Olga Lazareva
@pigeonmind.bsky.social
Science, birds, and doodles, not necessarily in that order.
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Ever wondered whether other animals are curious?
Check out our new paper:
Do goldfish like to be informed?
Now out in Proceedings of the @royalsociety.org!
Co-lead by @monteirotiago.bsky.social during my PhD
@biology.ox.ac.uk with Mark Walton and Alex Kacelnik
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Check out our new paper:
Do goldfish like to be informed?
Now out in Proceedings of the @royalsociety.org!
Co-lead by @monteirotiago.bsky.social during my PhD
@biology.ox.ac.uk with Mark Walton and Alex Kacelnik
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ever wondered whether other animals are curious?
Check out our new paper:
Do goldfish like to be informed?
Now out in Proceedings of the @royalsociety.org!
Co-lead by @monteirotiago.bsky.social during my PhD
@biology.ox.ac.uk with Mark Walton and Alex Kacelnik
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Check out our new paper:
Do goldfish like to be informed?
Now out in Proceedings of the @royalsociety.org!
Co-lead by @monteirotiago.bsky.social during my PhD
@biology.ox.ac.uk with Mark Walton and Alex Kacelnik
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Elephants can spontaneously learn to use gestures to request food and objects from humans, suggesting a level of flexibility in their communication previously unrecognized, according to recent research 🐘 buff.ly/dpXf35Q #WorldElephantDay
Do elephants make deliberate gestures to ask for things? Our study says yes
Elephants were found to gesture intentionally when they wanted humans to give them apples. This trait was thought to exist mainly in primates.
theconversation.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Elephants can spontaneously learn to use gestures to request food and objects from humans, suggesting a level of flexibility in their communication previously unrecognized, according to recent research 🐘 buff.ly/dpXf35Q #WorldElephantDay
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Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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What are chickadees discussing with their calls?
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
theconversation.com/mountain-chi...
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
theconversation.com/mountain-chi...
Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls
Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like words in a sentence.
theconversation.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What are chickadees discussing with their calls?
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
theconversation.com/mountain-chi...
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
theconversation.com/mountain-chi...
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Snakes have two tongue tips for the same reason you have two ears.
Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked tongues
Two tongue tips are better than one – an evolutionary biologist explains why snakes have forked tongues.
theconversation.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Snakes have two tongue tips for the same reason you have two ears.
My recent explainer of the science behind studying logical thinking in animals is finally out! 🧪
theconversation.com/humans-and-a...
theconversation.com/humans-and-a...
Humans and animals can both think logically − but testing what kind of logic they’re using is tricky
How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental processes in animals − and in people.
theconversation.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My recent explainer of the science behind studying logical thinking in animals is finally out! 🧪
theconversation.com/humans-and-a...
theconversation.com/humans-and-a...
Correct. Parental rights to refuse vaccines but not to provide your kid with a medically approved treatment. Utter insanity.
IMO it also strips parental rights, so that even if the parents who have responsibility and legal control for their children approve and want the treatment the government says no. That has to be illegal or at least immoral/unethical.
June 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Correct. Parental rights to refuse vaccines but not to provide your kid with a medically approved treatment. Utter insanity.
Not a millennial or single, but I want one.
Study: More Single Millennials Settling For Parrot Who Can Dial 911
Study: More Single Millennials Settling For Parrot Who Can Dial 911
NEW YORK—Shedding light on the demographic shifts that have transformed the generation’s relationships, a Hunter College study published Monday revealed that more single millennials were settling for ...
theonion.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not a millennial or single, but I want one.
My favorite bird!
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My favorite bird!
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We match scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, summer camps, and more for virtual Q&As about science!
Tell the organizers in your life! We match once a week, all summer long 🧪
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May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We match scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, summer camps, and more for virtual Q&As about science!
Tell the organizers in your life! We match once a week, all summer long 🧪
Sign up here:
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Tell the organizers in your life! We match once a week, all summer long 🧪
Sign up here:
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What are chickadees discussing with their calls?
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls
Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like words in a sentence.
buff.ly
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What are chickadees discussing with their calls?
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
Scientists are decoding the intricate "chick-a-dee" call, which contains six elements that can be combined in hundreds of ways, following rules similar to human grammar.
Pigeons! They too have personality.
🐦Pigeons! 🙀Personality! 👥Flock cohesion! 🦅Predation threat!
Our May #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123122
Our May #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat”
Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123122
May 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Pigeons! They too have personality.
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May 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I can relate.
May 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I can relate.
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#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses #Photography #Nature #Joy 🌱🍃
What are you grateful for in this moment?
Breathe that deeply into your soul, remember throughout the day. 🙏🏽💕
What are you grateful for in this moment?
Breathe that deeply into your soul, remember throughout the day. 🙏🏽💕
May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses #Photography #Nature #Joy 🌱🍃
What are you grateful for in this moment?
Breathe that deeply into your soul, remember throughout the day. 🙏🏽💕
What are you grateful for in this moment?
Breathe that deeply into your soul, remember throughout the day. 🙏🏽💕
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Beautiful flowers for Mothers Day in Minnesota✨
#Photography
#Photographer
#MothersDay
#Flowers
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#MothersDay
#Flowers
#Nature
#Minnesota
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Beautiful flowers for Mothers Day in Minnesota✨
#Photography
#Photographer
#MothersDay
#Flowers
#Nature
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographer
#MothersDay
#Flowers
#Nature
#Minnesota
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..."Almost all bird species showed areas with population increases and areas with declines, often with the strongest declines occurring in areas where species were most abundant. Most species were declining overall, suggesting a worsening situation for birds"
One of the biggest citizen science studies ever conducted — if you logged an eBird sighting in N. America in the last 14 years, this paper represents your work and this alarm is all of our responsibility to sound:
Avian life is slipping away.
🌎🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Avian life is slipping away.
🌎🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant
Efforts to address declines of North American birds have been constrained by limited availability of fine-scale information about population change. By using participatory science data from eBird, we ...
www.science.org
May 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
..."Almost all bird species showed areas with population increases and areas with declines, often with the strongest declines occurring in areas where species were most abundant. Most species were declining overall, suggesting a worsening situation for birds"
Saturday mood.
May 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Saturday mood.
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Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
theonion.com/woman-r...
theonion.com/woman-r...
Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
LOWELL, MA—Doing her best to follow her therapist’s advice for dealing with stressful situations, area woman Holly Debling reportedly reminded herself Tuesday not to catastrophize after she spotted four skeletal horsemen on the horizon. “Okay, Holly, remember: Just because a great trumpet has sounded at the arrival of four unearthly riders, that doesn’t necessarily mean […]
theonion.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
theonion.com/woman-r...
theonion.com/woman-r...
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Thank you #Bluesky for helping us reach 50,000 followers!
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April 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Thank you #Bluesky for helping us reach 50,000 followers!
We've been losing followers steadily on X, but we've appreciated the growing recognition here.
But many people don’t know about us yet – if you think your followers would appreciate our links in their feed, please let them know about us. 😀
We've been losing followers steadily on X, but we've appreciated the growing recognition here.
But many people don’t know about us yet – if you think your followers would appreciate our links in their feed, please let them know about us. 😀