RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116154796942850005

Video of talk also available here for those might enjoy or prefer that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHgVkIWhig

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Description below and here: https://www.bcbl.eu/en/noticias/eventos-pasados/olivia-guest-how-we-reason-over-artificial-neural-networks

Oh, just a caterpillar that keeps all the husks it shed from its head when it was smaller as a kind of elaborate hat … because why wouldn’t you?

Congratulations to Georgina Steytler, who just won a wildlife photography award for this extraordinary image!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/five-headed-caterpillar-wins-photo-award/105926608

Is ‘number sense’ our 6th sense?

Plenty of animals, even those that can’t speak, have some kind of understanding of numbers. But what is number sense? How did we evolve it, and what does that mean?
https://elifesciences.org/articles/108701?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights
#Neruoscience #Cognition

‪Development‬'s Issue 16 is complete!

On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition.

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/152/16

#Development #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Biology #EmbryonicEye #Academia #Publishing #Research #Journal

📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 📣
Our next seminar is coming up!

📆 Tuesday 24th June 2025 at 10am GMT on our YouTube channel:
Dr. TNC Vidya, accompanied by Athira TK and Ankana Sanyal, will present “Understanding Asian elephant socioecology from long-term monitoring in southern India” 🐘

📺LINK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpdDenqkQSU

As always, the event is free and open to all — no registration needed!
#AsianElephants #AnimalBehaviour #Socioecology

Great article from Seemay Chou of Astera on how scientific publishing could be fixed and become a force for good rather than a dead weight slowing down science and distorting its priorities. I love to read optimistic visions of the future and look forward to living in it.

https://asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific-publishing-enough-is-enough

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

European fly labs can contribute here https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/physiology-development-and-neuroscience/drosophila-genetic-database