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Elisabetta Versace
@elisabettaversace.bsky.social
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into the rabbit holes of cognition, physics, perception, evolution, animal behaviour, research culture, solaristics, "war and peace". Freedom and peace. Head of @preparedmindslab.bsky.social - https://www.youtube.com/@preparedmindslab9276
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Un articolo in italiano sui nostri bombi che discriminano tra durate temporali brevi e lunghe! www.fanpage.it/kodami/autho... di @salvonferre.bsky.social
Articolo: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... , Video e spiegazione youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?...
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Here: a bee trained to discriminate between long and short duration by @alexdqm.bsky.social @ishaninanda.bsky.social #AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee
Bombus terrestris" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
@royalsocietypublishing.org
cc @larschittka.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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2/n This 🐝 work has been a great collaboration between
@alexdqm.bsky.social ,
@ishaninanda.bsky.social
# AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social

see below for a videoclip of the bees

@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871

youtu.be/_L9G02Ug0W8?...
October 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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#Tosca 💔 🩵🩵🩵
October 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This is #TowerHamlets
September 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!

"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?

🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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#ICDL2025
Don't miss Zhengqi Chen @zhengqichen.bsky.social on 16 Sept at 11:45 "Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study"
@ieee-icdl.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Avian models for brain mechanisms underlying altered social behavior in autism www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Sunset in Canary Wharf: light copper reflexes on the river Thames, while we face the skyline of the city (west-south-west) and a purple cloud is pierced and stretched by the light. upper clouds magnify the light of a hidden sun
August 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#Proms2025 #Aurora orchestra by 💙
August 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Here we go @evoneuro.bsky.social , “Bird Brains and Behavior” has safely arrived in London, currently being my #goodnightstory
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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What is this damselfly doing exactly? Wait a few seconds…
August 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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One lovely friend among many met during Lunch break at #queenMaryUniversity #mileEnd campus today: Sympetrum striolatum? @queenmarycbb.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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www.uffizi.it/opere/battag...
August 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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missing our #tortoise 🐢 studies?
our new preprint here:
"Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult tortoises
(Testudo hermanni)"
with @silviadamini.bsky.social , me and #gionataStancher at #SperimentArea
#reptile #social #testudo
July 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM