Ester Desfilis
@edesfilis.bsky.social
I love learning! Evolutionary developmental neurobiology, Psychobiology, Neuroethology, Comparative Neurobiology. Mare i iaia😊 #UdL #Lleida #Science🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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1/4 Memories in the early years of life
Although adults do not remember early childhood (before the age of 3-4, due to infantile amnesia), there is strong evidence that episodic memory exists in infants and young children.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Although adults do not remember early childhood (before the age of 3-4, due to infantile amnesia), there is strong evidence that episodic memory exists in infants and young children.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
1/4 Memories in the early years of life
Although adults do not remember early childhood (before the age of 3-4, due to infantile amnesia), there is strong evidence that episodic memory exists in infants and young children.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Although adults do not remember early childhood (before the age of 3-4, due to infantile amnesia), there is strong evidence that episodic memory exists in infants and young children.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X.
Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X.
Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
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La “colaboración público-privada” es un lucrativo negocio privado con dinero público.
Una empresa privada recibe dinero público para gestionar una residencia.
Para maximizan beneficios,
recortan en personal y cuidados, y ese ahorro lo acaban pagando los mayores con menos atención y peor comida.
Una empresa privada recibe dinero público para gestionar una residencia.
Para maximizan beneficios,
recortan en personal y cuidados, y ese ahorro lo acaban pagando los mayores con menos atención y peor comida.
March 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
La “colaboración público-privada” es un lucrativo negocio privado con dinero público.
Una empresa privada recibe dinero público para gestionar una residencia.
Para maximizan beneficios,
recortan en personal y cuidados, y ese ahorro lo acaban pagando los mayores con menos atención y peor comida.
Una empresa privada recibe dinero público para gestionar una residencia.
Para maximizan beneficios,
recortan en personal y cuidados, y ese ahorro lo acaban pagando los mayores con menos atención y peor comida.
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Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
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December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
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I'm really pleased that my first coauthored article of 2026 is out. With some amazing folks @marckissel.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social we think through a synthesis of behavioral ecology, emotional cognition, and archaeology.
www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-e...
www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-e...
Bringing emotional cognition to deep time
In a new article, my coauthors and I draw upon cognitive science to draw out archaeological traces of ancient social lives
www.johnhawks.net
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm really pleased that my first coauthored article of 2026 is out. With some amazing folks @marckissel.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social we think through a synthesis of behavioral ecology, emotional cognition, and archaeology.
www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-e...
www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-e...
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Los hospitales públicos de gestión privada basan su beneficio en hacer mucho de lo que cuesta poco, robar estos pacientes a los de gestión pública y pagar mal a sus empleados.
La Comunidad de Madrid no controla nada de todo esto.
elpais.com/sociedad/202...
La Comunidad de Madrid no controla nada de todo esto.
elpais.com/sociedad/202...
La empresa gestora del hospital público de Torrejón ordena rechazar pacientes para ganar más: “Hacemos actividad que nos perjudica”
El CEO del grupo Ribera, que gestiona el hospital privatizado, pide a sus mandos ajustes para lograr un beneficio de “cuatro o cinco millones”, según unas grabaciones a las que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍ...
elpais.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Los hospitales públicos de gestión privada basan su beneficio en hacer mucho de lo que cuesta poco, robar estos pacientes a los de gestión pública y pagar mal a sus empleados.
La Comunidad de Madrid no controla nada de todo esto.
elpais.com/sociedad/202...
La Comunidad de Madrid no controla nada de todo esto.
elpais.com/sociedad/202...
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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"Un 76% de los pisos de Viena son de alquiler. Unos 220.000 pertenecen al Ayuntamiento y unos 200.000 a cooperativas con apoyo público. El resultado es una oferta de alquileres baratos, cuya existencia acaba presionando a la baja los alquileres del mercado privado" elpais.com/economia/viv...
Viena, la utopía práctica de la vivienda accesible para la mayoría
Con una tradición socialdemócrata que se remonta a hace un siglo, la capital austriaca ofrece más de 400.000 casas en alquiler barato
elpais.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"Un 76% de los pisos de Viena son de alquiler. Unos 220.000 pertenecen al Ayuntamiento y unos 200.000 a cooperativas con apoyo público. El resultado es una oferta de alquileres baratos, cuya existencia acaba presionando a la baja los alquileres del mercado privado" elpais.com/economia/viv...
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WOW!! Gila Monster venom contains a compound called exendin-4, a structural analog of human Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 This connection led to development of synthetic GLP-1 like exenatide, used to treat type 2 diabetes. Some newer GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, Mounjaro are also being used for weight loss.
July 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
WOW!! Gila Monster venom contains a compound called exendin-4, a structural analog of human Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 This connection led to development of synthetic GLP-1 like exenatide, used to treat type 2 diabetes. Some newer GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, Mounjaro are also being used for weight loss.
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#TalDíaComoHoy en 1938 nace Margarita Salas, la científica española más reconocida del s. XX. Inició el desarrollo de la biología molecular en España. “De joven era discriminada por ser mujer; hoy por ser mayor. Lo importante es no tener arrugas en el cerebro” #womeninstem
🖌 @imaestroart.bsky.social
🖌 @imaestroart.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1938 nace Margarita Salas, la científica española más reconocida del s. XX. Inició el desarrollo de la biología molecular en España. “De joven era discriminada por ser mujer; hoy por ser mayor. Lo importante es no tener arrugas en el cerebro” #womeninstem
🖌 @imaestroart.bsky.social
🖌 @imaestroart.bsky.social
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Nature research paper: Thalamocortical transcriptional gates coordinate memory stabilization
go.nature.com/48CjZy8
go.nature.com/48CjZy8
Thalamocortical transcriptional gates coordinate memory stabilization - Nature
The sequential recruitment of a thalamocortical transcriptional cascade enables memory maintenance over long timescales.
go.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Nature research paper: Thalamocortical transcriptional gates coordinate memory stabilization
go.nature.com/48CjZy8
go.nature.com/48CjZy8
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Un grupo de investigadores secuencia por completo el genoma de 100 células de una persona de 74 años y se encuentra un batiburrillo genómico: falta un fragmento entero de cromosoma aquí, hay un brazo nuevo de otro cromosoma allá, ha desparecido el cromosoma Y totalmente...
Somos un mosaico celular.
Somos un mosaico celular.
“There were some cells in there that were very messed up”
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/44yj4MN
In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man
go.nature.com/44yj4MN
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
go.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Un grupo de investigadores secuencia por completo el genoma de 100 células de una persona de 74 años y se encuentra un batiburrillo genómico: falta un fragmento entero de cromosoma aquí, hay un brazo nuevo de otro cromosoma allá, ha desparecido el cromosoma Y totalmente...
Somos un mosaico celular.
Somos un mosaico celular.
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Los niños y niñas de #Gaza siguen buscando apoyo en medio del horror. Desde octubre de 2023, nuestros equipos han impartido más de 330.000 sesiones de apoyo psicosocial.
Los niños tienen que poder ser niños. www.ayudagaza.com
Los niños tienen que poder ser niños. www.ayudagaza.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Los niños y niñas de #Gaza siguen buscando apoyo en medio del horror. Desde octubre de 2023, nuestros equipos han impartido más de 330.000 sesiones de apoyo psicosocial.
Los niños tienen que poder ser niños. www.ayudagaza.com
Los niños tienen que poder ser niños. www.ayudagaza.com
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
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A huge congrats to Dr Jai Lake! Jai just gave his exit seminar at Macquarie on why lizards are social. To be slightly more precise, his PhD was about the mechanisms underlying sociality. Papers are submitted and in prep! Watch this space. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While at Univ. Tasmania.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A huge congrats to Dr Jai Lake! Jai just gave his exit seminar at Macquarie on why lizards are social. To be slightly more precise, his PhD was about the mechanisms underlying sociality. Papers are submitted and in prep! Watch this space. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While at Univ. Tasmania.
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Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres
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No es solo su problema, es el nuestro 🟣 Campaña 25N Emakunde
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November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres
@emakundejgv.bsky.social
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What an honorable title! @okstate.edu is hiring a Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied Animal Behavior & Well-Being. 75% research 25% teaching.
#job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...
#job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...
Temple Grandin Endowed Professor (Assistant/Associate) in Applied Animal Behavior and Well-Being - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied AnimalBehavior and Well-Being Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural ResourcesOklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma
The Department of Anim...
jobs.okstate.edu
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What an honorable title! @okstate.edu is hiring a Temple Grandin Endowed Professor in Applied Animal Behavior & Well-Being. 75% research 25% teaching.
#job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...
#job #phd #animalwelfare #agriculture #farmanimalwelfare
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/temple-...
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En #Gaza, 2 niños mueren cada día y 4.000 necesitan evacuación médica urgente. El sistema de salud está devastado y los ataques continúan. Cada segundo cuenta.
Ayuda a salvar vidas ahora: www.ayudagaza.com
Ayuda a salvar vidas ahora: www.ayudagaza.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
En #Gaza, 2 niños mueren cada día y 4.000 necesitan evacuación médica urgente. El sistema de salud está devastado y los ataques continúan. Cada segundo cuenta.
Ayuda a salvar vidas ahora: www.ayudagaza.com
Ayuda a salvar vidas ahora: www.ayudagaza.com
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2025. Gelada baboons fake fertility to protect their young from infanticide when new males take over phys.org/news/2025-11...
Gelada baboons fake fertility to protect their young from infanticide when new males take over
In nature, it is not usual for animals to be deceptive, as evolution has typically favored communication that benefits both the sender and receiver by conveying reliable information. But, there are ex...
phys.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
2025. Gelada baboons fake fertility to protect their young from infanticide when new males take over phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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If you are unable to download the full version of our newly published language evolution article in Science, there is a link for direct free access on the Max Planck Institute website here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you are unable to download the full version of our newly published language evolution article in Science, there is a link for direct free access on the Max Planck Institute website here:
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1/14 Evidence of visual awareness in insects
Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
1/14 Evidence of visual awareness in insects
Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience.
(paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...