Ljerka Ostojic
Comparative Cognition and Meta-science | MSc University of Vienna | PhD University of Cambridge | Lecturer University of Rijeka | Head of Studies @ricogsci.bsky.social cogsci.uniri.hr she/her
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic2026. WildWing: An open‐source, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring. ["We validate the system through field deployments tracking groups of Grevy's zebras, giraffes and Przewalski's horses"] besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicThe Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the 13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference (September 14-18). Organizers are seeking philosophical talks on all aspects of health and medicine, broadly construed. Deadline: March 15, 2026
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicI’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicA problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.
- I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCalling early-career neuroscientists in Africa 🌍 Join this 2-week #training to learn about cerebral inflammation, its cognitive & behavioral consequences, and how to conduct research effectively & ethically 🔗 Learn more & apply by 15 Mar: ibro.org/training-opp... #IBROinAfrica
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicMAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic2026. Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost well-being phys.org/news/2026-01...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicI just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojicif you’re passionate about AI accountability research and enjoy working in a vibrant lab with a multi-disciplinary team but not interested in doing traditional academic work, this position might be for you
- I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicA few more days left to apply for our PhD studentship in primate cognition at NTU - join us!
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic🐶❄️☀️ 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 Ljerka OstojicI can’t just do science. I have to organize, protest, volunteer beyond science, so that we can keep having science. Even in better times, science benefits when scientists participate in society broadly and deeply. I encourage my students to find where they can make a difference beyond our lab.
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicGetting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojictalking about AI as a bubble doesn't make sense. AI/tech has become integrated into critical social/financial infrastructure means fall of AI = fall of these institutions. just like govnt's bailed banks during the financial crisis, they will do same with AI so long as AI remains social infrastrctr
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicLived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems are prioritized, how evidence is translated into practice and who ultimately benefits from scientific advances. theconversation.com/science-is-b...
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicInternships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicWho are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicPsychology Jobs Three assistant professor positions in health, clinical, or social psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. Closing date: 30 Jan 2026 BSky Contacts: @timwildschut.bsky.social & @denisdrieghe.bsky.social #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #ClinPsyc #HealthPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicWith some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicIf you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicMark Blokpoel & I have maintain a living open interactive textbook “Theoretical Modeling for Cognitive Science and Psychology.” Recently, Mark updated Ch 9 & 10 so they have embedded, running and editable, code again. Check it out! ✨ computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicApply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... 📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicJOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicA reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCalling all bird loving artists! This month's bird is the European Crested Tit. 🤎 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Dec 31st. Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/ #birds #BirdWhisperer #art
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicA free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicApplications closing 5th Jan for Fully funded PhD through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social Studying behaviour and ecology of anemonefishes. Need to be happy to spend lots of time in Papua New Guinea and need to be SCUBA qualified. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCall for Papers! The Center for Philosophy of Science invites submissions for the upcoming workshop, Social Ontology and Empirical Inquiry: Conflicts and Connections (April 11-12, 2026). Deadline: January 15th Details: ow.ly/eFpj50X9T2o #PhilosophyOfScience #CallForPapers
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicLooking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicAre you passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like? Come do a PhD with us. Closing Date: 10 February 2026 Apply here aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicSave the date for the next European Conference on Behavioural Biology! Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene, 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University. Watch this space for updates on speakers, plenaries, and calls for abstracts! #AcademicSky #UpcomingConferences
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCome work with us! We are looking for a postdoc in #philbio or #philphysics to work on an interdisciplinary project that adopts the lens of self-organization & active matter to explore the boundary between living & nonliving systems www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #academicsky #philjobs #HPS #evosky
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicI'm recruiting a PhD student to study how predation shapes animal cognition and the conservation opportunities of animal cognition. Lots of fun field work in beautiful places : ) Please share !! www.eifwooster.org/opportunities
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCurrently recruiting PhD students to follow up on this result - please come to have a chat if interested #ASABWinter2025
- Compared to warning colouration, camouflage is more affected by the sensory enviro 👀 🦋 #ASABWinter2025
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicWe're delighted to welcome TWO new diamond-OA PCI RR-friendly journals Registered Reports in Linguistics, ed. by @scoretta.bsky.social ky.social & @jess-hampton.bsky.social + Replication Research @r2journal.bsky.social ed. by @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & team rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr...
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCanadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicCall for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicI’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
- Reposted by Ljerka Ostojic📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicExcited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicNominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research
- Reposted by Ljerka OstojicYou are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
