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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20m

This study published in #RSOS demonstrates how satellite imagery and mapping technologies enable scientists to monitor environmental factors, such as temperature, rainfall and land use, that influence disease outbreaks buff.ly/kejDpvZ | #ComputerModelling #Epidemiology #EnvironmentalScience

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2h

#BiologyLetters in @theguardian.com | Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the ‘Chicago Rat Hole’: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Chicago ‘Splatatouille’ was probably a squirrel, say researchers

Scientists from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, look at 37 species to identify cause of ‘rat hole’ in pavement

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4h

New report from #JRSocInterface: Estimating large birds’ radar crosssection for aeroecology studies using T-matrix modelling buff.ly/h8JQTNJ | #Biometeorology #Biophysics #EnvironmentalScience

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 5h

As part of #OAWeek next week, the ISC will host an online session exploring community-led and scholar-driven approaches to scholarly publishing. The webinar will feature Graham Anderson and Sophie Ferguson who will share insights into the Royal Society’s transition to #S20. Register: buff.ly/kZYxfDA

Owning Our Knowledge: Non-Commercial Pathways for Open Access Publishing - International Science Council

Overview As part of International Open Access Week 2025, the International Science Council (ISC) invites you to an online session exploring community-led

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 6h

How can we bend the curve of #biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future? 🏡

Read the Royal Society Publishing special issue of #PhilTransB: ‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’.🌍

🧪 http://ow.ly/QCmj50UE5Kg

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 9h

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 9h

Discover a new #Review article from #OpenBiology: tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation: buff.ly/CSxgMoX | #Microbiology #MolecularBiology

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 10h

Regression to the mean explains perception of action consequences #ProcB #OpenAccess #Neuroscience royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Leonid Digel @leodigel.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to be a part of this!

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

We are thrilled to welcome the members of our new Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel! Discover more about the researchers who are helping shape the future of scientific communication: buff.ly/5abtNWQ #ECR 🧪

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11h

In this paper from #ProcA, researchers reveal how ocean waves travel beneath floating ice sheets covering porous, rippled seabeds—a critical scenario in warming Arctic regions. buff.ly/Rxc6DK4 | #AppliedMathematics #FluidMechanics #WaveMotion

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

Today is #AdaLovelaceDay, a global celebration of the achievements of #WomeninSTEM. Discover the 1848 correspondence between Ada Lovelace and John Herschel, revealing her overlooked contributions to her husband’s study on the role of climate on crop growth buff.ly/M336w89 | #HistSci #NotesAndRecords

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

New research from #OpenBiology: Effects of food availability on larval development during ontogenetic niche shift in a marine annelid buff.ly/lW9fjvP | #CellularBiology #DevelopmentalBiology #StystemsBiology

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

Explore our Notes and Records Essay Award special collection featuring previous winning essays and those recognised as runners-up: buff.ly/zul42DK #NotesAndRecords #HistSci #HistSTM

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

We are thrilled to welcome the members of our new Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel! Discover more about the researchers who are helping shape the future of scientific communication: buff.ly/5abtNWQ #ECR 🧪

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Tasha Milne @tashamilne.bsky.social · Sep 12

New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Seascape ecology of juvenile gadoid nursery areas | Royal Society Open Science

Availability of juvenile fish habitat provision can impact recruitment. This study focused on identifying which environmental variables characterize the juvenile habitats of three commercially important gadoid species: Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock ...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d

The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour @dbergerbiol.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 13d

Cell-free opens a unique test-bed to reconstituteand to explore alternative life possibilities.

Check our review (by Maud Hofmann, Farouk Abdo, @manishmicrobe and myself) :

Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Join our live seminar tomorrow 14 October 5 PM (Europe, UK time) to hear #ProcB author Laura Simone Lewis talk about a new study investigating whether chimpanzees and young children show particular interest in social interactions among third parties. Reserve a free place: cassyni.com/events/R9W1m...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

#BiologyLetters Antarctic krill, small marine animals, have a key role in the ocean’s food web and carbon cycle. A study of their feeding behaviour raises concerns about the impact of pollution on krill and carbon cycling in the ocean. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour

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Lucila Álvarez-Žužek @luzuzek.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Finally our paper

"Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli"

is out 🤩 doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri and @ricgallotti.bsky.social

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Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Human cooperation arises naturally and is essential for the development of successful societies. This study aims to identify which aspects of the interaction influence societal cooperation and defection. Specifically, we investigate human cooperation ...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Ecological and evolutionary influences on the elemental composition of birds #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 2d

Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural #OpenQuestions competition! The winning article 'Pattern recognition in living cells through the lens of machine learning' impressed judges with its clarity, originality and fresh insight into biological pattern recognition buff.ly/tIyDqCY #OpenBiology

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Cole Group @colegroupncl.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Pleased to share that the second part of Rachael Pirie's PhD work on 3D shape similarity methods is now available in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A!

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Code: github.com/RPirie96/KQM...
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Riemannian geometry and molecular similarity II: Kähler quantization | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 4d

#BiologyLetters The magnetic sense remains one of the mysteries of sensory biology, but earthworms may help in the quest to provide answers. Read more:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #neuroscience

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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to see this paper led by Mica Santos in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B! w/ @dpvazquez.bsky.social The study examines extinction debts of species & their interactions (plant–herbivore, herbivore–parasitoid) in a fragmented landscape in Mendoza 🇦🇷 🧪🌎
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Extinction debt of species and ecological interactions in a fragmented landscape | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Addressing the worldwide biodiversity crisis in fragmented landscapes requires considering both immediate and delayed extinctions—the extinction debt. This debt arises from the gradual loss of species...

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