Now, Nocola Clayton
https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk
talking about memory, mental time travel and some magic at the CogEvo workshop.
Up now, Simon Laughlin
https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/
starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.
So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.
Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆
Giorgio Vallortigara
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara
Kicking off our CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy
Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler
Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670
#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler
My question for #researchers in the fields of #biology , #genetics , #medecine , etc... is are we going to be ready for the possibility of #PubMed and other #NIH online databases and services becoming one of the many casualties of the current #US administration and its increasingly unreliable #HHS department?
This is an interesting opportunity for the broader international research community to create a more distributed, resilient alternative. Scientists, citizen or otherwise... any ideas? #phd
Hello #Biology and #Neuroscience Mastodon, does anyone has recent successful case for host MCSA postdoc fellowship?
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships
if you do, would you be happy to share any parts of application? if so, please PM or email me to kc280@leicester.ac.uk
many thanks
#academicchatter#PhD #postdoc#MCSA#UK
Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say;
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/05/lab-grown-sperm-and-eggs-scientists-reproduction
#news #science #reproduction #biology
Kevin MItchell helping us move beyond determinism vs. indeterminism to wards an underdetermined universe where caues are constraints and these constraints can happen at multiple levels
As we are heading into the lunch break at our confernce on #freewill , here the link to the program which should allow you to register to get access to the live-streams:
Kick-off of the two Distinguished Lectures on "can biology help us defend free will?"
Conference hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna:
"Free Will: New Perspectives from #Philosophy, #Biology and #Neuroscience"
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