Stunning photographs encompass different ways in which science is used to decipher our complex & beautiful world.
#ScientistAtWork images in @nature.com.
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Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740
Oral tradition in 2026
The novel by Ilona Jerger “Lorenz” has been translated into Italian as “Konrad”
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...
check also the work featured by @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Exciting transoceanic collab!
Zebra finches calls can affect babies’ brain within the egg, altering embryonic gene expression in the blood-brain barrier! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Led by @subbaprakrit.bsky.social and #JuliaGeorge
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Our brilliant @jieyinghuang.bsky.social
presenting #PositiveBalance at the #DMHW26 in Glasgow (UK) "Positive Balance 2.0: development and evaluation of a psychoeducational digital tool for supporting youth well-being "
Congrats on your first oral presentation 👍🥰📲🎈
Zebra finch parents change the brains of chicks inside eggs just by singing to them! Adult zebra finches sing heat songs when temperatures are high & the sound changes blood vessels in the hypothalamus, potentially protecting the chicks from heat stroke
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Read the full research here
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Simon Fisher
Mel Andrews
From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
