Happy #internationalcatday 🐾🐈

#CSF2025

A great first day at the Canine Science Forum #CSF2025 is complete, & I look forward to what the next 3 days will hold!

If you are involved in any way in a classical equestrian discipline, or in horse racing, please consider helping our PhD student with her research and share your thoughts on horse care and training in this brief survey (and please share widely!)

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Our new paper, “He’s Practising His Learned Social Skills on the Cat’: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Parental Perspectives of the Role of Pets in Autistic Children’s Social Skills and Wellbeing" has now been published! www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

@dani-sorbie.bsky.social's paper on adjustment of adopted Canadian northern dogs is now out!

Findings highlight that most owners report behaviour problems likely linked to transition from free-roaming to restricted lifestyles

Available open access here: shorturl.at/UbCY4

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

We’re really excited to have Dani start her PhD with us. And wonderful to have the @dogstrust.bsky.social as partners!

I’m thrilled to share more about my PhD Research at The Manchester Metropolitan University: KennelNet: A Machine Learning Approach to Postural Estimation and Behavioural Monitoring in Kennelled Dogs, in partnership with @dogstrust.bsky.social 🐕

#AnimalWelfare #AI #MachineLearning #PhD #Dogs

Was a real pleasure to work with @dani-sorbie.bsky.social and @the-wild-biologist.bsky.social on this project. Dani is a superstar, just starting her PhD, and already making a mark on the canine behaviour and welfare world.

🚨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.

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Preprint up!

My MSc research paper is under review. It is looking into the post-adoptive behaviour of Northern Canadian community dogs 🐕 using mixed-methods.

I had the most supportive supervisors in @bethologist.bsky.social & Andrew Cooke 🐾

Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you have one or two indoor-only cats between 6 months and 13 years of age, you can help researchers at the University of Edinburgh with a study about environmental enrichment! 🐱 #catscience

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