We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

Super excited that Osseily Hanna's "The Last Bee" won the Best Fiction Film Trophy at the Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental in Mexico this week. The film will be released in 2026 - stay tuned!

Congratulations @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social and @gerardosalvato.bsky.social!

At HAIR (Healthcare Applications of Interactive Robotics) workshop hair-robotics.github.io/workshop2025... @elisabettaversace.bsky.social has presented our work on #remoteTouch See here all speakers of this inspiring event organised by #IldarFarkhatdinov and #JoshuaBrown

Fue un reto interesante interpretar a un científico loco en la película del director Mexicano Osse Hanna Gomez, La Última Abeja, also starring Michelle Maldonado! Aquí esta una primera reseña de la película: periodistasunidos.com.mx/nacional/cul...

Prepared Minds Lab at the launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social #Neuroscience #Psychology

Our smart bees in Shaastra, a science and technology magazine published by the Indian Institute of Technology

New research from our school links a key gene, RBFOX1, to stress and anxiety. 🧠 Zebrafish without this gene showed higher cortisol levels, hyperactivity, and increased anxiety, offering new clues about how genetics shape behaviour and mental health. 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sliiiight exaggeration there by CNN, but nonetheless happy about this new collaborative study with Eli Versace's team: @elisabettaversace.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s...

Do bees see nothing? Primates with damage to the visual cortex have no conscious visual experience, but display adaptive visual behaviour (a phenomenon called blindsight). Here I team up with two primate researchers to ask if bee vision could be similar to blindsight. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

2/n This 🐝 work has been a great collaboration between @alexdqm.bsky.social , @ishaninanda.bsky.social # AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from @preparedmindslab.bsky.social see below for a videoclip of the bees @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Our work on time processing in bees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... @qmulse.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social ... and videoclip explanation youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?...

... and this is how @zhengqichen.bsky.social explains the study in a short video youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?... Original paper here ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

Some coverage of our recent work in Remote touch in humans …….✋ www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-n...

Our new study on remote touch .....✋ Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - neurosciencenews.com/remote-touch... @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone ✋ --> 📹 youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...

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

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...

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

Interesting piece mentioning the work by @agnewblais.bsky.social in Bytes Europe - ADHD in women: How hormones affect symptoms and diagnosis. www.byteseu.com/1480697/

Prepared Mind Lab was proud to attend the official launch of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour (CBB) at QMUL. A brilliant step forward for collaborative brain and behaviour research, we're excited for what's next. #PreparedMindLabs #Neuroscience #WellbeingInnovation @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

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

Our School @qmulsbbs.bsky.social successfully renewed its Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising its commitment to gender equality! Special thanks to @nadinelavan.bsky.social, Guifen Chen, and all the EDI committee for being the driving forces behind the application 👏 www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/news/it...

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay 🌍 This year’s theme - “Access to services: mental health in catastrophes and emergencies” reminds us how vital it is to have support available in difficult times. Find out more about our mental health support: www.qmul.ac.uk/student-expe... #WMHD2025

Encouraging independence, creativity and diversity helps supervisors shape future leaders and spark breakthroughs. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #PhDsky @qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

Read this piece that @larschittka.bsky.social wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social, where he shares his ideas about PhD supervision. Lars is shortlisted for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year in the 2025 Times Higher Education Awards! www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

⭐PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐, Please Share!! Use Reinforcement Learning and Computational Modelling to study how dis/misinformation affects us (with myself +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 10th Nov. @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Coming soon: Response-specific behavioral plasticity in habituation triggered by repeated visual looming stimuli in foraging bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), by Dissegna, Andrea Chittka, Lars and Chiandetti, Cinzia psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Learn more about @nadinelavan.bsky.social's study on AI voice perception on this recent piece: scienmag.com/ai-generated...

New paper from #theBRIGHTproject, led by Helena-Céline Stevelt & Bosiljka Milosavljevic, where they developed a contextually tailored coding scheme to study caregiver responsiveness in Gambia 🌍 Congratulations all! doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Such a pleasure to present the current #PositiveBalance work developed in collaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other key collaborators at QMUL, English National Ballet School and Royal Ballet School for the Linda Hamilton Symposium at #IADMS2025 in Las Vegas. #DancerWellbeing

At our launching event "Mind, Tech, and Wellbeing" for our new Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL! Follow us on here @queenmarycbb.bsky.social to hear more about our research @qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025

For 240 years, Queen Mary has been tackling inequalities, changing lives and making new discoveries. The latest KEF results reflect this enduring mission and reflect the University's excellence in knowledge exchange. Read more: tinyurl.com/y3juybef

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

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

#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

Congratulations to our own @larschittka.bsky.social for this prestigious nomination. Very well deserved! www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/news/it...

Queen Mary is delighted to be a ‘University of the Year’ finalist in the #THEAwards! And we're so proud Professors @larschittka.bsky.social and @alastairhackney.bsky.social have been shortlisted for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year. @timeshighered.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ebe8yx23

Big time congrats to @larschittka.bsky.social on receiving the Exemplar Award this year! Lars and his team has discovered several previously unimaginable cognitive capacities in the itty bitty brains of bees giving us new insights into the evolution of learning. chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk

The French version of The Mind of a Bee is now available- 13 translations already! 😊

Studying the dreaming brain is challenging due to the small sample size of sleep lab studies. @valdasnoreika.bsky.social co-authored a database paper of 20 EEG datasets with 2643 awakenings, offering an Open Access resource for sleep and consciousness researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to @agnewblais.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious Research Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh! Working with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Agnew-Blais will explore what drives parental exhaustion in autistic & ADHD parents. More info here: shorturl.at/rQuYV

Congratulations to all our BSc Psychology students graduating today! @qmulsbbs.bsky.social

Happening today! #neurodiversity #inclusion @qmulse.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Congratulations are in order for the fantastic staff at the Department who received the Research Excellence Award @marghmalanchini.bsky.social, the Research Initiative Awards (Paraskevi Argyriou), and @nadinelavan.bsky.social & Guifen Chen for their work in the EDI committee 🎉👏@qmulsbbs.bsky.social

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Our final event was the perfect way to wrap up the season before the summer break, with lots of laughter and just the right company! We’ll be back in September with fresh energy and a new series of events. Stay tuned to our channel for other initiatives to support #WomenInAcademia! #AcademicNetwork

Our new paper in eLife: A neuromorphic model of active vision shows how spatiotemporal encoding in lobula neurons can aid pattern recognition in bees: elifesciences.org/articles/89929