Shrew
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Neuroscientist/mouse psychologist and mad about it. She
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@shrewshrew.bsky.social
· May 4
Today I am wondering about the insights we could have about the brain if we didn't insist that it recapitulates western power structures
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
For example, to what degree are our hypotheses about prefrontal cortex limited because we call its processes "executive functions" instead of like, "mothering"
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A moister and richer cake "if preferred" hell no brother give me that dry diet cake all day every day
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A moister and richer cake "if preferred" hell no brother give me that dry diet cake all day every day
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Enjoying a short holiday with coffee, a slice of Mom’s poppyseed cake, and the brand new new murder mystery by @sherrythomas.com. Sherry Thomas wrote Ravishing the Heiress, the book that first got me hooked on romance novels if you don’t count Jane Austen
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Enjoying a short holiday with coffee, a slice of Mom’s poppyseed cake, and the brand new new murder mystery by @sherrythomas.com. Sherry Thomas wrote Ravishing the Heiress, the book that first got me hooked on romance novels if you don’t count Jane Austen
If I were a scientist of human motor learning I would study students as they learn the skill of walking backwards while reciting a script for an entire 60 minute campus tour
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If I were a scientist of human motor learning I would study students as they learn the skill of walking backwards while reciting a script for an entire 60 minute campus tour
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a nonzero amount of wanting to ban it is because the chatGPT using people are annoying
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
a nonzero amount of wanting to ban it is because the chatGPT using people are annoying
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November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene
A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”
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if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
if you weren't supposed to invest in them then why are they named financiers
TGIHalloween let's go girls youtu.be/1kGhdyCG6_Q?...
When Shania Twain says "Let's go, girls" I could kick a door off its hinges
YouTube video by Born_Hanged
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
TGIHalloween let's go girls youtu.be/1kGhdyCG6_Q?...
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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you can call this the: fractal dumbass
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
you can call this the: fractal dumbass
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if you ever question your intellect, if you ever think "I'm stupid", remember:
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
The Gods of Logic, by Benjamín Labatut
Before and after artificial intelligence
harpers.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
if you ever question your intellect, if you ever think "I'm stupid", remember:
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
Hinton thinks a neural network is smarter than him! "He says that what changed his mind was the realization that we had, in fact, not replicated our intelligence, but created a superior one." harpers.org/archive/2024...
This rat is so healthy looking and there are so many bats. This is giving fat bear week salmon fishing video but for night vision cameras
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This rat is so healthy looking and there are so many bats. This is giving fat bear week salmon fishing video but for night vision cameras
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Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Talk about an in-flight meal.
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
I've got friends in high places (the sky)
What a charming #Egyptian bronze figure of a shrew! Since shrews are animals that find their way in the dark they were connected to the descending phase of the sun’s nocturnal journey. Late Period (746-332 B.C).
On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 🏺
📷 me
On display at Museum Hohentübingen. 🏺
📷 me
October 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I've got friends in high places (the sky)
Hello advent calendar fans, please consider making a recurring donation to your local food pantry. You will enjoy it even more if you can chip in to help others to get enough food. Even if the government decides to stop being ghoulish, there's still a deep need
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hello advent calendar fans, please consider making a recurring donation to your local food pantry. You will enjoy it even more if you can chip in to help others to get enough food. Even if the government decides to stop being ghoulish, there's still a deep need
Welcome one and all to the friar's club roast of the rest of my tomato harvest
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Welcome one and all to the friar's club roast of the rest of my tomato harvest
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Teaching, research, service, jamina
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Teaching, research, service, jamina
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This is historic.
It may be the first CTE verdict in global sport.
Ever.
It may be the first CTE verdict in global sport.
Ever.
Finally a bit of justice: the NCAA owes $18 million for knowingly inflicting head trauma on a former SC State football player. Think of the precedent this sets.
www.thestate.com/news/local/c...
www.thestate.com/news/local/c...
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is historic.
It may be the first CTE verdict in global sport.
Ever.
It may be the first CTE verdict in global sport.
Ever.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with rolling over and smashing the snooze like a bunch of times
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A journey of a thousand miles begins with rolling over and smashing the snooze like a bunch of times
Hello everyone should I do the Advent calendars this year or no? I got derailed by covid last year and have remained derailed by life events
Perhaps it's a sign? Perhaps taste testing tiny jam jars and getting mad about it is a young woman's game. Or a very old woman's game. And yet I'm so suited
Perhaps it's a sign? Perhaps taste testing tiny jam jars and getting mad about it is a young woman's game. Or a very old woman's game. And yet I'm so suited
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Hello everyone should I do the Advent calendars this year or no? I got derailed by covid last year and have remained derailed by life events
Perhaps it's a sign? Perhaps taste testing tiny jam jars and getting mad about it is a young woman's game. Or a very old woman's game. And yet I'm so suited
Perhaps it's a sign? Perhaps taste testing tiny jam jars and getting mad about it is a young woman's game. Or a very old woman's game. And yet I'm so suited
The already bossy and incredibly strong cat is obsessed with trying to sneak some of the matcha latte I made myself. I just caught her trying to stick her paw in the mug. Imagine if cats discovered caffeinated milk. Haven't we been through enough turmoil
October 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The already bossy and incredibly strong cat is obsessed with trying to sneak some of the matcha latte I made myself. I just caught her trying to stick her paw in the mug. Imagine if cats discovered caffeinated milk. Haven't we been through enough turmoil
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The etymology of exploitation
![Text reads "It follows from this science [conceived by Saint Simon] that the tendency of the human race is from a state of antagonism to that of an universal peaceful association — from the dominating influence of the military spirit to that of the industriel one; from what they call l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme to the exploitation of the globe by industry. [Quarterly Review, April & July 1831]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3x3igdztacu474aep6icqwy5/bafkreibpczogxz745pstkg6ek2vtggs3zp2yqoptftzp4v53nbvfssknka@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The etymology of exploitation