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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 5h

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 · 8h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 1d

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 · 6d

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 · 1d

#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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 14d

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 · 1d

#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 · 5d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 6d

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 · 4d

#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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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 5d

It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"

This concept is often misused, or even abused.

In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.

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Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 10d

Do you want to raise the profile of your research, and share it with over 10,000 members of the public? The call for proposals to exhibit at the 2026 #SummerScience Exhibition is still open: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/call-for-proposals-2026/

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Benoit Pons @benoitjpons.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky)
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Phage provoke growth delays and SOS response induction despite CRISPR-Cas protection | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Bacteria evolve resistance against their phage foes with a wide range of resistance strategies whose costs and benefits depend on the level of protection they confer and on the costs for maintainance....

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 5d

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

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 5d

#BiologyLetters A new study sheds light on how cellular adaptations promote mutualism between leaf cutter ants and a fungal cultivar. Read more here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #Cellularbiology #evolution

Evidence of cellular adaptations in a fungal cultivar promoting resource exchange with leafcutter ant farmers | Biology Letters

Leafcutter farming systems are ant–fungus mutualisms whose ecological success hinges on differentiation of fungal hyphae into swollen cells called gongylidia that ants consume. While gongylidium…

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🇪🇺vote✅ Jasper Bischofberger @jasbisch.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in
Royal Society Open Science: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250061

Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members?

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