A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have.  soundcloud.com/sweetsongspr...

Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...

Research first to show humans have remote touch "seventh sense" like sandpipers https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html

Humans can detect objects buried in sand before direct contact, demonstrating a form of remote touch similar to that seen in certain shorebirds and expanding the known range of tactile perception. doi.org/g99kpf

we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them! clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?... paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!

Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

The portrait of captain James Cook surprised me. I was expecting somebody with a different look. [National portrait gallery, London]

Oh wow! Arriving home to find that “Dragonfly Behavior” has arrived! @britishdragonflies.bsky.social recently advertised these gems!!! And this is the first video signposted youtu.be/RpZuTXLhQPs “the night is long” :)

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

I would be interested in knowing how paper authors rate the peer-reviewed received, in terms of competence, understanding of the paper and constructive tone...

interesting! A suppression hierarchy among competing motor programs drives sequential grooming in Drosophila doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (2014) via @debivort.bsky.social

our inventor @antorrisi.bsky.social with poster on #VocalEcho: Closed-loop system for vocal interactions #BioDCASE at 12:21 CET (11.21 UK time) 🐥 🔀 🤖🎈 Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025... @c4dm.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social

in Italian: Do insects feel pain? www.ilpost.it/2025/10/13/i... it covers also @preparedmindslab.bsky.social work in collaboration with @larschittka.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... , www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

a usefl recap... Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358

What a bird neuroscience meeting today! Uwe Mayer gave a fab talk , @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @antorrisi.bsky.social and @juechen.bsky.social delighted to have him and Andrea Gaede at @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

Mission complete. The enemy was homework and the target was obliterated. #CalvinandHobbes #SpacemanSpiff

"academic research too competitive?" www.nature.com/articles/d41... ERC is just 1 scheme, competitive by definition... but I think researchers should always be able to do their job (free from chasing money...), and then have competitive schemes to expand."Somewhere" researchers fight for the basics

Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871 youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...

sounds interesting! (but hopefully I won't be in the position to use it too soon ;) )

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... Go MIT ✊🏼

Our new study modeling selection for (behavioral) variability has been covered in a lovely @genetics-gsa.bsky.social podcast featuring first author Shraddha Lall and @ecoevogal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

It's so bad www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

📣 @asab.org grants BOOSTED! 📣 We've increased most of our research-related grants by 50%, effective from the next deadline of 1st Feb 2026. Check out what we offer here: www.asab.org/grant-overview

The world through infant eyes: Evidence for the early emergence of the cardinal orientation bias www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

chattyChat doesn't know literature, e.g. plot of basic books: it tells you completely wrong facts: e.g. that Anna loves Francesco in "House of liars" / Menzogna e sortilegio, while she rather hates him... and she loves Edoardo. Similar issue for "War and Peace"... not even the basics! but why?

What the Solar Eclipse did for the birds: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Tosca 💔 🩵🩵🩵

Congrats to @rosiedavis.bsky.social & the Positive Balance project team, chosen from 100+ applicants for the Linda & William Hamilton Dance Wellness Symposium! Rosie will receive a travel grant to attend the 35th #IADMS Annual Conference in Las Vegas next week #DancerWellbeing #PositivePsychology

Farm animal welfare: Beyond “natural” behavior www.science.org/stoken/autho...

This is #TowerHamlets

yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press! "Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises" How do you like our visual abstract? 🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛ nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity www.sciencenews.org/article/adhd...

#ICDL2025 Don't miss Zhengqi Chen @zhengqichen.bsky.social on 16 Sept at 11:45 "Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study" @ieee-icdl.bsky.social

apologies if Philip Glass Metamorphosis is escapism, while the fragile Earth and the fragile humanity and fragile nature seem to collapse, under human ferocious strikes youtu.be/M73x3O7dhmg?... (or is this air to breathe, think and reorganise ideas, identity, plans?)

a critical review on Masturbation in the Animal Kingdom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

High open access fees Induced editors to resign and start a new journal direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... cc @wyeates.bsky.social

So we can link individual “energy” producers to specific heatwaves…

Join us at #Ento25 for the Women in Entomology Career Showcase morning, an opportunity to inspire and provide an informal opportunity to network with other entomologists. All genders are welcome 🐞 Read more about women in entomology 🔽

what a concert: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/0... Camerata Bern, violino e direzione, Antje Weithaas, Einojuhani Rautavaara Pelimannit Op. 1 (I violinisti Op. 1), Peteris Vasks Concerto per violino e orchestra n.2 'In Evening Light'. Regostrazione Euroradio 9/feb/2024. Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel.

somehow I had missed "AlphaGeometry": Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations www.nature.com/articles/s41... . Ok it can solve, well done... but it doesn't seem an efficient strategy to me... does it?

Neuro-Symbolic AI in 2024: A systematic review. ~ Brandon C. Colelough, William Regli. arxiv.org/abs/2501.05435 #AI #NeuroSymbolicAI

Avian models for brain mechanisms underlying altered social behavior in autism www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...

I was delighted to present my poster at the ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop. This research is supervised by Dr. Alexander Mielke, @elisabettaversace.bsky.social (preparedmindslab.bsky.social) and Prof. Althoefer. Excited to continue building bridges between natural and robotics in the future!