Veronica Grieneisen

Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence Lessons from developmental biology can be used to guide the behaviour of robot swarms.

Feed: "Nature"
By: Sedeer el-Showk

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Witnessing the rare and spectacular bloom of Amorphophallus titanum today at the Berlin Botanical Garden — a once-in-a-decade floral event. A true marvel of plant evolution, with the unforgettable scent of decay. #Botany #PlantBiology #CorpseFlower #Biology

Criatividade brasileira

‘New hope’: ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to dieback, study reveals Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed

‘New hope’: Ash trees rapidly evolving resistance to die-back, UK study reveals

- The analysis is also a scientific breakthrough as the first convincing proof of a prediction made by Charles Darwin

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All of them. But often:
train ticket 🎫
Feather 🪶
Bald of grass or other ubiquitous monocot 🌾

BioArtAttack 2D BioArtAttack 2D is a drawing and painting competition for children aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The Nancy Rothwell Prize is now a sub-category for speci...

Calling young UK-based artists!

To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨

🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’ Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’

- Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Very proud of this year’s MSc Big Data Biology Students! Today they showcased their Systems & Predictive Biology Projects during a poster session. From malaria modelling to circadian clocks, spiral-waves on hearts to Lac-operon repressors. #complexsystems #systemsbiology

Starting week 2 of the UCSF Cellular Electronics Minicourse - building logic gates with transistors, in order to better understand how logic can be implemented with proteins and DNA.

Fast Food-for-thought 📚

At the Living Systems Institute - Exeter - @lsiexeter.bsky.social , enjoying amazing talks of PhD students on their interdisciplinary research. As D’Arcy Thompson predicted, a fertile ground.

I moved to the UK during "Britain's failed experiment in open borders". The company I co-founded has created >100 jobs, and my wife and I are raising two British kids. If the UK is becoming an "island of strangers", it's because the country is demonising and isolating immigrants like me

Weekend friends, hanging out by the pond. #libelulas

I’m sure he will! He is all about “transcendence”. And if in doubt, he can always evoke the higher powers! (x-x^3/3+x^5/5…) 😜

The new pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University.

Let’s hope he knows his cos from his sin.

Wrapping Hubby’s birthday present 🎁 … #gameoflife (I do recommend the book! It’s amazing)

Add: Not saving the UK universities, who are drowning due to a long string of governamental mistakes (Brexit, one of many). To begin with, not actively scaring off international students would help. Also, a bit of respect for science and to those that pursue it, would also be appreciated.

Spaces (free!) are still available for online registration for the livestream of the Thinking with Plants & Fungi Conference to be held May 15-17, 2025 at Harvard Divinity School @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Many speakers, a great opportunity! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro...

painting of a capybara meditating

capyzen

prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

Open Tools | Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics We are doing science in the open. Our data and tools are openly available to the community.

All of our neural dynamics tools, software, protocols, datasets, and even hardware plans are now available in one convenient place!

Check it out and let us know what you'd like to see next: www.allenneuraldynamics.org/tools

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By the side of the road. Reminds me the Pampas #BannauBrycheiniog

Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop – Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, and Impact From the very first presentation to the final wrap-up, the workshop was a deep dive into the challenges—and opportunities—plant science faces in the changing world of today… and probably the one of tomorrow.

Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop, Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, and Impact,
@GlobalPlantGPC and @SPS_Plant_Sci,
https://saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/evenements/workshop-institut-pascal

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Did the dog laugh to see such a site?

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Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop – Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, & Impact

From the very 1st talk to the final wrap-up, the event was a deep dive into the challenges #plantscience faces in a changing world.

buff.ly/tKLsxQI w @spsplantsciences.bsky.social

#Monday after work. Nothing like being in the forest to reenergise.

Found two of my favourite scientists side by sidein the Walhalla (the o e next to the Danube): Mendel and Einstein!