DominicK
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A fascinating new paper by Amanda Royka and colleagues explores why monkeys fail false belief tasks.
A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge.
Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge.
Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the evolutionary roots of theory of mind: Primate errors on false belief tasks reveal representational limits
Human adults flexibly reason about others' unobservable mental states, a capacity known as Theory of Mind (ToM). Unfortunately, the roots of this capa…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A fascinating new paper by Amanda Royka and colleagues explores why monkeys fail false belief tasks.
A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge.
Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A natural explanation would be that monkeys wrongly assume that other agents share their own knowledge.
Royka et al. find that this is NOT the case...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I’d highly recommend everyone give it a watch/listen. The series was famously censored by the BBC (statements about Trump that they were too frightened to air)
An excellent piece by @rutgerbregman.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
An excellent piece by @rutgerbregman.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
Are we living through the fall of civilisation? | The Reith Lectures 2025
YouTube video by BBC Sounds
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I’d highly recommend everyone give it a watch/listen. The series was famously censored by the BBC (statements about Trump that they were too frightened to air)
An excellent piece by @rutgerbregman.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
An excellent piece by @rutgerbregman.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-...
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Yes, it doesn’t matter if you have cards if you don’t know how to play.
time.com/7341064/trum...
time.com/7341064/trum...
Why Trump Should Call Putin’s Bluff Now
Russia's "economy is disintegrating, and their military prowess is inferior to that of Ukraine."
time.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Yes, it doesn’t matter if you have cards if you don’t know how to play.
time.com/7341064/trum...
time.com/7341064/trum...
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on learning the value of population coding
The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“I will die on the hill that population coding is the relevant level of encoding information in the brain.” In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Nancy Padilla-Coreano discusses a paper on mixed selectivity neurons.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...
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4/ Experimentation with putting malware on blockchains isn't new, but its still in infancy.
Combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people working from the same machines where they store crypto wallets..this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time...
Combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people working from the same machines where they store crypto wallets..this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time...
October 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
4/ Experimentation with putting malware on blockchains isn't new, but its still in infancy.
Combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people working from the same machines where they store crypto wallets..this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time...
Combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people working from the same machines where they store crypto wallets..this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time...
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The U.S. spending $20B to bail out Argentina seems completely random until you find out that hedge fund billionaires bet on their right wing government’s doomed economic plan and could lose a lot of money.
So this is actually a U.S. hedge fund bailout which explains why Trump cares.
So this is actually a U.S. hedge fund bailout which explains why Trump cares.
America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First
Argentina: A very Trumpy debacle
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The U.S. spending $20B to bail out Argentina seems completely random until you find out that hedge fund billionaires bet on their right wing government’s doomed economic plan and could lose a lot of money.
So this is actually a U.S. hedge fund bailout which explains why Trump cares.
So this is actually a U.S. hedge fund bailout which explains why Trump cares.
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Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
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🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A randomized trial of ultraprocessed (UPF) vs unprocessed food: UPF led to impaired cardiometabolic & male reproductive health outcomes, including reduced testosterone, sperm count/motility, increased inflammation, increased BP, worse lipids. Independent of caloric load.
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
August 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A randomized trial of ultraprocessed (UPF) vs unprocessed food: UPF led to impaired cardiometabolic & male reproductive health outcomes, including reduced testosterone, sperm count/motility, increased inflammation, increased BP, worse lipids. Independent of caloric load.
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
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Incredible footage of Plasma ejecting from the Sun.
August 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Incredible footage of Plasma ejecting from the Sun.
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I wonder if one reason these guys don't care about AI hallucinations is that they've never actually finished a single book and routinely misunderstand what actually happens in them, and just generally glide through life in a Dunning–Kruger haze of bullshit and misplaced confidence
Peter Thiel is founding yet another company named after something from Middle Earth.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
This time it’s a bank named Erebor, a reference to the mountain which holds Smaug’s piles of gold and treasure.
Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender Erebor to rival Silicon Valley Bank
Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I wonder if one reason these guys don't care about AI hallucinations is that they've never actually finished a single book and routinely misunderstand what actually happens in them, and just generally glide through life in a Dunning–Kruger haze of bullshit and misplaced confidence
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We are hiring!
As part of the FWF Cluster of Excellence, Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease we are seeking an enthusiastic PhD student and postdoc to understand the emotional brain!
PhD: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoc: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroscience #academicjobs
As part of the FWF Cluster of Excellence, Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease we are seeking an enthusiastic PhD student and postdoc to understand the emotional brain!
PhD: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoc: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroscience #academicjobs
FWF Cluster of Excellence - Overview | MedUni Wien
hirnforschung.meduniwien.ac.at
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We are hiring!
As part of the FWF Cluster of Excellence, Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease we are seeking an enthusiastic PhD student and postdoc to understand the emotional brain!
PhD: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoc: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroscience #academicjobs
As part of the FWF Cluster of Excellence, Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease we are seeking an enthusiastic PhD student and postdoc to understand the emotional brain!
PhD: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoc: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
#neuroscience #academicjobs
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“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
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Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.
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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
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There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’
February 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’
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it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol
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Look at how physicians diagnose more children with ADHD on Halloween (the red line in the middle of the figure).
The authors hypothesize that docs are more likely to diagnose kids on this day simply because kids are excited for Halloween.
Fascinating!
www.nber.org/papers/w33232
The authors hypothesize that docs are more likely to diagnose kids on this day simply because kids are excited for Halloween.
Fascinating!
www.nber.org/papers/w33232
December 9, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Look at how physicians diagnose more children with ADHD on Halloween (the red line in the middle of the figure).
The authors hypothesize that docs are more likely to diagnose kids on this day simply because kids are excited for Halloween.
Fascinating!
www.nber.org/papers/w33232
The authors hypothesize that docs are more likely to diagnose kids on this day simply because kids are excited for Halloween.
Fascinating!
www.nber.org/papers/w33232
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Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology
Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
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The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
November 26, 2024 at 1:20 PM
The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
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Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood!
“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]
“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]
December 18, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood!
“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]
“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]