Elisabetta Versace
@elisabettaversace
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
some time ago it was "synergy", "hierarchy", "computational", then it had to be "Bayesian", "eigenvalue", "breakthrough", now everything is a "framework" and includes "manifolds" (and I am not even talking about "AI" and "generative") 😅 The classics instead...
Interesting: "Demystifying unsupervised learning: how it helps and hurts" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
John Flaxman Odyssey illustrations commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Fl...
check also the work featured by @jexpbiol.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Exciting transoceanic collab! Zebra finches calls can affect babies’ brain within the egg, altering embryonic gene expression in the blood-brain barrier! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Led by @subbaprakrit.bsky.social and #JuliaGeorge cc @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social
The novel by Ilona Jerger “Lorenz” has been translated into Italian as “Konrad”
Four white carved dogs guard La Colombaia (home of Luchino Visconti), illuminated by the sunshine, framed by white umbrellas, in a historical picture at La Colombaia
Our new work on the vulnerable tortoises species Testudo hermanni “Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni) is now available link.springer.com/article/10.1... Collaboration with @silviadamini.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher 🐢🩵
This is #towerHamlets at dusk. Alerted by an approaching fox, Mother-swan woke up her cygnets and moved the family away, downstream on the Canal…
“Birds up close. An engineer explores their hidden wonders” has just landed
#ICN2026 icn2026vancouver.com/registration/ if the aim is to exchange ideas on science (neuroethology) and gather to learn from each other and maybe collaborate, why these are the joining conference fees, to which add accommodation and travel and pollution?
material intelligence in the sensing elephant whiskers: interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7A... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Walking home in London during the strike of the subway was not such a big problem in the end #HydePark
A kiss between #towerHamlets / Isle of Dogs and #Greenwich …
"Sterilization and contraception increase lifespan across vertebrates" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new fluffy preprint: "A Soft Robotic Interface for Chick-Robot Affective Interactions" arxiv.org/abs/2604.08443 with work led by @juechen.bsky.social @preparedmindslab.bsky.social #ARQ @queenmarycbb.bsky.social
"There has been no ‘quiet revival’ of Christianity in Britain." as it has been recently falsely claimed. "Today, the Bible Society has retracted its claims that there is a quiet revival of Christianity in Britain based on a faulty and unreliable YouGov survey. " humanists.uk/2026/03/26/b...
Red alarms confirm that saving our only planet [not oil, stock markets and killing people] is the priority www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What Sebald clarifies regarding Alfred Andersch shows that we can’t really hide behind any “internal emigration” narrative
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Arnold Böcklin www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...
A real antidote to “war”… not too easy in an age where attention and depth span have shrunk but we can try. Read the entire book if you can #Sebald www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/163505...
Tutto pronto: si vota! #referendum costituzionale 22-23 marzo 2026
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