Mark O’Hara
@mohara.bsky.social
Bushcraft scientist. I like to watch the forest and it’s inhabitants.
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Ze Frank is the best, and "the Goffin's cockatoos make the New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian crows" (this it's an actual comment on YouTube!)
Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!)
"I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"
Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!)
"I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"
January 18, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Ze Frank is the best, and "the Goffin's cockatoos make the New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian crows" (this it's an actual comment on YouTube!)
Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!)
"I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"
Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!)
"I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"
Reposted by Mark O’Hara
📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📢 #Ethology2026 – A Double Event
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Join us for:
• Ethologische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting, 18–21 Feb, Grünau
• DK Symposium: Cognition & Communication, 23–24 Feb, Vienna
A full week of ethology, cognition, and communication.
univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@ethoges.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
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Excited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella!
@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Seizing opportunities: Object neophobia as a factor mediating technical innovation in Goffin´s cockatoos?
Most studies find substantial inter-individual differences in problem-solving performance within a species, which can drastically influence an individual´s fitness. It has been suggested that innovati...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Excited to share our newly published study on object neophobia and how it relates to problem-solving in #GoffinsCockatoos #TanimbarCorella!
@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@auersperga.bsky.social @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @plosone.org
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
How cool! Thanks Jolyon et al. 🙏
I guess Christmas came early this year 😁
I guess Christmas came early this year 😁
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
How cool! Thanks Jolyon et al. 🙏
I guess Christmas came early this year 😁
I guess Christmas came early this year 😁
We had a most wonderful time @uparisnanterre.bsky.social and the opportunity for catching up with old friends and making new ones 🙌
Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶
Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶
Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We had a most wonderful time @uparisnanterre.bsky.social and the opportunity for catching up with old friends and making new ones 🙌
Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶
Thanks so much for the opportunity 🫶
Reposted by Mark O’Hara
Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
June 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Back from the #SFECA #conference at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social! Grateful for the opportunity to present our work on wild #Goffins 🙏 It was an inspiring event filled with diverse research, a welcoming vibe, and great food/conversations – simply the French l’art de vivre 🙂
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
sfeca2025.sciencesconf.org
A while back @bmioduszewska.bsky.social and I did a bit with the fabulous @drracheldale.bsky.social and Megan Lambert, that you can check out here. As I’m lazy with my socials, they already have an new episode out with @goatswhostare.bsky.social… Also very worth listening to 👍
Why did some birds evolve to be so clever? Mark O'Hara & Berenika Mioduszewska took on the challenge of studying wild Goffin's cockatoos on a small Indonesian island.
Their exciting findings help answer that question.
Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod
Photo: Goffin Lab Tanimbar
Their exciting findings help answer that question.
Listen: linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod
Photo: Goffin Lab Tanimbar
July 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A while back @bmioduszewska.bsky.social and I did a bit with the fabulous @drracheldale.bsky.social and Megan Lambert, that you can check out here. As I’m lazy with my socials, they already have an new episode out with @goatswhostare.bsky.social… Also very worth listening to 👍
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Cognitive Science folks, do you have a few minutes to help us create a pool of words that describe aesthetic experiences in science?
Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8...
Please share for wider participation!
Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8...
Please share for wider participation!
April 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Cognitive Science folks, do you have a few minutes to help us create a pool of words that describe aesthetic experiences in science?
Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8...
Please share for wider participation!
Fill out the short anonymous form: forms.gle/Sh3RLbcRZGN8...
Please share for wider participation!
Thanks again for the great experience 🙏
December 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Thanks again for the great experience 🙏
Berenika & I had a wonderful time visiting České Budějovice and the University of South Bohemia and talking a bit about the research on Tanimbar 🙌 Thank you so much @laniusondrej.bsky.social for the great experience and hosting us 🙏
It was great to finally host @mohara.bsky.social and @bmioduszewska.bsky.social in our department and to finally see each other after a while. #GoffinLabTanimbar was on a short visit to the Czech Republic! 🦜🐦🌴 😎
December 14, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Berenika & I had a wonderful time visiting České Budějovice and the University of South Bohemia and talking a bit about the research on Tanimbar 🙌 Thank you so much @laniusondrej.bsky.social for the great experience and hosting us 🙏
Anyone interested in doing research in Indonesia?
The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions.
Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually.
More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id
The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions.
Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually.
More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id
November 18, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Anyone interested in doing research in Indonesia?
The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions.
Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually.
More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id
The Indonesian National Institute for Research and Innovation (BRIN) has an open call for visiting researcher positions.
Deadline is 22.11., but I think these calls will be recurring annually.
More information: manajementalenta.brin.go.id