“The Stopwatches in the Bee Brain: How Insects Master Time and What It Means for AI” features our work on #time processing across species ournarratives.net/the-stopwatc... (the front image is not accurate but there are other images in the article) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

don't miss @alexdqm.bsky.social's poster [11] at #ASABwinter2025 to discover more about time processing in insects "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terretris"

and now you have your chance to speak to @robynroachneuro.bsky.social today at #ASABwinter2025 while she presents her poster on early motion detection in chicks!

and now you have your chance to speak to @robynroachneuro.bsky.social today at #ASABwinter2025 while she presents her poster on early motion detection in chicks!

don't miss @alexdqm.bsky.social's poster [11] at #ASABwinter2025 to discover more about time processing in insects "Time processing in the bumblebee Bombus terretris"

Here’s a short introduction from our research assistant, Hamza Arifo, at our Sky Garden outing. @ha1705.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

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

Take a look into the positive balance project run by our researchers @rosiedavis.bsky.social and @jieyinghuang.bsky.social! This research places focus on teaching individuals how to identify character strengths and positive emotions - a step towards establishing better mental health environments.

A productive training session led by Michaela Egertova! Here Hamza, Robyn, and Dr. Versace work together to image a stained chick cerebellum, building essential skills in brightfield microscopy. @ha1705.bsky.social @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #brightfieldmicroscopy

... 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...

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?...

Here: a bee trained to discriminate between long and short duration by @alexdqm.bsky.social @ishaninanda.bsky.social #AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org cc @larschittka.bsky.social sky.social

1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration! Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code. Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

Humans have remote touch ‘seventh sense’ like sandpipers, research shows 🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Overview of the experiment setup for tactile detection in granular media. (a) Human experiment setup, showing a participant finger…

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

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

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...

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?...

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...

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

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

Don't miss our @rosiedavis.bsky.social Presenting #PositiveBalance at the Hamilton Symposium #IADMS2025 #Dance #Wellbeing www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mG...

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

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

#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

Come and see me and my poster ‘Positive Balance: a psychoeducational programme for adolescent wellbeing based on positive psychology’ at the #IEPA15 on Wednesday at 1pm. You can find me at poster board 114. #PositivePsychology #EarlyIntervention

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!

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

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...

Our team has two fully-funded @MitacsCanada Globalink Research Internships for Summer 2026. Application deadline: 17 Sept 2025 Apply at: https://bit.ly/3UZw8Wj More about our team here: https://bit.ly/4mHxlgY Details of projects: https://bit.ly/3JfaTNM Please RT! 1/3

missing our #tortoise 🐢 studies? our new preprint here: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" with @silviadamini.bsky.social , me and #gionataStancher at #SperimentArea #reptile #social #testudo

our first work on #danceScience and #cognitiveLoad out as a preprint! "Enhancing dance learning by reducing cognitive load: A preregistered study on the effect of dancers’ viewing perspective and expertise" osf.io/preprints/ps... co-led with Manuela #Angioi , with great collaborators worldwide

interesting study on ravens' mobbing shows plasticity of antipredator behavior across offspring development! Led by alumna @silviadamini.bsky.social at Bugnyar lab ! link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-025-01976-9 🪶 👍 #womenSTEM

exciting transatlantic collaboration with @debivort.bsky.social to develop and model how multiple innate biases can support adaptive decisions when newborn animals (and next AI?) have multiple soft biases osf.io/preprints/os... . Feedback welcome: check our preprint! 🐣 🤖 🐝 👾 🧮 🐑

This week for QMUL's #FestivalofEducation, the fantastic masters student Jane O’Sullivan presented a poster on #PositiveBalance using #PositivePsychology and #DigitalTechnologies to support adolescent wellbeing ⭐ @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @jieyinghuang.bsky.social @rosiedavis.bsky.social

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Some recent work of our lab on the origins of cognition / knowledge . We leveraged early skills of 🐣 to understand how minds learn, generaliae and solve the problem of induction www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

for the #mentalHealthAwarenessWeek our Brilliant @rosiedavis.bsky.social and @jieyinghuang.bsky.social present #PositiveBalance, a positive psychology programme to promote wellbeing in young dancers! 🎥 🎈🩰 ✨😀 🤗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mG... @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social

The #chick 🐣 @preparedmindslab.bsky.social is back! Here @antorrisi.bsky.social @robynroachneuro.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and @juechen.bsky.social at the end of the first day of data collection in the newly refurbished lab. Collab @emmanouilb.bsky.social + #kasparAlthoefer #QMUL

2/2 I will discuss also 🐣 newborn #gravity expectations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... and newborn crossmodal matching royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... please join us at 10:00 Gran Ballroom at @cnsmtg.bsky.social and contribute to the discussion!

our #CNS25 @cnsmtg.bsky.social Symposium 31 March at 10:00. "Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems" With #GabrielKreiman @elisabettaversace.bsky.social @tomerullman.bsky.social #JuditGervain #MargeLivingstone 👶 🐣 🐀🐒 🤖 🖥️ 1/2

Alex and Robyn had an amazing day engaging the children of Wapping High School in the fascinating world of animal behaviour! @asabeducation.bsky.social #nationalscienceweek #animalbehaviour #outreach

What a great day at Wapping High School. Fantastic support from Robyn and Alex of QMUL @preparedmindslab.bsky.social scientists. There were lots and lots of engaged young people, who were absolutely as clever as crows!

"Duration discrimination in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

please check our new preprint on "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris" @alexdqm.bsky.social #IshaniNanda #AnitaOngLaiMun @larschittka.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #time #bees cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk 🐝⏳

@preparedmindslab.bsky.social at the January 2025 lab-adventure! Brilliant ballet class at the Royal Opera House, coached by the brilliant Laura McCulloch dzen.ru/video/watch/... we had so much fun!! www.preparedmindslab.org ↘️Jue, Zhengqi, Antonella, Robyn, Rosie, Kit, Alexander, Elisabetta