Shrew
@shrewshrew.bsky.social
Neuroscientist/mouse psychologist and mad about it. She
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@shrewshrew.bsky.social
· May 4
Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
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I know that my complete rejection of the social contract is upsetting to hear when you are in the throes of panicked food preparation under pressure but listen. I can't be anyone other than myself. And myself is a person who will soon eat leftover pie for breakfast
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I know that my complete rejection of the social contract is upsetting to hear when you are in the throes of panicked food preparation under pressure but listen. I can't be anyone other than myself. And myself is a person who will soon eat leftover pie for breakfast
Have to tell you all that we cooked thanksgiving on Tuesday. Monday afternoon I quietly changed the world by simply asking "why are we figuring out what to cook for a few days before we cook"
Been effortlessly enjoying leftovers for days, time is an illusion, I've conquered the meta
Been effortlessly enjoying leftovers for days, time is an illusion, I've conquered the meta
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have to tell you all that we cooked thanksgiving on Tuesday. Monday afternoon I quietly changed the world by simply asking "why are we figuring out what to cook for a few days before we cook"
Been effortlessly enjoying leftovers for days, time is an illusion, I've conquered the meta
Been effortlessly enjoying leftovers for days, time is an illusion, I've conquered the meta
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Like seriously what is wrong with people with too much money
"Im going to the bottom of the ocean" "im going in a volcano" "im going into space" "im climbing a dangerous mountain"
Raise the taxes for their own safety my god
"Im going to the bottom of the ocean" "im going in a volcano" "im going into space" "im climbing a dangerous mountain"
Raise the taxes for their own safety my god
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Like seriously what is wrong with people with too much money
"Im going to the bottom of the ocean" "im going in a volcano" "im going into space" "im climbing a dangerous mountain"
Raise the taxes for their own safety my god
"Im going to the bottom of the ocean" "im going in a volcano" "im going into space" "im climbing a dangerous mountain"
Raise the taxes for their own safety my god
Look babes, I know there's not been a lot to look forward to lately, but we gotta keep our spirits up. It's an imperative. And I know one small thing I can do to help
So just to let you know we are about to be so back
#jamvent
So just to let you know we are about to be so back
#jamvent
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Look babes, I know there's not been a lot to look forward to lately, but we gotta keep our spirits up. It's an imperative. And I know one small thing I can do to help
So just to let you know we are about to be so back
#jamvent
So just to let you know we are about to be so back
#jamvent
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Watching my first article for Free Press Indiana evolve under the careful editing and tutelage of @lisarenze.bsky.social affirms my decision to do this work in this place. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m very proud of it 💜
Do yourself a favor and read this piece from @smashfizzle.bsky.social, her first for Free Press Indiana. How lucky we are to have her with us! mirrorindy.org/harmony-in-h...
At Harmony in Horses young women and wild mustangs help each other heal
How an equine therapy program in rural Indiana helps girls and wild mustangs learn to trust.
mirrorindy.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Watching my first article for Free Press Indiana evolve under the careful editing and tutelage of @lisarenze.bsky.social affirms my decision to do this work in this place. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m very proud of it 💜
Bicycle built for two with a hetero couple where the woman rides in front Challenge (impossible)
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Bicycle built for two with a hetero couple where the woman rides in front Challenge (impossible)
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Excellent day to get this
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Excellent day to get this
Soon we will find the transcription factor combination that uniquely combinatorially produces the single neuron in every brain that selectively responds to Halle Berry
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Soon we will find the transcription factor combination that uniquely combinatorially produces the single neuron in every brain that selectively responds to Halle Berry
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A moister and richer cake "if preferred" hell no brother give me that dry diet cake all day every day
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A moister and richer cake "if preferred" hell no brother give me that dry diet cake all day every day
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Enjoying a short holiday with coffee, a slice of Mom’s poppyseed cake, and the brand new new murder mystery by @sherrythomas.com. Sherry Thomas wrote Ravishing the Heiress, the book that first got me hooked on romance novels if you don’t count Jane Austen
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Enjoying a short holiday with coffee, a slice of Mom’s poppyseed cake, and the brand new new murder mystery by @sherrythomas.com. Sherry Thomas wrote Ravishing the Heiress, the book that first got me hooked on romance novels if you don’t count Jane Austen
If I were a scientist of human motor learning I would study students as they learn the skill of walking backwards while reciting a script for an entire 60 minute campus tour
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If I were a scientist of human motor learning I would study students as they learn the skill of walking backwards while reciting a script for an entire 60 minute campus tour
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a nonzero amount of wanting to ban it is because the chatGPT using people are annoying
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
a nonzero amount of wanting to ban it is because the chatGPT using people are annoying
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November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
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if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
TGIHalloween let's go girls youtu.be/1kGhdyCG6_Q?...
When Shania Twain says "Let's go, girls" I could kick a door off its hinges
YouTube video by Born_Hanged
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
TGIHalloween let's go girls youtu.be/1kGhdyCG6_Q?...
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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you can call this the: fractal dumbass
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
you can call this the: fractal dumbass
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if you ever question your intellect, if you ever think "I'm stupid", remember:
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
The Gods of Logic, by Benjamín Labatut
Before and after artificial intelligence
harpers.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
if you ever question your intellect, if you ever think "I'm stupid", remember:
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
This rat is so healthy looking and there are so many bats. This is giving fat bear week salmon fishing video but for night vision cameras
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This rat is so healthy looking and there are so many bats. This is giving fat bear week salmon fishing video but for night vision cameras
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Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn