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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to see this paper led by Mica Santos in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B! w/ @dpvazquez.bsky.social The study examines extinction debts of species & their interactions (plant–herbivore, herbivore–parasitoid) in a fragmented landscape in Mendoza 🇦🇷 🧪🌎
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Extinction debt of species and ecological interactions in a fragmented landscape | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Addressing the worldwide biodiversity crisis in fragmented landscapes requires considering both immediate and delayed extinctions—the extinction debt. This debt arises from the gradual loss of species...

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A functional framework for a comprehensive study of welfare in fishes #ProcB #OpenAccess #Neuroscience royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 18h

Congratulations to Professor Susumu Kitagawa FRS and Professor Richard Robson FRS, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025. Take a look at Prof Susumu Kitagawa's 2015 #RSOS article 'Coordination nano-space as stage of hydrogen ortho–para conversion': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Mandy Ridley @mandyridley.bsky.social · 2d

Our new paper is out! @camillasoravia.bsky.social leads this research, which looks into the relationship between heat- mediated cognitive impairment and the antipredator response in wild pied babblers. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Investigating the relationship between heat-mediated cognitive impairment and antipredator response in a wild bird | Royal Society Open Science

Increasingly frequent heatwaves require animals to spend more time thermoregulating at the expense of other fitness-related behaviours. Emerging evidence also indicates that high temperatures can impa...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

#BiologyLetters Starting a new exercise regimen can help weight loss initially, but weight loss often quickly plateaus even when food intake doesn't increase. How can we explain this? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #healthanddiseaseandepidemiology

Why did Bob stop losing weight? We need to talk about energy expenditure compensation | Biology Letters

Repeatedly, intervention studies report that participants undertaking a new exercise regimen lose weight initially, but then their weight loss quickly plateaus. A careful look at the literature shows…

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds #ProcB #OpenAccess #Physiology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
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#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications

tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively studied in eukaryotes, a...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 2d

From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
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Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Social and spatial drivers of the multitiered structure of zebra finch social networks #ProcB @damienfarine.bsky.social #Behaviour #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 2d

Very pleased to see our study that formally quantifies the society of zebra finches. They have different types of relationships, and these form tiers, but they do not form a multilevel society.

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This was a very nice collaboration with great colleagues.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Join Professor Iryna Gurevych for the Milner Prize Lecture on 17 November. She will demonstrate how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be applied to protect people and machines from misinformation: royalsociety.org/science-even... @igurevych.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Great expectations: altricial developmental strategies are associated with more flexible evolution of limb skeleton proportions in birds #ProcB #OpenAccess #Developmental Biology #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 3d

This new #InterfaceFocus issue presents a selection of papers on emerging topics within an exciting new interdisciplinary domain combining #InfectiousDisease modelling and public health #ethics: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/202... @joelcmiller.bsky.social

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Manish Kushwaha @manishmicrobe.bsky.social · 8d

Pleased to share that our review on 'Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems' is now out in the Phil Trans B special issue on ‘Origins of life: the possible and the actual’. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The current form of life on Earth is the outcome of a series of biochemical events that led to the formation of early life with a specific molecular composition encoding its many functions. However, other trajectories of events with widely different ...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 3d

#BiologyLetters in @newscientist.com | Hidden in plain sound: the scientific potential of house mouse squeaks: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

What might the humble house mouse be trying to tell us?

Feedback is amazed to find that the audible vocalisations of the house mouse is all but unstudied in favour of the ultrasonic sounds humans can’t hear. SQUEAK!

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 3d

Social ties drive post-fission group choice in blue #monkeys #ProcB #Behaviour #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 3d

New #Review article from #OpenBiology: Bone marrow endosteum in homeostasis and metastasis buff.ly/8KICZoe | #CellularBiology #DevelopmentalBiology

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Oliver Jensen @oeskildjensen.bsky.social · 16d

Our exploration of heat transfer in the umbilical cord is now online at doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

A functional shunt in the umbilical cord: the role of coiling in solute and heat transfer | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

The umbilical cord plays a critical role in delivering nutrients and oxygen from the placenta to the fetus through the umbilical vein, while the two umbilical arteries carry deoxygenated blood with wa...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

#RSOS in @thetimes.com | Meta-learning provides a robust framework to discern taxonomic carnivore agency from the analysis of tooth marks on bone: reassessing the role of felids as predators of Homo habilis: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Leopards delayed humans’ rise to top of the food chain

Tooth marks on ancient bones challenge previous assumptions about early human dominance, a study has found

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KunihikoKaneko @kunikaneko.bsky.social · 7d

Our review on “central dogma” is just out: Nobuto Takeuchi and Kunihiko Kaneko, “Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 380: 20240296.
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Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The central dogma of molecular biology, as originally proposed by Crick, asserts that information passed into protein cannot flow back out. This principle has been interpreted as underpinning modern u...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

Are you an #oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine #biodiversity and climate change? Join our upcoming scientific meeting at the Royal Society in London: royalsociety.org/science-even... @drplanktonpoo.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

Selective breeding enhances #coral heat tolerance even over small spatial scales #OpenAccess #Conservation #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

Royal Society #OpenBiology is pleased to announce the return of our Open Questions Competition, celebrating innovation in cell and #MolecularBiology through our unique Open Questions article type. Submit your article by 6 January 2026 for the chance to win £1000 buff.ly/ixdbRDz | #CellBiology

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Tom Dudgeon @tom-dudgeon.bsky.social · 9d

I’m thrilled to present the latest work from my PhD!

David Evans and I evaluated feeding mechanics in two hadrosaurids from the Dinosaur Park Fm, and the differences were quite exciting. A thread [1/11]
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Disparate feeding mechanics between two hadrosaurid dinosaurs support the potential for resource partitioning | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Dinosaur Park Formation (DPF) of western Canada is well known for its diverse fossil assemblage, preserving over a dozen species of large-bodied herbivorous dinosaurs. The high density of large herbivores has raised questions of how these animals were ...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

#BiologyLetters New recommendations to accelerate the scientific description of cryptic species could enhance their consideration in ecological assessments and conservation/protection programs. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ecology #environmentalscience #taxonomyandsystematics

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