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
Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition
MSc was at the University of St Andrews
Scottish 🏴 she/her
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Louise Mackie
@louisemackie.bsky.social
· Aug 26
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
@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 🥂
To new beginnings 🥂
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓
To new beginnings 🥂
To new beginnings 🥂
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
Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤
An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧
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Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
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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!
Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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!
Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!
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
@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
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
@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
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Louise Mackie
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. 🗝️
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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. 🗝️
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️
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 👇🐶💙💛
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!
🔍🐕🦺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
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 👇🐶💙💛
Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection!
Ad below 👇🐶💙💛
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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
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...
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
A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒
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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...
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
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...
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...
A long work day trip to the countryside 😆
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May 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A long work day trip to the countryside 😆
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In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25
May 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25
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
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...
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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
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
🐳 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
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
Reposted by Louise Mackie
Getting ready for tomorrow! We’re going with my avian research group here in Vienna #StandUpForScience
March 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Getting ready for tomorrow! We’re going with my avian research group here in Vienna #StandUpForScience
"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
"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
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
Learning about those mischievous wild cockatoos with Lisa Fontana from the Australian National University #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
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
Elif Karakoç from the DPZ (German Primate Research Centre) presenting on social learning in redfronted lemurs in Madagascar #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
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
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
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
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
"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
"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
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
@cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 12:52 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
@cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social