Elisabetta Versace
@elisabettaversace.bsky.social
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
some time ago it was "synergy", "hierarchy", "computational", then it had to be "Bayesian", "eigenvalue", "breakthrough", now everything is a "framework" and includes "manifolds" (and I am not even talking about "AI" and "generative") 😅 The classics instead...
A specialized population of hair afferents dedicated to transmitting mechanical itch www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
A specialized population of hair afferents dedicated to transmitting mechanical itch
Fatima et al. identify a specialized sensory pathway in mice in which Piezo2-expressing TLR5Calb1 Aβ-LTMRs innervate vellus-like hairs to drive both acute and chronic mechanical itch, revealing a dedi...
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sinceramente: mi chiedo come una persona che ha ucciso 2 persone in fuga e ne ha ferita una terza possa, se ha davvero compreso la gravità di ciò che ha fatto, avere l'arroganza di giudicare gli altri e la sfacciataggine di lamentarsi per una condanna a 14 anni di carcere... non pare abbia capito
Interessante: Mondiali di calcio e diaspora: oltre l’ossessione per la differenza gliasinirivista.org/mondiali-di-...
Mondiali di calcio e diaspora: oltre l’ossessione per la differenza - Gli Asini - Rivista
In queste settimane, seguendo il Campionato Mondiale di calcio, mi sono accorto che passavo quasi più tempo a leggere i giornali, i commenti sui social e le polemiche che a guardare le partite. Non ce...
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Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Together, these findings identify some of the most basic cellular building blocks by which linguistic information is encoded in humans
Interesting: "Demystifying unsupervised learning: how it helps and hurts" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our brilliant @jieyinghuang.bsky.social presenting #PositiveBalance at the #DMHW26 in Glasgow (UK) "Positive Balance 2.0: development and evaluation of a psychoeducational digital tool for supporting youth well-being " Congrats on your first oral presentation 👍🥰📲🎈
Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740
Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...
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Exciting transoceanic collab! Zebra finches calls can affect babies’ brain within the egg, altering embryonic gene expression in the blood-brain barrier! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Led by @subbaprakrit.bsky.social and #JuliaGeorge cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social
Zebra finch parents change the brains of chicks inside eggs just by singing to them! Adult zebra finches sing heat songs when temperatures are high & the sound changes blood vessels in the hypothalamus, potentially protecting the chicks from heat stroke doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
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Stunning photographs encompass different ways in which science is used to decipher our complex & beautiful world. #ScientistAtWork images in @nature.com. 📷🧪
Five winning images of scientists at work
From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.
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The novel by Ilona Jerger “Lorenz” has been translated into Italian as “Konrad”
Approaching the Aragonese castle in Ischia from South
Four white carved dogs guard La Colombaia (home of Luchino Visconti), illuminated by the sunshine, framed by white umbrellas, in a historical picture at La Colombaia
Professor Lars Chittka FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His work has transformed our understanding of animal intelligence by demonstrating that bees, despite their tiny brains, exhibit advanced cognitive abilities such as counting, attention and others. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/49xJuRy
The tortoises are back! 🐢 New study in collaboration with @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher now available: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni) - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Social cohesion varies across species. Solitary animals minimise social contact to reduce costs such as resource competition, aggression, and disease transmission. Solitary Testudo hatchlings can rely...
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@antorrisi.bsky.social Gives a fascinating introduction to her work in this video. @emmanouilb.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @c4dm.bsky.social #vocal-communication #chicks
Our new work on the vulnerable tortoises species Testudo hermanni “Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni) is now available link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration with @silviadamini.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher 🐢🩵
@zhengqichen.bsky.social Introduces his research in this video. Read the full study here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc... @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social #tactile-perception #robotics
that feeling of receiving a(nother) gen-AI written e-mail where the sender didn't bother making even a basic "re-humanise" effort ...
