graduate student researching avian cognition & behaviour @UAlbertaScience 🪺🪶🧠🌱
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined August 2017
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Huge thank you to Maryam for her hard work on this project (& brilliant poster presentation today), and to @WISESTualberta for making this project possible!
It was amazing working with Maryam, a @WISESTualberta Summer Research Project high school student (left). Her contributions landed her authorship on a abstract I just submitted for @asab_tweets Winter Conference.
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Had a great time presenting (and hearing so many fascinating talks) at @Behaviour2025!
Three talks by ACRG members about nest-building behaviour, learning, preference, bias, social learning, culture & sex- differences @Behaviour2025 @JuliaLSelf @ba_whittaker @Psych_UAlberta @NSERC_CRSNG
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Latest paper associated with @ualbertaScience bear research. This was a really interesting project that arose from long-term interest on environmental factors affecting bear movement. Do grizzlies follow their nose? Sometimes (or at least crosswind).
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Julia @JuliaLSelf talking about conformity in nest-building zebra finches (n = 175 focal males!!) #CO3_2025. Her 1st conference talk is part of the Best Student Talk symposium.
@compcogsoc.bsky.social @PsychUalberta.bsky.social @comparativecog @Psych_UAlberta @NSERC_CRSNG 🧪
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Winter 2025 CogSem continues this Friday March 21st 3-4 pm BS P319N with two talks from the #ACRG Lab @laurenguillette
Julia Self 'Conformity and nest-building decisions'
Dr Ben Whittaker 'What is a birds’ favourite colour? The effect of bias on nest-building cognition'
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Congrats to Julia Self @JuliaLSelf for winning a #AGES2024 award bit.ly/3DaUO8E ! Julia examines conformity and social information use in nest-building birds and is supervised by @laurenGuillette @[email protected]
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Nice perspectives article about our earlier Current Biology study on the inheritance of alternative nest architectures in stingless bees led by @dipietroviviana. xitter.cf/TWenseleers/status/177…
New #psynomLB #Outlook paper Variation in animal architecture: Genes, environment, and culture bit.ly/4ewqoea by @ba_whittaker @CurrentBiology @dipietroviviana @TWenseleers @ri_caliari @Psych_UAlberta @ComparativeCog #CompCogPapers #stigmergy #socialartefact
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So honoured (and moved to tears) that our group was recognized by @WISESTualberta for being mentors and allys ❤️
@Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience
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Two undergraduate summer (paid) internship opportunities for international students @Psych_UAlberta
Funded by @MitacsCanada apply here: bit.ly/3SLqVRl
More information here: bit.ly/3s7StWR
Deadline to apply: 18 Sept 2024
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New paper #psynomLB "Validation of a rodent model of episodic memory replay' by Sheridan et al. finds that rats are able to replay episodic memories. bit.ly/Sheridan_rats @ComparativeCog #episodicmemory #olfaction #familiarity #memorytracestrength #rat @Psychonomic_Soc
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We’re lucky to have @UmamaMir on our team, the Animal Cognition Research Group.
Umama Mir is a 4th yr BSc Psychology student. @UmamaMir won a URI Summer Research Studentship funded by @scotiabank to work on the project "Is social learning a personality trait? A test across two behavioural contexts" with @laurenguillette #SummerResearch (1/2)
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New paper by Dr. @ba_whittaker in @APA_Journals J of Comp Psych bit.ly/ACRG_JCP also read about it here: bit.ly/Kudos_ACRG ‘The roles of social information, asocial information and initial road in nest-building decisions’ @Psych_UAlberta @NSERC_CRSNG @UofAResearch
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Press about our new paper in iScience: Birds' nests express their unique style and past experiences bit.ly/3FXEvKw via @ConversationCA
@ba_whittaker @Psych_UAlberta @UofAResearch @ualbertaScience @NSERC_CRSNG @TIPS_SPIIE
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We continue our celebration of Psych students receiving the 2022-2023 CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence! @CPA_SCP
Congratulations to Julia Self and their thesis 'Sex-differences in nest building are reflected in memory for a physical cognition task'
Alright Julia!
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More good news from the ACRG! I'm thrilled to officially announce I am a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Ecology. Thanks to @Psych_UAlberta @ualbertaScience @KillamTrusts @NSERC_CRSNG my colleagues & mentors for your continued encouragement and support @TIPS_SPIIE
Congratulations to the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs @UAlberta with special kudos to #KillamLaureates Mohamed Gamal El-D, @laurenguillette, Dennis Hall @HallBoronLab, Yang Liu and Kimberley Mathot @MathotLab
bit.ly/44Chw1s #researchers #highereducation
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Undergraduate summer (paid) internship opportunity for an international student! @Psych_UAlberta
Funded by @MitacsCanada apply here: ow.ly/qukJ50KhYTw
More information here: bit.ly/3s7StWR
Deadline to apply: 22 Sept 2023
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🚨Job Alert 🚨I am hiring a post-doc to join my team, the Animal Cognition Research Group
The official advert will come out next week and I will post it here
Please DM or email me with questions sites.psych.ualberta.ca/anim…
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Feeling very lucky to be continuing with @laurenguillette and the Animal Cognition Research Group for my MSc! Two years didn't seem like nearly long enough :)
Cheers to being done undergrad & congrats to all the other @ualbertaScience grads!
Congrats to @JuliaLSelf for graduating yesterday with a BSc honours in psychology with first class honors and a research certificate in science!
Thrilled that Julia is starting an MSc with me this September! The ACRG is in good hands 🪺
