Mac Shine
@macshine.bsky.social
Computational Neurobiologist from Sydney, Australia. https://shine-lab.org
Would love to revisit this idea if ppl are still keen. Was a fun project to work on.
October 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Would love to revisit this idea if ppl are still keen. Was a fun project to work on.
update - i found a copy. thanks all for boosting!
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
update - i found a copy. thanks all for boosting!
There's lots of opportunities in the brain for closures of these kinds, though I fear that this ultimately raises another set of even-more challenging questions: namely, how do our brains decipher between different circuit closures if they differ in their constraints? Fun to think about...
September 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
There's lots of opportunities in the brain for closures of these kinds, though I fear that this ultimately raises another set of even-more challenging questions: namely, how do our brains decipher between different circuit closures if they differ in their constraints? Fun to think about...
The short answer is yes, but we were quite limited in writing that paper to keep the text short and the references mostly to the last few years. I'm certainly not an expert on circular causality/constraint closure, but I do very much like the implications of the ideas
September 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The short answer is yes, but we were quite limited in writing that paper to keep the text short and the references mostly to the last few years. I'm certainly not an expert on circular causality/constraint closure, but I do very much like the implications of the ideas
great episode! covered lots of cool territory -- great to see the concept of affordances coming back into the spotlight
August 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
great episode! covered lots of cool territory -- great to see the concept of affordances coming back into the spotlight
Massive congratulations Annie! Thoroughly well-deserved!!
August 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Massive congratulations Annie! Thoroughly well-deserved!!
Should have guessed that you would know the precise quote ;)
August 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Should have guessed that you would know the precise quote ;)
Haha yep. The son of the lobotomist... news.berkeley.edu/2016/04/27/n...
Neurophysiologist and philosopher Walter Freeman dies at 89 - Berkeley News
Pioneering neuroscientist focused on how the brain generates our perception of the world
news.berkeley.edu
August 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Haha yep. The son of the lobotomist... news.berkeley.edu/2016/04/27/n...
thanks mate! much appreciated
a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner
ALT: a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner
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August 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
thanks mate! much appreciated
Reposted by Mac Shine
The point is, the monkeys making the loudest noise have the smallest balls.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26592343/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26592343/
Evolutionary trade-off between vocal tract and testes dimensions in howler monkeys - PubMed
Males often face a trade-off between investments in precopulatory and postcopulatory traits [1], particularly when male-male contest competition determines access to mates [2]. To date, studies of pre...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
July 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The point is, the monkeys making the loudest noise have the smallest balls.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26592343/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26592343/