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Leslie-Ann Eickhoff
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PhD candidate studying causal perception in
dogs 🐶 and infants 👶🏼

Comparative & Developmental Psychology | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
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Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩
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📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social

@snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪
two 4-year PhD positions in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Zurich, and the Wild Minds Lab of the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, to study wild chimpanzees and bonobos. The PhD candidates will work within the Creative Ape Project. The overall goal of the project is to enhance our understanding of the evolution of creativity, and to shed light on whether humans are a uniquely 'creative ape'. To do so we will apply a comparative approach, quantifying the creative capacities of wild non-human apes to investigate the underlying drivers that shape creative expression across species. The project explores four interconnected topics: i) Making mavericks, ii) Funny guys and arty-types, iii) Lone ape geniuses, and iv) Creative ape economies. We employ a comprehensive approach that leverages long-term datasets, new field data, detailed manual video-coding, bespoke automated deep-learning models, and advanced modelling, to extract rich information on the ways in which apes solve problems in their daily lives. Excellent collaborative, independent working and time management skills are essential. Previous field experience (incl. behavioural data collection) is required, and experience working in remote places under difficult living conditions is highly recommended. The project will require strong data management and data analysis skills, and 12-18 months of field work split into 2-3 periods. Please submit your application in a single PDF to kathelijne.koops@iea.uzh.ch and clh42@st-andrews.ac.uk – by 4th of August 2025. Feel free to get in touch if you have any inquiries about the positions. Applications should include: 1) cover letter stating your motivation and how your expertise fits the project (max. 1 page), 2) Curriculum Vitae, 3) copy of the highest degree obtained, 4) names and contact details of two referees, and 5) reprints of 1-2 selected publications A tiny chimpfant looks at the camera with surprise
July 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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We're hiring📢📢📢
To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊
June 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
leslie-ann.bsky.social
first poster presentation ✅

I had the pleasure of presenting the first study of my PhD on causal perception in dogs and infants at the Austrian-Bavarian Child Development meeting last weekend! Thanks for some great discussions and input from researchers in the region 🥨
Leslie, a short-haired woman with glasses, is standing next to a poster. She's wearing a black top and holds a glass of water while showing off her poster. The title of the poster is "Dogs' and infants' perception of causality in launching events". The poster contains a picture of a dog with it's snout on a chin-rest for eye-tracking and a colorful graph depicting pilot data from infant participants of the study.
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella

📷 David Irving, eBird
June 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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comparativeminds.bsky.social
Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!
uop-ccep.bsky.social Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · May 13
📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open!
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.

We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses

🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA
Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application
These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨

We're looking for a postdoc to work on EEG and fNIRS projects with 3-18-month-old infants, looking at whether/how/when infants represent affordances: careers.ceu.edu/job-invite/8...

Part of the @simonsfoundation.org SCENE project: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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typical corrupt science
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May 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

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Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology
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April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
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April 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🚀 Apply now 🚀

The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.

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Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb.
#dogs
Advertisement for study at Department of Ethology, Eotovos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Image includes face of black and brown dog with its nose buried in a blanket. Text reads: Why do you have a dog? We need your help! This questionnaire is part of a research project conducted at Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. Our main goal is to identify factors associated with perceived (dis)advantages of sharing life with a companion dog.
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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AUSTRIAN SCIENTISTS! 🇦🇹☀️

Stand Up for Science on March 7th in Vienna!

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February 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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February 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
February 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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auersperga.bsky.social
We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below
PhD position in parrot tool use Job offer: applications opening 19th of February 2025. We are looking for a PhD student (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, FWF) for a doctoral project in the field of animal behaviour and cognition Project Title: Dexterity in the tool use of the Goffin’s cockatoo https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/PAT2728324 Project Location: The Messerli Research Institute is located at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Its division on Comparative Cognition investigates cognitive abilities in both the social and physical domain of various, free-living as well as domesticated, animal species including Goffin’s cockatoos, keas, dogs, goats and pigs. https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/messerli This PhD project will be conducted at the Goffin Lab in Lower Austria. https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/cognition/goffin-lab Academic Supervision: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Auersperg (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) Project Description: The Goffin’s cockatoo uses and builds tool -based technologies rivalling higher primates, both in captivity as well as in the wild. While we already understand a lot about what kinds of tools animals use in which context, we still know very little about the innovative process and fine-scaled mechanisms underlying such behaviour: how are the cockatoos able to innovate tool use in the first place? Thereby, it is important to consider behavioural as well as physical barriers that animals face when using tools. We currently predict that tool use techniques are strongly affected by the different properties of the tasks the birds are operating their tools upon. This PhD project aims to test to what extent the tool use techniques invented by aviary cockatoos in Austria manifest in a predictable manner based on specific tool and task properties. To achieve this, we plan to blend behavioural analysis and material physics. The findings of this project will help to understand the onset and mechanisms underlyi… Deadline and project start: Please send your application before 1th of June 2025. The successful candidate can start in July at the earliest (we would like to have started the project by September of this year). Requirements • A master’s degree • A master’s thesis with a topic related to animal cognition/animal behaviour/comparative psychology or material science. • Genuine Interest in animal behaviour and cognition • At least some experience in direct interaction with animals (experience with animal testing is highly appreciated). • Comfortable with direct contact with parrots • Statistical knowledge (preferably experience in General Liner Mixed Models, PCA, Survival Analysis etcetera.) • Experience with R. • Excellent English skills written and spoken (additional German skills are highly appreciated) • Excellent teamworking and communication skills What we offer • Employment at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna via a FWF funding for a minimum of three years. • Access to institutional support (administrative support, statistician, IT manager, technician for experimental apparatuses). • Various scientific events including weekly seminars of comparative cognition researchers • Opportunity to visit international conferences. • Opportunity to visit social events for PhD students studying avian cognition in Vienna. • An international and interdisciplinary work environment at the Messerli Research Institute for Human-Animal Interaction. How to apply: Applications (email: alice.auersperg@vetmeduni.ac.at) will be considered until the 1st of June 2025 Only complete submissions will be taken into consideration. Your application should contain the following information: 1. A Cover Letter detailing your motivation for the research topic, relevant experience, and expectations for the position (max. 2 pages) 2. A Curriculum Vitae including copies of relevant university degree certificates 3. Contact details for two references (incl. email)
February 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM