From tongue rolling alpacas to irritable yaks and perturbed pigs, new research lifts the lid on why some farm and zoo animals cope well with captivity and others display signs of stress. Leanne Proops 🐎 Dr Matt Parker Kate Lewis 🐎 UoP Dept of Psychology uni.port.ac.uk/3ftDyjr

Mouse reckons she is looking on point today 🐴 #animalbehaviour #research #phdlife The Racehorse Sanctuary

It was my last day (for now at least) collecting data at The Racehorse Sanctuary today. I cannot thank Nigel, the team, and the horses enough! So welcoming and helpful. Thanks for having me 🙂

Time to get cracking with 2 days of animal welfare research chat! #AWRN2022 🐷🦒🐃🐘🐴

Cracking #ECR plenary from @Helen_Gray_ about the importance and challenges of #OpenScience in animal welfare research. #AWRN2022

Thanks to all the fabulous AnimalWelfareNetwork ECRs who joined myself and Juliette Schillings for our "How to conference" workshop yesterday! We'll be writing up the notes and will share them with all of our #ECR community soon 😊 #AWRN2022 (I failed to take a picture. Oops!)

Great discussions going on during our Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology research away days Peter Ashley Activity Centres. So nice to hear about current and future projects Juliane Kaminski 🇪🇺 Marine Joly 🐒 Leanne Proops 🐎 Teresa Romero Sophie Milward Kate Lewis 🐎 Luke Collins and other members not on Twitter

A brief summary of things that have happened to me since I last posted (i.e. ages ago!)... - Submitted my PhD thesis - Ran my first ever ultramarathon 🏃‍♀️ - Passed my VIVA 😁 So you can now officially call me either 1) Dr or 2) a complete lunatic for choosing to run that far 🤣

We are looking for a PhD student! Come and explore if animals grieve with Leanne Proops 🐎, Teresa Romero and I at the University of Portsmouth...

Cannot wait for this! #AnimalWelfare

Important workshop dates: Abstract deadline: 05/04/2024 Deadline for Acceptance/ Response: 15/05/2024 Registration Deadline: 15/06/2024 Visit our website to submit an abstract, register or for more information: animalwelfareimpact.org #AWelfareImpact

Is your furry friend toy-obsessed? 🐕‍🦺 This #NationalPetDay we're looking for pup pals to help enlighten the world of canine research. Sign up now: bit.ly/3VRr6gg #PortsmouthUni #DogLovers

Data collection days are the best days 🐎❤️ We're running experiments to determine whether horses can recognise conspecific skulls 💀. If you have #horses, live in the #Portsmouth area, & would be interested in them taking part, send me a msg! #thanatology #equinebehaviour

Just boarded my flight to the Animal Welfare Research Network Annual Meeting in Belfast 🛩 Can't wait to spend the next 2 days chatting everything #AnimalWelfare and getting to know my fellow #ECR community in my new role as ECR Rep! #AWRN2024 AnimalWelfareNetwork

And just like that, it's all over for another year! I was enjoying myself far too much to take any photos or do any posting 🙈, oops! What an incredibly friendly and inspirational group of people the AnimalWelfareNetwork are. See you all next year! #AWRN2024

We're leading a research project to investigate the effects of plastic pollution on the endangered and protected Sulawesi moor macaque - a species of monkey native to Indonesia. 📸 Dr Teresa Romero #PortsmouthUni #WorldEnvironmentDay Read more: bit.ly/3x5qpWU

Are you an AWRN member who is early in their career? Consider joining our Early Career Committee for fantastic career development and networking opportunities. We would particularly welcome applications from previously under-represented groups. Deadline is 7th August.

Calling all owners of label learning dogs! Anyone whose dog knows the name of more than 20 objects (usually toys), please get in touch to help us with our research 🐕🙏 Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology Juliane Kaminski 🇪🇺

Finally got to don the floppy hat and graduate 🎓 What an amazing day! Huge thanks to my incredible supervisors Leanne Proops 🐎, Dr Matt Parker, and Seb McBride for all your support and guidance. #PhDone