Hunter College ABC

Thread of INTERNSHIPS currently available with @USFWS! The following ALL include a direct hire benefit or may be converted directly to perm jobs (Pathways Program). One of the best ways to get into the Service! Students please apply! Profs please share!

#LightsOutNYC legislation was just PASSED UNANIMOUSLY by the @NYCCouncil! Int. 271 & 274 will significantly reduce lighting from buildings owned and used by the City during peak migration from 11pm-6am, helping to prevent the 230,000 bird collisions that happen in NYC annually!

We are hiring! Come work with the Technological Primates Research Group at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig! We study tool use and the material culture of primates in the wild. Follow this link for more information on how to apply: eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

Interested in #HumanBehaviourChange? 🤷‍♂️ Interested in #Dogs and #AnimalWelfare ? 🐾 How about working for @DogsTrust - fabulous new post available - see here: careers.dogstrust.org.uk/vacancies/1874…

I'm a sucker for research on pets but I've mainly found dog studies...until now! Here's an example of a within-groups experimental design for students to work with. Features work by @Explanimals (see her bio for a video preview!) everydayresearchmethods.com/2021/06/cat-in…

Please retweet! We're hiring a paid, short term (~6 week) technician to help investigate cougar clusters, monitor VHF tagged pigs, and maintain camera grids in California! wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/short-ter…

NEW COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROJECT!! Brought to you by the #IfIFitsISits team, "Seeing Things" is a NEW illusion 🌀 community science project. This time, we are recruiting both dogs 🐶 and cats 😺! Sign up below⬇️

NEW POSITION AVAILABLE We are hiring a full-time, lab manager for our human-animal interaction research group. We would love to have YOU join our team! Learn more: vet.purdue.edu/chab/ohaire/in… Apply: careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafay…

Congrats to @Hunter_College alum Gabriella Smith (MA '20), whose study "If I Fits I Sits" (the 1st cat study from Hunter's Thinking Dog Center ) was just published in Applied Animal Behavior Science...and people are loving it! @sebyosiere @Explanimals @PsychatHunter @HunterTDC

Check out recent ABC MA alum Gabriella Smith's newly published paper. This study is the first community science project conducted on cat cognition and was entirely conducted and published during the pandemic. So cool. Congrats! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibility in Domestic Cats (Felis silvestris catus) has just been published in AABS! #IfIFitsISits #CatSquare #CitizenScience #CommunityScience

Research Assistants wanted @TaiChimpProject - If you want to observe the behaviour of wild chimpanzees in the last remaining primary rain-forest patch in West Africa - than apply: #c17222" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/…

Congratulations to @nicosicko and @SashaPrasad_ on their first publication! In this @HunterTDC study we aimed to replicate a spontaneous-choice illusion task in dogs and we learned A LOT about all the things that could go wrong! A quick 🧵 animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id…

Every Friday, the @AnimBehSociety highlights a study in #ConservationBehavior (@ConservBehavior): The influence of human disturbance on #wildlife nocturnality by @kaitlyngaynor @CherylHojnowski @neilhcarter & Justin S. Brashares (@ScienceMagazine): tinyurl.com/8s58uhcj

Ever wonder if science can help you pick out the best toys for your pup? TDC Director @sebyosiere explains how dogs’ perception of color might affect how they view and interact with their toys. lifehacker.com/should-you-rea…

🗣We’re hiring a wildlife faculty member!! Please apply to join us @uarizona and help lead the critically important (and funded) Mount Graham red squirrel project. And please RT! Full details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

We are hiring! Need 3 dedicated team players for unique hybrid Lecturer/Project manager roles at Bristol Zoological Society! Teaching the next generation of conservationists and implementing conservation and sustainability actions on the ground in 🇬🇧&🌍1/4 environmentjob.co.uk/jobs?utf8=%E2%…

It's been a productive few weeks. Two papers and one encyclopedia entry accepted for publication. Congrats to the amazing @ABCClubHunter1 students @Explanimals @SashaPrasad_ and @nicosicko for having their first papers published! Can't wait to share soon!