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Marianne Freeman (she/her)
@msfreeman.bsky.social
Animal Researcher and Lecturer | Welfare | Behaviour | Conservation | Education | Management | Zoo
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🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
July 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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📢📰What is #ManyZoos? Our founders just published a concept paper! 🥳 V. grateful to MZ committee members, mentors, & reviewers & excited for what the future holds! #ZooBiology #AZA #EAZA #WAZA #BIAZA @drelliephants.bsky.social @msfreeman.bsky.social @fayclark.bsky.social @lisapbarrett.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: rdcu.be/d30KP. DOI here: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…. @SpringerNature#BigTeamSciencece#BTSTS#OpenSciencece.
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
Nature Human Behaviour - Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling...
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December 18, 2024 at 9:35 PM
@manygoatsproject.bsky.social is on blue sky. Give us a follow if you are interested in goats or general livestock welfare research
December 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM
A great talk #ASABWinter2024 to promote open science practices
asab.org ASAB @asab.org · Dec 12
Afternoon plenary by @anticac.bsky.social on biases and poor practices in science. A shocking amount of research is wasted. Some fantastic recommendations to increase quality, openness and transparency. Don’t forget to check each other’s code!!! 💻👀💥 #ASABWinter2024
December 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Looking forward to this, check out our poster on whether there is analysis bias in zoo research
asab.org ASAB @asab.org · Nov 19
The program for #ASABWinter2024 is online at asabwinter2024.github.io !

❄️4 plenaries, 22 talks, 66 posters, 15 virtual posters, a panel discussion, LGBTQIA+ networking, a mentor meet & greet and the ASAB AGM. We could not be more excited! ❄️

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ASAB Winter 2024
asabwinter2024.github.io
December 10, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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The diet of free-ranging cats varies between continents.
Cats prey most frequently on birds in Europe and North America, while predation on mammals is greatest in Australia. Paper in @ecography.bsky.social: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #bioinvasion #InvasiveSpecies
November 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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We are removing the largest and longest-lived animals, which can be detrimental to those species dependent on migration, sociality, and cultural transmission to survive. Paper in Science by @kellerfish.bsky.social et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM
I’m a little sleepy 😴 this morning after staying up last night (UK time) to watch the Animal Welfare Science Centre Research Showcase 2024. It was worth it to catch @drmiacobb.bsky.social talk on canine “stress” indicators.
November 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM