Marianne Freeman (she/her)

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 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!

📢📰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

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...

Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: rdcu.be/d30KP. DOI here: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…. @SpringerNature, #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.

@manygoatsproject.bsky.social is on blue sky. Give us a follow if you are interested in goats or general livestock welfare research

A great talk #ASABWinter2024 to promote open science practices

Looking forward to this, check out our poster on whether there is analysis bias in zoo research

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

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/...

Ha yes, of course, it goes both ways. I was just glad I remembered and managed to stay up. Too often I sign up to talks and forget about them when they are at night. Great job organising this one.

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.