Hear, hear! Far too many paper titles now with "mapping", "profiling" and "landscape" in them. An abundance of data doesn't equate to a discovery.
At the BLOOM science and music festival in Copenhagen, there are giant tardigrades and I guess that’s all I need to say about just how magnificent the event is 😊
Scientists discover birds basically just loud smelly magnets
Teaching the new recruit in back how best to make use of a Saturday
Braitenberg Vehicle day with Hugo Marques at QABVR: wire light, touch, and distance sensors to a pair of motors, then tune the sensor gains and motor outputs to play follow the leader
I love being too dangerous for an AI to even talk to
New preprint with @lingqiz.bsky.social: Neurodata Without Boredom: Benchmarking Agentic AI for Data Reuse arxiv.org/abs/2605.12808
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"I would like to emphasize the importance of question-driven science...young scientists might enjoy science more if they are thinking about questions rather than just collecting data" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
In Montreal for ICMNS! Come hear me talk about neuronal heterogeneity on Friday.
www.crmath.ca/en/activitie...
Proposed structures/ mechanisms for magnetic sensing in bird (so far):
1) In the beak/ trigeminal Nerve (biogenic magnetite)
2) radical pair-Cryptochrome mediated reaction in the retina
3) The lagena
4) Vestibular canals (electromagnetic induction)
5) Supermagnetic macrophages in the liver.
Noboru Mizushima is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he runs a laboratory studying the mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy and o...
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
