Postdoc with Tecumseh Fitch, UniWien |
The biology and evolution of dance 💃🏻🕺🏼|
Love music, nature, bouldering, and exploring wild places 🌴 |
he/him |
University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
Thomas MacGillavry
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Book Nr 8. Comparative Musicology by Pat Savage. 🎶
The motherhood penalty - disappointing that so little has changed in my academic lifetime 😞
Thoughtful response by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social et al.
In our new TREE paper, with M. Borgerhoff Mulder, S. Brosnan and E. Strauss we show that power in animal societies can be subject to control. When high-powered individuals use aggression to gain better access to resources, other group members can respond with "levelling".
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Interested in the role of mu-opioid receptors on key mechanisms of pain, stress and reward?
Come join our team as a PhD student working on a newly discovered OPRM1 human knockout model! 🧬
Find out more at the link below⬇️
Another new report on wild chimpanzee plant tool use, this time breaking down the fundamentals of fishing for algae in Guinea (part of the @mbchimp.bsky.social project). It comes with a figure on fishing techniques that doubles as dance instructions 💃🏺🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Our latest episode of Transmissions is out! This one features Prof. Dr. Lucy Aplin, a leading cognitive ecologist from the University of Zurich and Australian National University.
This marks our very first episode dedicated entirely to understanding animal culture!
youtu.be/M7qCTKRNVuA?...
New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making.
Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
