lemurs in Madagascar #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Wanna know about pigeons in a smart barn, which can track who and what they are looking at? Mathilde Delacoux can help you in her talk at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Now, Dharanish Rajendra from the University of Würzburg at #cultureconferencr2025 sharing work on the risks of learning, and the importance of safe parental environments @cultconf.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"following" the great tits talk from Chimento, Luca Hahn from the University of Exeter is talking about jackdaws and their social relationships helping information gathering 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @lucahahn.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
February 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The final keynote speaker of #cultureconference2025 is Michael Chimento, with his work on methods and models of ephemeral animal cultures 🐦

@cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM