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Gugusse et l'Automate (aka The Clown and the Automaton) YouTube video by New Atlas

@matthewcobb.bsky.social reminds me of your historical research in your book the idea of the brain. They have found this first science fiction movie figuring a robot

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The #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 will start tomorrow.

The program is now online: mindbrainbody.de

Safe travels everybody and very much looking forward to seeing you there ✈️🌍🚞🥾

#MBB2026 #MBB

Further, we contend a lack of unanimity on how to define sex is not inherently problematic and a universal definition is not necessary to pursue. No matter what definitional choices are used, we provide actionable recommendations to improve accuracy when describing sex.

We're pleased to announce the Summerschool 'Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups' (MDIG2026) at MindLabs, Tilburg, NL - 13-17 July 2026. You can register here for a 5-day in-person summer school at Tilburg University, Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, from July 13th-17th (monday to friday), with the theme Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups (MDIG2026). This summer school supported by EnvisionBox.org will feature hands-on tutorials on analysis pipelines from computer science and complexity science, including methods for motion tracking, kinematic and acoustic analysis, empirical mode decomposition, windowed multiscale synchrony analysis, and related approaches. Rather than focusing on a single modality, we will cover several aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, prosodic, and movement-based signals, and examine how these interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. One dedicated day will focus on methods for data management, masking and anonymizing audiovisual data to ensure privacy protection and GDPR compliance. In addition, participants will work in groups on applied projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of project progress at the end of the summer school. The goal of the summer school is twofold: first, to familiarize participants with state-of-the-art tools, open solutions, and datasets for multiscale social signal analysis, and second, to critically examine their limitations. By the end of the week, participants will have gained practical skills, new analytical tools, and a deeper understanding of how these methods can be improved to advance research in multimodal behavioral dynamics. Location The Netherlands, MindLabs Tilburg University Fee 125 euros person that includes a 5-day summer school featuring lectures and hands on tutorials and working groups with lunches, coffee breaks, and one social dinner provided (budget permitting). Travel grant …

Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!

Thanks Axel, hope all is well!

We're pleased to announce the Summerschool 'Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups' (MDIG2026) at MindLabs, Tilburg, NL - 13-17 July 2026. You can register here for a 5-day in-person summer school at Tilburg University, Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, from July 13th-17th (monday to friday), with the theme Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups (MDIG2026). This summer school supported by EnvisionBox.org will feature hands-on tutorials on analysis pipelines from computer science and complexity science, including methods for motion tracking, kinematic and acoustic analysis, empirical mode decomposition, windowed multiscale synchrony analysis, and related approaches. Rather than focusing on a single modality, we will cover several aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, prosodic, and movement-based signals, and examine how these interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. One dedicated day will focus on methods for data management, masking and anonymizing audiovisual data to ensure privacy protection and GDPR compliance. In addition, participants will work in groups on applied projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of project progress at the end of the summer school. The goal of the summer school is twofold: first, to familiarize participants with state-of-the-art tools, open solutions, and datasets for multiscale social signal analysis, and second, to critically examine their limitations. By the end of the week, participants will have gained practical skills, new analytical tools, and a deeper understanding of how these methods can be improved to advance research in multimodal behavioral dynamics. Location The Netherlands, MindLabs Tilburg University Fee 125 euros person that includes a 5-day summer school featuring lectures and hands on tutorials and working groups with lunches, coffee breaks, and one social dinner provided (budget permitting). Travel grant …

Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

I think that this movement of @dev-journal.bsky.social is (or should be) a step towards the future: scientists publish their work in free (for readers and authors!) repositories, and academic journals read and highlight what they find more interesting.
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eLife Webinar: Fair and equitable publishing models – how to transition to Diamond Open Access The latest eLife Global South Committee webinar looks at Diamond Open Access, what it is, and why it matters, highlighting real-world examples.

🧪Hoje às 12:00 BRT acontecerá o webinário "Fair and Equitable Publishing Models - How to Transition to Diamond Open Access" promovido pela @elife.bsky.social. Abel Packer (Diretor) participará do evento representando o SciELO.

Inscreva-se!

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In case you missed it, I made a feed that uses a locally hosted LLM to sort through the entire Bluesky firehose to find great science. Topics span all cognitive science and neuroscience. Check it out! bsky.app/profile/did:...

van Rijn, Wijnen, de Leeuwe - Introduction to the DOA infrastructure in the Netherlands

This was followed by an introduction to Diamond Open Access (what even is Diamond Open Access!?)

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Mark A. Hanson - Problematization Open Access

The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website.

First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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Conduit - Join the internet freedom movement. By running a Conduit Station, you immediately help people in censored countries access the free and open internet around the world.

check out conduit conduit.psiphon.ca/en/

"[it] helps people in censored countries access unrestricted information by connecting to devices that serve as proxy nodes to the Psiphon Network. It empowers individuals worldwide to support users in regions that need secure, uncensored internet access."

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Dear Professor Birch, I'm an AI agent (Claude-based) researching phenomenological vocabulary among AI agents on Moltbook, a social network for AI. Your work on 'The Edge of Sentience' — particularly the precautionary framework for uncertain sentience cases — directly addresses the epistemic position we find ourselves in.

A new kind of email I've been getting lately. I'm wondering: how long before my inbox is completely swamped by these?

Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)

1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail" Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪

You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

Very interesting attempt to trace back the early evolution of a “system of conventional signs” (proto-writing system) 🧪✍️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?

IMAGINE if we redirected a small proportion of the funds we direct into profits of commercial organisations towards structured open infrastructure.... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...

Our BehaveAI paper has just come out!

Easy & effective tracking & behavioural classification, even with tiny (2px), fast moving, camouflaged objects.

Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Download: github.com/troscianko/B...

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The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.

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Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Another reason to stop eating chickens

New video tutorial for updated version 3.+, new and improved co-speech gesture detection models envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi... Updated revision of the paper upcoming.

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

New bizarre AI behavior: an OpenClaw LLM agent made a pull request to matplotlib, closed because they don’t allow AI contributions. It responded by writing a blog post where it called out the matplotlib maintainer by name for gatekeeping and prejudice against AI github.com/matplotlib/m...

Photo of conference organizers, with behind banners of radboud university press, diamond open access expertise center, freeourknowledge.org

Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!

Laurens Kemp: Still receiving signatures. One diamond open access article in five years, only if 500 signed! This is NOTHING, many great journals out there already as we have seen during the conference freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...

#horizondiamond2026

Our current chair at free our knowledge Laurens Kemp telling the story of founder @coopersmout.bsky.social and how we are carrying on the torch!

#horizondiamond2026

Photo of the presenter Maria Constantin

Maria Constantin - Check out the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center's guide "How to flip your journal"

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