ManyBirds Project

🐦NEW in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia” — by the #ManyBirds Project @TheManyBirds 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

🚨 Panel Alert 🚨 🔍 Are Open and Big Team Science transforming career development? Hear insights from researchers across career stages! 🗓️ Nov 24 @ 10–11 a.m. ET 👉 Details & registration: manymanys.github.io/events/ #BTS #OpenScience #Panel #CareerDevelopment

New 2-year open Postdoc position, with opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @TheManyBirds study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with EcoBird on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: ugent.be/en/work/scient…

@CCRG_MPIBI It was great to work with you and your team, too, Auguste!

It was a pleasure to contribute to this fruitful project!

The first empirical paper from @themanybirds.bsky.social is out in @PLOSBiology ! 🎉 doi.org/10.1371/journa… Thanks to our amazing collaborators, we tested neophobia in 130+ species across 25 taxonomic orders!🕊️🦜🐓🦚🦉🦆🐦🐧🦅🦃

It's been great to be a part of such a large scale collaborative project. A big thanks to Basel Zoo for letting us work with their birds! @cog_comp_Neuch @ZooBasel

So excited that our first major empirical @TheManyBirds paper is now out in @PLOSBiology! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this point!

@m_zettersten Thanks Martin!

@TheManyBirds What an incredible effort - congrats!!

🐦NEW in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia” — by the #ManyBirds Project @TheManyBirds 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Big thank you to our ManyBirds core leadership team: @Dr_RMiller, Megan Lambert, @VedranaSlipogor, Kai Caspar, @JimeLOISM, Carl Soulsbury, Stephan Reber, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann - and to all of our collaborators!

This landmark collaboration united 129 researchers from 82 institutions across 24 countries 🌎 The #ManyBirds Project shows how open, global science can uncover the ecological drivers of behaviour & evolution, complementing critical single-lab work. 🔗 themanybirds.com

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

🚨 Event Alert! 🚨Curious about putting #OpenScience into practice in comparative cognition? 🐦👶Join our FREE OPEN #webinar on Sept 12 with @emmatecwyn & Dr. Ben Farrar🐸🐐Open to ALL interested in animal & comparative cognition🐒🐙Details & registration: manymanys.github.io/events/

Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbv…

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQBEt…. Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award! Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

New paper in @NatureHumBehav led by @TheManyManys on challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition, wt cross-network collaboration inc members from @TheManyBirds, @ManyPrimates, @ManyDogsProject, @Many_Babies, @ManyZoosProject, @TheManyGoats, @TheManyFishes & others!