New episode!! 🎙️🔨 A conversation w/ @auersperga.bsky.social about tool use in cockatoos, crows, cows, and other animals. What counts as tool use? Does using a tool always require cognitive sophistication? And why are tool-using species so often found on islands? Listen: disi.org/island-of-th...

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Great episode on animal tool use by @auersperga.bsky.social! This is a topic we care deeply about. In a recent 📄, we propose a taxonomy of different forms of tool use, and discuss how the ‘tooling’ framework fits with traditional accounts: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #evobio 🐋🌱🧪

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Congratulations to Peter Hegemann winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Take a look at his 1992 #PhilTransB article on the photoreceptor current of the green alga Chlamydomonas: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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Today we welcome Dr Erik Postma (@uniexecec.bsky.social) in the first @egioxford.bsky.social seminar of the term at @biology.ox.ac.uk. For an abstract see alt text. The seminar starts at 15:30 UK time and will be streamed (see poster for information on how to get the link).

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You know a gene is selfish when its DNA twists the wrong way, as demonstrated by the left-handed double-helix proudly adorning the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller on this topic.

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