Dr. Lauren Guillette (she/her)
@laurenguillette
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Animal Cognition Research Group Leader & AssProf @Psych_Ualberta @TIPS_SPIIE CRC in Cognitive Ecology; 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally; Editor-in-Chief #psynomLB
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Two undergraduate summer (paid) internship opportunities for international students
@Psych_UAlberta
Funded by
@MitacsCanada
apply here:
More information here:
Deadline to apply: 18 Sept 2024
Please share widely!
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I am accepting applications for fully-funded PhD & MSc students (Sept 2024 start)
International applicants welcome & encouraged to apply!
Application process open now, closes 01 Dec 2023. Apply here:
Info @ my team:
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I am looking for MSc, PhD and post-docs from around the world to join my team, the Animal Cognition Research Group
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
We promote and practice EDI. Please contact me if interested.
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Postdoc alert!! 🚨 I am hiring a fully-funded postdoc.
2 years with option for renewal (+2 yrs) at $40K per year with benefits.
Application review starts 15 July.
Full details here:
Animal Cognition Research Group:
Please RT
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Fully-funded PhD and MSc positions to work on my team - the Animal Cognition Research Group!
The Animal Cognition Research Groups lead by
@laurenguillette
is recruiting fully-funded PhD & MSc students to start Fall 2021. Both Canadian & international folks, women, & those from underrepresented groups encouraged to apply.
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Very happy to be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!
Even better that I get to do so with the crew highlighted below 😎
Please join us in congratulating Drs Dyson, Guillette, Nash and St Jacques, who are all promoted to Tenure
@benjdyson
@laurenguillette
@NSNLab
@peggystjacques
@ualbertaScience
@UofA_Arts
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I am so thrilled to be named the first recipient of the
@ComparativeCog
Early Career Award Sponsored by the
@Psychonomic_Soc
!! 🧠🐦🐀🐬🐒find out more about the Comparative Cognition Society here:
CCS is pleased to announce the winner of our first annual Early Career Award.
It's
@laurenguillette
!
Congrats Dr. Guillette!
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🚨Job Alert 🚨I am hiring a post-doc to join my team, the Animal Cognition Research Group
The official advert will come out next week and I will post it here
Please DM or email me with questions
Please RT
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I'm moving to
@UAlberta
as Assistant Prof. in July 2018. PhD/MSc positions in animal cognition available Please RT
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Job Alert: Assistant Prof. Comparative Cognition & Behaviour (animal cognition, animal behaviour)
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
Deadline: 15 Nov
Open to domestic & international applicants
Come work with me in amazing Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!
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My team, the Animal Cognition Research Group,
@Psych_UAlberta
is accepting applications for MSc and PhD students to start in Fall 2022 apply starting Sept 1st - Deadline Dec 1st. International applicants encouraged! Please RT
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Novel objects (awaiting approval) for our project on neophobia in zebra finches with
@TheManyBirds
this summer
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So happy and relieved to finally be granted Permanent Residency in Canada. My two-week express entry took two years! 🤷🏻♀️ 🍁
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Undergraduate summer (paid) internship opportunity for an international student!
@Psych_UAlberta
Funded by
@MitacsCanada
apply here:
More information here:
Deadline to apply: 22 Sept 2023
Please share widely
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Exciting to see videos from our laboratory
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
(filmed by
@AndresCamacho_A
) on the BBC show
#AnimalEinsteins
with host
@ChrisGPackham
Which included a great interview with Prof. Sue Healy
@SchoolofBiology
about learning in nest-building birds.
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Making my office a happy place helps me survive November/December/January in the Edmonton darkness.
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More good news from the ACRG! I'm thrilled to officially announce I am a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Ecology. Thanks to
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
@KillamTrusts
@NSERC_CRSNG
my colleagues & mentors for your continued encouragement and support
@TIPS_SPIIE
Congratulations to the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs
@UAlberta
with special kudos to
#KillamLaureates
Mohamed Gamal El-D,
@laurenguillette
, Dennis Hall
@HallBoronLab
, Yang Liu and Kimberley Mathot
@MathotLab
#researchers
#highereducation
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I'm officially back
@UAlberta
@UofAResearch
Thanks to
@BBSRC
@roysoc
@SchoolofBiology
@univofstandrews
@cog_wild
for supporting my work!
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Alberta opened up AZ vaccines today for healthy folks 40+ years old. I’m so pleased/relieved that I just received my first dose from my local pharmacy!! Is crying for joy a normal side effect???
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Press about our new paper in iScience: Birds' nests express their unique style and past experiences via
@ConversationCA
@ba_whittaker
@Psych_UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@ualbertaScience
@NSERC_CRSNG
@TIPS_SPIIE
(1/2)
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Tenure track job in Animal Cognition/Behaviour at University of Western Ontario!!!!
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New paper from the Animal Cognition Research Group 'Questioning the developmental effects of group size on cognitive abilities' Congrats to Connor Lambert for the first paper from his PhD
@Psych_UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@ualbertascience
@NSERC_CRSNG
funded
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Website for CSEE (Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution) 2020 conference here: Come visit us in amazing Edmonton, Alberta, Canada! May 28-31
@CSEE_SCEE
@CSEE_Meetings
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🚨New Paper Alert🚨 by me and PhD student first-author
@AndresCamacho_A
in
#psynomPBR
@Psychonomic_Soc
From whom do animals learn? A meta-analysis on model-based social learning
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Just me being an embarrassing PI at
#ABS2023
@ConnorTLambert
talks today at 11:30 in the
#AlleeSymposium
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Big personal news: my Permanent Residency card arrived today!
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The 2021-2023 Early Career Award winners for the
@ComparativeCog
Society.
@MarisaHoeschele
takes it all a bit too seriously 🤣
#Co3_2023
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So pleased to be part of the
@NSERC_CRSNG
family with two of my new colleagues
@Psych_UAlberta
More on what my team will be up to on Thursday!
Congratulations to Dr Peggy St Jacques, Dr Lauren Guillette and Dr Ben Dyson who were all recently awarded 5 year NSERC Discovery Grants! Stay tuned for researcher spotlights later this week!
@NSERC_CRSNG
@UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@peggystjacques
@laurenguillette
@benjdyson
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Great advice from Dr. Irene Pepperberg “get advice from people in other areas” attend talks and read outside your specific research area.
#CO3_2021
congrats Irene on receiving the CCS research award!
@ComparativeCog
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Sue Healy rocks a full house
@Psych_UAlberta
talking about her 20+ years of work testing cognition in wild hummingbirds (with a little help and inspiration from Darwin’s strolls around Down House
#trapline
@cog_wild
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Deadline to apply for a funded MSc or PhD on my team, the Animal Cognition Research Group, is one month away (01 Dec)
I am accepting applications for fully-funded PhD & MSc students (Sept 2024 start)
International applicants welcome & encouraged to apply!
Application process open now, closes 01 Dec 2023. Apply here:
Info @ my team:
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Interested in avian cognition? Buy the new book by the lovely experts pictured here
@behaviour2017
@asab_tweets
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So proud of
@AndresCamacho_A
for winning the Ron Weisman Outstanding Student Presentation
#Co3_2023
@ComparativeCog
@Psych_UAlberta
well deserved 🎉👏🏼
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Taken today. I go to the office once a week to water my plants and check on the lab. I really miss the energy, conversations with, and smiling faces of my colleagues and students.
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🚨Post-doc alert🚨
I will begin to review applications on July 17th.
If you are attending
#ABS2023
please come talk to me 🧠🪹🐦⬛🪺
For detailed information on the post-doc position on my team, the Animal Cognition Research Group, and how to apply please visit here:
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The Animal Cognition Research Group is recruiting grad students (MSc & PhD) for Sept 2023. We are located in Canada & encourage & support applications from domestic and international students! If you’re at
#ABS2022
please come chat with me. More info (1/2)
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So great to be at a conference with my team! Gutted that this is
@ConnorTLambert
and
@AndresCamacho_A
first in-person conference of their PhD’s. We missed so much because of COVID but are very lucky to be here and be healthy.
#ABS2022
#CostaRica
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Elbow deep in a sociable weaver nest returning a pygmy falcon chick w/
@AnthonyLowney
et al. on my afternoon off from collecting data on white-browsed sparrow weaver nests
@Tswalu
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Great Eco&Evo seminar today by
@KateLaskowski
.
#TheFutureisFemale
(Gynogenesis!) using the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) as a model to examine the causes of individual variation in behaviour.
@UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
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I wear my orange shirt in support of the Truth & Reconciliation Calls 2 Action & to remember the children who were sent away to residential schools & the continued trauma & damage this caused
@UAlberta
@FPH_ualberta
@firstpeopleshouseuofa
#ualbertaosd2021
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🚨 I am accepting new MSc & PhD students to start Sept 2023 🚨
Applications open now - deadline 01 Dec 2022
My team engages in and promotes Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Domestic and international applicants welcome and encouraged to apply
Please RT
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Field work
@Tswalu
for a few weeks: White-browed sparrow-weaver nests with
@cog_wild
.
@Psych_UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@ualbertaScience
@SchoolofBiology
@univofstandrews
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Application review starts July 15th
Postdoc alert!! 🚨
2 yrs w option for +2 yrs starting at $40K/yr w benefits.
Must be within 5 yrs of PhD
No restrictions on citizenship
Full details here:
Animal Cognition Research Group:
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New paper alert from the Animal Cognition Research Group by lead-author & PhD student
@AndresCamacho_A
"If it ain’t broke don’t fix it: Breeding success affects nest-building decisions" Download a free copy here:
@gopikab1
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
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The 31st International Conference on Comparative Cognition is 10-13th April 2024 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Town in New Mexico!
@nickyclayton22
to give Master Lecture on Saturday night!
More details:
@ComparativeCog
#CO32024
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One of my views of downtown Edmonton on my ride to work ❤️🚲
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The Animal Cognition Research Group turns 1 on 🇨🇦 day We went from zero, to zebbies (bulding nests), in less than a year! Even better, I took this of my computer as I sit in my office and live-steam what’s happening in the laboratory.
@Psych_UAlberta
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Study shows birds build nests based on experiences in adolescence, not birth more press for
@alexisjbreen
new first-authored paper
@SchoolofBiology
@Psych_UAlberta
@UofAResearch
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Congrats to
@alexisjbreen
for another first-authored paper from her PhD!
@Psych_UAlberta
@SchoolofBiology
@ualbertaScience
@univofstandrews
How do animals acquire technological know-how? Our NEW PAPER in
@BehavEcol
shows that the early-life socio-ecological environment is key! Paper link Illustrated by
@engaged_art
@laurenguillette
@cog_wild
@scedwards19
@SchoolofBiology
@Psych_UAlberta
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New course at University of Alberta combines science with Indigenous knowledge | CBC News
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I love visiting my lab, especially when new graphs, theoretical predictions and mind maps appear on the board. This cutie appeared today and made me smile.
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I’m not getting any work done this afternoon with this flock of Bohemian waxwings outside my office.
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Special issue alert about the amazing Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her significant impact on the field of comparative cognition. SI was guest edited by me and
@DebbieKellyLab
Have you checked out the special issue of Learning and Behavior in honour of Irene Pepperberg? Edited by
@laurenguillette
and
@DebbieKellyLab
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A ‘beautiful’ idea about why female songbirds find males’ songs sexy has collapsed via
@AddThis
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Press about our new paper
@alexisjbreen
@cog_wild
@scedwards19
and a beautiful picture of a male zebbie building a nest.
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Beautiful sky over the sparrow-weaver site
@Tswalu
this morning. We updated the nest census for two colonies and recorded some nest-building behaviour (hopefully).
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Special Issue on Cognitive Ecology & Comparative Cognition! Calling on researchers from around the globe. Email or DM me any questions. Please RT
SPECIAL ISSUE: "Comparative Psychology & Cognitive Ecology"
Expressions of interest (title/abstract) due July 1 to guest editors Lauren Guillette (guillett
@ualberta
.ca) and Chris Sturdy. More info:
@OfficialCSBBCS
@CPA_SCP
@cbsturdy
@laurenguillette
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New paper alert: congrats to
@AndresCamacho_A
for another first-authored paper with co-authors
@gopikab1
, Tristan Eckersley, and Connor Lambert.
Zebra finches that observe conspecifics using a nest learn what a nest is, allowing them to recognize an abandoned nest as a social artefact and learn information from it. After viewing a nest in use, finches were also faster in building their own nest.
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Job Alert 🚨Assistant Prof.
We begin reviewing applications in two weeks (15 Nov deadline)
Job Alert: Assistant Prof. Comparative Cognition & Behaviour (animal cognition, animal behaviour)
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
Deadline: 15 Nov
Open to domestic & international applicants
Come work with me in amazing Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!
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On my last day as an AFLF many thanks to the
@BBSRC
for their support! I'm starting a research group
@UAlberta
in Psych this summer and will continue to work with colleagues from
@SchoolofBiology
@univofstandrews
as an Honorary Research Fellow. Canada, here I come!
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I'll be talking about social learning and new work on the effects of early-life environment feat.
@alexisjbreen
and these colourful zebra finch nests in the Cognitive Ecology Symposium Saturday morning
#CSEE2018
@SchoolofBiology
@univofstandrews
@UofAResearch
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Animal behaviour folks follow this account ⬇️ 🌍
Launching Animal Behaviour Community Africa! Join us in developing a space to uplift, empower and boost the visibility of the research and researchers in animal behaviour in Africa. Read our ethos here: . Follow us on Twitter & FB as we build this together.
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This might be useful to folks teaching learning and behaviour!
Michael Domjan releases a YouTube channel with lessons on learning and behaviour!
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Thrilled to be in Costa Rica for in person
#ABS2022
@AnimBehSociety
!! Come see the ACRG poster tonight
#143
about our outreach activity ‘Lesson plan: Nesting birds of the world’ link here to download this free activity
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Today I practiced physical (not social) distancing by having virtual coffee with my colleagues
@peggystjacques
@benjdyson
and
@DanaHayward1
☕️ while we all (tried) to work from home. Support and check in on your colleagues! 🌈💐🌞
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Congrats to Dr. Alexis Breen
@alexisjbreen
on her successful thesis entitled: Effects of social and physical environment on avian nest construction.
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I love my job 🪺🦜Came into the laboratory today to this lovely pile. Everyone on the team brought in something from their home to make novel objects for the
@TheManyBirds
project we are running this summer with our zebra finches. Lead by
@ConnorTLambert
and
@ba_whittaker
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New paper by PI
@laurenguillette
and first-author PhD student
@AndresCamacho_A
@ualbertaScience
@UofAResearch
Zebra finches that observe conspecifics using a nest learn what a nest is, allowing them to recognize an abandoned nest as a social artefact and learn information from it. After viewing a nest in use, finches were also faster in building their own nest.
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🚨 Two (paid) Ugrad summer internships available on my team 🚨
When: 12 weeks in Summer 2023
Who: International students
DEADLINE TO APPLY IS 22 September 2022!!
Please RT
Two undergraduate summer internship opportunities for international students!
@Psych_UAlberta
Funded by
@MitacCanada
apply here:
More information here:
Deadline to apply: 22 Sept 2022
Please share widely!
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The Animal Cognition Research Goup, Fall 2022 album cover
@Psych_UAlberta
@JuliaLSelf
@ConnorTLambert
@sara_c_bird
@AndresCamacho_A
@ba_whittaker
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Download our latest paper 'Are cognitive abilities under selection by female choice? A comment on Chen et al. 2019' by me
@AndresCamacho_A
and
@mynas_newcastle
link expires on 29 August 2020
@Psych_UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@ualbertaScience
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Check out my guest blog post for
@scilitweek
@TWoSEdm
! Thanks to colleagues and friends for contributing your fave science books. See the link to Goodreads bookshelf with your picks at the end of the post below. ⬇️ 🧠🦜📚
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
"To this day I can remember the 3 books that were most influential in me pursuing a major in psychology." -
@laurenguillette
, TWOSE Science Fellow.
Which books got her hooked? Find out in her
@scilitweek
guest blog:
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Nest-building style reflects birds’ early experience
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So cool!
@AndresCamacho_A
winning photo from last year for the Images of Research contest
@UAlbertaFGSR
@uofalibrary
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
@UofAResearch
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New Animal Cognition Research Group paper by first-author Connor Lambert: The impact of environmental and social factors on learning abilities: a meta‐analysis in Biological Reviews
@Psych_UAlberta
@UAlberta
@UofAResearch
@ualbertaScience
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🚨New paper alert🚨 "Involvement of the neural social behaviour network during social information acquisition in zebra finches" w/
@tasvamos
@cog_wild
@SimoneMeddle
@Psych_UAlberta
@CentreBioDiv
@ualbertaScience
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My colleagues
@UAlberta
:
@peggystjacques
@DanaHayward1
@MathotLab
@DrLisaWillis
@DrTBlew
@alonamarie
@SandraAWiebe
@WendyHoglund
@KimNoels
Every day, but especially today, we acknowledge and celebrate all the amazing contributions from women in science, and look forward to training the next generation
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience
@ualbertaScience
Reply & show some credit!
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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So many amazing things in this interview: Irene, avian cognition, the
@ComparativeCog
Society, and champagne 🍾Check out the Special Issue in honour of Irene here: guest edited by me and
@DebbieKellyLab
All Things Cognition podcast
#allthingscognition
@lmickes
interviews Prof Pepperberg about the
#psynomLB
Special Issue in her honor; voiceover by
@meta_michelle
@SpringerPsych
@alexfoundation
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Hi
@DavidMShuker
@CandyRowe_
@AMCELL
@kirstyegraham
@ShokoSugasawa
@Arturo_P
@MothProf
@jesvanderwal
@evoNicki
have you see this new paper by my colleagues
@ualbertaScience
!!!
"12 principles trainees, PIs, departments, and faculties can use to reduce bias & discrimination in STEM"
New paper by
@DrLisaWillis
@drdevangm
@ACD_Davis11
(all from
@UAlberta
). Practical steps relevant beyond academia.
#DiversityInSTEM
#DEI
#STEM
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Does this (taking video) count as me participating in the
#co3_2023
fun run?
@scienceofdog
@ConnorTLambert
@ComparativeCog
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Animal Cognition Research Group
@Psych_UAlberta
, Autumn 2019 (front L-R) Harsimran Khinda, Briana Kroeker, Lauren Guillette, Gopika Balasubramanian, Maneet Sidhu, Connor Lambert (back L-R) Tristan Eckersley, Maks Tadhizada, Andrés Camacho. Not Pictured: Chelsea Hanson
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Amazing news to share:
@ConnorTLambert
has been awarded an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship
Congrats, Connor!! 🎉
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
@ualbertaGSA
@UAlbertaFGSR
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SI: Individual differences cognition & personality. Editorial by
@laurenguillette
@mynas_newcastle
& Marc Naguib
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Animal learning folks: Looking for everyday news stories that incorporate the concepts of habituation, associative learning, operant learning, discrimination training, etc. for my animal (including human!) learning class. Please RT & send any articles my way, cheers! 👥🐤🐀🦋
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Women and science suffer when medical research doesn't study females | CBC Radio
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My
@BBSRC
Fellowship was productive (& fun) because I worked with a fantastic team!
@alexisjbreen
@cog_wild
@scedwards19
@StA_Nestboxes
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My research team
@UAlberta
is growing: Tristan Eckersley starts his MSc in Comparative Cognition and Behaviour this Autumn. Check out his website here: Looking forward to it!
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Tristan successfully defended his MSc today! Well done Tristan 🎊🍾
Join us in congratulating 🎉Tristan Eckersley 🎉who just passed his Master's thesis defense! His thesis examined how previous breeding success affects (or not!) social learning in nest-building birds. 🐦 Well done Tristan!
@ualbertaScience
@UofA_Arts
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Do sex differences in construction behavior relate to differences
in physical cognitive abilities?
@SpringerANCO
by 1st-author
@ConnorTLambert
@Psych_UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
@GraduatePsych
@gopikab1
@AndresCamacho_A
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