- strong interpersonal skills and a conscientious work attitude - design and implement studies relevant to the research topic - be mobile during a 24-months data collection period - provide TA at the University of Neuchatel - knowledge of the FACS coding system is an advantage

The successful candidate is expected to - possess a MSc degree in a relevant discipline - demonstrate strong interest in animal cognition - have practical experience collecting and scoring behavioural data - show aptitude in statistics and data processing - be fluent in English

To apply, please compile the following documents into a single PDF labelled ‘YourSurname.pdf’ and send it to Dr Gwendolyn Wirobski [email protected] - Cover letter including motivation and research interests - Curriculum vitae - Contact details of two referees

Dogs, on the other hand, are ideal to study the impact of artificial selection on wolf communication, especially towards interspecies co-ordination with humans.

including the effects of domestication on communication. As a cooperatively breeding, cognitively complex species, wolves are an ideal comparison to primates to understand how communication evolved to allow for fine-grained coordination.

The successful candidate will design experiments and collect observational data from individuals housed in different animal parks and at the Wolf Science Center in Austria, with the larger goal of advancing theories of human language evolution,

The position is available from 1 October 2024 for a maximum duration of 4 years. Salary is according to the pay scale of the University of Neuchatel. The position is available until filled; we will start reviewing applications from 15 August 2024.

🚨🚨PhD position alert!! 🚨🚨We are looking for a doctoral student to carry out behavioural research on acoustic and visual communication in wolves and dogs @ Comparative Cognition Lab (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) and the @DomLabVienna (@VetmeduniVienna, Austria)

@KLIVVWien @ecbb2024 @VetmeduniVienna

And hopefully you didn’t miss the talk by @aberghaenel on prenatal stress effects yesterday!

The @DomLabVienna is at the @ecbb2024! Go check the posters of our PhD students @UBlenkus on the personality of free-ranging dogs, @DarioStaric on size perception in dogs, and @SvenjaCapitain on dog-wolf differences during conflicts with humans!

Do dogs smell our emotions? Help us discover the mistery! Seeking human female participants for sample collection. Where: Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria). For more info: [email protected] @VetmeduniVienna @KLIVVWien @univienna @BOKUvienna @ceu @wu_vienna

If the object was empty, differently urbanized foxes behaved similarly, but when food was present, urbanized foxes showed less fear than less urbanized ones! Congratulations to the urban wolves (+ foxes, apparently 😁) team! @MarshallPescini

How does urbanization affect wildlife? New paper out on the effect of urbanization on red foxes' exploration and fear when encountering a novel human-made object! 🤩 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna academic.oup.com/cz/advance-…

🎊New paper out! When given a chance between cooperating with their owners for a better reward or working alone for a less nice treat, dogs will significantly work with their owners! And not just because they do follow their humans or the nice treat! 😎 rdcu.be/dGF3L