Studying how enclosure size, social interactions and exercise influence mental health in endangered species offers a new way to explore how specific environmental factors affect the brain, writes @cjcharvet.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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...

Registration for ECCN 2025 in Alicante is now open. Do not miss!!! eccn2025.umh.es

@neuroalc.bsky.social @umh.es @csic.es @eurnetbrainevor.bsky.social

Very proud of this one: new paper using AI to classify emotional valence from 7 ungulate species my team has recorded over the years. We also publish the database of call open access along the paper :-) @behaveco.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 Le principe des 3R expliqué en BD 🌟

#3R, 3 planches pour les illustrer !
A télécharger sur FRIA (www.fc3r.com/fria/) et à mettre au pied du 🎄 !

#Remplacer : lnkd.in/eWh8bt2i

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Announcing a new open access textbook for entry level behavioral neuro. Funded by NSF. Written by a collection of 26 neuro experts. Method demonstration videos and author interviews too. Consider using it in your courses to reduce financial barriers to education.

openstax.org/details/book...

For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Rui F. Oliveira (@RuiFOliveira) & Redouan Bshary @UniNeuchatel expand the concept of social behaviour to interspecific interactions in a review article
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.13194#.YT4n5As0L98.twitter

I am so thankful that I came up in an academic environment that valued openness r/t secrecy. I have never worried about discussing my ideas with others, and those discussions have paid off greatly. I feel bad for trainees who learn to be secretive with their ideas - they are missing out on so much!

This was a labour of love. Co-written with Giulia Palazzolo. Since the field consists of disconnected pockets of intense research, I think this is likely the most complete and systematic overview of the philosophy of animal communication literature to date.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

If humans take part in MRI studies, why not sheep 🐑? Discover a protocol for brain imaging in sheep without sedation nor movement restriction #psynomBRM paper by @loveascott.bsky.social et al. #MRI #AnimalWelfare

Very proud of this paper and of Camille Pluchot! We show that sheep can voluntarily participate in MRI. No need to anaesthetise them. No need to physically restrain them. We just need to ask (train) them. #livestockneuro
🐑📜https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02449-6