Valeria Mazza
Behavioural biologist interested in all things animal cognition. Senior lecturer @UniTuscia. Proud citizen of Humboldt's Republic of the Letters.📖🐛She/her
https://valeriamazza.net
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaSo excited to see this recommendation coming from the Animal Sentience Committee, really hoping it leads to some real change in decapod protection www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNew #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!
- New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods. Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaI am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaAfter years of working with Gifted dogs, this paper marks the end of that chapter for me 🐕 We compared gifted and typical dogs and found that what sets gifted dogs apart may not be curiosity, but their social motivation Grateful to the dogs and their humans 💙 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Valeria MazzaMy Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📣 What if animals could help design their own worlds? Join @zoophilosophy.bsky.social for Letting Animals Speak—a lecture on animal agency, ethics & animal-computer interaction. 📅 Feb 7 | Online | Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaA permanent junior research scientist position to work on the #ecotoxicology of #soil #foodwebs. Come join us in our new campus in Palaiseau @inrae-france.bsky.social & @agroparistech.fr ! Deadline for applications: March 5, 2026 jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaJob alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaFor those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!) doi.org/10.1002/brv....
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaThere is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions. #openaccess #socialcognition
- Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza🐶❄️☀️ 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 Valeria MazzaNo bull: nice article about our study by David Grimm | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaAnyone who is an expert in #gutmicrobiome research is interested in collaborating with us to study #free-rangingdogs in India? Please get in touch!
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📣 Annual Meeting of the @ethoges.bsky.social 2026 🗓️ 18–21 Feb 2026 | 📍 Almtal, Austria Join us in beautiful Grünau im Almtal for inspiring talks and lively discussions! ⚠️ Registration closes this week! 👉 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog... @univie.ac.at
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNew research on Gifted dogs is out, in @science.org! Huge congrats to SHANY DROR for her effort and this incredible achievement. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📢📢PhD opportunity! We are looking for enthusiastic researchers to develop a project looking at the ontogeny of migratory behaviour! Deadline for expression of interest: 8 February 2026 👉Check details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wow2... #migration #ornithology #GPStracking
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaAlexander Pope decried the cruelty of cooking lobsters alive in 1713. 313 years later the practice will finally be banned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaOur recent paper on lizard societies now online in a special issue of Animal Behaviour. DM if you want me to send you a PDF.
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNote that there’s a PhD position on this topic, if you found this interesting! #ASABWinter2025
- Octopus are master matchers - but they’re colourblind! However, they have great polarisation vision, which could help them discriminate colours (TBD) 🐙🌈 #ASABWinter2025
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaWhat are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaWe have a new paper out! @jzoology.bsky.social 🐀🧪🐀🧪
- Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp DM or email me if you have questions. Please spread the word. ☺️
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNew paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
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- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📢 Our new article entitled “With or without you: common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, personality expression is mediated by social setting” has just come out *open access* in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! ✨ 🥰🥳🐒 @asab.org doi.org/10.1016/j.an... A thread. 😊
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNew study from @michellebeyer.bsky.social published in Animal Behaviour: Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders.
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📢 Our new article, co-first authored by Dr. Huimin Ye and myself, entitled “Associations between gut microbiota and personality traits: insights from a captive common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) colony” has just come out in Microbiology Spectrum. 🥳 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... A thread.
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaBeyond criterion: cognitive flexibility in wild striated caracaras: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Cognition #Ecology
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaPhD position - How jumping spiders see - Put cute spiders on trackballs! - Program fancy automated experiments! - Do cutting edge research! - Hang out in beautiful Italian cities! - Be supervised by a super nice chap! Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this. Link in 🧵
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza📢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
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaPhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...
- Reposted by Valeria Mazza🌟Fully funded #PhD🌟 Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges. #NERC funding With @ljnbrent.bsky.social, #PatrickKennedy & me. Based in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #LongtermData #Fieldwork #Mongooses #Macaques Deadline: 8th Jan 2026 Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaJust posted a new preprint! Our project builds on @maleenthiele.bsky.social's earlier work and came together through a collaboration with her and @christophvoelter.bsky.social Preprint link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Valeria MazzaPhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaFully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
- Reposted by Valeria MazzaNew study out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... We studied Fire Salamander colouration using data gatehred by citizen scientists. Males have a higher proportion of yellow than females: is this due to mate chaoice or differential predation threat?
