Rabbits have a nearly 360° field of view (vs. humans: ~200°), ideal for spotting predators. This comes at the expense of binocular overlap - crucial for depth perception As a result, rabbits sacrifice accuracy in judging distances for a heightened awareness of their surroundings

I found another AI-generated garbage diagram in a scientific journal. It’s entirely gibberish and features anatomically incorrect limbs with too many bones. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

A new mission is starting soon! On Aug. 9, four volunteers will step inside a 650-sq-ft habitat to begin a 45-day simulated mission to Mars. Without leaving Earth, they'll work to help NASA study how isolation affects crews on deep space journeys. go.nasa.gov/3WkeWuW

I have been advocating a different way of doing science: publishing one figure at the time, and have other people critique and reproduce it. From there, build stories.

Preprint article introduces a modified version of the BABB #TissueClearing method that’s optimized for calcified tissues, such as bone and cartilage. Cleared bone image below was acquired using #LightSheet #Microscopy. Click to check it out: bit.ly/3SvJXex

Farmer-led badger vaccination could play a vital role in plans to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, highlights a first-of-its-kind project initiated by Cornish farmers and implemented by @officialzsl, Cornwall Wildlife Trust 〓〓 & Imperial College London c-js.uk/3YzN2hA

This could totally change the business model and incentives for publishing books with traditional publishers ..

Study on bats reveals diverse mechanisms of vomeronasal organ (VNO) loss. Some species lack neuroepithelium but retain elements of VNO function, such as capsular cartilage & venous sinuses, highlighting complex evolution of vomeronasal system T Smith et al doi.org/10.1002/ar.255…

Proudly introducing our new preprint! We've been working on this together with Robert Haase Kota Miura David Legland and Michael Doube BoneJ 🥰 Learn more about "From Cells to Pixels: Bridging Biologists and Image Analysts Through a Common Language" here: zenodo.org/records/133313…

#preprint 🚨 Fantastic work led by Elnaz Elnaz Fazeli about the language gap between disciplines in which we work! Glad I could contribute a little bit. 😃

The surprising observation of toxins accumulating in non-poisonous frogs leads to a ​​new theory for the evolution of toxicity. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape. brnw.ch/21wLVL1

A group of authors has sued #Anthropic for violation of #copyright. The proposed class action lawsuit was filed in a California and alleges Anthropic “built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books.” theverge.com/2024/8/20/2422…

I successfully defended my PhD thesis CityU Hong Kong 🥳🥰 Title: Welfare concerns, recognition and measures of sentience in working donkeys🫏 Thanks to supervisors for their continuous support 🙏 Dr Becky Parkes Alan McElligott & Prof. Paulo Steagall Please scan QR to find our work ☺️

On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president Meredith Whittaker is reminding you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. Doesn’t track or serve you ads. Pays its engineers well. And millions use it. #TheBigInterview: wired.com/story/meredith…

‘Signal is in many ways, the opposite of the Silicon Valley model. It’s a nonprofit that has never taken investment, makes its product available for free, has no advertisements & collects virtually no info on its users’ The very best ⁦Meredith Whittaker⁩ ↘️ wired.com/story/meredith…

Let's be sensitive to our language choices this week!

Your periodic reminder that if you post your personal information to the cloud, especially as a quid pro quo for a "free service", someone creepy will do something creepy with it.

Article in Physical Review E by Michael F. Staddon in the group of Carl D Modes at the MPI-CBG Dresden and the Center for Systems Biology Dresden. 🙌

Super interesting thread on the image.sc forum today: Are AI Deep learning image processing operations repeatable? forum.image.sc/t/are-ai-deep-…