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building a new 🧠 in the skull of the old [ADHD enjoyer] ~ wriggle 'n twist like ⚡ to the ground, freedom is an endless 🔥 [🏴] ~ vulgar pseud [call center worker] ~ confused by nonhuman ethics & agency; studying biophysics & geometry 101 [🆘️]
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Our commentary @stigchel.bsky.social on Ruth Rosenholtz' Visual Attention in Crisis paper is now available:
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
We argue that effort must be considered when aiming to quantify capacity limits or a task's complexity.
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
We argue that effort must be considered when aiming to quantify capacity limits or a task's complexity.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our commentary @stigchel.bsky.social on Ruth Rosenholtz' Visual Attention in Crisis paper is now available:
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
We argue that effort must be considered when aiming to quantify capacity limits or a task's complexity.
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
We argue that effort must be considered when aiming to quantify capacity limits or a task's complexity.
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First growth, then information: the path to genetic heredity in protocells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688785v1
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
First growth, then information: the path to genetic heredity in protocells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688785v1
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Not directly related to @neurograce.bsky.social’s comment here but to the thread: I am baffled by the number of people who seem to think the claim is that all brain computation is low-d vs. the *emprical* finding that task-related neural activity is (linear) low-d in many (not all) cases.
This kind of stuff is why I say that I worry that the tools of neuroscience are not properly vetted
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Not directly related to @neurograce.bsky.social’s comment here but to the thread: I am baffled by the number of people who seem to think the claim is that all brain computation is low-d vs. the *emprical* finding that task-related neural activity is (linear) low-d in many (not all) cases.
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Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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every crew has a homeboy who seems just as hoary old Armilus to have been born from sexual union with a stone - half-lame, half-blind, half-leprous, bald, fun at parties
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
every crew has a homeboy who seems just as hoary old Armilus to have been born from sexual union with a stone - half-lame, half-blind, half-leprous, bald, fun at parties
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It’s unfortunate to watch neuroscientists debating about whether spike rates or oscillatory dynamics are more important for cognition when Kant already showed that it’s done by the transcendental ego and so won’t appear in any time-series data.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s unfortunate to watch neuroscientists debating about whether spike rates or oscillatory dynamics are more important for cognition when Kant already showed that it’s done by the transcendental ego and so won’t appear in any time-series data.
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link.springer.com/article/10.1... In 2023, over a few beers in Lisbon, Devon Cass and I teamed up to explore whether animals can be subjected to the kinds of wrongs relational egalitarians are concerned with. The result was this paper just published in Philosophical Studies:
Relational equality and the status of animals - Philosophical Studies
Can the ideal of relational equality—or, more generally, the relational approach to justice—be applied to animals? Animals have, across time and place, held different social statuses (e.g. as incarnat...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... In 2023, over a few beers in Lisbon, Devon Cass and I teamed up to explore whether animals can be subjected to the kinds of wrongs relational egalitarians are concerned with. The result was this paper just published in Philosophical Studies:
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For anyone interested in stochastic dynamics, nonequilibrium/critical phenomena, Langevin equations, etc, I *strongly* recommend these new lectures (40x 40 min) by Erwin Frey (LMU Munich). Outstanding.
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Nonequilibrium Physics -- Stochastic Dynamics & Field Theories - YouTube
This lecture explores the fundamental principles and advanced concepts of nonequilibrium field theories and stochastic dynamics. The course focuses on stocha...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
For anyone interested in stochastic dynamics, nonequilibrium/critical phenomena, Langevin equations, etc, I *strongly* recommend these new lectures (40x 40 min) by Erwin Frey (LMU Munich). Outstanding.
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www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
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So I want to put this in some brief context real fast, so this shows ~6 uniformed agents and two members of BORTAC in their Multi cam uniforms to arrest one person, and by Border Patrols own numbers they arrested 81 people yesterday www.reuters.com/world/us/us-....
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So I want to put this in some brief context real fast, so this shows ~6 uniformed agents and two members of BORTAC in their Multi cam uniforms to arrest one person, and by Border Patrols own numbers they arrested 81 people yesterday www.reuters.com/world/us/us-....
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Great review that pinpoints many critical gaps in the field! The PS "paradigm" needs to be tested/confirmed properly in cellulo in native conditions. Not easy.
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Great review that pinpoints many critical gaps in the field! The PS "paradigm" needs to be tested/confirmed properly in cellulo in native conditions. Not easy.
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My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!
Wound healing is a hallmark feature of all life, including single cells. In a new preprint, Ambika Nadkarni @biochembika.bsky.social investigates a new dimension in cellular wound healing: how cells recover AFTER the wound has been closed
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My awesome advisor @wallaceucsf.bsky.social summarizes our new #preprint on a syntaxin that’s important for #healing wounds in the ciliate #Stentor!
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Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
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Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)
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This is the clearest, neatest articulation of life here in 2025. This paragraph…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is the clearest, neatest articulation of life here in 2025. This paragraph…
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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hey remember earlier today when the world’s richest man demanded a deal to become a trillionaire by building a billion robot army to end hunger and crime immediately after he killed over half a million people, that thing that happened in real life earlier?
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
hey remember earlier today when the world’s richest man demanded a deal to become a trillionaire by building a billion robot army to end hunger and crime immediately after he killed over half a million people, that thing that happened in real life earlier?
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2/11 The examples are many and varied, from sunfish that jump out of the water for no apparent reason to turtles and bearded dragons that play with dogs (playing ball or tug-of-war with toys).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAl...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
2/11 The examples are many and varied, from sunfish that jump out of the water for no apparent reason to turtles and bearded dragons that play with dogs (playing ball or tug-of-war with toys).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAl...
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First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E
@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social
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WHOOP 🤡 WHOOP 🚨 that's the sound of clown police
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
WHOOP 🤡 WHOOP 🚨 that's the sound of clown police
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there is a special lounge in pape heaven reserved for authors who take the time to aggregate and plot out how species vary across a physical variable
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
there is a special lounge in pape heaven reserved for authors who take the time to aggregate and plot out how species vary across a physical variable