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DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social
· Jul 5
Great talk by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social on reviewing ideas around the scaling of intelligence in unconventional substrates
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"Scaling Intelligence in Biology, Artificial Life, and Beyond" by Michael Levin
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
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Dr. Michael Levin continues groundbreaking work,sparking epic conversations. Great talk here… ✨
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Pets completely protect against mental decline from living alone.
9-year study of 7,945 older adults: People living alone with pets kept their mental sharpness just as well as those living with family.
Your dog or cat might be saving your brain.
9-year study of 7,945 older adults: People living alone with pets kept their mental sharpness just as well as those living with family.
Your dog or cat might be saving your brain.
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Why we dance: The surprising link between talking, music, and moving to the beat. My latest essay @psychtoday.bsky.social adapted from my forthcoming @mitpress.bsky.social book, Wired for Words. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...
Why We Dance
Ever wonder why humans can't resist moving to music? The answer connects dancing to speech in a surprising way—and explains why parrots are our unlikely partners in rhythm.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Great work by Gasper Begus and team. AI helping us to understand our world in new ways… hat tip National Geographic…✨🐳✨😊✨
Thank you National Geographic and @chameauleon.bsky.social for featuring our research! By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva and Shane Gero.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Exclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like 'vowels'
The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Great work by Gasper Begus and team. AI helping us to understand our world in new ways… hat tip National Geographic…✨🐳✨😊✨
This is literally a cool read… 😎
🔥 As chips grow more powerful, they also grow hotter. In the #IEEESpectrum November issue, explore the thermal challenges shaping the future of #computing + 4 big ideas to cool things down. @spectrum.ieee.org
Read the special report: 🔗 https://loom.ly/aa9gKHU
Read the special report: 🔗 https://loom.ly/aa9gKHU
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is literally a cool read… 😎
Good tips…
Our greatest asset as researchers isn’t just our CV, but our reputation. And reputations in science, like compound interest, grow slowly but can disappear instantly.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Good tips…
Reposted by DeBarra Shaw
How the brain’s ability to model creates explosions in intelligence, from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social's Long Now Talk.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How the brain’s ability to model creates explosions in intelligence, from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social's Long Now Talk.
Deep thought for the day…
new paper with @robertchisciure.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era"
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Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era - Synthese
This paper formalizes biological intelligence as search efficiency in multi-scale problem spaces, aiming to resolve epistemic deadlocks in the basal “cognition wars” unfolding in the Diverse Intellige...
link.springer.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Deep thought for the day…
Great talk…
Our research downstreams into pedagogy!
My talk on Language, AI, and Education has been featured by Texas Language Center. I present pedagogical approaches to creative writing, technical and qualitative interpretability techniques, and narrative capacities of LLMs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ql...
My talk on Language, AI, and Education has been featured by Texas Language Center. I present pedagogical approaches to creative writing, technical and qualitative interpretability techniques, and narrative capacities of LLMs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ql...
Language Matters! The Language Machine: AI, Language, and Education
YouTube video by TLC UT-Austin
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Great talk…
Gorgeous shot freshens the heart. Thanks Anna!
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Gorgeous shot freshens the heart. Thanks Anna!
New 3D method contributing to a big step for Parkinson’s disease treatment…
Important study shows that a new 3D method can efficiently produce dopamine neuron precursors from stem cells. The researchers also tracked how these cells grow and connect after transplantation, big step for Parkinson’s disease treatment!
cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New 3D method contributing to a big step for Parkinson’s disease treatment…
Reposted by DeBarra Shaw
Did you know the lifetime of Whole Earth Catalog, starting in 01968, has been archived, preserved, and indexed? Thanks to @archive.org and Grey Area you can read nearly every issue at wholeearth.info
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Did you know the lifetime of Whole Earth Catalog, starting in 01968, has been archived, preserved, and indexed? Thanks to @archive.org and Grey Area you can read nearly every issue at wholeearth.info
Spatial skills have practical ties to robotics and more…
Spatial Cognition by Nora S. Newcombe: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.f1b0237e
October 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Spatial skills have practical ties to robotics and more…
Massive AI demands and cooling methods…
Fans are no longer enough to cool down #datacenters, as the massive demands of #AI heat up. Data centers are moving to liquid cooling methods to keep running efficiently. But which method will emerge as the industry standard? spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-...
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Massive AI demands and cooling methods…
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"If, one day, universal laws for how both AI and brains learn or think are discovered, a debt (perhaps, even, a unit name) will be owed to What Is Intelligence?"
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "What Is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social:
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "What Is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social:
What Isn’t Intelligence? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Patrick House is inspired by Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s “What Is Intelligence?” to think about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"If, one day, universal laws for how both AI and brains learn or think are discovered, a debt (perhaps, even, a unit name) will be owed to What Is Intelligence?"
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "What Is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social:
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews "What Is Intelligence?" by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social:
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#CellBio community, this one is for you! Applications are open for the #LakeConference on Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues – co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
📆 April 20-22, 2026
📍 Seattle, USA
🔬 All career stages welcomed.
Apply to attend by 12/12: alleninstitute.org/events/aics-...
2026 Lake Conference: Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues
Join the Allen Institute for Cell Science and Circuit Neuroscience Basel in Seattle, Washington, April 20–22, 2026, for a 3 day conference, Modeling...
alleninstitute.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is really interesting… Are diamonds a chip’s best friend? :)
Can Diamonds Solve the Chip Heat Dilemma?
Can Diamonds Solve the Chip Heat Dilemma?
Stanford's diamond innovation could redefine chip cooling, making electronics more efficient and powerful.
spectrum.ieee.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is really interesting… Are diamonds a chip’s best friend? :)
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Next month, join author @blaiseaguera.bsky.social at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social to discuss his new book "What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds." A Q&A and signing will follow. Link for details: www.semcoop.com/event/blaise...
October 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Fascinating work! ✨
🔥 "The Perception and Learning of 4D Object Geometry in Humans and Machines" 🔥
Master thesis work by Raihan Gafur.
Check out his awesome blog post series!
raihanthecooldude.com/spaceland-ep...
Master thesis work by Raihan Gafur.
Check out his awesome blog post series!
raihanthecooldude.com/spaceland-ep...
Spaceland – Ep. 01 – When the Brain Meets the Fourth Dimension: Exploring Mental Rotation in 4D Objects – Raihan Gafur
raihanthecooldude.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Fascinating work! ✨
Lots to learn here… ✨
Here's a talk that's quite different from ones I've given before, although it has connections to everything I often talk about, presented at #alife2025:
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Meet a new synthetic colleague: robot science as a translation tool between diverse intelligences
A video, and downloadable slides, of a presentation I gave on robot science and Xenobots at the 2025 Artificial Life meeting.
thoughtforms.life
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Lots to learn here… ✨
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social have teamed up to learn more about what early-career neuroscientists need.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
October 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
@thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social have teamed up to learn more about what early-career neuroscientists need.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
Latest Long Now Talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas connecting evolutionary dots between life, computation and symbiogenesis… ✨
To answer to the question "what is intelligence?" @blaiseaguera.bsky.social connects the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis in the latest Long Now Talk:
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youtu.be/KhSJuqDUJME?...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | What is Intelligence? | Long Now Talks
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
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October 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Latest Long Now Talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas connecting evolutionary dots between life, computation and symbiogenesis… ✨
Reposted by DeBarra Shaw
🗣️ Call for papers!
PRESENCE, a journal devoted to research on teleoperation & virtual environments, is seeking papers for its special issue "Immersed into the Metaverse: Ethnographies of Presence & Embodiment in Virtual Reality."
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2026.
Learn more: direct.mit.edu/pvar
PRESENCE, a journal devoted to research on teleoperation & virtual environments, is seeking papers for its special issue "Immersed into the Metaverse: Ethnographies of Presence & Embodiment in Virtual Reality."
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2026.
Learn more: direct.mit.edu/pvar
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🗣️ Call for papers!
PRESENCE, a journal devoted to research on teleoperation & virtual environments, is seeking papers for its special issue "Immersed into the Metaverse: Ethnographies of Presence & Embodiment in Virtual Reality."
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2026.
Learn more: direct.mit.edu/pvar
PRESENCE, a journal devoted to research on teleoperation & virtual environments, is seeking papers for its special issue "Immersed into the Metaverse: Ethnographies of Presence & Embodiment in Virtual Reality."
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2026.
Learn more: direct.mit.edu/pvar
Reposted by DeBarra Shaw
📺 New Video Drop ✅
@vivianeclay.bsky.social walks through Q3 progress and the priorities for Q4.
- improving Monty’s compositional modeling,
- ease of use, and
- theoretical grounding in behavior.
Watch now: youtu.be/3LN5SeSJhOg?...
@vivianeclay.bsky.social walks through Q3 progress and the priorities for Q4.
- improving Monty’s compositional modeling,
- ease of use, and
- theoretical grounding in behavior.
Watch now: youtu.be/3LN5SeSJhOg?...
2025/10 - 2025 Q3 Review
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
📺 New Video Drop ✅
@vivianeclay.bsky.social walks through Q3 progress and the priorities for Q4.
- improving Monty’s compositional modeling,
- ease of use, and
- theoretical grounding in behavior.
Watch now: youtu.be/3LN5SeSJhOg?...
@vivianeclay.bsky.social walks through Q3 progress and the priorities for Q4.
- improving Monty’s compositional modeling,
- ease of use, and
- theoretical grounding in behavior.
Watch now: youtu.be/3LN5SeSJhOg?...
Reposted by DeBarra Shaw
Neuroscience of Language by Gesa Hartwigsen: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9793d1ae
October 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Neuroscience of Language by Gesa Hartwigsen: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9793d1ae
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Good night, dear Bibliophiles🍂
BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.
art by Timothy Adam Matthews
BookCat was under the weather today, but hopes to return tomorrow.
art by Timothy Adam Matthews
October 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So cozy… 📘📙📗🐈💖