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@royalsociety.org MUST strip Musk of his fellowship to retain credibility. He has brought the society into disrepute in the gravest manner. Calling on all FRSs, please act swiftly
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@royalsociety.org MUST strip Musk of his fellowship to retain credibility. He has brought the society into disrepute in the gravest manner. Calling on all FRSs, please act swiftly
New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology
Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A new study co-authored by @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social gives new insight into how human hands & minds evolved together. The research is published in Communications Biology & was led by Dr Joanna Baker of @uniofreading.bsky.social. Read more:👉 bit.ly/4myXT4c
#DUresearch #DUinspire
#DUresearch #DUinspire
Primate thumbs and brains evolved together, new study finds - Durham University
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August 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A new study co-authored by @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social gives new insight into how human hands & minds evolved together. The research is published in Communications Biology & was led by Dr Joanna Baker of @uniofreading.bsky.social. Read more:👉 bit.ly/4myXT4c
#DUresearch #DUinspire
#DUresearch #DUinspire
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Delighted to see this work out in PNAS. The idea that got me into butterflies, started on it in 2011 but took the intellectual energy of @benitoexplains.bsky.social, and the support of a great team, to develop it and put it all together.
Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻
Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻
So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Delighted to see this work out in PNAS. The idea that got me into butterflies, started on it in 2011 but took the intellectual energy of @benitoexplains.bsky.social, and the support of a great team, to develop it and put it all together.
Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻
Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻
Humans may not have a uniquely specialised memory for sequences - it may be more to do with how tasks are culturally scaffolded and what they “mean” to participants. New paper
New comparative paper on sequence cognition led by the wonderful @missdaffodil.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees | Royal Society Open Science
Humans have been suggested to possess uniquely enhanced memory for sequences, based on sequence discrimination learning (SDL) tasks involving arbitrarily ordered sequences with no functional connection to outcomes. Such tasks underestimate animals’ SDL as ...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Humans may not have a uniquely specialised memory for sequences - it may be more to do with how tasks are culturally scaffolded and what they “mean” to participants. New paper
Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional development of the human cerebellum from birth to age five - Nature Communications
Using over 1,000 early childhood fMRI scans, the authors mapped cerebellocortical connectivity, revealing early integration with higher-order networks and age-related refinement, gradients, asymmetry,...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Interesting new @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social study, bearing on the interpretation of GWAS results:
“Common and rare genetic variants show network convergence for a majority of human traits” 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Common and rare genetic variants show network convergence for a majority of human traits
While both common and rare variants contribute to the genetic etiology of complex traits, whether their impacts manifest through the same effector genes and molecular mechanisms is not well understood...
www.medrxiv.org
June 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Interesting new @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social study, bearing on the interpretation of GWAS results:
“Common and rare genetic variants show network convergence for a majority of human traits” 🧪🧬
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
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June 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence - Louise Barrett and me on comparative psychology eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
June 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence - Louise Barrett and me on comparative psychology eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Trump on embodied cognition (via ChatGPT)
June 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Trump on embodied cognition (via ChatGPT)
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Quite happy to see the website we made for #Darwin’s 200th birthday is alive and well once more, and more extensive than i remembered! darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk
Home | Darwin
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June 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Quite happy to see the website we made for #Darwin’s 200th birthday is alive and well once more, and more extensive than i remembered! darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk
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One week left to apply!
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
June 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One week left to apply!
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Interesting Science Advances
study probing the genetics of
human brain geometry (beyond volume), using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social 🧪🧠🧬
study probing the genetics of
human brain geometry (beyond volume), using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social 🧪🧠🧬
Beyond volume: Unraveling the genetics of human brain geometry
Multivariate association study reveals a genetic basis of brain shape beyond volume and relations to neurodegenerative diseases.
www.science.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Interesting Science Advances
study probing the genetics of
human brain geometry (beyond volume), using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social 🧪🧠🧬
study probing the genetics of
human brain geometry (beyond volume), using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social 🧪🧠🧬
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Thrilled for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social & Susan Healy around how do we better connect brain structure, function & behaviours? Next Wednesday, May 28, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐒🦜Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/linking-br...
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thrilled for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing @howbrainsevolve.bsky.social & Susan Healy around how do we better connect brain structure, function & behaviours? Next Wednesday, May 28, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐒🦜Join us www.crowdcast.io/c/linking-br...
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
“males invest more on locomotor control, flight stability and sky-compass navigation which may have evolved in response to sex-specific behaviours, like courtship display…females have larger mushroom bodies that strongly and positively covary with the optic lobes…”
Lovely work!
Lovely work!
Micro-CT has revealed that orchid bee sexes invest differently in their brain regions 🧠. These differential investments correlate with behavioral differences in the sexes and imply a causal link between brain architecture and sex-specific behavior!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sexual dimorphism and morphological integration in the orchid bee brain - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Sexual dimorphism and morphological integration in the orchid bee brain
www.nature.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“males invest more on locomotor control, flight stability and sky-compass navigation which may have evolved in response to sex-specific behaviours, like courtship display…females have larger mushroom bodies that strongly and positively covary with the optic lobes…”
Lovely work!
Lovely work!
I made this slide during his first presidency. It illustrates how not to make evolutionary inferences from comparative data (dashed red line, although that could also be stock markets). Today more than ever it seems like an insult to chimpanzees
April 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I made this slide during his first presidency. It illustrates how not to make evolutionary inferences from comparative data (dashed red line, although that could also be stock markets). Today more than ever it seems like an insult to chimpanzees
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This year marks 360 years since the first edition
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
March 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This year marks 360 years since the first edition
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
of #PhilosophicalTransactions, launching the world’s longest-running scientific journal. Join us as we take a 360° view of publishing, exploring its history, reflecting on its present impact, and imagining its future. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...