Elisabetta Versace
@elisabettaversace.bsky.social
into the rabbit holes of cognition, physics, perception, evolution, animal behaviour, research culture, solaristics, "war and peace". Freedom and peace.
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we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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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.
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Remote Touch
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 sen
soundcloud.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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...
soundcloud.com/sweetsongspr...
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Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers
thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
Humans possess a "Seventh Sense" remote touch like sandpipers - theFreesheet
Research has revealed that humans possess a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a capability previously documented
thefreesheet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers
thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
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Research first to show humans have remote touch "seventh sense" like sandpipers
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Research first to show humans have remote touch "seventh sense" like sandpipers
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html
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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 have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
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.
techxplore.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
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Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
The portrait of captain James Cook surprised me. I was expecting somebody with a different look. [National portrait gallery, London]
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The portrait of captain James Cook surprised me. I was expecting somebody with a different look. [National portrait gallery, London]
Oh wow! Arriving home to find that “Dragonfly Behavior” has arrived! @britishdragonflies.bsky.social recently advertised these gems!!! And this is the first video signposted youtu.be/RpZuTXLhQPs “the night is long” :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Oh wow! Arriving home to find that “Dragonfly Behavior” has arrived! @britishdragonflies.bsky.social recently advertised these gems!!! And this is the first video signposted youtu.be/RpZuTXLhQPs “the night is long” :)
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
I would be interested in knowing how paper authors rate the peer-reviewed received, in terms of competence, understanding of the paper and constructive tone...
October 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I would be interested in knowing how paper authors rate the peer-reviewed received, in terms of competence, understanding of the paper and constructive tone...
interesting! A suppression hierarchy among competing motor programs drives sequential grooming in Drosophila doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (2014) via @debivort.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
interesting! A suppression hierarchy among competing motor programs drives sequential grooming in Drosophila doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (2014) via @debivort.bsky.social
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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
Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025...
@c4dm.bsky.social @emmanouilb.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
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...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... , www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Gli insetti provano dolore? - Il Post
È una possibilità sempre più indagata dalla ricerca e che potrebbe cambiare in modo fondamentale il nostro rapporto con loro
www.ilpost.it
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... , www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
a usefl recap...
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Not all neural network architectures are created equal, some perform much better than others for certain tasks. But how important are the weight parameters of a neural network compared to its architec...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
a usefl recap...
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
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
October 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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
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Mission complete. The enemy was homework and the target was obliterated.
#CalvinandHobbes #SpacemanSpiff
#CalvinandHobbes #SpacemanSpiff
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Mission complete. The enemy was homework and the target was obliterated.
#CalvinandHobbes #SpacemanSpiff
#CalvinandHobbes #SpacemanSpiff
"academic research too competitive?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ERC is just 1 scheme, competitive by definition... but I think researchers should always be able to do their job (free from chasing money...), and then have competitive schemes to expand."Somewhere" researchers fight for the basics
ERC is just 1 scheme, competitive by definition... but I think researchers should always be able to do their job (free from chasing money...), and then have competitive schemes to expand."Somewhere" researchers fight for the basics
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"academic research too competitive?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ERC is just 1 scheme, competitive by definition... but I think researchers should always be able to do their job (free from chasing money...), and then have competitive schemes to expand."Somewhere" researchers fight for the basics
ERC is just 1 scheme, competitive by definition... but I think researchers should always be able to do their job (free from chasing money...), and then have competitive schemes to expand."Somewhere" researchers fight for the basics
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871
youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871
youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...
October 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871
youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871
youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...
sounds interesting! (but hopefully I won't be in the position to use it too soon ;) )
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
sounds interesting! (but hopefully I won't be in the position to use it too soon ;) )
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Our new study modeling selection for (behavioral) variability has been covered in a lovely @genetics-gsa.bsky.social podcast featuring first author Shraddha Lall and @ecoevogal.bsky.social
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Family-based selection: an efficient method for increasing phenotypic variability
This article introduces a model comparing various selection regimes for increasing phenotypic variability. Individuals with the same genotype, reared in id
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our new study modeling selection for (behavioral) variability has been covered in a lovely @genetics-gsa.bsky.social podcast featuring first author Shraddha Lall and @ecoevogal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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