Shany Dror

Some dogs have an exceptional talent for learning object labels. Our new study in @SciReports finds what are the characteristics of these gifted dogs. Check the🧵 for a summary or have a look 👉🏼 rdcu.be/dtAJo

Just finished giving my first plenary conference talk, as part of the Young Research of the Year Award, at the MET conference. I am honored and deeply touched by this personal gift showing me with my dog Mitos.

@andrea_sommese Thank you for sharing 🤗

@ShanyDror did it again! 🐶 Another paper on the Gifted Word Learning Dogs' is out! These dogs can remember object names for years! ⌛️#dogscience #dogsoftwitter #geniusdogchallenge royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@LouiseEMackie @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @HannaSchleihauf @LauraSimoneLew @P_eMartin Have fun! 🌉 is such a great workshop!

Beer & poster time @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 's Bridging the Technological Gap Workshop 2024! Thanks @HannaSchleihauf @LauraSimoneLew @P_eMartin 🙏 I loved presenting this (ongoing) collaborative project on social learning with eye-tracking technology in chimps 👀🐵

Our lab has a job opening for either a full-time staff or postdoc with expertise in neurohistology. We study brain-behavior evolution in dogs, domesticated foxes, humans, and other primates. Will share app links soon but please share & DM me if interested!

I just submitted two manuscripts in 24 hours (one 1st submission, one revision). I feel like I broke some phd student record. P.s. submission portals suck.

My first elephant (and PhD) study supervised by awesome @stoegerangela1 & @NakedPrimate is out🚨! TLDR - We found that 🐘 greet by appropriately targeting visual, tactile, and acoustic gestures at their audience and by combining calls and gestures go.nature.com/3JW50Cm🧵 1/12

It is happening again! Join our workshop ✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨ to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind. Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/

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Love this study: ✅️Important theoretical contribution ✅️Important applied contribution ✅️New methods It helps us understand our dogs better and makes a step towards understanding the genetics of food intake (hopefully) also in humans.

🚨PhD alert!🚨 Are you experienced in data science, machine learning, or related fields? Intrigued by farm animal behaviour and welfare? We're offering a PhD position focusing on the automatisation of cognitive bias paradigms. 🐷🐐 Apply now! fbn-dummerstorf.de/fileadmin/medi…

Happy to share our latest work with Luke Maurits and Daniel Haun in Scientific Reports. link.springer.com/article/10.103… We explored whether chimps engaged in competitive altruism in a triadic UG where two proposers could send offers to a responder who could only accept one offer

@MariskaKret @LeidenPsy @CoPAN_Leiden @AtlasContact @LIBC_Leiden Congratulations!!!

I’m very honored to be the recipient of the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus 2024! For the award ceremony on Monday there are still a few spots available! khmw.nl/events/prijsui… @LeidenPsy @CoPAN_Leiden @AtlasContact @LIBC_Leiden

A citizen science model turns anecdotes into evidence by revealing similar characteristics among Gifted Word Learner dogs @ShanyDror @andrea_sommese @FamDogProject nature.com/articles/s4159…

It's that time of the year: @DivIntelligence has opened the 2024 applications! I took part in the last summer institute and it was a transformative experience. PM me if you would like to hear more. disi.org

@TMorganS2024 @frostbite2024 You can find more on the Genius Dog Challenge YouTube channel :)

@frostbite2024 I would love to know more about this. It sounds so interesting!

I wonder why certain breeds like border collies pick up on object names so fast #39canimals

@frostbite2024 Thank you for sharing our research! It actually does not seem to be a breed specific trait. Even though most of the GWL are BCs, the ability to learn object labels is still a very rare talent that is not at all common among BCs.

@OLiehrmann I reviewed for them, happy to help if I can :)

Hi ! Anyone with experience in publishing in Animal Behavior and Cognition ? I am about to submit in this journal but would appreciate some feedback before :) animalbehaviorandcognition.org

Sadie says she is “freeloader”. Out of ten feedings she never first approached the snuffle mat 😂 While she doesn’t show a preference to contrafreeload, she is willing to snuffle when her tray is mostly empty! Read all about our new paper in @SciReports! link.springer.com/article/10.103…

@ParrotsGroup Really inspiring study!

A study in @SciReports highlights characteristics that are shared among most Gifted Word Learner dogs, including learning speed, their large vocabulary, and that they learned the names of toys spontaneously, without the explicit intent of their owners. go.nature.com/3NArs6e