Postdoctoral researcher at CREAF.
Interested in the ecology and evolution of cognition in reptiles and fish 🦎🐍🐟
Gilles De Meester
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After a full day of scanning, I see dancing transparent snake heads every time I close my eyes 🐍
Our lab has now a Bluesky! Follow for awesome science on how animals deal with a rapidly changing world 🦎
Amazing topic in the lab of an equally amazing PI 🦎🦎
Last week I had the pleasure of giving a guest-lecture to Msc students at Antwerp University about what reptiles can teach us about the evolution of cognition, and the research at @creaf.cat on the role of behaviour & cognition in biological invasions. Thanks @uafunmorph.bsky.social for inviting me!
New🐟🧠 paper! To better understand what aspects of group-living are cognitively demanding, we tested whether individual recognition depends on relative brain size in guppies. Spoilers: guppies recognized and preferred familiar fish, regardless of brain size!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New 🐟🧠 paper led by Olivia Carmstedt (not on Bluesky): Streaming for Fish. To understand how reciprocal social interactions affect brain development, we exposed guppies to either live conspecifics or video-recordings of fish. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍
Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!
Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com
📣 Honouring Frans de Waal’s spirit of curiosity & empathy 🧠🐒
The Frans de Waal PhD Dissertation Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Celebrating #Primatology, #Ethology & the evolution of social behaviour.
🏆 Announced at #CBEN2026 (Leiden, Apr 14)
⏰ Apply by Jan 15, 2026!
@ehbea2026.bsky.social
We studied lizards from 12 Croatian islands and found substantial variation in their chemical signal profiles. Ecological factors didn’t explain it. Instead, divergence was best explained by non-adaptive processes 🦎🏝️ @oikosjournal.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Behaviour and Evolution Lab at @creaf.cat is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on research on how animals (🦎🐍🦜) respond and adapt to rapid human-induced changes
Abstract. Social interactions form key developmental cues for plasticity in the vertebrate brain. However, few experimental studies disentangle specific as
Abstract It is often assumed that group-living animals require larger brains in order to deal with the various social challenges they encounter. One such key challenge is the need to recognize and dis...
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
We are excited to kick-start our new lab account! 🦎🐍🦤🌳
Follow this account for our most up-to-date research updates
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@lapiedralab.bsky.social
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