Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's paper double bill day! Paper 1: In @royalsocietypublishing.org the brilliant Luigi Baciadonna and I asked how variable #bee #optimism is. Individual bees do not make consistently optimistic choices over days even if the group is remarkably consistent. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Animal Intelligences (Carocci Editore) will be available in bookshops tomorrow. Writing it was deeply challenging, rewarding and enlightening. I hope it helps general readers discover the wonder and scientific complexity of animal minds beyond observable behavior!! www.carocci.it/prodotto/int...

A very nice and digestible coverage of my latest paper ! 🐝🔀

Do insects feel pain or is it just a reflex? We found that GABAergic signalling modulates bumblebee nocifensive responses. A centrally acting drug reduced these behaviors and altered brain gene expression, suggesting modulation of the central nervous system rather than a simple peripheral reflex

I am very pleased to announce our upcoming Theo Murphy meeting at the Royal Society: Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence 21–22 September 2026 - Bristol, UK Registration deadline: 1 July Register here: lnkd.in/eGDAux-M #AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience