Magdalena Boch 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇦🇹
@magdalenaboch.bsky.social
🧠 imaging neural correlates of social cognition and brain evolution of 🐩🐕🐺🐈🐅& 👫🏻 @NeuroecologyLab
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#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#newpreprint: "Climate Shaped the Global Population Structure of Leopards and their Extinction in Europe": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Leopards are charming big cats but there are many mysteries around them. Thread 🧵
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PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
Seasonal size change and aging in shrews
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!
DM me for questions!
Super happy & proud to share that I’ll return to @univie.ac.at in june 2026 as a tenure track professor to start my own research group exploring the neural basis of social cognition in humans, dogs & their wild relatives 🧠🐩👫
More on my current research: 🎥 youtu.be/q7H1dT4IU9w 📰 bit.ly/4mE8mLI
More on my current research: 🎥 youtu.be/q7H1dT4IU9w 📰 bit.ly/4mE8mLI
🐕 How Dog Brains Help Us Understand Ourselves | University of Vienna
YouTube video by Universität Wien
youtu.be
August 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Super happy & proud to share that I’ll return to @univie.ac.at in june 2026 as a tenure track professor to start my own research group exploring the neural basis of social cognition in humans, dogs & their wild relatives 🧠🐩👫
More on my current research: 🎥 youtu.be/q7H1dT4IU9w 📰 bit.ly/4mE8mLI
More on my current research: 🎥 youtu.be/q7H1dT4IU9w 📰 bit.ly/4mE8mLI
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1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶
NCCR researchers Klaus Zuberbühler, Gwendolyn Wirobski, and researcher Friederike Range have received a 1.4 million CHF grant to study communication and cognition in wolves and dogs 🐺🐶. 👉 More in this new article!
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social
evolvinglanguage.ch/1-4-million-...
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social
evolvinglanguage.ch/1-4-million-...
1.4 million Swiss Francs to study wolves - NCCR Evolving Language
NCCR researchers Klaus Zuberbühler, Gwendolyn Wirobski (University of Neuchâtel), and Friederike Range (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) have received a 1.4 million CHF WEAVE grant from the A...
evolvinglanguage.ch
June 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶
such a game changer for comparative neuroimaging! i am very proud to have played a small part in this 🧠
Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10
June 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
such a game changer for comparative neuroimaging! i am very proud to have played a small part in this 🧠
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Always thought we should use connectivity blueprints to investigate differences between human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains? www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... For Katherine Bryant’s latest masterpiece.
Connectivity profile and function of uniquely human cortical areas
Determining the brain specializations unique to humans requires directly comparative anatomical information from other primates, especially our closest relatives. Human ( Homo sapiens ) (m/f), chimpan...
www.jneurosci.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Always thought we should use connectivity blueprints to investigate differences between human, chimpanzee, and macaque brains? www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... For Katherine Bryant’s latest masterpiece.
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Almost the entire editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution have resigned in protest of changes made by the publisher Elsevier. These changes degrade the quality of articles through the use of AI and also double the publishing fee over what similar journals charge. 🧪🌍🌿
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
retractionwatch.com
December 28, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Almost the entire editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution have resigned in protest of changes made by the publisher Elsevier. These changes degrade the quality of articles through the use of AI and also double the publishing fee over what similar journals charge. 🧪🌍🌿
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🧠 Come work with us! In addition to our postdoc position on modelling, our lab at @institutpasteur.bsky.social we also seek a postdoc to help us create the most complete open atlas of brain folding development! This is part of our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join us! (1/10)
November 21, 2024 at 10:45 AM
🧠 Come work with us! In addition to our postdoc position on modelling, our lab at @institutpasteur.bsky.social we also seek a postdoc to help us create the most complete open atlas of brain folding development! This is part of our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join us! (1/10)
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc for our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join our lab at @institutpasteur to model brain morphogenesis! (1/10)
November 18, 2024 at 3:30 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc for our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join our lab at @institutpasteur to model brain morphogenesis! (1/10)
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Time is running out, but with more people added to Bluesky, please contact me if you are interested in applying for a MSc or PhD with us on sensory systems of living and extinct birds. CT scanning and access to the world's biggest bird brain collection!
#ornithology #neuroskyence
#ornithology #neuroskyence
Our lab is looking for potential graduate students interested in working with us and the Smithsonian Institution on the sensory systems of extinct birds and using our large bird brain collection.
Details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
#ornithology #evolution #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
Details here: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
#ornithology #evolution #neuroskyence #AcademicSky
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//ULethbridge_Canada.AvianPaleoneurology
The Iwaniuk lab at the University of Lethbridge currently has an opening
for a MSc or PhD student interested in avian paleoneurology. The
successful applicant will work on a collaborative project with...
evol.mcmaster.ca
November 18, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Time is running out, but with more people added to Bluesky, please contact me if you are interested in applying for a MSc or PhD with us on sensory systems of living and extinct birds. CT scanning and access to the world's biggest bird brain collection!
#ornithology #neuroskyence
#ornithology #neuroskyence
Curious about how dogs process social interactions? Wondering if unexpected turns elicit a “social prediction error“ analogous to humans and non-human primates? Don’t miss my poster today at #S4SN 🧲🐩🧠 #dogfMRI @s4sn.bsky.social
March 25, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Curious about how dogs process social interactions? Wondering if unexpected turns elicit a “social prediction error“ analogous to humans and non-human primates? Don’t miss my poster today at #S4SN 🧲🐩🧠 #dogfMRI @s4sn.bsky.social
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We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience?
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
December 11, 2023 at 3:37 PM
We are happy to announce the second Workshop of Ideas in 2024! On April 19-21th in Warsaw, we will discuss the origins of order in behaviour. Is instinct a useful term in modern neuroscience?
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
How do genes influence and constrain behavioural development?
nenckiopenlab.org/origins_of_order
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🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠
November 13, 2023 at 4:34 PM
🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠
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Hello #CogSci,
We just announced our 2023 Seed Grant Call which provides funds for applicants to develop, write, and submit an interdisciplinary research proposal in the broad field of cognitive science that will help them move their career forward.
Feel free to share with interested colleagues!
We just announced our 2023 Seed Grant Call which provides funds for applicants to develop, write, and submit an interdisciplinary research proposal in the broad field of cognitive science that will help them move their career forward.
Feel free to share with interested colleagues!
2023 Seed Grant Call
2023 Seed Grant Call
cogsci.univie.ac.at
November 8, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Hello #CogSci,
We just announced our 2023 Seed Grant Call which provides funds for applicants to develop, write, and submit an interdisciplinary research proposal in the broad field of cognitive science that will help them move their career forward.
Feel free to share with interested colleagues!
We just announced our 2023 Seed Grant Call which provides funds for applicants to develop, write, and submit an interdisciplinary research proposal in the broad field of cognitive science that will help them move their career forward.
Feel free to share with interested colleagues!
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Symposium proposals for the Japan Society for Social Neuroscience meeting are due tomorrow - poster deadline is January 15
I am SO excited about going to Japan, hope to see lots of you there 🧠
#NeuroSkyEnce
#PsychSciSky
I am SO excited about going to Japan, hope to see lots of you there 🧠
#NeuroSkyEnce
#PsychSciSky
Thank you to everyone for making the S4SN 2023 meeting such a great success 🔥
In the meantime… it's already time to start planning S4SN 2024 in Tsukuba, Japan (March 25th-28th 2024)!
You still have time to submit your symposium proposals and poster abstracts until November 10th, 2023.
In the meantime… it's already time to start planning S4SN 2024 in Tsukuba, Japan (March 25th-28th 2024)!
You still have time to submit your symposium proposals and poster abstracts until November 10th, 2023.
November 9, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Symposium proposals for the Japan Society for Social Neuroscience meeting are due tomorrow - poster deadline is January 15
I am SO excited about going to Japan, hope to see lots of you there 🧠
#NeuroSkyEnce
#PsychSciSky
I am SO excited about going to Japan, hope to see lots of you there 🧠
#NeuroSkyEnce
#PsychSciSky
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Always wanted to know about white matter anatomy in the gibbon brain (but were afraid to ask)? doi.org/10.1007/s00429-023-02709-9 #neuroskyence #evolsky #brain #anatomy
October 31, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Always wanted to know about white matter anatomy in the gibbon brain (but were afraid to ask)? doi.org/10.1007/s00429-023-02709-9 #neuroskyence #evolsky #brain #anatomy
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The Multiple Demand Network of the human brain is often associated with tasks measuring fluid intelligence. Here, we investigate its structural basis and compare it to the macaque. Nice work by Katrin Karadachka: doi.org/10.1093/cerc... #neuroscience #evolution
October 10, 2023 at 7:00 AM
The Multiple Demand Network of the human brain is often associated with tasks measuring fluid intelligence. Here, we investigate its structural basis and compare it to the macaque. Nice work by Katrin Karadachka: doi.org/10.1093/cerc... #neuroscience #evolution
yesterday, @clauslamm.bsky.social and I explained our research on Austrian kids TV 🧠🐕as you can see in the pics, we had a lot of fun doing it but my favourite moment was getting a picture of my niece watching the show! ♥️ #1: shorturl.at/isxPY #2: shorturl.at/gsN89 #neuroscience #outreach #dogfMRI
October 8, 2023 at 12:23 PM
yesterday, @clauslamm.bsky.social and I explained our research on Austrian kids TV 🧠🐕as you can see in the pics, we had a lot of fun doing it but my favourite moment was getting a picture of my niece watching the show! ♥️ #1: shorturl.at/isxPY #2: shorturl.at/gsN89 #neuroscience #outreach #dogfMRI
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#HiSciSky, we are the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit based at @univie.ac.at. We do a lot of what our lab name says 🧠 but also study comparative cognition 🐶, environmental neuroscience 🌍, stress and many other exciting things. Follow us to learn more!
#PsySciSky #neuroskyence
#PsySciSky #neuroskyence
October 7, 2023 at 7:59 AM
#HiSciSky, we are the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit based at @univie.ac.at. We do a lot of what our lab name says 🧠 but also study comparative cognition 🐶, environmental neuroscience 🌍, stress and many other exciting things. Follow us to learn more!
#PsySciSky #neuroskyence
#PsySciSky #neuroskyence
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Did anybody already find some nice #brain #evolution stuff to follow?
September 30, 2023 at 7:40 AM
Did anybody already find some nice #brain #evolution stuff to follow?