Ljerka Ostojic
@ljerkaostojic.bsky.social
Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
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📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
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Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
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Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq
Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
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Exciting PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Fully funded by EPSRC DLA. Based at @uniexecec.bsky.social; co-supervised by Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/5fr73snt
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Exciting PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Fully funded by EPSRC DLA. Based at @uniexecec.bsky.social; co-supervised by Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/5fr73snt
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🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Postdoctoral fellow
www.ugent.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.
📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme
More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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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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Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: Megan.Lambert@vetmeduni.ac.at
For inquiries: Megan.Lambert@vetmeduni.ac.at
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Intrigued by animal innovation and avian cognition? My PI Dr. Megan Lambert is advertising a new shiny PhD position studying innovation in kea parrots! Info attached 🤩🦜
For inquiries: Megan.Lambert@vetmeduni.ac.at
For inquiries: Megan.Lambert@vetmeduni.ac.at
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My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
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#PhD position!
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
From preferences to pollination: do hummingbirds and bees differ in how they choose flowers?
iapetus.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#PhD position!
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Comparing #foraging and #cognition in #hummingbirds and #bumblebees
Fieldwork in the Canadian Rockies, lab experiments at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and ecological modelling at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Details (including my email) here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Shaped by domestication: Did the evolution of facial muscle anatomy and ear morphology in dogs reflect adaptations to humans’ unconscious preferences?
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October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
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Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus
Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant (Fixed Term)
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), within the Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH), is seeking a full-time Research Assistant to contribute to an ongoing two-year
www.cam.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Job Klaxon!
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
RA position looking into evaluating AI Agents in data science tasks
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Leiden looking good today ;-)
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Leiden looking good today ;-)
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026
⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April
📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance)
For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com
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Interested in hearing about the science of sentience in fishes and how this has important implications for the treatment of these animals. Please join me in the Aquatic Animal Alliance webinar on 13 November 2025. #fishwelfare #fishsci Please register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Interested in hearing about the science of sentience in fishes and how this has important implications for the treatment of these animals. Please join me in the Aquatic Animal Alliance webinar on 13 November 2025. #fishwelfare #fishsci Please register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#albadiversityweek 2025 DAY 4
📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities!
Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵
✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY
📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities!
Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵
✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
#albadiversityweek 2025 DAY 4
📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities!
Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵
✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY
📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities!
Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵
✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY
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Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
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Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy
Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning
Calling all researchers in experimental philosophy, cognitive psychology, and experimental linguistics to submit work on verbal reasoning!
think.taylorandfrancis.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Call for papers: Experimental argument analysis: Interdisciplinary perspectives on verbal reasoning. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Guest editors: Eugen Fischer and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsoc #philpsy
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Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
Why be a recommender for a PCI?
The project "Peer Community in (PCI)" (https://peercommunityin.org/) has been launched in January 2017 and now counts 11 communities: PCI Evolutionary Biology (https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/),…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
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🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all?
We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility.
📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual:
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We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility.
📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual:
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Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences
We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats.
This surve...
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September 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all?
We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility.
📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual:
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We want to hear from everyone to better understand how language shapes participation and accessibility.
📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual:
forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6...
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Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.
www.skypeascientist.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫
If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
Cognitive Science Graduate Admissions – Information about graduate admissions from the cognitive science faculty
sites.dartmouth.edu
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
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Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/
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UCL’s Consciousness Club series resumes tomorrow Wed 22nd Oct with Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social on “Two Sides of Sleep and Memory: Conscious and Unconscious”
3pm-430pm UK time
All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
3pm-430pm UK time
All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
October 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
UCL’s Consciousness Club series resumes tomorrow Wed 22nd Oct with Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social on “Two Sides of Sleep and Memory: Conscious and Unconscious”
3pm-430pm UK time
All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
3pm-430pm UK time
All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
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Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd
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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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We have fact sheets about DLD in English, plus-Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, Estonian, Indonesian. Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Slovak, Georgian, Romanian, Czech, Bengali and German.
Find them here: radld.org/about/dld/dl...
#DLDday
#DevLangDis
Find them here: radld.org/about/dld/dl...
#DLDday
#DevLangDis
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We have fact sheets about DLD in English, plus-Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, Estonian, Indonesian. Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Slovak, Georgian, Romanian, Czech, Bengali and German.
Find them here: radld.org/about/dld/dl...
#DLDday
#DevLangDis
Find them here: radld.org/about/dld/dl...
#DLDday
#DevLangDis