Excited for this paper to be out, literal years of hard work by Kozzy. Excitingly, my first last author paper! This work came from joining the Kinds of Intelligence group at Cambridge and being given time by @martahalina.bsky.social to explore and cross disciplines. Hard work but very fun! 🧪 🤖🧠

youtu.be/lLlwvmu1ZeA?... Possibly my favourite What If? ever. If you haven't read the what if books I highly recommend finding some copies.

Why do anemonefish (A. percula) live in groups where only the dominant pair breed? We tested ~200 groups for genetic relatedness and showed no patterns indicating relatedness was high within groups. 🧬🧪 doi.org/10.1093/behe... @theresarueger.bsky.social #MarineBiology #SocialEvolution

New study in @science.org Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald, Morgan Bennett-Smith, Pete Buston @newcastleuni.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After a week of intense population genomics, lots of tired but still smiley faces. Thank you @embo.org for funding another edition of our Population Genomics course in Naples. And thank you to the trainers and participants for making this eight edition another success! #EMBOpopgen

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Yeah I mean they went to all this trouble secretly stealing stuff. It's only fair they don't have to tell anyone...

How can we rigorously investigate the common-sense capabilities of agentic AI systems? How can we build better models of non-human animal cognition? (Re-)introducing the Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research!

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 100 year discussion on whether to use the word scientist can now be resolved correctly. By recognising the correct term should be lorer. anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lore #conlang

www.cea.fr/english/Page... This seems very cool progress from the EAST result. Can physics people tell me is there still an issue with neutron shielding? Is that on its way to a solution? 🧪⚛️

To hijack Weinberg: With or without notebooks, good people can program well and bad people can program badly; but for good people to program badly - that takes notebooks.

Seems so cool and strange to me that tokenising+transformer of a time series can work. And that the performance generalises so well across the different tasks. 🧪 openreview.net/forum?id=QlT... very good video exposition by first author: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqrC...

A cancer cell with three nuclei (cyan) videoed through a microscope. Mitochondria (yellow) and the actin cytoskeleton (red) are also shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy

Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2 We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets. These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit. @lauriebelch.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social

New paper with @tobykiers.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social on whether plants send signals through fungal networks to warn other plants of impending attack – theory suggests unlikely. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hinton's responses during the banquet interviews are truly S-tier. I'm a bit confused as to why they think ai won't blush though!

Good Sunday recreational maths read on permutation fair dice. 🧮🧪 www.ericharshbarger.org/dice/go_firs...

I was getting more and more annoyed by quotes/refs of Haldane 1955 which were either incomplete or weird. Not digitised so I bought it. And now can disagree with people over it properly. Thanks to @arvidagren.bsky.social for pointing out physical things exist. 🧪

One of the most heart warming adaptations I've heard of. Heart cockles have evolved aragonite fibre optic bundles to transmit sunlight to their symbionts. These bundles appear optimally arranged for light transmission and reduce UV load which can damage symbionts. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...