Andrew Jackson

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:

Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.

samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

This is the “well, actually…” zoology trope. We are all fish too but that’s not helpful. If you focus on living groups you can split things. If you are looking at extinct groups going all the way back to common ancestor you have to lump them.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Government bodies need to get off X, now Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic

“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

A cartoon showing the various targets of reconstructed eyesalve against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. It targets the cell membrane, as well as several intracellular targets including nucleotide biosynthesis. In S. aureus, it also affect quorum sensing.

Remember the medieval remedy we reconstructed years ago? We've now dissected the various ways it attacks and kills bacteria! Preprinted & submitted, led by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe w/ many collaborators #MicroSky #Ancientbiotics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies.

This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”

“What does it do?”

“We were hoping you could tell us.”

To recap:

If you don't buy the thing which I've created but you don't want, then our whole business model which was predicated on your gullibility will fail!

...has pleaded every soon to be broke entrepreneur ever...

They paywalled surviving poverty.

Elon Musk and the issue with his Grok-blocking tweaks The Grok undressing controversy led to outrage and a renewed debate about how governments here and around the world can regulate a rapidly evolving technology.

www.rte.ie/news/2026/01... amazing headline 👏

A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

@conorom.bsky.social for an Irish / EU perspective

20.00 MAGNUM PI Tom Selleck stars as the Hawaii detective who insists on solving approximately 3.1415926535 cases each week

Happy Monday you lot

This is how you write headlines.

Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies

I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

🧵⬇️

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of:
A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids.
A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
#ProtistsOnSky

Except on Ash Wednesday. That could get you disappeared in any self-respecting Christian country.

What precisely are these “Christian values” they so vigorously defend that other religions and non—religions do not hold?… eating bacon is one them.

A red-breasted robin perched on top of a birdhouse in the shape of a red postbox marked "Letters only".

Robins became the iconic bird of Christmas in the Victorian era, when postmen were nicknamed robins due to their red waistcoats!

Over time, robins began to appear on Christmas cards to represent the postmen who delivered them. 📮

Learn more about this feathered festive favourite: brnw.ch/21wYfin

I hope they didn’t pay him for that talk. I hate to think what his fees are.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490 About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.

www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Im going to bravely put my hand up and claim that among biologists, ecologists probably have the best appreciation of non-RCD epidemiology studies. And would be reasonably well able to appreciate the complexities. So hire ecologists in public health is my plea! Its ecology all the way down!

shoot me now: "We came across your paper [...] and applied custom AI models on it, which generated 5 new extensions. Our pilot study indicates that up to 60% of scientists found the proposed extensions both thought-provoking and actionable."

agree. This is very well put.

Why does biology keep building things out of tiles? Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics

More info on our recent paper in this interview in Science...

Why does biology keep building things out of tiles? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A screenshot of an email. A person called Denise writes they are "ready to see your insect tissue..."

Well now.. thats quite the offer of a Monday morning.