30-Sep-2025
Scientists read #mice’s ‘thoughts’ from their faces
sounds like people angling for an #Ignobel prize?
Summary: “Mind reading” evokes images of futuristic scanners, but a study published in Nature Neuroscience demonstrates that a simple video may be enough. Using machine learning techniques, a team at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal, showed that mice’s facial movements reflect their hidden thoughts. According to the authors, this discovery could offer unprecedented insight into brain function, but also signals a need to consider safeguards for mental privacy. ***SUMMARY YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK***: https://youtu.be/eNjkmeJ-lvE
"Every Ig Nobel prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think,"
- Marc Abrahams, founder of the awards.
"The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the revelation that drinking alcohol can improve a person's ability to speak a foreign language (Dutch, specifically)."
#ig_nobel_prize #igNobel https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/115315743894198793
/cc @StOnSoftware 😁
Right, literally torture ants to *kick start* yogurt making (and then bury milk in an ant nest for 26 hours). 🤦♂️
I know, for science, but still screams Ig Nobel. 🏆
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-ants-can-kick-start-fermentation-to-make-yogurt/
Noch eine Portion gewünscht? 🍝 😉
Ich habe einen der Forscher erwischt, die kürzlich den Ig-Nobelpreis gewonnen haben, weil sie sich einer besonderen italienischen Nudelsoße gewidmet haben. Im Interview erklärt der Physiker Fabrizio Olmeda vom Institute of Science and Technology Austria, dass er jetzt aber doch erstmal eine Weile warten müsse, bis er das Gericht "Cacio e Pepe" wieder essen kann, gab er zu 😊
https://t3n.de/news/drei-zutaten-ein-problem-physiker-cacio-e-pepe-forschung-1708914/
Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 #IgNobel prizes
Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prize
looks like I missed the memo when the awards were announced last week.
This year's #IgNobel prizes: biologists who painted cows to ward off flies, rainbow lizards in Togo with a fondness for four-cheese pizza, paediatricians who found garlic makes breast milk more appealing to babies, researchers who discovered alcohol sharpens foreign-language skills - but leaves fruit bats bumbling in flight; a historian who tracked his thumbnail growth for 35 years, and physics researchers exploring the mysteries of pasta sauce.
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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬