Sebastián Espejo
@Sebespejo
Life researcher. Comunicador de la ciencia
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This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network. Out of 736 Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family." Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize.
New manuscript, led by the dev psychologist Ivan Kroupin (@Helen_E_Davis & TC Zeng). Nearly all research on cognitive development (IQ, executive function, memory, etc.) is done in schooled worlds--in communities in which children are raised by people who attended formal schools.
Diversity matters: species richness keeps Earth’s ecosystems running .. just as cultural richness keeps human societies running • in @NatureEcoEvo | Sept 2021 phys.org/news/2021-09-d…
A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds The Evolution of Life and Consciousness, by Francisco Aboitiz sco.lt/7t0ZFY
Why doesn’t evolution follow a path of constant adaptation? Over the past 50 years, punctuated equilibrium has expanded leading to a unified framework for punctuated evolution across scales—from genes to ecosystems & our planet. Our new collaboration at doi.org/10.1111/pala.1…
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium! nature.com/immersive/d428… Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
Our beliefs about topics such as climate change or politics do not exist in isolation. Each belief is related to other beliefs we hold, as well as to perceived and actual beliefs of people around us. In a new paper in Psychological Review, Jonas Dalege, Mirta Galesic, and…
Here's a cool theorem I learned today.
A unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain: the Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind "This theory explains our brains, minds, & behaviour by appealing to Tinbergen's four questions: adaptation, phylogeny, ontogeny & mechanism" @mjdramstead et al sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
14. A fox found frozen in ice in Sweden, with his last breath still visible.
Brain, guts, and circulatory system of a Cambrian arthropod larva! The most amazingly preserved fossil I have ever seen. doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Lucky to have been a part of this project led by Martin Smith and Emma Long. @PalaeoSmith @DurUniEarthSci @durham_uni
How Northeastern researchers are helping predict the outbreak of bird flu on US dairy farms news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/23/bir… via Northeastern Global News featuring @alexvespi and @svscarpino
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How Northeastern researchers are helping predict the outbreak of bird flu on US dairy farms
The EPISTORM disease prediction center has identified the potential for outbreaks in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wyoming and Oklahoma.
Evolution, Criticality and Creativity in Collective Intelligence (ECCCI) happens now! "The power of inhibition for collective decision making in minimalistic robot swarms" by Andreagiovanni Reina! #ALIFE2024
‘Glocalisation’ of Music Streaming within and across Europe. The ubiquity of streaming increased the success of local (i.e. in native language) songs in European countries - so again some problem with the algorithmic flattening of culture idea... lse.ac.uk/european-insti…
This week kicks off SFI’s Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies in Bogotá, Colombia. A collaboration between SFI and @Uniandes, CGS will engage students from 22 countries, spanning numerous academic disciplines, in a meticulous reexamination of the paradigms…
Hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo maintained social networks across vast distances thousands of years before agriculture arrived. The cultural diversity is shown in musical instruments, specialist vocabulary and genetic analyses. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… @NCCR_Language
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