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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like a great conference! 🦣🐝🦟🧌

ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 7d

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Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics!

June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm.

Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)!

Submit abstracts here 👉
icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/

Deadline: Nov 30th

Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 7d

Incredible!

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 7d

Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids

Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜

Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 7d

What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Christian Broberger @broberger.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this postdoc opportunity: exciting electrophysiology collaboration on Parkinson-diabetes links in a great team at Karolinska Institutet.

Anders Borgkvist @borgkvistlab.bsky.social · 7d

Postdoc Opportunity at Karolinska Institutet: We're seeking an electrophysiologist to join an exciting collaborative project focusing on diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

Join us!

ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Postdoktor i Diabetes och Parkinsons sjukdom

Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Det strategiska forskningsprogrammet för diabetes (SRP Diabetes) vid Karolinska Institutet finansierar ett prestigefyllt stipendieprogram för

ki.varbi.com

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 9d

Case Western Reserve Department of Biology is hiring! We're recruiting for a tenure-track position focusing on eukaryotic microbiology, especially microbial/environment interactions. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174456

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12d

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Cover and spine of CRICK, my biography of Francis Crick

Double page photo of Crick at blackboard with section title The Central Problem

Colour plate showing Crick at Cold Spring Harbor in 1954.

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 11d

Looks amazing! Congratulations!

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 14d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe the Brits make Trump a lord, the Norwegians give him the Peace Prize, we Swedes hand over the rest of the Nobels, and he retires quietly in Florida.🤔

Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations! Great paper!!

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great cover!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Aug 16

Are you planning on joining the family? Lord Cobb, Duke of Manchester.

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Aug 16

Seeketh and thou shallst findeth.

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Aug 16

www.royal.uk/encyclopedia...

Passports

When travelling overseas, the Sovereign does not require a British passport.As a British passport is issued in the name of His Majesty, it is unnecessary for...

www.royal.uk

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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · Aug 12

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik - Uppsala universitet

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Aug 6

Giovanna Tornabuoni, perfect in profile in 1488, as painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Today is his day.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 26

2. Bing Brunton and John Tuthill use this example and others to argue that neuroscientists will need to develop embodied models of brains if they hope to understand how animals actually work.

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Breaking the jar: Why NeuroAI needs embodiment

Brain function is inexorably shaped by the body. Embracing this will benefit computational models of real brain function and the design of ANNs.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Felix Baier @felixbaier.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock climate mystery www.bbc.com/news/article...

Unique ice, 1.5m year old, to be melted to unlock mystery

BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change.

www.bbc.com

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Jul 16

The type specimens of Drosophila melanogaster from Meigen’s collection at the Natural history museum in Paris! 🤓

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Jul 10

Its all crab!

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Jul 4

Our technologies have formed a hard exoskeleton around us. Are we destined to become crab people?

Are humans destined to evolve into crabs? | Aeon Essays

‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology

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Ben S. Huang @ben-s-huang.bsky.social · Jul 5

CryoRhodopsins: A comprehensive characterization of a group of microbial rhodopsins from cold environments www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CryoRhodopsins: A comprehensive characterization of a group of microbial rhodopsins from cold environments

Spectroscopy, structural, and functional study of microbial rhodopsins with characteristic long-living near–UV-absorbing state.

www.science.org

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · Jul 3

I love that the title uses "delve":

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

www.science.org

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · Jul 2

As God intended!

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