Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Exeter | Cognition & Conservation | Comparative Psychology | @themanybirds.bsky.social Co-Founder | 🪶🐦👶🐵🧠 | Website: www.drrachaelmiller.com
Very cool opportunity to chat about @themanybirds.bsky.social and big team science more broadly with Nic Fleming in this @natureportfolio.nature.com piece recently, alongside @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social, Michael Frank, Kelsey Lucca, @briannosek.bsky.social, Nico Alessandroni & @jespinosa.bsky.social
Nature PortfolioNature reports on how labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science. #cogpsyc 🧪
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a big team science network lead? @jespinosa.bsky.social, @dremalt.bsky.social, @vedranaslipogor.bsky.social, Megan Lambert & I have written about the challenges & benefits from an ECR perspective: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... 1/2
Leading big team science as early-career researchers: challenges and solutionsAbstract. Big team science networks are large-scale, collaborative, global initiatives that pool intellectual and material resources to address shared scieroyalsocietypublishing.org*Upcoming deadline for two advertised posts in the Miller Cognition and Conservation Group is 5 June 2026* - 4-year PhD advert: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - 4-year Postdoc advert: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78...
From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded) | University of ExeterThe University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.www.exeter.ac.ukPostdoc Opportunity! 4-year @royalsociety.org funded post @uniexecec.bsky.social: “Understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology”. Closes: 5 June 2026. More info & to apply: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78... Wt: @paradiseparkhayle.bsky.social & Wildwood Trust
New paper out, which started during hackathons at the Big Team Science Conferences. A pleasure to be a part of this - big thank you to the whole authorship team, particularly to the leads @vaidis.bsky.social @epronizius.bsky.social @mamsmandrill.bsky.social
Ekaterina (Katja) ProniziusNew paper🎈: Lessons Learned from Big Team Science Projects in Cognitive Science in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... We share practical, experience-based strategies for running large-scale collaborations - from project structure to ethics, funding, & AI use.
PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/
From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions, PhD (Funded) | University of ExeterThe University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, is inviting applications for a 4-year PhD studentship (UK fees), ideally commencing Sept 2026.www.exeter.ac.ukExtremely excited to start my 8-year @royalsociety.org Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship @uniexecec.bsky.social focussing on understanding the role of individual cognitive variation in reintroduction biology. With 2x 4-year Postdoc and PhD positions being advertised shortly - do get in touch if interested!
New 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...
Postdoctoral fellowwww.ugent.beCentre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds🐦 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...
So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
ManyBirds Project🐦 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
New paper just out: Rachael Miller @drrmiller.bsky.social, Ning Ding & Nicky Clayton in Cognitive Development: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... on the “Cognitive correlates of future-oriented cognition in young Chinese children”. @campsydept.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 1/
Cognitive correlates of future-oriented cognition in young Chinese childrenFuture-oriented cognition, which broadly encompasses an array of cognitive processes involved in understanding, constructing, imagining and planning f…www.sciencedirect.com