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Shreya Dube (they/them)

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🇮🇳🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. LIDo DTP scholar, Interested in hunger, feeding, metabolism/metabolomics and comparative biology! MRes Neuroscience at University of St. Andrews, previously at Newcastle University

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Laura Grima @lauragrima.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Highlighting a couple of lovely behavior-focused preprints from some of the newer rodent neuro labs at Janelia: mice hunting crickets in the @emilyjanedennis.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/5fenwwh8) and exploring structured, complex environments in the @jvoigts.bsky.social lab (tinyurl.com/4ewsvvhw)
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's long been thought that older people use more energy when walking but when Monica Orlandi and Koen Jongbloed measured the metabolic rate (MR) of older walkers on a pavement it was the same as youngsters' MR and at slow speeds they used even less energy doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
A volunteer walking on a pavement wearing a gas mask to analyse oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production. Photo credit: Monica Orlandi.
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look at that! My play I Dream of Theresa May is up for an award 😍: www.asianmediaawards.com/asian-media-... Many thanks to @taratheatre.com and @natashakchandra.bsky.social for their amazingness! And @livetheatre.bsky.social for their support! Play details here: taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...
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Asian Media Awards 2025 Finalists
Asian Media Awards 2025 Shortlist was announced on Tuesday 23 September.
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'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.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Giovanni D’Angelo @giodang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas
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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Very proud of the special issue of Animal Behaviour I worked on with @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @nicolakoyama.bsky.social on addressing biases in animal behaviour. Thanks to all authors- plenty of cool papers to read. Here's our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @asab.org
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Konrad Lorenz Research Center @klf-univienna.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New paper: ravens use wild boars as “first tasters” to check if a foraging site is safe. They reduce risk by watching others eat first, foraging in groups, or stealing instead of taking chances. These tactics may help scavengers adapt to changing environments 🌍. doi.org/10.1093/behe... 📸 Daniel Koch
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Satpreet (Sat) Singh @satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How do you "see" with electric eyes? How does collective behavior emerge from individual interactions? Nocturnal weakly electric fish evolved to do this, but studying naturalistic social behavior is very hard. Our solution? Virtual 'fish' 🤖🐟⚡ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2511.08436
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Valeria Mazza @valmazza.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Can behaviour and cognition support conservation efforts? 🐭💡🌍In this new paper we offer some insights into how dietary innovation and neophobia can help assess small mammals' responses to human disturbance in a protected area. It was a long journey, but I'm so proud of this! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
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Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
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Rasha Kardosh @rasharasha.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Inequality is not only hard to solve. Sometimes, it is hard to *see*. We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent? Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
One of his most lasting yet rarely acknowledged, achievements is pioneering the use of zebra finches in behavioral research. He was the first to describe the details of zebra finch behavior, and therefore likely single-handedly in establishing them as a model system.
Screenshot of Morris’s paper on zebra finch reproductive behaviors. Line drawing of zebra finch in horizontal postureLine drawing of zebra finch in courtship postureLine drawing of zebra finch courtship sequences as viewed from above the bird.
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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu
Semantic Network of OECS articles.
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Bastien S. Lemaire @bastien-s-lemaire.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New paper out!!! Such as humans and rats, we showed that birds visual system (🐣) is tuned to specific pixel correlations from hatching: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... 📷 Steve Juhasz
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Kate McFarland (and Traveller Heron) @carfreebirdnoticer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
God, it gets so tiresome carrying a 500mm lens in my luggage, just so I can include some of the birds I meet in the vacation snapshots I share with my friends. Why can't I be like a normal person and just take selfies wherever I go? Or why can't birds just be like 10 times as large? 🐦
Close-up profile of a male Solsort (Blackbird) with his bill slightly open. This was the resident Solsort at one of the holiday homes where Kate and Traveller Heron stayed in Anholt, DK.
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The irony of cognitive neuroscientists, many of which deride my research on bird brains, finding that birding might help mitigate cognitive decline is not lost on me. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroskyence #birding
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The tuned cortex: Convergent expertise-related structural and functional remodeling across the adult lifespan
Neuroplasticity is a defining property of the brain. Structural and functional brain changes arise soon after learning and are particularly evident following years of practice that underpin expert per...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Virtual Second Species: Data driven and mechanistic modelling of the dog 📅 3 March, 13.00 (GMT)/14.00 (CET) 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/virtu... In their next ‘Virtually Speaking’ webinar, VICT3R @ihi-vict3r.bsky.social are showcasing the ‘Virtual Dog’ being developed through an NC3Rs CRACK IT Challenge.
An outline of a dog, the NC3Rs and VICT3R logos.
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Saw her in the Amazon With the voltage runnin' through her skin Standin' there with nothin' on She gonna teach me how to swim" for more about the electric (f)eel, check this primer by Ken Catania ⚡ www.cell.com/current-biol... (and yes, finally some current biology in Current Biology)
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 06/02/2026
#OpenBiology in @science.org | Ghrelin and MBOAT4 are lost in Serpentes: doi.org/10.1098/rsob... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Loss of ‘hunger hormone’ has made snakes masters of fasting
Ditching ghrelin genes may have helped a wide variety of reptiles deal with a boom-or-bust feeding schedule
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ASAB @asab.org · 05/02/2026
This #MeetASAB features Madam President herself: Melissa Bateson (@melissabateson.bsky.social) Melissa was elected as ASAB president in 2024. In the past, she has also been on council as grants secretary and as an ordinary member. She has been an ASAB member since she was a PhD in the 90s… 1/6
Melissa in a labcoat holding up a starling. ASAB logo is in the corner
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Gary Andrews @garyscribbler.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I always find myself choosing books I wouldn’t usually buy, lovely and cheap - and discovering all sorts of unexpected treats. Today I treated myself to a couple of murder mysteries. Fun times ahead! #doodleaday
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 30/01/2026
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
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Elena Miu @elenamiu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution
Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr
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Katy Willcox, PhD @katywillcox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New paper out! Early-life social instability increases aggression in chickens, but does not affect response inhibition 🐤 We discuss what this means for developmental links between social environments, cognition, and social behaviour, highlighting strong context dependence Full text: rdcu.be/eYOzC
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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🌍 Academia loves to call itself global. But conferences often speak one language only. Ever struggled to ask a question? Skipped networking because it felt exhausting? 📝 Take our 2 minute survey and help redesign conferences to be inclusive. 👉 forms.gle/u8ESktcJP8Y6... #DEI #EDI #LanguageBarrier
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Amplifying global voices: Removing language barriers in academic conferences
We invite you to share your experiences with language barriers at academic conferences. Your insights will help shape more inclusive and multilingual events across disciplines and formats. This survey...
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Just received Georg Striedter and @evoneuro.bsky.social’s new book. It’s a tour de force that covers a huge swath of avian ethology and neuroscience with wonderful figures and illustrations.
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Janire Castellano Bueno, PhD @janirecas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🐼 Pandas, 🦁 lions, 🐢turtles … get the spotlight while less cute species quietly vanish. charisma driven conservation is not just flawed, it can be harmful. If we want real biodiversity, we must look beyond the photogenic. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Are we over-conserving charismatic species?
Is all conservation good? This Perspective argues that the prevalent strategy of focusing on charismatic species may be counterproductive if conservation impact measures are oversimplistic and do not ...
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Erik Sulidra proudly presented his work in Bahasa Indonesia. Everyone understood his presentation—whether in English, Japanese, or other languages—with Wordly's live AI translation. A moment when we broke #languagebarriers at #ICCB2025.
Erik Sulidra presented his work in Bahasa IndonesiaAudience used Wordly's AI translation to understand his talkWordly's translation from Bahasa Indonesia to EnglishWordly's translation from Bahasa Indonesia to Japanese
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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Just published! Check out Gan et al’s new #SystematicReview on how natural & artificial bird perches help natural forest regeneration. #EnvironmentalEvidence #SciPol 🧪🌎 ‪‪‪@drmattg.bsky.social‬ @mollypwatson.bsky.social‬ @neuroshreya.bsky.social‬ 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Large green tree in from of blue sky in a grassland area. Small trees can be seen in the distance. The Collaboration of Environmental Evidence logo is shown in the upper right corner, while in the foreground at the bottom of the image are the words "New systematic review” and the title of the paper: "Effectiveness of perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for natural forest regeneration: a systematic review" Photo by niko photos on Unsplash
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