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!

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Physiology and Disease: Insights from Recent Studies www.mdpi.com/3191656

well done Rosie @rosiedavis.bsky.social !!! very proud to see you making new connections and showcasing the science done in colaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other collaborators!

signposting for later... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Time processing in neurological and psychiatric conditions

brilliant experimental day for all the @preparedmindslab.bsky.social team today, and in particular for @antorrisi.bsky.social , @juechen.bsky.social and #chick_12 , who found new feedback systems very engaging! stay tuned for more details...

Don't miss @rosiedavis.bsky.social Positive Balance: a short psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology #ECDP2025 #posterSession2 14:30-15:30 European Conference on Developmental Psychology

! Closed-loop two-photon functional imaging in a freely moving animal www.nature.com/articles/s41... via @debivort.bsky.social

Light incubation affects embryo development and post-hatch performance in poultry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signposting for later in perineuronal nets pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

very interesting on what are feasibility studies, and what they measure www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Proms2025 #Aurora orchestra by 💙

Data on how Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Commented here www.science.org/content/arti...

we don't do anything to help **Afghan women**! daily crimes against humanity there, rarely covered. How to help them in practice?? "Women banned from celebrations as Taliban marks fourth anniversary of Afghanistan takeover" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Bayesian Computation through Cortical Latent Dynamics www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Brilliant piece by @mattperich.bsky.social on neural manifolds 🌟 His ‪essay in @thetransmitter.bsky.social shows how this view changes the game in computational neuroscience, reproducing behavioral flexibility within finite neural constraints 🧠 www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...

Here we go @evoneuro.bsky.social , “Bird Brains and Behavior” has safely arrived in London, currently being my #goodnightstory

…climbing the thread that connects books through characters’ citations… what a large parallel world

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha... 🫥

It was a privilege to play a part of this epic field-scale collaboration. A new connectome of the brain and ventral nerve cord!

fun write up about our recent work on the limits of mental simulation: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... (original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

potential evidence of dance in cackatoos... with a thorough Discussion : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... cc @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social

What is this damselfly doing exactly? Wait a few seconds…

grande squadra nella staffetta 4x100 ♀️ 🇮🇹 U20 video.corriere.it/video-embed/... 💪💪💪💪

Touch, as a Landscape of Cellular Sensorshttps://www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-most-complex-sense-is-a-landscape-of-cellular-sensors-20250416/

…now I am ready to face west, walk and follow the sun in an ethernal summer. To rest, I will walk fast to spring and then sit a few days under the trees, waiting for the summer again

One lovely friend among many met during Lunch break at #queenMaryUniversity #mileEnd campus today: Sympetrum striolatum? @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Allopreening in birds is associated with parental cooperation over offspring care and stable pair bonds across years academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Facial blushing and feather fluffing are indicators of emotions in domestic fowl dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...