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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…

1/10 🚨🚨🚨 New paper on dinosaur evolution! Chris Griffin and I look at why we can't seem to figure out how the major groups are related! It might be a hint about how dinosaurs came to be! Photo: Anchisaurus @yalepeabody #dinosaurs #biology doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

As AI gets better at forecasting, does it make human forecasters obsolete? This is one of the central questions we tackle in our new paper on crowdsourced versus LLM forecasting, published in Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society B. With @jsegoviamartin and @emiless2012 🧵👇🏼

Social structure as a form of collective intelligence In our new framework, we argue that social structure is a form of collective intelligence shaped by and shaping individual decision-making Out now in @royalsociety w/ Jake Brooker, Edwin van Leeuwen royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/3…

New paper on skill during contests in domestic pigs and welfare implications royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/2…

Finally, after so many years. Please enjoy my research on the evolutionary history of Nutmeg. @royalsociety royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381…

Our special issue on “Surfaces, Interfaces, and Heterogeneous Catalysis” is now live in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. To read, please visit here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3... #Catalysis #Surfaces #Interfaces @royalsocietypublishing.org

Happy to share our research about how grazing shapes plant diversity. The study has been published in @RSocPublishing @royalsociety. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… Thanks for all co-authors' contributions (@JCSvenning , et al.)

New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels. The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them. We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels. Like in Slovenian, some vowels prefer particular tones. Like in human language, there’s a lot of coarticulation (a process when you say “tense” but the word sounds like “tents”). Observing vowels in whales is a matter of timing. Our vowels are fast, whale vowels are slow. Beats become pitch if they’re fast enough. If you slow down human vowels, they start sounding like whale clicks. Applying linguistic tools to whales shows us that we’re much more similar to these wonderful ocean creatures than we previously believed and that their language is much more complex and structured. @projectCETI @UCBerkeley

🥳New paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Cotinga communication constrained: body size and lekking behaviour influence cotinga song (Aves: Cotingidae) doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… #ornithology

New paper: Cities as genetic refugia: rural selection maintains Mc1R pigmentation cline in squirrels despite an urban bottleneck #urban #evolution #ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Happy to share our new publication! 🥳✨️ Many thanks to the co-authors for this great collaboration: Marie Dorchain, Riccardo Muolo, Hiroya Nakao and @teo121270 The link for the paper : royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/issue/482…

Very happy and proud to share our special issue that just came online on Philosophical Transactions B! We have gathered an excellent set of papers that show how natural selection acts on the mitochondrial genomes of eukaryotes! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381…

Just published: "Improving scientific mentoring with history and philosophy of science" (open access) With my good friends and colleagues Alan Love and Tobias Uller. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

Cytotoxic compounds isolated from Crinum abyssinicum bulbs: a combined experimental and computational study! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/1…