Interesting new study demonstrates "cerebellar connectivity to higher-order networks at birth, which generally strengthen with age, emphasizing the cerebellum’s early role in cognitive processing beyond sensory and motor functions

RT @GalleseVittorio: Is the sense of reality a purely visual business??."Our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the bra….

RT @meganpetersdorf: Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboon….

'Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence' - paper by Louise Barrett and me just out:

RT @NeuroscienceNew: “Brains over Bots: Why Toddlers Still Beat AI at Learning Language” by Caroline Rowland et al. Trends in Cognitive Sci….

Trump on embodied cognition (via ChatGPT)

RT @katjaQheuer: Thrilled for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing.@howbrainsevolve & Susan Healy around how do we….

The only thing more depressing than Trump’s bullying with tariffs is other governments like the UK falling over themselves to negotiate to minimise them. Never a good idea to give a bully what they want.

I made this slide during his first presidency. It illustrates how not to make evolutionary inferences from comparative data (dashed red line, although that could also be stock markets). Today more than ever it seems like an insult to chimpanzees

RT @donkoclock: Not one family in Nuuk, Greenland would accept a visit from JD and Usha Vance. NOT A SINGLE RESIDENCE, this is why the vis….

RT @paullewismoney: Catherine Peters - one of the finest of Wilkie Collins's biographers - has died aged 94. The King of Inventors was wri….

Being cynical, like Palmerston: “There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests”. It is particularly shameless from the US though.

Does Donald Trump have conflicts of interest between policy and personal assets? Does he understand or care what a CoI is?

I remember my father saying to me 50 years ago that ‘Fortress America’ would eventually look to itself, and Europe would be left to fend for itself. I was too young to understand what that meant. I do now

RT @o_guest: Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea_e_martin: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'?.We analyse theories o….

RT @meganpetersdorf: An absolutely love place to work!!.

“Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis…cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion.

RT @durham_uni: Have you ever wondered how monkeys learn new skills? This fascinating study co-supervised by @RachKendal in collaboration w….