Richard Mott
banner
ro-mott.bsky.social
Richard Mott
@ro-mott.bsky.social
Animal welfare scientist with an interest in perception and cognition. Climb now, work later
Reposted by Richard Mott
WOO!
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
I’m looking for a PhD student, please share!
#PhDPositionAlert
PhD on Advancing the welfare of dairy ruminant youngstock through a social science or multi-disciplinary lens
Michigan State University, USA

More information: www.applied-ethology.org/PhD_USA.html
October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Anyone at ISAE, come and talk about pig bedding at poster 65
August 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
True ☹️
July 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
If you say so 🙊
May 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Squish Pig is loaded up and heading to Galway for BSAS 25
April 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
New preprint in collaboration with @babeheim.bsky.social: Vocal mimicry in corvids. We describe vocal mimicry, i.e., copying of sounds produced by another species or the environment, in 31 out of 128 corvid species (24%). (1/2)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Feels like these are becoming a bi-weekly announcement now 😞

Solidarity to anyone going through this shit show and fingers crossed the government wake up to the crisis
February 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
📣🚨 *Abstract submission deadline: 10 days left!*📣🚨

The deadline for abstract submission for #behaviour2025 is 31st January.

Don't miss your chance to share your expertise on a global platform. Hurry and submit your abstracts!
January 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Exciting news - Northern Ireland is getting our first Veterinary Nursing degree programme 😁
January 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New Year, new publication! In this preprint we review the equipment used in acoustic monitoring of pigs and discuss what we may be missing by not including everything pigs can hear osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
January 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Winter has arrived in Northern Ireland - great day out in the Mourne Mountains
January 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Merry Christmas to everyone with a January submission date 🤣
December 25, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Dammit 😭

 #phd
December 23, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Everyone stop what you’re doing and look at this amazing sheep Christmas cake my wife has made 🐑
December 23, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Global research shows that it takes non-native English speaking scientists 51% more time to write a paper! Barriers and biases in academia with respect to language. Thought-provoking plenary by Tatsuya Armano at #asabwinter2024 👏🏼

#biasesinscience #languagebarriers
December 13, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Great morning’s talks, now waiting for this afternoon @asab.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare @ufaw.bsky.social is here too, please follow for animal welfare science research, funding, policy, etc.
December 10, 2024 at 8:53 AM
T. rex in a Christmas jumper? Now I know Christmas has started 🎅
👋 It's 15 days until Christmas but our first day on Bluesky!
Our festive animatronic T. rex says hello!
December 10, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
I just want to do a stupid T-test 😭
December 9, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
The @the-hsa.bsky.social is on Bluesky now, please follow if you're interested in the welfare of animals "beyond the farm gate" - at slaughter, during transport and emergency killing etc.
December 7, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Richard Mott
Mushrooms
December 6, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Richard Mott
We’ve listed a few starter packs that we thought might be interesting to our members/researchers in animal behaviour. Feel free to add on to the thread if you have more suggestions! 🦍🦒🐐🐕🐑🐋🐍🦗

⬇️
a man wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
Alt: David from Schitts creek wearing a sweater with a bird on it says i love making connections
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:54 PM