Marcus Stensmyr

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

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.

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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🚨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! 🧵⬇️

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.

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

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

Its all crab!

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.

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

I love that the title uses "delve":

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

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

As God intended!

On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time

A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply

‘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

Darwinian evolution FTW

Really neat paper from my colleagues Eric Warrant and Stanley Heinze at @biologylu.bsky.social!

KI to recruit junior researchers with a focus on excellence On 25 June, Karolinska Institutet will be starting a major recruitment drive for 20 junior researchers with a focus on excellence and mobility. As one of Europe’s leading medical universities, KI offe...

I definitely never regretted the decision to leave New York for Stockholm and Karolinska - now you can join us: big call for assistant professors across medical disciplines coming up. news.ki.se/ki-to-recrui...

Having a great time at the Crete fly circuit meeting!

Microbiomes shape our biology from gut-brain, skin, immunology, and more. Here, Rebecka Sepela et al explores octopus “taste by touch” sensation to ask how environmental microbiomes drive animal behavior. @cellpress.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Bit disappointing really. Very predictable so far, needs a plot twist.

A worm tower hitching a ride on a fly! 😲 Wild paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains Sulphur-crested cockatoos are waiting in line at public drinking fountains in Sydney to have their daily drinks of water in the latest example of cultural evolution in urban birds

The cleverness of cockatoos is darned impressive. They've previously learned to open and raid bins in Australia, but now they are queuing up to use public water fountains.

Read more in my story for @newscientist.com #birds #animals 🧪

www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

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🔥 New episode of the Night Science podcast! The brilliant Eve Marder, professor at Brandeis University, talks with us about how "Recipe Science" ruins creativity.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4mSv...

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Congratulations!

America now has both the pope and the antichrist

An alternative to tSNE & UMAP for more accurate data visualization:

Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data.

The trees are constructed to accurately represent true distances between the objects in the high-dimensional space.

Proud to present the peer-reviewed version of our Cell Type Allometry paper, out today in Science Advances!

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

Are animals of different sizes made of the same cell types?

Here’s an update of the main points and revision items

(with memes!)

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