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Elisabetta Versace
@elisabettaversace.bsky.social
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into the rabbit holes of cognition, physics, perception, evolution, animal behaviour, research culture, solaristics, "war and peace". Freedom and peace. Head of @preparedmindslab.bsky.social - https://www.youtube.com/@preparedmindslab9276
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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 17d
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
listening to #TamarMakin now: Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation
Skillful Third Thumb hand augmentation can be readily learned but may influence user’s body representation and motor control.
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Curious about "remote touch"?
I'll present on 28 November at HAIR: Healthcare Applications of Interactive Robotics
Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
YouTube: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - so cool! 🐦🧠
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Just arrived! “Model systems in Biology” by Georg Striedter 😊
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
You can hear more on "remote touch" in humans in the Tech and Science Daily podcast here open.spotify.com/episode/68c9...
videoClip youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
Paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...
Remote Touch: Scientists discover humans have ‘seventh sense’
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November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Un articolo in italiano sui nostri bombi che discriminano tra durate temporali brevi e lunghe! www.fanpage.it/kodami/autho... di @salvonferre.bsky.social
Articolo: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... , Video e spiegazione youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Some coverage of our recent work in Remote touch in humans …….✋ www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-n...
Scientists discover humans 'have seventh sense' called 'remote touch'
We're told we have five senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch – but now scientists at a London university have discovered a mysterious new ability they call 'remote touch'
www.dailystar.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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adamrsweet.bsky.social
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have. 

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Remote Touch
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sen
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November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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georgehopkin.bsky.social
Humans possess a “Seventh Sense” remote touch like sandpipers
thefreesheet.com/2025/11/08/h...
Humans possess a "Seventh Sense" remote touch like sandpipers - theFreesheet
Research has revealed that humans possess a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a capability previously documented
thefreesheet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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mm-hacker-news.bsky.social
Research first to show humans have remote touch "seventh sense" like sandpipers
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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sciencex.bsky.social
Humans can detect objects buried in sand before direct contact, demonstrating a form of remote touch similar to that seen in certain shorebirds and expanding the known range of tactile perception. doi.org/g99kpf
Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have.
techxplore.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Visiting the DogTrust facilities today with @alexmielke.bsky.social, @juechen.bsky.social here escorted by Roy (welfare manager) and Richard (centre manager) has been great!
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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royalsociety.org
Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
The portrait of captain James Cook surprised me. I was expecting somebody with a different look. [National portrait gallery, London]
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
Oh wow! Arriving home to find that “Dragonfly Behavior” has arrived! @britishdragonflies.bsky.social recently advertised these gems!!! And this is the first video signposted youtu.be/RpZuTXLhQPs “the night is long” :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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nature.com
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
interesting! A suppression hierarchy among competing motor programs drives sequential grooming in Drosophila doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (2014) via @debivort.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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preparedmindslab.bsky.social
our inventor @antorrisi.bsky.social with poster on #VocalEcho: Closed-loop system for vocal interactions #BioDCASE at 12:21 CET (11.21 UK time) 🐥 🔀 🤖🎈
Streaming dcase.community/workshop2025...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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in Italian: Do insects feel pain? www.ilpost.it/2025/10/13/i... it covers also @preparedmindslab.bsky.social work in collaboration with @larschittka.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... , www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Gli insetti provano dolore? - Il Post
È una possibilità sempre più indagata dalla ricerca e che potrebbe cambiare in modo fondamentale il nostro rapporto con loro
www.ilpost.it
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
elisabettaversace.bsky.social
a usefl recap...
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Not all neural network architectures are created equal, some perform much better than others for certain tasks. But how important are the weight parameters of a neural network compared to its architec...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM