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jmank.bsky.social
Jay/Jess
@jmank.bsky.social
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language acquisitionist, grad student, and fiber artist just trying my best (pronouns: any, queer: always)
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jmank.bsky.social
I saw a crack that looks like an opossum today
crack in the sidewalk that looks like an opossum hanging down
September 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
jmank.bsky.social
…annnd in situ thanks to @neukili.bsky.social! I had a blast as always. Next year in Rio?? 👀👀
a picture of me from the back gesturing at my poster. My matching earring is clearly visible. I have short cropped hair and am wearing a blue sleeveless top.
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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kartikchandra.bsky.social
Thanks to a rogue Partiful RSVP form at #cogsci2025, I seem to have collected an unexpectedly large dataset (N=197) of whether cognitive scientists think the mind is composed of innate, domain-specialized modules…
A bar chart showing frequencies of answers to the question "Is the mind composed of innate, domain-specialized modules?" with N=197. The most prominent bars are no response (~60), yes (~30) and yo (~30). The rest of the entries are funny, e.g. "I hope so."
August 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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francescopoli.bsky.social
At 18:30 UK time, I will be presenting my work on learning and exploration across development at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Glushko Dissertation Prize Session! #CogSci participants can join at this link: underline.io/events/489/s...
CogSci 2025
The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.
underline.io
August 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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maisyhallam.bsky.social
If you like semantic category systems and efficiency biases, come say hi at #CogSci2025!

Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology (P3-H-71, Friday 2 Aug @ 13:00)
uoe-cle.bsky.social Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social · Jul 25
Languages differ dramatically in how they categorise family members - what drives this semantic variation? For 1215 languages, our computational model reveals a hierarchy of semantic features for kinship, suggesting that kin term semantics are optimised for efficient communication. (8/)
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
jmank.bsky.social
I’m here at #CogSci2025! And I made some earrings to match my stimuli! If you want to chat about the ✨emergence of compositional structure in iterated reference games✨, come by my poster today at P1-M-125
a picture of me wearing a blue shirt. I’m showing off a pair of earrings that are two shapes stacked on top of each other. A picture of my poster, which shows that compositional structure only emerges when there is compositional structure in the environment (shapes with subshapes or no subshapes)
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
jmank.bsky.social
What is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? I’m writing abstracts and making figures
June 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
jmank.bsky.social
writing a bu abstract at 10pm at sfo as one does
May 31, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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back back back again here’s some knitwear as penance for disappearing
a picture of me in a hand knit neon rainbow tank top a picture of me in a neon colorwork sweater a picture of some bright colbolt blue yarn on a set of needles
May 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
jmank.bsky.social
I saw some birds at the botanical gardens and thought you’d wanna see them too
A common canary in a backdrop of green An orange cheeked waxbill and a goldfinch
December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
jmank.bsky.social
Hi I’m baaaaaack
November 16, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Spent the weekend dying some rainbow pastel neon yarn to welcome the summer 🌈🧶
Yarn in a little bundle. The colors are splashes of pink and green and blue and yellow The same yarn knit on a sample swatch. The colors pool and pattern in speckles of colors. The yarn in progress in a pan. The colors are more vibrant and pooled A selfie of me in my mask to help filter particulates.
June 23, 2024 at 10:18 PM
jmank.bsky.social
Yarn day yarn day yarn day!! 🧶
Rainbow yarn in the sun. The colors are blue and neon and yellow and pink! The same yarn boiling in a pot. The colors are deeper and more vibrant because they’ve just been applied. A picture of me sprinkling dye into the yarn. A picture of me wearing a respirator.
May 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Trying to spin through my stash of random 1-2oz bits of fiber. First up: mystery wool from chile that I got to practice on my drop spindle 💚💙🧶
Yarn on a niddy noddy. It’s blue and green with stripes of barber-poles blends The same yarn held in my hand with better lighting ti show the colors The same yarn held against my window
May 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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I lost my password to this account but I FOUND IT and I have NEWS I’ve been dying yarn and roving and spinning and have run out of storage so I’ve opened a shop! Please buy my stuff! It deserves to be loved and used by someone more creative than me! 🧶🌈 https://follyfibers.etsy.com
FollyFibers - Etsy
Shop Yarn, Fiber, and Supplies by FollyFibers located in Madison, Wisconsin.
follyfibers.etsy.com
May 12, 2024 at 5:52 PM
jmank.bsky.social
Spring spring spring spring spring (my north-facing window’s light catcher is catching light!!)
A picture of my couch which sits under a window. There is a beam of light streaming through which is being caught by a light catcher. The light catcher is throwing rainbow specks across the couch.
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
jmank.bsky.social
Me? opening an Etsy shop? More likely than you’d think (actually it’s been very likely I don’t have space for all the things I’m making)
February 28, 2024 at 6:02 AM
jmank.bsky.social
Broke out my spinning wheel last night and spun up some roving that I dyed all by myself!!!! 🧶💖💙
Roving hanging ti dry outside on a bike storage tent. The roving is blue and pink! Now yarn has been spun into singles on two bobbins. The yarn stripes in pink and blue like the roving The yarn is plied and twisted into a hank. Now the colors blend and twist into stripes of blue and pink and barberpole combinations of the two spun together The same hank if yarn now displayed into a neat pile
February 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
jmank.bsky.social
I told my mom about the girl I’m dating which I’m realizing, several hours later, was the first time I’ve been explicit about my queerness to her and it really didn’t phase either of us
February 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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maybe I should start an etsy shop
January 7, 2024 at 12:31 AM
jmank.bsky.social
I don’t really want to go back to the real world tomorrow
January 6, 2024 at 3:52 AM
jmank.bsky.social
I dyed some roving all by myself and didn’t felt it are you proud of me?? 🍬🧶
Roving in a braid spun into a spiral. The colors are teal, pink, and slight gradients of purple. A different braid of the same colorway, but folded in half.
January 5, 2024 at 10:44 PM
jmank.bsky.social
Watch out everyone indie yarn dyer Jess is coming through 😈🧶
Bundles of yarn and wool displayed on a table. There is a gradient set of purples, blues, and pinks. And another gradient set of pinks and yellows. There are two bundles of wool in orange yellow and a set of miscellaneous browns and purples. Five jars of dye with yarn in them. The colors are neon pink and orange and purple. A bundle of the gradient purple through yellow yarn Jars of yarn sitting on a shelf.
January 3, 2024 at 7:42 PM
jmank.bsky.social
viridis yarn experiment in progress?? 🧶🧪
Yarn dying in jars. The colors work out from a bright yellow through green and blue to a dark purple. The viridis color palette, which is a scientific palette that has the same gradient from yellow to purple.
December 26, 2023 at 10:50 PM