Jonas Kransberg
jokran.bsky.social
Jonas Kransberg
@jokran.bsky.social
Phd Student in cognitive neuroscience at LCBC. Interested in navigation, grid cells, plasticity and vacuum cleaners
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“Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.”

🐋🌱 #evobio 🧪
Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone - Nature
Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt...
www.nature.com
March 7, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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obviously it was pea-hacking
No-one has ever been able to replicate Gregor Mendel's observations of pea plants. They're a little "too perfect", lacking even random statistical noise that would have been expected from small sample sizes.

The big question: was it scientific fraud?

(Art: Harald Ritsch)
March 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Reposted by Jonas Kransberg
Everyone’s focusing on Midjourney created figure 1, but the real quality is in figure 2 of this frontiers paper www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
February 15, 2024 at 4:15 PM