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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · 23d

'sit' is, I believe, the only English word to preserve all of its original IE ablaut grades:

0: nest
e: set
long e: seat
o: sat
long o: soot

Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 23d

Historically, the word 'nest' consists of two parts.

The part 'ne-' is related to 'nether', while '-st' is related to 'sit'.

The distant ancestor of 'nest' meant "place to sit down".

'Nest' is also related to Spanish 'nido' and its Romance relatives.

Click my new graphic to learn more:

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a huge fan of standardized tests because they help match students who are more likely to succeed, increase social mobility, and diversify societies leaders.

See this fantastic analysis from Raj Chetty to learn more: opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/u...

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-co…

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Every fancy school that tried this eventually analyzed their data and realized they’d done something very dumb.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2d

Princeton is requiring #SAT scores again for admission because test scores predict student success
But using SAT scores also increases social mobility!
Rich students (top 1%) benefit immensely when there are no test scores because they have legacy & non-academic points (which don't predict success)

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 4d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A parietal grid-like code rotates with cognitive maps but lags rapid behavioral transfer

The neural grid code has been proposed to provide a mechanism for generalization and transfer of relational knowledge between situations enabling rapid adaptation of behavior in novel circumstances. H...

www.biorxiv.org

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 4d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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EC Comics Covers @ec-comicscovers.bsky.social · 4d

The Haunt of Fear n°10 - November-December 1951 https://www.comics.org/issue/9233/

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 8d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 4d

My instinct is to tell them that IB and CB are ubiquitous properties of selective attention and not the result of modern life.

But on thinking about it, I can imagine that urban life makes it easier to ignore the physical characteristics of the person you're talking to. Any evidence for this?

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 4d

@irahyman.bsky.social My students in an attention seminar are asking whether change and inattentional blindness are products of the dense information environment of a city. I was wondering if any one has run e.g. the door study on someone in the country. >

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been asking myself just how much society views high-end academics as a luxury good - they cost a lot and the pay offs are vague and mostly prestige based (no offense to these two), and make sense politically mostly at times of high economic and political stability

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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 18d

Ochre and Red on Red
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4909

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5d

You know that feeling after you accomplish a series of household tasks that you COULD have put off forever but you did them right away? What's that feeling called?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

Preparing some slides on the replication crisis for my undergrad students who were born ca. 2008

a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... ''

Alt: Elrond from Lord of the Rings: `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... ''

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 5d

Just give Americans paprika chips you cowards

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6d

But this is why simple inflation calculations like this over long spans of time (basically anything pre-1950) is a bad idea and why actual comparative economic studies will use more sophisticated international dollar (or 'Geary-Khamis' dollars), though even those struggle pre-1900 or so.

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 6d

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural coding of choice and outcome are modulated by uncertainty in orbitofrontal but not secondary motor cortex - Nature Communications

Neural mechanisms underlying flexible learning and decision-making are not fully understood. Using single-cell calcium imaging, authors here found that neurons in orbitofrontal and secondary motor cortex exhibit complementary roles in reward learning, with neurons in the former exerting a sustained role in conditions of uncertainty.

www.nature.com

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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 8d

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications

Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.

www.nature.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 9d

“Well ACTUALLY I’m making traditional Bulgarian yogurt” is going to be my new stock eyeroll response to appalled questions about the state of my kitchen

This Traditional Yogurt Recipes
Secret Ingredient Has 6 Legs
Scientists recreated a formula involving ants and milk that is used in Bulgarian villages to yield yogurt with an herbaceous flavor.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 9d

Facebook reminds me that this is the anniversary of when a magpie walked into the tutorial room and I had to evacuate the class as it started swooping around the room. It then pooped on a desk before leaving.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10d

Pet Sounds was the Beach Boys' twelfth album.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 10d

In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?

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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 9d

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 25d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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