Cilia and cell motility enthusiast, basal cognition, weird organisms esp protists and larvae, how do living systems compute? Professor of Cellular & Biophysical Dynamics, Living Systems Institute, Exeter (past: DAMTP, Cambridge) www.micromotility.com
Do #tintinnids dream of electric sheep? 🤯 Here is a single cell capable of building a lorica and living inside it for protection... it also swims, feeds, hunts Can even detect and habituate to mechanical cues! #celllearning #protistsonsky #cilia Read more in our preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...
Large-brained vertebrates are overrated
Science MagazineA new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC
Classical conditioning of a mathmo: *Sees epsilon *Expands for epsilon <<1
Pierre HaasNew #preprint: "Travelling waves of invasion in microbial communities with phenotypic switching" arxiv.org/abs/2605.10420 (I saw ε and expanded for ε ≪ 1 and a brilliant intern, Diego Manso Anda, realised that there was no need to.) @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
A year ago I participated in a Strüngmann forum on Navigation Research, a truly fascinating meeting of minds from across #navigation research, from animal to human #behaviour to robotics and healthy aging. Our (heated) discussions resulted in this fun book chapter (free ⬇️) doi.org/10.1007/978-...
When conference participants take part in a human experiment... How to get a group of humans to spontaneously synchronize their walking behaviours in the absence of "leaders" (watch out for the one who was attempting to cheat the system!) What are the most important cues here? 😏 #EESBioOsc
EMBL Events#EESBioOsc has officially begun First talks of the day by Audrey Mat, Theo Geisel and François Schweisguth about biological rhythms, human synchronization and dynamics in the drosophila eye 🧬
Ah ha! Then you agree this is an example of 'behaviour'... Some people insist that to be capable of behaviour you must first possess neurons... 🤔
Robert InsallThat is truly impolite. As an English gentleman I cannot condone this creature's behaviour.