At WAFL2024, Mathilde from Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU, presents results from the @mEATquality project on welfare assessment in finisher pigs and discussing which ABMs to use and how often. #WAFL2024

Thank you to WAFL2024 for inviting me to talk about welfare of cull sows during transport and lairage. A pleasure to present recent results from our research group Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU. Karen Thodberg Cecilie Kobek-Kjeldager Leslie Foldager Technical Sciences - Aarhus University

This week BSW has been excited to welcome our two new colleagues, Emily Leishman (tenure track assistant professor) and Trine Hammer Nielsen (senior lecturer)!

Hot off the presses! BSW's Lene Høeg Fuglsang-Damgaard and team explored how human physiological responses shift depending on their interactions with dogs🐶 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp…

#SavetheDate | Food and Agriculture Organization and World Organisation for Animal Health webinar update on the #Pestedespetitsruminants(PPR) situation in Europe. 🗓4 September ⏲️9:30 CEST Learn how Member Countries of Europe and relevant reference labs are responding to recent PPR outbreaks. Register 📝bit.ly/3MvkoGR

I spoke to Tracie Hotchner on Cat Chat about my checklist for a happy cat. Available wherever you get your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

Thanks for hosting Tails & Tangles SciStarter - looking forward to learning more about dog grooming (for dogs and the people who do it) via some helpful survey takers! #citsci scistarter.org/tails-tangles

⬇ Happening today! ⏰09:30 CEST Join the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Organisation for Animal Health webinar update on the #Pestedespetitsruminants(PPR) situation in Europe (Greece, Romania, Turkey, Georgia) and measures being taken against PPR at EU level. Join in at 👉bit.ly/3MvkoGR

One week before Jeanet Winters defends her thesis (11th), "Reducing postweaning stress in pigs - through increasing weaning weight, by using an alternative sow hybrid, and housing intact litters in the pen of birth"🐖 Best of luck Jeanet and we look forward to finding out more!

Postdoc position on my FriendOrigins project. 10mos but could be 16mos with lots of low-hanging (but interesting!) fruit to be tackled in this replacement post for someone who got a permanent job elsewhere. See here, ref # S73438: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…. Due Sept 18, start Jan

Introduction Research Presentations successfully completed.35 3-minute speed-talks: 35 different researchers, 35 projects, 35 fields. A complex web of #interdisciplinary connects unfolding. 🎨Artistic summary: AIAS Associate Catherine Williams catherine williams Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU Aarhus University

Den her fra videnskab.dk har et par år på bagen, men er aktuel igen - og deles nu af Videnskab.dk. I artiklen udtaler Peter Sandøe, inger anneberg, Jes Lynning Harfeld og jeg os bla om hvad dyrevelfærd er, om det kan måles og hvorfor der ofte ikke er enighed om emnet. Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU

Great to see this new book on tail biting in pigs! Thank you to the hard-working editors, it was a pleasure to contribute to the chapter on tail anatomy and physiology together with Dale Sandercock and Heli Nordgren. Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU Technical Sciences - Aarhus University

Dokumentaren 'Hvis grise kunne tale' har affødt debat on transport af grise. Jeg har udtalt mig til DR: dr.dk/nyheder/indlan…. I dette opslag forsøger jeg at uddybe, hvad vi ved fra forskning om transport af grise linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU

Interested in #AnimalTransport and #AnimalWelfare? Check the new episode of 'Pig Welfare in Action' from EURCAW-Pigs, where Maarten Dallinga and I speak about the topic: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eurca… Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU Technical Sciences - Aarhus University

Faglig vurdering i Altinget: fødevarer fra kollegaerne Lene Juul Pedersen og Mathilde fra Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU om konklusionerne fra dokumentaren 'Hvis grise kunne tale', som har skabt debat om velfærd hos grise: altinget.dk/foedevarer/art…

After years of hard work and dedication Jeanet Winters masterfully defended her PhD thesis on reducing postweaning stress in pigs! 🐖👩‍🎓 A huge congratulations to Jeanet and we wish her the best of luck for the future!

BSW's Guilherme Franchi and Mette S. Herskin in collaboration with other members of the PIGWEB project recently published an article aiming to define animal discomfort using pigs as a model 🐖🐖🐖 Read more about it here: dca.au.dk/aktuelt/nyhede…

Interested in #AnimalTransport? Check new paper in @elsevier_Eng by Guoxing Chen et al. on thermal differences between interior/exterior of vehicles transporting pigs (20-25 kg), examining effects of e.g. compartment location and deck height. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…. Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU