Ella Williamson
PhD student in Psychology at the University of York. Researching communication and social cognition in dogs 🐕🧠🗣️ part-time footballer and dog sport enthusiast ⚽️🐕🦺🏃♀️ york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/po…
- Reposted by Ella Williamson#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
- Reposted by Ella Williamson🐶❄️☀️ We’re studying how dogs are affected by cold and heat stress. If you have a dog, please consider completing our anonymous online questionnaire (15–30 min) or sharing it with others who might be interested. 👉 survey.vetmeduni.ac.at/index.php/83... #DogWelfare #CitizenScience
- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonPlease repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonNew amazing open Postdoc position, w/t opportunities to 1) get closely involved in our next @themanybirds.bsky.social study on innovation and problem-solving; 2) work with @ecobird.bsky.social on avian innovation, cognition & invasiveness. Advert: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- 🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition! Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds. 📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026 🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme More info & how to apply ↓ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- Loved being involved in this project with so many others! Including the birds at York Bird of Prey Centre 🦅🦉 it’s super excited to see it published - a brilliant leadership team! 👏 My first (and definitely not last!) contribution to a Big Team Science effort! 🌟
- 🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
- I arrived in Göttingen this week to complete a 3 week linear models course at the German Primate Centre lead by Roger Mundry. Enjoying the course so far and looking forward to learning more 📚
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- My lovely dad has supported bereaved families in my hometown, Hornsea, as a funeral director for nearly 30 years now. Next year, he plans to run 6 ultra marathons to raise money for the charities affected by the alleged malpractice of a funeral director in Hull. Watch here: videopress.com/v/eoHrDJcj
- Reposted by Ella Williamson@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- Look what arrived in the post today! 📚 The updated version of ‘Inside of a dog’ by @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social 🐶 the boys won this copy through a recent photo competition by Dr Horowitz - we’re excited to read! 📖 (and retrieve in Russo’s case)
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- Had a lovely few days away from PhDing on annual leave last week including two agility comps with my Russo. Bagged his first clear KC jumping run at grade 1 🥇made all his contacts in an agility run placing 2nd 🥈and placed 3rd in a Helter Skelter special 🥉 Ready to get stuck back into my projects! 🐶
- Alongside my PhD I tutor GCSE Maths and Psychology and all of my tutees have absolutely smashed their exams! 🌟📝 100% pass rate (or higher!) 🙌 It’s days like this which remind me teaching did have its good days. I feel very fortunate to be able to continue teaching through private tuition ☺️
- Reposted by Ella Williamson"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
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- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonI'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏
- Unreal! What a team, it’s ✨ staying ✨ home 🏴⚽️
- Reposted by Ella Williamson2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by Ella Williamson🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!
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- Reposted by Ella Williamson📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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- Reposted by Ella Williamson📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social
- 🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!
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- Russo and I had our very first clear run at a Kennel Club agility show this weekend! 💚
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- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonI’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
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- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonPlease share far and wide! A fantastic opportunity for primatologists of all ages to develop their field skills - aimed particularly at those who face barriers to obtaining fieldwork 🐒 www.psgb.org/pages/psgb-f...
- Reposted by Ella Williamson🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻
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- Crufts fever! 🐕 myself and my PhD supervisor, Prof Katie Slocombe, were interviewed live on Channel 4 about dog vocal behaviour at Crufts on Saturday! 🎥 We talked barks, howls, whines and growls and how people can get involved in our project! Visit www.vocaldog.org to find out more and take part 🐶
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- Reposted by Ella Williamson🚨 Postdoc Opening! 🚨 Join our human-animal interaction research group at @uarizona.bsky.social College of Vet Med, receive dual mentorship from myself & Kerri Rodriguez, + contribute to a funded study investigating the impact of pets on mental health and wellbeing. Open until filled! bit.ly/3CenLAE
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- Today I graduated with a masters degree in Social Research from my favourite place - the University of York! 🪿🎓 I’m really grateful to be able to continue my academic journey at York studying for a PhD in Psychology 🧠 We’ve got some exciting dog projects on the way - watch this space! 🐶🔬
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- A sunrise 7K CaniCross this morning which has set me up nicely for a day of reading papers 📖 🐕🦺🏃♀️ (and Russo for a day of napping 😴) Strongly encourage anyone with a dog to try out CaniCrossing! (Cross-country running with your dog leading the way - I’m now approx 1 minute faster per km…👀😅)
- Reposted by Ella Williamson❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs
- Reposted by Ella Williamson📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌at://did:plc:qx662gg5tip4kefzbcqybysp/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3larologl5225
- Reposted by Ella WilliamsonAdvertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!
