Academic version: Man Finally Understands Enough About Subject To Realise How Ignorant He Is

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

Why does music exist, and why does it move us so deeply? Beyond being a universal source of emotion, music reveals something fundamental about how the brain works: we are constantly predicting. Check this @nature.com review www.nature.com/articles/s41... @manlius.bsky.social @gemmadlc.bsky.social

Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

At its peak, Twitter was a perpeteum mobile gyroing between chaotic good, chaotic neutral, and chaotic evil. It was a self-emergent commentary on the human condition in its most unfiltered form

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

wapo.st/4euUt1c

Analyzing multisensory integration: dos and donts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Mapping brains never gets old, especially when the territory is new 🐦🧠🗺️.

Loved being drawn into this collaboration by @neuroweiler.bsky.social and learning about birds and their magnetic senses.

Stay tuned for more new atlases coming to @brainglobe.info

More medieval jazz hands....

Here's my hot take for a better method of scientific publishing.

Before you report anything, the raw data must be uploaded online. What you publish is actually code embedded in the Results section, which calls an analysis of the raw data and returns the result. No more incorrect stats!

But wait...

Excited to share our latest in @currentbiology.bsky.social (they who publish the coolest papers!)

Memories are encoded by sparse neuronal ensembles (engrams). But most evidence comes from "simple" associative learning tasks. What about more integrative memories like spatial navigation?

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

yeah i bet a car would have won too

These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9

what is the charge. what crime has been done

Task demands shift motor learning from adaptation to feedback control in a naturalistic bimanual task
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“The cucumber is just water masquerading as a reproductive strategy.” 🤔

A bright red moth with four white spots and white antennae

Last night was an excellent moth night. Look at this!!

Genus Hyperthaema. 🌱

#moth #insect #macrophotography

I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) YouTube video by Mattias Krantz

What a nice story about this learning process and this beautiful yet unconventional human-octupus interaction!

youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

I didn’t expect a short video about an octopus to stay with me this long.

At first, it looks like a simple, almost playful interaction. But the more you watch, the more something deeper emerges: a learning process unfolding between two completely different forms of intelligence.

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literally just replace evaluation with a lottery system the results will be the same

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants.

“And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Transfer to a naturalistic setting restructures fear responses in laboratory mice Zipple et al. show that transferring laboratory mice to naturalistic outdoor enclosures prevents and even reverses a canonical anxiety phenotype in rodents. The findings underscore the value of studyi...

"Although animals in natural environments accumulate a wide range of experiences that allow them to calibrate threat assessment, most behavioral studies of anxiety rely on laboratory animals housed in static, impoverished conditions."
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www.cell.com/current-biol...

Purple ruffled edge of an iris flower covered in dewdrops against a green background.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge #EastCoastKin

academia trying to regulate the use of ai

Thousands of Vancouver perverts delight in taking pictures of tree genitalia VANCOUVER - Thousands of perverts, creeps, and peeping toms have taken countless photos from different angles of tree genitalia and shared them on social media.

Thousands of Vancouver perverts delight in taking pictures of tree genitalia

*slow golf clap* 😂😂😂

The date of when cherry blossoms in Kyoto bloom has been tracked for 1200 years. Certainly one of the most beautiful data points confirming global warming.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/c...

📢 Join us for the next UniReps x @ellis.eu speaker series even happening on 29th April at 4:00 PM CET with João Sacramento and Paul Friedrich!👾