Louise Mackie
Postdoc at University of Konstanz • Messerli Research Institute • 🐕 Dogs 🤸 Children 🐵 Chimpanzees
Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition
MSc was at the University of St Andrews
Scottish 🏴 she/her
www.louisemackie.org
- Reposted by Louise MackieHave you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? 😔 Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! 🤩 Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
- Reposted by Louise Mackie🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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- Soo many of us attending #ASAB25 ! @asab-meetings.bsky.social
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- Maybe only humans have a call for Mushroom Mushroom 🍄😱🦡🐍
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- MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓 To new beginnings 🥂
- Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤
- An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧
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- Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶 @manydogsproject.bsky.social We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
- Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025! We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
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- Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research? Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection! Ad below 👇🐶💙💛
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- Life lately
- A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒
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- A long work day trip to the countryside 😆 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
- In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25
- Pint of Science hits Vienna on the 19th of May! I will be there to give a talk about my PhD journey studying imitation in man-and-womankind's best friend: the domestic dog. pintofscience.at/event/so-hum...
- Reposted by Louise Mackie🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
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- "Hey, hey, you, you, I could be your girlfriend!" The final talk already of #cultureconference2025 on mate copying in wild Drosophilia simulans by Sabine Nöbel @cultconf.bsky.social @sabinenoebel.bsky.social
- Learning about those mischievous wild cockatoos with Lisa Fontana from the Australian National University #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
- Elif Karakoç from the DPZ (German Primate Research Centre) presenting on social learning in redfronted lemurs in Madagascar #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
- Wanna know about pigeons in a smart barn, which can track who and what they are looking at? Mathilde Delacoux can help you in her talk at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social
- Now, Dharanish Rajendra from the University of Würzburg at #cultureconferencr2025 sharing work on the risks of learning, and the importance of safe parental environments @cultconf.bsky.social
- "following" the great tits talk from Chimento, Luca Hahn from the University of Exeter is talking about jackdaws and their social relationships helping information gathering 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @lucahahn.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- The final keynote speaker of #cultureconference2025 is Michael Chimento, with his work on methods and models of ephemeral animal cultures 🐦 @cultconf.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social
- Out of mama's shadow, but not too far... Mawa Dafreville talking about vervet monkeys' socialisation @cultconf.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Peering into chimp culture 🐵: Nora Slania on social learning in chimpanzees, from the Max Plank Institute of Animal Behaviour @cultconf.bsky.social @noraslania.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Be good like those around you! Saein Lee talking about prosociality and conformity in adults of different ages, across the USA and South Korea @cultconf.bsky.social @saeinlee.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- 🧠 Brains and bonds 🫂: Wouter Wolf next, to talk about cultural cognition shaping social bonding activities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Claudia Kupelian from the University of Toulouse on communication skills in non-verbals: infants in urban and rural Mozambican communities @cultconf.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Lucas Molleman from the University of Amsterdam reeling us back in from coffee to talk about social learning strategies and traits @lucasmolleman.bsky.social at #cultureconference2025 @cultconf.bsky.social 🇳🇱
- Georgia Tuohy joining @cultconf.bsky.social online to talk about mother's experience of gender roles and children's socio-emotional development in Uganda @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconferencr2025
- Laura Simone Lewis at @cultconf.bsky.social talking about curiosity, particularly cultural curiosity in children 👧👦🎁 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Day 2 begins for the fantastic Culture Conference at Utrecht University! Dr. Maleen Tiele kicking it off as a keynote speaker on the nature of joint attention 👀 @maleenthiele.bsky.social #cultureconference2025
- Come find my 🐶 11:40 talk 🐶 today in the Animal Behaviour I session of PhD Academy 2025! @univie.ac.at #phdacademy2025
- Gotta get that Pistachio Latte fix
- Exciting new research with the goffin cockatoos! 🎉
- Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Louise MackieHappy to have had the honor of representing @manydogsproject.bsky.social at #ASABWinter2024
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- Happy to see our fellow big team science project, ManyPrimates, presented at #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org ! Join the Manys ;) 🐵🐶
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- Great talk on CCE (cumulative cultural evolution) in chimpanzees and its connections to genetic variation by Andrew Whiten @asab.org #ASABWinter2024
- Representing the doggos today at @asab.org Winter Conference 2024 in Edinburgh! The second @manydogsproject.bsky.social is on this very topic too 🐶🐾😉
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- Reposted by Louise Mackie1/13 Goffins in the gym Goffin's cockatoos choose and transport lighter objects in a “weight training” that has helped us reveal their amazing decision-making skills. (paper) buff.ly/4hRMvyz by @celestineadelmant.bsky.social
- Reposted by Louise MackieMotivated by all these other animal-centric starter packs to fill in another niche: comparative cognition! go.bsky.app/5yu5SDr Let me know if you want to be added, or know someone who ought to be in the pack. Would be great to have representation from loads of species and places.at://did:plc:564pgj2tcvignokfmiuweonu/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavmkejfu62j
- My collaborator's vs my laptop - what a beast 😱. Also, in general and totally unrelated, how many laptop stickers are too many...? 😅
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- Reposted by Louise Mackie📢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
- What a lovely conference in Inuyama: great people & interesting studies! It was surreal to give a talk here and to wear the very same blazer that survived two and a half years of teaching English in Japan.. 皆さんお疲れさまでした,とありがとうございました ＪＳＡＰ2024 team！
- Who knew that conferences gave such high recognition to corrections! Wow! Should I go for it? 😎
