NI, AI & innovation: Scientific Reports study finds crows can make novel compound tools frm parts that r nonfunctional. An open q is whether crows invent tools thu frwrd mental simulation or reinforcement learning coupled to luck tinyurl.com/ya2wkcb4 Youtube: tinyurl.com/y8kfym6j

Our essay in Nat Cell Bio: "Bringing computation to biology by bridging the last mile" We argue to shift resources/rewards towards creating user-friendly software to bridge computation and biology-it yields huge returns! Shantanu Singh Free author link: rdcu.be/dv82F

I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

Incredible colour and texture changes in this octopus at rapid pace 🐙

Check out my new target article in Jan AJOB (The American Journal of Bioethics) calling for an end to talk of personhood in bioethics. tandfonline.com/eprint/JBW3R4D…

This extraordinary skull was found by Ali Bereino in the Afar region of Ethiopia #OnThisDay in 2016. Dating to 3.8 million years old, it has been assigned to to Australopithecus anamensis. bit.ly/3umvUiy 📸Dale Omori

How did nervous systems evolve across different species? To understand, @mj_mccoy compared gene sizes in different species originating from a common ancestor across Earth's tree of life, revealing that humans and cephalopods have comparable giant genes. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neuronal-…

It's an orgy of multiple testing of SO MANY variables cross-correlated with SO MANY OTHER variables in SO FEW people!

Embodied Neural Systems Can Enable Iterative Investigations of Morally Relevant States - by Brett J. Kagan, Alon Loeffler, J. Lomax Boyd and Julian Savulescu | Journal of Neuroscience jneurosci.org/content/44/15/…

Embodied Neural Systems Can Enable Iterative Investigations of Morally Relevant States - Brett J. Kagan, Alon Loeffler, Lomax Boyd and Julian Savulescu | Journal of Neuroscience jneurosci.org/content/44/15/…

"Evolution is a wonderful thing to learn about, a terrible thing to learn from." We are well advised to not lose track of evolution’s dark side: nautil.us/just-because-i…

Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness! It holds that all vertebrates and many invertebrates have a realistic chance of being conscious, and that their welfare merits consideration. If you have relevant expertise, please sign! nydeclaration.com

We know orangutans use insecticidal plants; this is the first observation using a plant with anti-inflammatory & analgesic properties. I think it's less likely that we happened to catch an individual innovation, and more likely this is a cultural behavior. rb.gy/umvqpm

"The complexity of animal social behavior is astonishing..." Author Lee Alan Dugatkin shares his 3 greatest revelations while writing "The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies." nautil.us/the-astonishin…

George Eliot wrote, ‘It is never too late to be what you might have been.’ It is never too early, either.” —Anna Quindlen

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

There is a new form of academic grifting that preys on (very legitimate) anxiety about the job market. Science Magazine did an expose on a company that pressures PhD students and postdocs to pay up to $9998 for for "career advice" services. Many students allege they were pushed

Double-exposure photograph, staged for Century magazine in 1899, showing Nikola Tesla — born #onthisday in 1856 — seated beneath a giant “magnifying transmitter”, arcing 22-foot-long bolts of electricity: publicdomainreview.org/collection/nik…

The secret to my success? I make all of my papers look as impressive as possible without conveying any useful information whatsoever. They fly right into Nature and Cell and nobody can scoop us because there's no actual information in the paper.