ManyBirds Project

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 "Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade" is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbv…

A reminder about our OPEN CALL for submission of potential future ManyBirds studies: forms.gle/Qk4hZ6N6DxQBEt…. Please see link for all info on the process and planned review criteria. Deadline for submission is 31 May 2025. We welcome new ManyBirds collaborators to future studies!

Congrats to Dr. Rachael Miller @Dr_Rmiller @drrmiller.bsky.social for receiving the @ComparativeCog Society Early Career Award! Rachel will give her talk "Avian cognition and behaviour: from fundamental to applied" at #CO3_2025 in Albuquerque in March.

New paper in @NatureHumBehav led by @TheManyManys on challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition, wt cross-network collaboration inc members from @TheManyBirds, @ManyPrimates, @ManyDogsProject, @Many_Babies, @ManyZoosProject, @TheManyGoats, @TheManyFishes & others!

❗️📢PAPER ALERT📢❗️@TheManyManys just made it to @NatureHumBehav! 🤩🥳 Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: rdcu.be/d30KP. DOI here: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…. @SpringerNature, #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.

Exciting updates from @TheManyBirds - really happy to have our preprint from ManyBirds Study 1 now available! Such a pleasure to be a Co-Founder and Project Co-Lead for the ManyBirds Project, with an amazing core and study 1 leadership team, and so many wonderful collaborators.❤️

Stay tuned for exciting @TheManyBirds updates coming shortly... in the meantime, you can now also find us over on @themanybirds.bsky.social 😀🐦‍⬛🦅🦆🦚🦉

Preprint alert! 🚨 "The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Science." osf.io/preprints/osf/… Our heart beats for BTS. It can improve science by addressing issues like low statistical power and the lack of diversity in past research.

Interested in cognition, conservation and choughs? @CornishJackdaws and @Dr_RMiller are looking for a fully funded PhD candidate at @UniExeCornwall, with @malcnicoll @Corry_Liz @piedflynet and @WildwoodTrust @CornishParadise - all details below!

Had a fantastic time at #ABL2024 discussing our research with @TheManyManys! 🤩 #BigTeamScience is a game-changer for #ComparativeCognition research, and it is amazing to see more people joining us by the day! 🌍| #OpenScience #Metascience #BestPractices

🚨Our FIRST paper is now out in @ComparativeCog CC&BR🚨Here, we discuss key advantages of using #BigTeamScience in #ComparativeCognition research. A huge collective effort from researchers of diverse backgrounds, career levels, and nations. 🤩🤗 Read here: doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2…

Similar to outstanding efforts such as @FORRTproject, @Many_Babies, @PsySciAcc, @TheManyBirds, @ManyPrimates and many more the ManyLanguages Consortium wants to help creating infrastructures and workflows for doing #BigTeamScience on many languages.

Excited to be presenting on @TheManyBirds at this week's @asab_conference, with Arnaud Bruat (visiting MSc student) also presenting a poster on our latest Bali myna study - come along to hear the latest updates on both projects! (Wed 13th Dec, 5-7pm, Poster Session)