This paper is absolutely wild and amazing.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...
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When we think about learning, we think about brains.
Neurons. Animals.
But what if learning began much earlier?
Our paper in PRXLife, led by @maorknak.bsky.social explores whether a unicell relative of animals can use environmental cues to anticipate future stress. 🧵
Link: go.aps.org/4vAU56R
Sam Gershman
Error-driven representation learning in the mesolimbic system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725950v1