Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers is very good, actually.
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Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers is very good, actually.
Wow.
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Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound
My crowning achievement
Thank god, I was worried I was the only one
⚛️ Do molecules have structure?
Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research.
📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...
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⏰ Next week!
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In case you need a distraction from... *gestures broadly at everything* here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨:
Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices.
Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20
I thought that was a tin can knit! That one's on my list :)
If there was any justice in the world, tennis elbow would be more commonly known as knitter’s elbow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
An AI-generated animal alphabet of such intense wrongness (e.g. “O is penguin” by an image of a quail) that it achieves something like sublimity
Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet
source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
Loved the @manymindspod.bsky.social on the function of memory, with @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social. Highly recommended if you didn't listen to it (yet)!
Episode on episodic memory. Another banger from the Many Minds Podcast.
As usual, I am late to the party, but I just finished listening to the fantastic episode on episodic memory from @manymindspod.bsky.social. Super informative interview to @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social. Cheers to the Many Minds Team! Highly recommend!
the moral circle is now available in paperback for the low price of $12! an excellent holiday gift for all the near-future insect and AI welfare advocates in your life :)
If you‘re in London on the 11th December, there’s a great event exploring the role of photography in building empathy towards nonhuman animals. I can really recommend events at this venue, it’s a wonderful space: www.kairos.london/event/why-lo...
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
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The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
If you loved THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, then you'll love its action-packed sequel, PRINCE CASPIAN! The Pevensie children are back, even Edmund, but what about all your favorite friends: Mr. Tumnus, the Beavers, the friendly giant? Well, they've been dead for a thousand years. Sorry.
Article from Des Moines Register 27 November 1908: NO BEER; CAT LEAVES TOWN Feline Deserts Connecticut Village That Went "Dry." WINSTED, Conn., Nov. 28. Fannie, a cat owned by Barreuther Bros., had liking for lager beer. When the town recently voted "dry" her owners went out of business and Fannie missed her drink. For some days she went to her saucer and cried for beer, but as none was forthcoming she disappeared. It is suspected she has gone to the nearest license town.
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
"You seem happier"
Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
