Fay Clark

My new paper out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: Levelling up the study of animal gameplay sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My June cover story for the British Psychological Society’s The Psychologist magazine is all about teaching animal content in psychology higher education… a time to deeply reflect but also look forwards with optimism

Palaeognathae is a small group of birds which includes several species that have evolved flightlessness and gigantism, such as emus, ostriches, and the now-extinct giant moa. Little is known about their cognitive abilities. @NaturePortfolio @SciReports

We found evidence of technical innovation in palaeognath birds - not so bird-brained any more!! Rheas outperformed emus, and ostriches did terribly... Published in Scientific Reports today rdcu.be/eaGkj

Check out our new research on palaeognath cognition: The ‘World’s Dumbest Bird’ can innovate to find food communities.springernature.com/posts/the-worl…

Call for submissions Behaviour is excited to announce that the very first Frans de Waal prize for the PhD thesis that made the most outstanding contribution to the field, will be presented at next year’s CBEN conference in Antwerp. Submission info: brill.ws/FdWPrize_

I have a really exciting PhD opportunity on a highly novel topic: flow state in animals! This is open to students worldwide, drawing on the University of Bristol's strengths in animal cognition, animal welfare and human game design lnkd.in/eJZ4U3jt

Are you a UK student of Black heritage looking for a funded PhD? Fancy joining me at the University of Bristol? You can combine animal cognition, animal welfare and human psychology in exciting ways! Please get in touch! lnkd.in/eSBjKjjR

Next week, WAI Outreach Manager @Janirecas will be co-chairing a workshop on animal welfare at @AnimalBehavLive. If you'd like to hear from @DrFayClark, @dennisbahati1, and @zoophilosophy, register for the (free!) conference here: animalbehaviour.live/conference #ABL2024

We are excited to invite you to a unique scientific conference, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of @Co_Biologists. The conference will incorporate the JEB Symposium Sensory Perception in a Changing World #biologists100 Don't miss the opportunity! bit.ly/4dyDiIf

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Branching out from ants we are looking for a motivated and curious PhD student who wants to study why chimps apply insects on their wounds! 🦧🪰🚑Focus is on the insect side of course, so if you want to know more, follow the 🧵 (1/6)

📢Come join us @BristolBioSci!📢 Excellent initiative at @BristolUni: Internally funded fellowships for #ECRs of black / black mixed heritage Search: "Bristol Futures Research Development Fellowship" Deadline 28 Oct 2024. #BlackinSTEM Please repost!

Looking forward to seeing the Shark Bay dolphins @ResearchDolphin in this new series! 🐬🐬🐬

Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! this is an amazing opportunity to build an independent research group that comes with 2.7 MEuro support over 6 years. If you're interested in being hosted @mpi_astro, please contact me! mpg.de/career/max-pla…

This International Day of #Charity, we thank our amazing supporters! Together, #we have cleared 112M+ sqm of land, removing 165K+ explosives and protecting over 2M people. Help us train the next cohort of life-saving #heroes: apopo.org/support-us #SaveLives #GoodCause #APOPO

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

Delighted to share @CCLABUCSD first empirical study on button trained dogs. We show that dogs can recognize and respond appropriately to the words produced via buttons and they respond similarly independently of who is producing the word. 1/n dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

My awesome department @UCSDCogSci is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04016. I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!