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The #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is back for 2026! You must be an #ECR to enter and submit your paper by 31 March 2026 for the chance to win £1000. Two runners-up will also receive £500 each. Find out more: ow.ly/aCgx50UCo2H #EarlyCareerResearchers
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New Paper Alert!

1982: WNT discovered
1990s: NOTCH enters the stage
2000s: “Let’s study pathways separately.”
2025: “Actually, they talk to each other.”

Welcome to the era of WNT-NOTCH crosstalk

Great collaboration with Mašek lab (CZ) and G. Collu (US)

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Decoding ‘Wntch’: the intertwined Wnt and Notch pathways in development and disease
Abstract. Multicellularity emerges from the ability of cells to undergo functional differentiation. One of the key mechanisms that enables this coordinatio
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January 21, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Decoding 'Wntch': the intertwined Wnt and Notch pathways in development and disease royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article... | #OpenBiology #CellularBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #MolecularBiology
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Nominations are open for Royal Society medals and awards, celebrating excellence in the biological, physical and applied sciences. Nominations close on 20 February 2026: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
January 22, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Collective disruption: consequences of #parasitism for collective animal behaviour #ProcB #Review #Epidemiology #OpenAccesshttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2063/20251746/479657/Collective-disruption-consequences-of-parasitism
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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New research from #BiologyLetters: Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #AnimalBehaviour #DevelopmentalBiology
January 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Royal Society #OpenBiology invites cell and molecular biology researchers based in the #GlobalSouth and from Indigenous communities to submit a proposal for a paper to be published in a new Special Feature: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/pages/s... #CellBiology #MolecularBiology
January 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Crossed the 100-paper mark as an editor for #BiologyLetters (@royalsocietypublishing.org). Still impressed by the quality and range of science the journal publishes. 🦎
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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New from #RSOS: The extended life cycle: a multilevel–multiscale modelling framework for extended evolutionary dynamics. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Paper out today on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Alerting and orienting attention in anti-predator vigilance: neurocognitive modelling and behavioural evidence"
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🧪🌎🪶 #corvids #OpenAccess
Simulation examples. Scenarios A–D above correspond to agent behaviour sequences in rows A–D below. The sequences indicate 12 time steps, one per box, which proceed horizontally (i.e. the leftmost box is t1, the rightmost box is t12). In the lower rows, beak direction is depicted with a triangle such that head rotations are visible (e.g. in row B, there is a head rotation each time step). The circular area connected to the triangle represents a top view of the scrub-jay head (filled circle with unfilled sectors). Circles with two unfilled sectors show the default foveal position bilaterally, and circles with four unfilled sectors show further foveation during a fixed head position. Unfilled row squares indicate that the scrub-jay has high uncertainty about whether a hawk is present due to lack of sensory evidence (no hawk shape is visible and no hawk call is audible). Filled row squares that progress from dark (orange) to light (yellow) represent the strength of the belief that a hawk is present, beginning with low uncertainty during three time steps when the hawk shape is visible and an increasing belief that the hawk is no longer present once the shape is no longer visible. Upper half: the filled circle indicates the scrub-jay’s proximal surroundings. In the top left (A), a single hawk suggests low background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every two time steps (row A). (Dotted lines indicate possible but not actual approaches.) Three hawks are shown in B, indicating high background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every time step (row B). Rectangular cover in C presents a skewed distribution of possible hawk approaches. This leads to a head rotation pattern that proportionately increases the time monitoring exposed areas (row C). In the upper right (D), two actual hawk approaches are shown (solid lines extended by dotted lines). The dark orange solid segment corresponds to the dark orange boxes in row D, when the hawk shape is visible.
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal #behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants #ProcB #OpenAccess #BiologicalSciencePractices #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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New from #RSOS: Mineralogy and organic content are major predictors of shell loss in bivalves under reduced salinity, ocean freshening conditions: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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⚠️I saw an ancient ant⚠️
@hanrisk.bsky.social's epic field and lab survival study of ants! We found worker lifespans varied 23-394 days and were predicted by body size but not phylogeny🐜
Congrats Hannah on the 1st PhD chapter out!
See more @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProcB:
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January 17, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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Join this @roysocmed.bsky.social event exploring how medicine has been represented in history. Leading experts Richard Ormond CBE and Stephanie Snow discuss two contrasting approaches, drawing on outstanding recent publications. www.rsm.ac.uk/events/histo...
Representing medicine in the past
Join leading experts in exploring two examples of different ways of representing medicine in history, based on outstanding recent publications
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January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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🚨 New Publication:
We show how web-based, environmental & climatic data + historical cases improve early warning of avian influenza in Canada using deep learning. GRU models were most accurate; Facebook activity & temperature also key.
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Integrating deep-learning methods and web-based data sources for surveillance, forecasting and early warning of avian influenza
Abstract. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), especially the H5N1 subtype has caused repeated global outbreaks, primarily affecting birds, but occasi
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January 18, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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#PhilTransB in @newscientist.com | Animal culture: conservation in a changing world: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Why non-human culture should change how we see nature
Our growing understanding of how other animals also share skills and knowledge will help us chip away at the folly of human exceptionalism, say Philippa Brakes and Marc Bekoff
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January 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Nominations are open for Royal Society medals and awards, celebrating excellence in the biological, physical and applied sciences. Nominations close on 20 February 2026: royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Common #birds have higher abundances in croplands with lower #pesticide purchases #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️

Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌

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January 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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New #RSOS research with 738 students of 13 and 15 years old shows that the way students organize information in working memory influences their #mathematical performance. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
January 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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The latest issue of #PhilTransA describes the current state of temperature metrology and several important ways in which reliable temperature measurement is likely to change in the next decades. Read the full issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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In this #Review, researchers describe ways to recognise cellular identity changes induced by #radiation and highlight key knowledge gaps that may help guide future research. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article... | #OpenBiology #CellBiology
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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New #RSOS paper: Desert #lizards modulate nutritional responses to match seasonal biological needs. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Life-history and ecological variables as drivers of the evolution of avian innate immune defences #ProcB #OpenAccess #Immunology #Physiology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
January 19, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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New research from #BiologyLetters: The value of satellite tracking across multiple year cohorts to identify key areas for #conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #Ecology #MarineTurtle
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Our new paper is officially out in Proceedings B! 🐜

It’s the first chapter from my PhD thesis, where we combined field mark-recapture with lab survival assays.
Huge thank you and congrats to my co-authors, Kirk Stodola, Lily Leahy, Ian J. Wright, and Heloise Gibb.

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January 14, 2026 at 4:54 AM