Stress has an odour and dogs can smell it - new paper out! In each test session, dogs were given one person’s relaxed and stressed samples, taken only four minutes apart. In 94% of 720 trials, the dogs were able to correctly alert us to the stress sample. https://t.co/a048Gx3lkQ
New study out! 🛎 Dogs are fast learners - our open access paper published today in @SpringerANCO finds that learning may interfere with judgement bias results over repeated test exposures. Read more here: https://t.co/JIXbuVkuSw #dogs#cognition#AcademicChatter#research
Oh man so proud of @ClaraHBWilson and @campbell4796 for their incredibly hard work with these dogs over the last few years. Can’t wait publish the results from these sniffy pups!!
Congratulations to our @QUBSnifferDogs for contributing to science! These dogs have been amazing to work with and I can’t wait to write up what they have helped us discover 🐕. Here’s a thread of each super sniffer! ❤️ #graduation#Science#dogsoftwitter#dogs
As my PhD data collection period comes to an end, the talented @campbell4796 wanted to thank our @QUBSnifferDogs owners for volunteering to bring in their dogs for weekly training. So grateful for Kerry and our amazing dog owners! #data#science#DogsofTwittter#snifferdog
Celebrate World Bee day on May 2Oth, and acknowledge the bees' amazing cognitive capacities!
Here some of my last experiments on bees learning numbers after being trained to collect sugar water in a maze....
Did you own a dog while pregnant? Researchers at @QUBelfast@QUBPsych@QUB_ABC@QUBbioscience would like to hear from you! (16+, online survey): https://t.co/enZZ4kVO0g
E-collars. Anyone contacted by the lobbying group acting for the e-collar industry - here is our rebuttal to the points they raised which were put into a commentary on our original paper by one of the groups. please circulate as needed.https://t.co/GqJ6oLnOdg
Have you been forced to give up a cat or dog during the pandemic? Researchers at @QUB_ABC@QUBPsych would like to hear about your experience: https://t.co/QfmJPl9Ft4 (16+, online survey ~10 mins) @SCASuk more info at: https://t.co/D8U9nT190u