Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
Wine... Cognitive Science... Photography... tech stuff... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
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Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Here are a few more from the same series (📷 credit: myself, Post Malone sound check, New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dec 31, 2019):
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Great interdisciplinary perspective!
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories
Cognitive technologies are socially acquired and culturally evolved systems whose primary function is cognitive. There is a tremendous untapped opportunity for a broad range of disciplines across the....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Great interdisciplinary perspective!
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Used Grok briefly to query info on an astronomy thing I just heard on NPR (about a weird constant) and at the end, Grok signed off by wishing me "Clear skies, and constant constants."
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Used Grok briefly to query info on an astronomy thing I just heard on NPR (about a weird constant) and at the end, Grok signed off by wishing me "Clear skies, and constant constants."
From a "sponsored ad" on ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
From a "sponsored ad" on ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
#DataCenters need efficient ways to keep cool. Corintis, a Swiss company, is developing microfluidics for cooling, where liquid is channeled directly to specific parts of a chip. It’s three times as efficient as existing cooling methods.
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#DataCenters need efficient ways to keep cool. Corintis, a Swiss company, is developing microfluidics for cooling, where liquid is channeled directly to specific parts of a chip. It’s three times as efficient as existing cooling methods.
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidic...
No, Google, I did not mean that.
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
No, Google, I did not mean that.
Sorry... the airspace above Venezuela?!?!
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sorry... the airspace above Venezuela?!?!
Where is this? Is that Chinatown? What is going on?
Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Where is this? Is that Chinatown? What is going on?
I read, and I know things.
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I read, and I know things.
The dumbest thing about where I live is the bus does not run on Saturdays.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The dumbest thing about where I live is the bus does not run on Saturdays.
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Confession: I often find the diagrams in machine learning papers rather useless.
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Confession: I often find the diagrams in machine learning papers rather useless.
acetylcholine governs evidence accumulation in tasks that require it (in mice)
The basal forebrain plays the cortex like a piano.
A cholinergic mechanism orchestrating task-dependent computation across the cortex
In an ever-changing environment, animals often need to switch between performing different tasks involving distinct sets of cognitive processes. Many such tasks involve neural activity distributed acr...
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
acetylcholine governs evidence accumulation in tasks that require it (in mice)
Sorry. I was reading a 2009 Jürgen Schmidhuber paper on beauty and creativity as data compression, and went down a twelve-tone music rabbit hole.
Here's Alex Rockwell on Zappa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9I...
Here's Alex Rockwell on Zappa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9I...
The 12-Tone Music of Frank Zappa
YouTube video by Alex Rockwell
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Sorry. I was reading a 2009 Jürgen Schmidhuber paper on beauty and creativity as data compression, and went down a twelve-tone music rabbit hole.
Here's Alex Rockwell on Zappa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9I...
Here's Alex Rockwell on Zappa:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9I...
Interesting: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02813
arxiv.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Interesting: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02813
Oh, wow! Heating your home in Vermont winter is expensive!
Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp just filed to sell more shares of $PLTR, for almost $100 million.
Palantir is now down -25% since Michael Burry disclosed his short position.
Palantir is now down -25% since Michael Burry disclosed his short position.
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Oh, wow! Heating your home in Vermont winter is expensive!
Shaws Christmas trees: $119, with a flimsy black plastic stand.
Boy Scout Christmas trees: $45, no stand, but they will deliver it to your house.
#Vermont
Boy Scout Christmas trees: $45, no stand, but they will deliver it to your house.
#Vermont
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Shaws Christmas trees: $119, with a flimsy black plastic stand.
Boy Scout Christmas trees: $45, no stand, but they will deliver it to your house.
#Vermont
Boy Scout Christmas trees: $45, no stand, but they will deliver it to your house.
#Vermont
On the one hand this is striking, and probably biasing people's fears, particularly of homicide and terrorism, on this scale. On the other hand, if it's typical and ordinary, it isn't newsworthy, so you would expect heart disease and cancer to go largely unreported, because they are so typical.
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
On the one hand this is striking, and probably biasing people's fears, particularly of homicide and terrorism, on this scale. On the other hand, if it's typical and ordinary, it isn't newsworthy, so you would expect heart disease and cancer to go largely unreported, because they are so typical.
Tonight's reading, via Twitter:
(Javed & Sutton, Big World Hypothesis)
openreview.net/pdf?id=Sv7Da...
(Javed & Sutton, Big World Hypothesis)
openreview.net/pdf?id=Sv7Da...
openreview.net
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Tonight's reading, via Twitter:
(Javed & Sutton, Big World Hypothesis)
openreview.net/pdf?id=Sv7Da...
(Javed & Sutton, Big World Hypothesis)
openreview.net/pdf?id=Sv7Da...
Alone for Thanksgiving, so after a bit of decision paralysis in the store (yesterday) I'm having ocean perch fillets on a green salad of red leaf lettuce, sliced avocado, and green apple, with savory herb stuffing, and canned cranberry sauce.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Alone for Thanksgiving, so after a bit of decision paralysis in the store (yesterday) I'm having ocean perch fillets on a green salad of red leaf lettuce, sliced avocado, and green apple, with savory herb stuffing, and canned cranberry sauce.
I think I see the problem:
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I think I see the problem:
Oh, no... What does "fix it" mean?
(national mall reflecting pool)
(national mall reflecting pool)
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh, no... What does "fix it" mean?
(national mall reflecting pool)
(national mall reflecting pool)
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone hiding in a bathroom as long as possible to escape family who you can hear asking where you are.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone hiding in a bathroom as long as possible to escape family who you can hear asking where you are.
When I was a grad student in the infant lab, the postdocs all claimed that the best time to have a baby was during the postdoc (no leave, just good autonomy over your schedule, and a very low non-research load.) My advisor (the lab PI) claimed the second best time was "when we need subjects."
What actually happens when an academic gets pregnant, takes leave and then returns to work?
How UK universities are failing mothers on their staff
What actually happens when an academic gets pregnant, takes leave and then returns to work?
tcnv.link
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When I was a grad student in the infant lab, the postdocs all claimed that the best time to have a baby was during the postdoc (no leave, just good autonomy over your schedule, and a very low non-research load.) My advisor (the lab PI) claimed the second best time was "when we need subjects."