Janire Castellano, PhD

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🌍 Have you experienced language barriers at academic conferences, or not at all? 📝 Take our short survey and help make conferences more inclusive and multilingual: forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6NH…

Our new preprint is out! We explore how fluid control affects the affective state of laboratory macaques. 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #AnimalWelfare #PrimateWelfare

The workshop "Wild Animal Welfare & Behaviour: A Global South Perspective" at #Behaviour2025 encouraged dialogue & interactions on bringing Global South perspectives to the forefront of welfare & behaviour research

Thank you so much to everyone that came to my talk this morning on Bridging #AnimalWelfare and #AnimalBehaviour research! 🦋🐒🐸 #Behaviour2025 @Behaviour2025 @forwildanimals

We always encourage diversity and inclusion at #behaviour2025. The ongoing workshop on Amplifying Global Voices: Removing Language Barriers in Student Research is creating a space to discuss challenges and innovative solutions for making science more accessible and equitable across languages.

It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025! Thank you to everyone who came along!

In-conference Workshop IV Amplifying Global Voices: Removing Language Barriers in Student Conferences by Dr. Janire Castellano Bueno, Alexandros Vezyrakis & Chris Miller Faced language challenges or want to shape more inclusive global conferences? This is for you! #workshops

In-conference Workshop VI Wild Animal welfare & Animal Behaviour: a Global South Perspective by Tanya Payne & Janire Castellano Bueno Explore how animal behaviour research meets wild animal welfare science, particularly focusing on the Global South #workshops

And… If you have ever felt language impacted your conference experience, we would love your input! 👉 forms.gle/XkBDsocDS2chP2…

Our workshop on Language Barriers at academic conferences is today! 📅 27th August 2025 1.10pm 📍Hall 7 Hope to see you all there! #Behaviour2025 #LanguageBarrier #DEI #EDI #JEDI

⏰ Quick Survey #LanguageBarrier We're hosting a workshop on 26th August about making academic conferences more inclusive for multilingual researchers. If you've ever felt language impacted your conference experience, we’d love your input! 👉forms.gle/XkBDsocDS2chP2…

We welcomed our European grantees to a meetup in London last week, where they presented their work, talked through challenges, and shared collaboration opportunities. It was great to see such inspiring work happening in the field of wild animal welfare science!

🚀 AI for Animals 2025 is happening this weekend, March 1-2, UC Berkeley. 🚀 With 60+ sessions featuring talks, panels, workshops, networking events, and more, this conference brings together leading experts to explore the future of AI in animal welfare, conservation, ethics and more. Today, we’re highlighting just one of the many key themes: AI & Wildlife Conservation. Sessions include: 🔹 Workshop: AI for Conservation with Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery (Virtual) 🔹 Talk: Breakthroughs in Bioacoustics with Sara Keen 🔹 Talk: AI for Wild Animal Welfare: Current Work & Future Potential with Janire Castellano This is just a preview of what to expect. AI for Animals 2025 offers a rare opportunity to engage with experts, explore cutting-edge AI applications, and be part of the critical conversations shaping the future of AI and it's impact on animals. 👉 Register today: aiforanimals.org/aia2025

At @ucdavis on Monday, Wild Animal Initiative Outreach Manager @janirecas will join grantees @MegHolst and @KarliRChudeau in delivering an introduction to wild animal welfare. Join us in Walker Hall, Gibeling Room 1220. #welfare #ecology #behavior

Excited to have Janire Castellano Bueno, Outreach Manager at @forwildanimals, join us at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. 👏 👉 Register today: aiforanimals.org/aia2025

It was such a pleasure having Prof. Giovanna Massei (@BotstiberIWFC @UniOfYork) present yesterday on wildlife contraception as a more effective and welfare conscious approach to managing wild populations. #AnimalWelfare #WildAnimalWelfare @forwildanimals

Productive afternoon preparing for data collection in Houston 🐦‍⬛ #WildAnimalWelfare @wildanigraham @dr_bff @forwildanimals

🌟 Exciting Update! 🌟 AWRN launched two new pages to help you explore opportunities in animal welfare: 🔍 Jobs: awrn.co.uk/animal-welfare… 🎓 Postgrad Opportunities: awrn.co.uk/animal-welfare… #AnimalWelfare #Jobs #PhD

We are hiring😃! Research assistant for collecting behavioral data on zoo-housed orangutans and chimpanzees. Retweets appreciated 🙂!