Robert Barton

@WillCalverleyUK @Conservatives 😂😂😂😂

Britain’s next Prime Minister! 🇬🇧

@KemiBadenoch Publish the evidence so that the public can see what sort of political degenerates are defecting to Reform

I have sacked Robert Jenrick from the Shadow Cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership with immediate effect. I was presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible to his Shadow Cabinet colleagues and the wider Conservative Party. The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I. They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in THIS government. I will not repeat those mistakes.

One implication is that measures of relative brain size should be treated with extreme caution. The curvilinear pattern may explain why large bodied species appear relatively small brained when using linear models to characterise and account for scaling - they are large not dim

This has implications for how we interpret macroevolutionary patterns more generally, emphasising the need to account for intraspecific variation in order to understand variation across species

Macroevolutionary brain scaling is a microevolutionary metaphenomenon - full text of our new paper now available (open access) nature.com/articles/s4146…

What the Best Neuroscientists Already Know "The claim that neuroscience needs the humanities is not a plea from outside the field. Many of its most thoughtful practitioners have already reached this conclusion." stevenmintz.substack.com/p/toward-a-non…

Yes! nature.com/articles/d4158…

@royalsociety MUST strip Musk of his fellowship to retain credibility. He has brought the society into the disrepute in the gravest manner. Calling on all FRSs, please act swiftly

A study co-authored by @howbrainsevolve of @AnthDurham1 gives new insight on how human hands and minds evolved together. 🧠The research is published in @CommsBio & was led by Dr Joanna Baker of @UniofReading 👉 brnw.ch/21wVcyc #DUresearch #DUinspire

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand nature.com/articles/s4200…

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Humans may not have a uniquely specialised memory for sequences - it may be more to do with how tasks are culturally scaffolded and what they “mean” to participants. New paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions nature.com/articles/s4146…

@GalleseVittorio Same could be said of comparative psychology. And psychology probably

"Unfortunately, much of the foundational literature analyzing the risks of AI superintelligence suffers from a lack of precision in the use of the term ‘intelligence.’" aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-as-normal…

Is the sense of reality a purely visual business?? "Our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the brain distinguishes imagination from reality is by monitoring the activity of the mid-level visual cortex." cell.com/neuron/fulltex…