Laurent Prétôt 🐡🐠🦈
@LaurentPretot
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Comparative psychologist studying the influence of ecology & cognition on decision-making. Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology at @pittstate.
Pittsburg, KS
Joined May 2015
🚨New Study🚨We tested #dottybacks—a genus of non-cleaner fish—in the ephemeral reward task. Product of an amazing collaboration with @SEALIFEKC and published in @TLuconXiccato’s The diversity of fish cognition Collection @SpringerANCO. OPEN ACCESS here:
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🚨Paper out🚨The ephemeral reward task—derived from cleaner fish ecology—looks simple but most species fail to solve it. Here, we tested non-cleaner fish in the task. @TLuconXiccato’s The diversity of fish cognition Collection @SpringerANCO. OPEN ACCESS ➡️ https://t.co/8D2FnrNhLl
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Thanks @ORCA_Open for the huge support!!! 🤗
🥳News update!!!🤩 MM has won an Open Scholarship Catalytic Award by @ORCA_Open! The award will support #OpenScience training for our network as we get closer to data collection for MM1. Stay tuned for details on upcoming open webinars! Learn more here:
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🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @JohnsHopkins ( https://t.co/t1Znq14Mli), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
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🚨💡Interested in collaborating on a Big Team Comparative Cognition project? 💡🚨 Learn about MM1 and let’s explore together how reversal learning can be implemented across taxa. 👶🐒🐐🐀🐡🐙🦜🦎🐸 #BigTeamScience #OpenScience #ComparativeCognition
Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: https://t.co/JZ6Ybo8a1M
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Special issue on Fish Cognition: I’m editing a collection for Animal Cognition (see link), if you are interested in contributing get in touch! @SpringerANCO
https://t.co/aAKWn6eDfX
link.springer.com
Fish are the most abundant and diverse vertebrates, with evolutionary lineages spanning over 400 million years and inhabiting virtually all aquatic ...
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The #CO3_2025 program is now live! Check out our amazing line-up of speakers here: https://t.co/G0wvJUjXCy
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3) Starting this fall, I will be ...(🥁)... tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Psych @pittstate! 😎🦍 (3/3) Thanks to everyone who made this possible! 🤗
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2) I am joining the free-to-publish #OpenAccess journal #AnimBehavCogn as an Associate Editor! Super thrilled to be part of such an amazing team and initiative. 😍 (2/3)
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🥳🤩 Some exciting news to kick off 2025: 1) I have been awarded a @zoos_aquariums Animal Care & Wellbeing Grants Fund for a project assessing elasmobranch welfare and intelligence using cognitive enrichment! Research in partnership with @SEALIFEKC and @SEALIFEgrpevine. 🦈 (1/3)
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🐯📢We are looking for additional committee members to support our goals! Apply here by 2/21 ( https://t.co/bOooVpJzKo) to join our awesome committees! 🦩🌍 #ZooScience #ManyZoos
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It's here! The K-INBRE Symposium is beginning today, and it's travel day. For those of you coming from out of town, check the KanDrive website for road conditions and pack for cold weather (but no snow luckily!) Be safe, and we can't wait to welcome you at the Intercontinental!
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🚨JOB alert 🚨 We are looking for a technician at full time 100% and permanent position 🙌🏽 The job is in the Behavioural Physiology lab @UniNeuchatel Please see detailed description (in French) 👉🏼 https://t.co/cJrYVW0gP8 Deadline end of February
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❗️📢PAPER ALERT📢❗️@TheManyManys just made it to @NatureHumBehav! 🤩🥳 Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: https://t.co/7796bQa81m. DOI here: https://t.co/TUEjWtTHMH.
@SpringerNature, #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.
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📣 👀 PAPER ALERT 👀 📣 So thrilled to see this out in @SpringerNature’s @NatureHumBehav! A tremendous collaborative effort only possible thanks to a 💫 team and a 🔥 consortium! With @nalessandroni and @TheManyManys. #BigTeamScience, #OpenScience, #BigTeamComparativeCognition.
Big team science (BTS) can accelerate advances in comparative cognition but faces some unique challenges. Alessandroni et al. highlight solutions to 3 key challenges and discuss how BTS can transform the field. https://t.co/LMXfOmazrk
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Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025. OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠 Deadline 20 Nov 2024 https://t.co/hMXkHATe6h Spread the word 🙏🏽
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Such a wonderful conference! Thanks @nalessandroni for representing all of us @TheManyManys! 🤗
Had a fantastic time at #ABL2024 discussing our research with @TheManyManys! 🤩 #BigTeamScience is a game-changer for #ComparativeCognition research, and it is amazing to see more people joining us by the day! 🌍| #OpenScience #Metascience #BestPractices
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🚨 D-6 until #ABL2024! 🚨 Join us Nov 4-5 for a packed program on animal behavior with 6 plenary talks, 24 presentations, 44 virtual posters, 3 workshops, and 5 “Meet the PI” sessions! 🧠🐝🐟 Connect with leading experts and peers! 👉 Register here: https://t.co/NIdIPdnQx0
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Nice!!!
Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H
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Save the Date! Join us for the 7th Annual South Eastern Evolution & Human Behavior Meeting on February 8th, 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for researchers across anthropology, biology, primatology, psychology, and beyond to connect, so feel free to share! #SEEHB2025
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