The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Oh to be a city gardener blowing into the pink cherry blossoms

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms Memory and learning are cognitive abilities typically associated with animals that possess a complex nervous system. Interestingly, recent studies suggest that microorganisms might also display learni...

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms: Trends in Microbiology www.cell.com/trends/micro...

An engraven stone image of a head of some saint with a white headed pigeon perching on it

You: Trying to get a photo of Mozart’s house.

Me: Trying to get a photo of the pigeon on top of Mozart’s house.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

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A row of crows on the wall of a flower bed at the lake. There is calm blue water and the pretty colourful poppies and other flowery delights in the flowerbed

Pretty crows all in a row
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Three panel comic. Panel 1: at a house party, a guy is standing next to his buddy, a human-size horseshoe crab. They’re both holding red solo cups. The guy is looking to the other side of the room and excitedly says to the crab, “hey, there’s another horseshoe crab here!” The crab replies, “ugh.” Panel 2: the guy says, “what’s wrong?” The crab says, “he’s one of those guys who flaunts it too much.” Panel 3: we see the other horseshoe crab in question, engaged in conversation with a group of smiling people standing around him. This second horseshoe crab is wearing a cap with a horseshoe on it, and a novelty t-shirt that reads: I SURVIVED 5 MASS EXTINCTIONS. IS IT FRIDAY YET?

Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work? Ars speaks with linguistics professor Dr. Betty Birner about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.

Reading Project Hail Mary and this was my biggest question, good to see it analysed: arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

my problem is that i legitimately think this is what it would be like to interact with wild predators

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We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

The effect of the hidden philosophical positions on branches of ecology is to squeeze out discussion of other animals as individuals with personalities, preferences, interests, desires, etc. It's not deliberate, it's just that disciplinary norms make it unacceptable or inconceivable.

I've lost count of the number of times I've reminded students that science is value-laden: what scientists chose to study & how they study it is influenced by a whole series of other commitments.

Today’s moment of calm is this recent commission for a collector in America. If you commissioned me to paint your personal Icon which creatures would you choose?

The paper's framing: Human violent conflict has been explained by different theories in different places and times, including cultural identities. Chimps have violence but don't have cultural identity, so maybe cultural identity isn't so important to human conflict!

Illogical Darwinist slop.

Every PI

Most of the replies I end up blocking on this site sound like this:

Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”

Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!

Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.

Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)

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Two panel comic. Panel 1: a woman who works at a nail salon is filing a giant terrible hooked claw. She says, “you need to take better care of your nails.” Panel 2: the customer, a deinonychus with a neck pillow and a laptop replies curtly, “I told you, it just looks like that.”

how it feels to get feedback

Hatchling cuvier's dwarf caimans are adorable little beasts. Photo by Tara Rain.

Photograph featuring a black horse facing forwards on stoney ground.with an erupting volcano in the background.

Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt

Looking for a postdoc? Letter of Intent deadline for the Human Frontiers postdoc fellowship is in early May!

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My husband had one of these and they were a great funder to work with.

Get in touch if you think I/my lab might be a good fit for your research ideas!

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

I have a doctorate in philosophy, I can't save your life but I can tell you you are going to die

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual) - Biology & Philosophy The Gaia hypothesis has been roundly criticized by a number of evolutionary biologists, who maintain that no plausible evolutionary account is compatible with the idea that the Earth is an organism. T...

Letitia Meynell and I have a new paper out! We revisit the Gaia hypothesis and try to defend the idea and reality of Gaia from some of the main criticisms that led to its dismissal. Thread 1/9 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

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