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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 3d

#Tosca 💔 🩵🩵🩵

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 5d

www.quantamagazine.org/how-one-ai-m...

How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment | Quanta Magazine

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to @rosiedavis.bsky.social & the Positive Balance project team, chosen from 100+ applicants for the Linda & William Hamilton Dance Wellness Symposium! Rosie will receive a travel grant to attend the 35th #IADMS Annual Conference in Las Vegas next week #DancerWellbeing #PositivePsychology

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 12d

Farm animal welfare: Beyond “natural” behavior www.science.org/stoken/autho...

Farm animal welfare: Beyond “natural” behavior

An animal-centered view guided by what animals value could improve welfare on farms

www.science.org

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 17d

This is #TowerHamlets

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 19d

yes, we have new crispy evidence of crossmodal matching in tortoises just off the press!

"Crossmodal Pitch−Luminance Association in Tortoises"
How do you like our visual abstract?

🎶🎵🐢 🎶⬜ 🐢 🎶 ⬛
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 22d

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity www.sciencenews.org/article/adhd...

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity

ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is now catching up.

www.sciencenews.org

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 22d

Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 23d

#ICDL2025
Don't miss Zhengqi Chen @zhengqichen.bsky.social on 16 Sept at 11:45 "Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study"
@ieee-icdl.bsky.social

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 25d

apologies if Philip Glass Metamorphosis is escapism, while the fragile Earth and the fragile humanity and fragile nature seem to collapse, under human ferocious strikes youtu.be/M73x3O7dhmg?... (or is this air to breathe, think and reorganise ideas, identity, plans?)

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 25d

a critical review on Masturbation in the Animal Kingdom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 26d

High open access fees
Induced editors to resign and start a new journal direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Imaging Neuroscience opening editorial

Abstract. In this editorial we introduce a new non-profit open access journal, Imaging Neuroscience. In April 2023, editors of the journals NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports resigned, and a month late...

direct.mit.edu

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 28d

www.nature.com/articles/d41... cc @wyeates.bsky.social

Dozens of heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

www.nature.com

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 28d

So we can link individual “energy” producers to specific heatwaves…

Nature @nature.com · 28d

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

go.nature.com/3Iemuwm

Dozens of heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

go.nature.com

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 29d

Join us at #Ento25 for the Women in Entomology Career Showcase morning, an opportunity to inspire and provide an informal opportunity to network with other entomologists.

All genders are welcome 🐞

Read more about women in entomology 🔽

19th Century Women of the Royal Entomological Society - Royal Entomological Society

The Earliest Female Members Unusually for a learned society in the early 19th century, women have been eligible for membership of the Society since its founding in 1833, and the first woman Member…

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 29d

what a concert: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/0... Camerata Bern, violino e direzione, Antje Weithaas, Einojuhani Rautavaara Pelimannit Op. 1 (I violinisti Op. 1), Peteris Vasks Concerto per violino e orchestra n.2 'In Evening Light'. Regostrazione Euroradio 9/feb/2024. Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel.

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Sep 7

somehow I had missed "AlphaGeometry": Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations www.nature.com/articles/s41... . Ok it can solve, well done... but it doesn't seem an efficient strategy to me... does it?

Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations - Nature

A new neuro-symbolic theorem prover for Euclidean plane geometry trained from scratch on millions of synthesized theorems and proofs outperforms the previous best method and reaches the performance of...

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José A. Alonso @jalonso.bsky.social · Jan 10

Neuro-Symbolic AI in 2024: A systematic review. ~ Brandon C. Colelough, William Regli. arxiv.org/abs/2501.05435 #AI #NeuroSymbolicAI

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Sep 6

Avian models for brain mechanisms underlying altered social behavior in autism www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy...

Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Sep 6

www.editorialedomani.it/fatti/mattar...

Mattarella: «Il mondo ha bisogno dell’Europa, area di pace e di cooperazione»

Il presidente della Repubblica è intervenuto con un videomessaggio alla 51esima edizione del Forum Ambrosetti: «Servono istituzioni europee più forti, volontà di governi capaci di non arrendersi a per...

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juechen.bsky.social @juechen.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was delighted to present my poster at the ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop.
This research is supervised by Dr. Alexander Mielke, @elisabettaversace.bsky.social (preparedmindslab.bsky.social) and Prof. Althoefer.
Excited to continue building bridges between natural and robotics in the future!

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well done @juechen.bsky.social 🤖🐣🐥👾

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Sep 2

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

nyti.ms

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Physiology and Disease: Insights from Recent Studies www.mdpi.com/3191656

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Prepared Minds Lab @preparedmindslab.bsky.social · Aug 27

well done Rosie @rosiedavis.bsky.social !!! very proud to see you making new connections and showcasing the science done in colaboration with @jieyinghuang.bsky.social and other collaborators!

Rosie Davis @rosiedavis.bsky.social · Aug 27

You can find me at poster number 63 at 2:30pm #ECDP2025

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