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Congratulations to the team of Ullasa Kodandaramaiah for their recently published paper in the "Proceedings of Royal Society B" on how butterfly eyespots are regulated by humidity and host plant cues. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Stoked that this is out now in Proceedings B. See thread 4 main results + humidity also influence wing shape! Thankful to my co-authors and so many more people. 🦋❤️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

New paper out today on LLMs and world models "A sentence is worth a thousand pictures: can large language models understand hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?" royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3…

Final forms of 3 new papers! #consciousness #selforganization #cognition #economics and more royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3… royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3… royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3…

New paper out (@BiologyLetters, OA): in primates, male-biased size differences are better predicted by between-group competition than by mating system. Time to look beyond the group in studies of sexual selection. @UniofOxford doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

Happy to share our new paper published in Proceedings B! led by @acapomorphic and @SebastianHoehna “How to date a molecular phylogeny: comparison of effective priors between node calibration and fossilized birth–death” @RSocPublishing 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

📣 New paper out on Australian lizards🦎 involving EF Chris Friesen, showing greater maternal investment buffering offspring early-life survival. 👉 Check out the paper in Proceedings of Royal Society B: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… #ThisIsUOW @UOW @uowresearch

Conspecific density modulate intensity and timing of brown bear communication Conspecific density at marking sites influences the intensity and activity patterns of chemical and visual communication in brown bears royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1… @IBAbearbiology @mncn_csic @_IMIB_

Our paper on whale vowels is most read in the Proceedings B journal. Read it here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… @RSocPublishing

1/ Many antibiotics are derived from microbial warfare systems. We all know about antibiotic resistance as a way bacteria survive and thrive under attack. But there’s another, sneakier mechanism fewer people talk about: persistence. 🧵

New in Proceedings B @royalsociety: a study involving Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara and first author Mirko Zanon, CIMeC post doc, et al. suggests that honeybee #numericalcognition is not driven by spatial frequency, but reflects true numerosity processing. 🔗doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Our new paper with @MaxTaylorDavie1 introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind. The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

This traffic light in the centre of #Vienna gives cars 80+ seconds of green, but less than 15 to pedestrians, not enough to cross the road! Here is our paper, published in the @RSocPublishing, where we discuss how traffic lights favour car mobility. lnkd.in/d-4R_KaA

My undergrad work on nanoscale mechanisms of avian coloration is finally published! A collaboration I was honored to start between @CornellMSE and @CornellBirds, seeking nano&micro structural aspects of color in @evoleoC’s finches Congrats to the team! doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

Come out and play! Why do some societies, human and non-human, embrace playfulness among adults, while others suppress it? It is a matter of "style". doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

New paper in Proceedings B @RSocPublishing ! "A shoot at the root? Unique development and evolution of the stigmarian apical meristem" by D'Antonio, Boyce, Donovan, and Herrera @FabianyHerrera @FieldMuseum @Stanford royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Breaking the code: Multi-level learning in the Eurovision Song Contest #ESC2026 @cgershen royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1…

Check out our new paper published @RSocPublishing. We found N enrichment weakens each phase of the process of post-dispersal seeds, seed dispersal and recruitment limitation explain the alpine meadow species diversity loss due to nitrogen enrichment royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

How does muscle function vary across primate species and is it shaped by the typical loading patterns of their lower limbs? See our new publication here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1… All MSK models are open access! @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology @ERC_Research

Exciting new research from our @KeijiOta3 @LucieCharlesCog connecting mentalizing and volition, showing that understanding how others think helps us act more autonomously royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1…