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This week for QMUL's #FestivalofEducation, the fantastic masters student Jane O’Sullivan presented a poster on #PositiveBalance using #PositivePsychology and #DigitalTechnologies to support adolescent wellbeing⭐ @QM_SBBS @QM_Psych
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the #mentalHealthAwarenessWeek our @rosiedavis + #JIeyingHuang present #PositiveBalance a positive psychology programme to promote wellbeing in young dancers 🎥🎈🩰✨😀 🤗
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Collab @ENBSchool + @RoyalBalletSch
@eli_versace @ManuAngioi @QM_SBBS @QM_Psych
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Alex and Robyn had an amazing day engaging the children of Wapping High School in the fascinating world of animal behaviour! @ASABeducation @WappingHigh #nationalscienceweek #animalbehaviour #outreach
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here you go: our new preprint on #crossmodal pitch-luminance association in tortoises 🐢 ! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… with @maria_loconsole #beatriceMalaman @GionataStancher @eli_versace - @QM_Psych @QM_SBBS @Museo_Rovereto 1/2
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the brilliant @Rosie9275334660 and @ManuAngioi are at #IADMS #IADMS2024 ready to present our #PositiveBalance programme on #PositivePsychology on Saturday at 5-6 monitor D in the foyer! 🪩🪅 🎊 @QM_Psych @RoyalBalletSch @ENBSchool @PreparedLab 💫 #rimini
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our @Antorr91 at Congresso AIP presenting "A computational Framework for Automated Detection and Feature Extraction of Chicks Vocalisations" ... related to her recent work at #VIHAR2024 with @emmanouilb @eli_versace @QM_SBBS @c4dm @PreparedLab 🐤
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Faheemah Hussain @faheemah88 + Dr Ecem Ozkan @ecozka from @PreparedLab featured while presenting their poster at Summer Training Research Initiative to Support Diversity and Equality #STRIDE @QMUL @QM_SBBS -> moving frontiers in #cognition & #gravity ! seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/pce/st…
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#sperimentarea forever 💚💙🐢🤗 cc @GionataStancher #Beatrice @maria_loconsole @eli_versace & the #tortoises 🐢💙
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junior researchers at the forefront of Science at @PreparedLab! From the left: ✨#FaheemahHussain and💫#EcemOzkan @ecozka working as awardee and supervisor during a STRIDE programme at @QM_SBBS, setting the foundations to understand "Gravity in our Minds" well done@QMUL talents!
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more news! Here we congratulate BSc Ishani Nanda for receiving the 2024 ASAB Undergraduate Recognition Award @asab_org for her studies on time perception in bumblebees! Congratulations IShani! From left:
@eli_versace proud ASAB delegate, the 💫 Ishani Nanda and 🌟 @GwenBrekel
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@Lauravfreeland
led behavioural work, showing that multiple "adult features" enhance chicks' preferences
@VeraVasas
' spectral measurements + analyses show colour differences in the skins of hen vs juvenile jungle fowls looking at bird skins at the fab @NHM_Tring
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well done Ecem Ozkan @ecozka at the flash talk and poster session today at #pdraSymposium @QM_SBBS on intuitive #physics and #animacy
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#ALexDavidson and #IshaniNanda @asab_org meeting in #Exeter, presenting their poster on bumblebee time processing 😊
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wow, @Antorr91 created this sublime acoustic+chick_inspired #cake that was mentioned as best scientistic explanation at the #bakeyourPhD event... celebrating after starting our move back to chick lab!! @QM_SBBS : @emmanouilb look at this wonder (and we have anechoic chambers!)
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check our new work by @eli_versace @Lauravfreeland #MichaelEmmerson and the chicks at @PreparedLab
"First-sight recognition of touched objects shows that chicks can solve Molyneux's problem" royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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We discovered that tactile experience directly informs vision: baby chicks use vision to recognise objects experienced with touch, even if they haven't seen any object before. clip: piped.video/ks1U9kRbYa0 paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/d… #crossmodal #tactile #visual #imprinting
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Anita Ong Lay Mun (with the 5* cake) today presented the outcomes of her research project on time in 🐝: it has been such a pleasure to work with her! (@preparedlab so sad to see her going) We hope to stay in touch with this stellar young investigator! (special guest @LChittka )
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research with us :) PhD call for Chinese students #robotics + #animal #behaviour Pet-bot: Multisensory-integrated robot-animal interactions sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/stu… @KasparAlthoefer @ARQ_QMUL @PreparedLab #AlexMielke @eli_versace apply by 31 Jan cc
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#robots #animalWelfare #farming #chickens #chicks #roboticsRobotics for poultry farming: challenges and opportunities arxiv.org/abs/2311.05069 @ugur73831868, @ZhengQi_ , #LorenzoJamone
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today at @preparelab we had the special visit of Professor Anna Franklin from University of Sussex: the fab Anita Ong Lay Mun did a great job in explaining her captivating experiment on bumblebee time processing!
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out with generalised few-shot learning across species, led by @madzimia and @mclduk "Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples".
Deep learning algorithm + public challenge: algorithms detect events well even if sound category not known at training. #AI #bioacustics
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@PreparedLab & friends enjoying the famous British summer for an outdoor lunch: spoke of animal cognition and AI, music fingerprints and Iceland, bioacoustics and robotic cellos, dance and language models; enjoyed, seaweeds, lasagne, Greek spinach cake, Turkish Baklava...🌍🌏
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new discovery on #Crossmodal tortoises 🐢royalsocietypublishing.org/d… @RSocPublishing #BiologyLetters Reptiles match low pitch ➡️ big size; high pitch ➡️ small size. See @maria_loconsole @GionataStancher @eli_versace here piped.video/eLqydGEIXN8
@QM_SBBS @Museo_Rovereto
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mission from @PreparedLab to #SperimentArea @Museo_Rovereto, where tortoises welcomed us while we opened our ideas factory: @eli_versace (QMUL) @maria_loconsole (UniPD) @GionataStancher (FMCRovereto), Testudo hermanni friends 🐢🐢🐢 ... and many more
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Why using a professional poster picture when you can amuse people with a very fun one? 🤗 here @maria_loconsole and @eli_versace with their 🐢 poster #CogEvo2023 cc @GionataStancher
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Here we go! friends and colleagues from @ARQ_QMUL (back) and @PreparedLab (front) together after the #FestivalofCommunities2023. #love4science @EngageQM @QMUL @QM_Psych @QM_SBBS
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some highlights from today's #FestivalofCommunities @QMUL @QM_SBBS @psy. @PreparedLab supports our local #community in #Science discovery!!! @TowerHamletsNow with @Antorr91 @eli_versace #ALexDavidson @Emmerson_MG and 2 special and joyful #BigChickens . so much fun!
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here, more pictures with @Antorr91 #UgurOzenturk + #TheBigChicken and our guest at the "Are you smarter than a chicken?" stand at #FestivalOfCommunities @QM_SBBS @EngageQM : come and join us for day 2 on Sunday 11th Queen Mary campus at MileEnd #Towerhamlets 🥚🐣🐤🐔
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It has been a fantastic first day at #FestivalofCommunities @QMUL @sbbs, let us share some of our favourite pictures, featuring also @Emmerson_MG #UgurOzentuk @lauravfreeland @Antorr91 #TheBigChicken and #nextGenerationScientists
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Michael Emmerson and Ugur Ozenturk today at @QM_SBBS postdoctoral symposium presenting basic research on embryo psychology/genomics (ME) + applied research on poultry production assessment (UO). Ask them more on Saturday/Sunday 10/11 June at the Festival of Communities 🐔🐣🥚
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join us for the Festival of Communities 2023 and play with us: "Are you smarter than a chicken?" #FestivalOfCommunities @EngageQM
Programme here qmul.ac.uk/festival/festival…
Saturday: Stepney Green Park
Sunday: Queen Mary Uni campus
⏲️ 11:30am - 4:30pm
🐤🐣🧠 you& @PreparedLab
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celebrating the successful upgrade of our @LozStrickland (UCL, QMUL collaboration) today @LIDo_DTP Stay tuned to her brilliant research on the Superior Colliculus pathways of reward + amazing stories of adventures on land and sea!
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"il gatto lo sa, ma non sottovalutate i pulcini" lastampa.it/speciale/scienza… dove si parla di una nostra recente scoperta royalsocietypublishing.org/d… e di @Jbigname1 @Museo_Rovereto
@PieroBianucci piped.video/watch?v=v_WSR0S4…
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Data collection continues... @sim_run18 and @ManuAngioi lead a group of happy people. We have fun while learning and making discoveries! AT @prepared lab we opt in for #funResearch
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data collection today by @manuAngioi and @sim_run18 with aerial athletes... so inspiring!!
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today @preparedlab begun the moving procedure to the summer location for data collection... stay tuned! 🥚🥚🐣🐣🐤🐤
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meaningful moments like... the lab Adventure Spring 2023 @Preparedlab & friends in the Epping forest. Walking in the forest (and some mud) foster new research ideas and friendships
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@PreparedLab strikes again: today we were celebrating @Antorr91 brilliant Master viva in Data Science (congrats!), Alexander #Davidson DTP acceptance (congrats!), @sim_run18 joining our team (welcome!). Share our passion for science and moving the boundaries of knowledge forward
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how do inexperienced/young animals differentiate between juveniles and adults? Check our new work: "Assessing preferences for adult vs juvenile features in young animals: newly-hatched chicks spontaneously approach red and large stimuli" biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @PreparedLab
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#Bliss @VeraVasas @Lauravfreeland #Roach @eli_versace tested chicks' first preferences to approach upward- vs downward-moving objects. Stimuli mirrored those used by @ElisaRFerre with human adults.
At their first visual experience, chicks found upward movement more attractive
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What features of movement are attractive?
We discovered that baby chicks have
"A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity"
@QM_SBBS @RSocPublishing @PreparedLab
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
check video clip
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we are hiring a research assistant to work on digital tools for #dance & #motor learning: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… Part-time position in London January-May 2023. Work with @eli_versace @ManuAngioi , fab dancers and innovative technology
Apply by 16 Dec!
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3/3 #motionPerfection stems from an interdisciplinary collaboration #Gallo #Zhou @dianeabdallah @ManuAngioi @emmaredding3 @ackroydbeth #Galvan led by @eli_versace funded by @ESRC @royalsociety
cc @QM_SBBS @TL_DanceScience @ENBSchool @ENBallet @onedanceuk
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2/n #MotionPerfection to systematically analyse your motor performance, organise feedback and look at progression. Below you see an example from our model dancer Emma Coates (@ENBSchool ) and a recreational dancer. improve in Timing, Direction in Space, Body segments position
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1/n #MotionPerfection is out! "MotionPerfection: An agile tool for the visualisation, analysis, annotation, and record of motor practice"
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
freely available to synchronise, visualise and annotate dance and motor activities
tutorial piped.video/watch?v=Du3nP_8t…
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@IEEE_ICDL please come and have a look at our work at the poster session with @VeraVasas #MichaelEmmerson and the @PreparedLab crew: hear about chicks, early development, predispositions, vocalisations... just before keynote by Barbara Webb
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@IEEE_ICDL : come and check our work at the poster session today @VeraVasas @Lauravfreeland #Emmerson and the crew at @PreparedLab
what an amazing bird collection at the @NHM_London in Tring! With the spectrophotometer lent by @LChittka (thx!), @VeraVasas + @eli_versace uncovered some secrets of Red jungle fowl, supported by all @PreparedLab. Hein Van Grouw guided us through the shelves... stay tuned!
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