Poster in Edinburgh (best city in the world, no room for debate šāāļø) for the #ASABWinter2025
Genuinely astonished at this decision. It makes no sense at all. My love and unwavering support go out to every trans person in the UK facing uncertainty, fear and exclusion as a result of this. As far as I can tell we just deliberately created an anomaly in law to satisfy transphobes. But it won't.
The waggle dance of #bees is recognized as a remarkable communication system, but it is usually thought to have properties that are wholly distinct from human #language. š
A new study revises this verdict :
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I love these details so much - Natural History Museum, London š¦š¦
NEW PAPER š¦šµš¬
The same type of ordering rule (high frequency calls followed by noisy broadband notes) is found in almost all living Paridae: very likely, this combination already existed in the common ancestor of tits and chickadees, 11 mya !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#bird #mobbing #call
If you are a researcher willing to explore the meaning of animal calls; and even more specifically of Corvid calls, and you are curious about what has been done in other clades...
Have a look at our new paper reviewing some recent ideas !
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An eveningās thermal imaging with our visitors from MMU plus @ambresalis.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to spot a Beaver swimming towards us before it finally noticed us and slapped its tail on the water. We also spotted a Coypu browsing, plus huge numbers of bats hunting. @cbrassey.bsky.social
Bees communicate information about food sources using a sophisticated "dance language".
This Monday, we talked about birds, their calls, and so much more with my colleague Agnes, in a workshop open to families at the Invention Rooms (white city campus).
Kids (and their fun parents) are always the best public - honestly I could do that all day š„¹
@imperiallifesci.bsky.social
Animal Cognition - Due to their complex social systems and remarkable cognitive abilities, corvids are interesting candidates for large scale comparative research on the meaning of animal calls....
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
