Reposted by Lena JannaschTessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain. 13333118
Reposted by Lena JannaschTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052929
Reposted by Lena JannaschJonas Rose @jonasrose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Registration for our Avian Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting is open. Join us Oct 1 - 2 in Bochum for talks, posters and plenty of discussion. This is the lineup of speakers: www.ngl.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ngl/mam/cont... Stay tuned for the full program or just register here: eveeno.com/239532040 057
Reposted by Lena JannaschBirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Birds on the € notes!? You can make it happen! 🐦✨ Vote now for your favourite design! www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro banknotes and is asking the public for feedback. And one of the themes is birds and rivers...😈 216383
Lena Jannasch @crowladyl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Will there be a space for curiosity driven research that is advancing human understanding of the world we live in? While Jeff Dean ("Chuck Norris of programming") and colleagues are aiming at automating the full discovery loop, the academic-publishing complex is caught in its own loop.. (good read) 200
Reposted by Lena JannaschPLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 06/08/2026#Scientific papers are written to mask the human in the process, by design. This Perspective by @prof-tregoning.bsky.social invites us to consider the structure of the paper, and the need to celebrate the human in an age when #AI threatens to overwhelm us. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4xn4OlZ 1116
Reposted by Lena JannaschMarlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Now out at PNAS - congratulations to Ramanujan Srinath and the team! Ram's ability and willingness to connect all these data, models, and ideas has changed my thinking/interpretation of many findings. I suspect I will keep learning from this study for a long time. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgThe structure of correlated variability reflects task-relevant information in sensory neurons | PNASShared trial-to-trial variability across sensory neurons is reliably reduced when perceptual performance improves, yet this variability is low dime... 13815
Lena Jannasch @crowladyl.bsky.social · 16/05/2026It was assumed echolocating bats, having traded visual acuity for sonar, have lost the ability for gaze-stabilising reflexes. A study last month in @currentbiology.bsky.social shows the opposite: Bats do move their eyes - although differently from mice. www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comBat eye movements resolve a long-standing question in gaze controlChang et al. overturn an 80-year-old assumption by showing that echolocating bats make robust eye movements. Bats generate strong visually driven optokinetic and otolith-mediated responses but exhibit... 030
Reposted by Lena JannaschCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 06/05/2026“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.) 7953721345
Reposted by Lena JannaschAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026A red deer and her exclusive beauticians. This is a symbiotic relationship between a red deer (Cervus elaphus) and several jackdaws (Corvus monedula). The birds benefit by feeding on parasites like ticks & fleas, and the deer benefits by having the irritating pests removed from its coat. #nature 733708557
Reposted by Lena JannaschBehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Shared cognitive biases influence numerical judgments in macaques and crows @PNAS.orgdlvr.itShared cognitive biases influence numerical judgments in macaques and crowsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 44, November 2025. SignificanceCognitive biases, often seen as uniquely human flaws, may instead reflect fundamental decision-making strategies shared across species. By demonstrating that macaque monkeys and carrion crows exhibit human-like biases in numerical estimation—... 182