Florbela Rocha-Almeida

Title page of King Solomon’s Ring: New Light on Animal Ways by Konrad Z. Lorenz, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson, with a foreword by Julian Huxley, published by The Reprint Society London.

Page from King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Z. Lorenz with a paragraph of text and a small illustration of a bird flying at the bottom.

"And how infinitely grateful I should be, if, in my life´s work, I could find one small “up-current” which might lift some other scientist to a point from which he could see a little further than I do." - Konrad Z. Lorenz

A lovely parting souvenir I found in a charity shop in Edinburgh🤍

Congrats Adrian!

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

☺️🥰 Thank you!

Thank you very much Ann! 🙂

Thesis cover titled 'Food or Companion? A Study of Cortical and Subcortical Activities During Food and Social Decision-Making in Rats' by Florbela da Rocha Almeida, Sevilla, 2025. The illustration shows a rat imagining cheese on one side and another rat on the other side.

I am standing with a bouquet of colorful flowers, standing in a living room with a cat sitting on a table in the background.

Parecia impossível pensar nisto uns meses atrás, mas esta semana defendi a minha tese de doutoramento.
Tenho tanto a agradecer a tanta gente que me ajudou durante estes anos dentro e fora do laboratório.
E sem dúvida à educaçao pública que sem ela não teria nunca chegado aqui. 🧠🐀🧀
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late to share, but still exciting 🤩 our latest paper is now published tinyurl.com/2s4zecr9

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

👏 great work team
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This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Enhorabuena Carlos y a todos los autores 🎉

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New preprint ✍️🚨

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups

tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc

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We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.

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Get in touch if interested!

Nikolai Vavilov and the Living Library of Resilience: The Story of the World’s First Seed Bank and the Tragic Hero of Science Who Set Out to End Humanity’s Suffering The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.

The seeds, the siege, and the world's first living library of resilience – the moving story of botanist Nikolai Vavilov, who set out to salve the world's suffering