Join Paco for a book presentation of his book Planta Sapiens in Spanish next Friday, May 3 at 8pm in Lorca! um.es/mintlab/index.…

In our newest episode we take a look at plant intelligence and the captivating realm of octopuses, uncovering their impressive cognitive skills. Tune in: pod.link/1519411454 From @taviagilbert w Richard Sergay & Templeton World Charity Foundation

Honored to have been able to participate and dip my toes a bit more into that academic world! #IBC2024

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, free range isn’t necessarily free range, here is a case study from Australia: findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/4949-free…

I have no idea how I missed #biosemiotics AS AN ENTIRE FIELD, but excited to dive in now! This paper is already getting me excited: academia.edu/43701176/The_E…

If the surviving trees we see in a natural forest are not just the product of „lucky coincidence“ but rather the result of intelligent choices, then it is both amusing and straight up terrifying to think that in restoration we may mostly be planting „idiots“.

The idea that subsystems like the immune system but also other organ systems can be subject to Pavlovian Conditioning (including accidental fear conditioning) is absolutely blowing my mind - we really need to stop viewing any sub-CNS system as just dumb machines

Sorry, but you’re confusing effect with cause. We‘re talking about a system that is no longer able to tell threat from non-threat. It‘s not inherent in the system, it‘s because it’s been trained on too much contradictory information. nytimes.com/2024/09/16/opi…

Great to see our lab work stimulating debate. Plant-fungal exchange processes are complex, elegant, & still mysterious. We should be open to using all types of tools & frameworks to understand them nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Uhmmm, #NotebookLM might be THE greatest tool ever created for researchers???? It’s what we all hoped ChatGPTs pdf uploading function would be🤯

I got total AI vertigo with #NotebookLM - used it today to create a podcast about various fairly complex papers, as well as individual ones about some books and, together with the now true multi-source doc reader it‘s truly going to change the game🤯

Imagine Southern Spain used to have summer monsoons and we managed to make them disappear a few hundred years ago🤯 routledge.com/Reframing-the-…

Couldn’t even (via official channels) download a paper FROM MY OWN LAB thanks to the ridiculous #paywall Sage Journals has. All of these journals effectively blocking free science should be torn down.

More fascinating research on fungal intelligence popularmechanics.com/science/enviro…

Unfortunately this is entirely unsurprising. "The Chinese Paper Mill Industry: Interview with Smut Clyde and Tiger BB8" forbetterscience.com/2021/05/26/the… via Leonid Schneider

First blog post for our forest intelligence project! um.es/mintlab/index.… Dio D. Vicen #plantintelligence

New post from Anna Finke asking - can plants be truly intelligent if isolated from their communities and ecosystems? um.es/mintlab/index.…

BREAKING: Massive -- really, massive -- electricity outage hits Spain, which large part of the country suffering blackouts (including Madrid and Barcelona). Data from Spain's national grid shows a lost of >10 GW of demand, from ~26GW to ~12GW in a few seconds. Reason unknonw.

DO NOT rent from Avis Car Rental , they charged me additional money for gas, even though the tank was full, said the fee it to bring it to another station would be 30€, but was 180€ and now me more than a month later are attempting to charge more than €500 for damages I NEVER incurred.