Sam I Am
@shambhavi-batchick.bsky.social
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Biologist of sorts. Every time I open my mouth it's either for sarcasm or "So I read this book..." All views my own. She/her 🏳️🌈
Be good to each other
Biologist of sorts. Every time I open my mouth it's either for sarcasm or "So I read this book..." All views my own. She/her 🏳️🌈
Be good to each other
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Hooray! @bsky.app, I hope you don't mind that I'm about to shamelessly self-promote: my paper "Serial Reversal Learning in Nectar-Feeding Bats" came out earlier this year and I'm very proud of it. #AcademicSky check it out
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is completely OA including data and code
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It is completely OA including data and code
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“I love you – not just your body but everything that is you. I love you deep down, past flesh, where your soul burns like a flame.”
John Ostrander wrote a transgender character in 1987. And while parts of the story are sensationalized for Grimjack’s adventure, underneath is care and understanding.
John Ostrander wrote a transgender character in 1987. And while parts of the story are sensationalized for Grimjack’s adventure, underneath is care and understanding.
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“I love you – not just your body but everything that is you. I love you deep down, past flesh, where your soul burns like a flame.”
John Ostrander wrote a transgender character in 1987. And while parts of the story are sensationalized for Grimjack’s adventure, underneath is care and understanding.
John Ostrander wrote a transgender character in 1987. And while parts of the story are sensationalized for Grimjack’s adventure, underneath is care and understanding.
What if the thing you can do about it is complain?
Sometimes you only get shit done if you're such a pain in the neck about it people do what they have to just to shut you up. Annoyance can be weaponized.
Sometimes you only get shit done if you're such a pain in the neck about it people do what they have to just to shut you up. Annoyance can be weaponized.
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What if the thing you can do about it is complain?
Sometimes you only get shit done if you're such a pain in the neck about it people do what they have to just to shut you up. Annoyance can be weaponized.
Sometimes you only get shit done if you're such a pain in the neck about it people do what they have to just to shut you up. Annoyance can be weaponized.
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Me in Delhi
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Me in Delhi
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Good news: I just got the all clear for cancer (phew!)
But guess what?! My anaesthetist was a beautiful woman named... DR WATSON! Naturally, I bored her about my next book, SLEUTH-HOUND - about Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, which includes a real Dr. Watson.
But guess what?! My anaesthetist was a beautiful woman named... DR WATSON! Naturally, I bored her about my next book, SLEUTH-HOUND - about Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, which includes a real Dr. Watson.
a man playing a violin with the words " elementary my dear watson " on the bottom
Alt: a man playing a violin with the words " elementary my dear watson " on the bottom
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good news: I just got the all clear for cancer (phew!)
But guess what?! My anaesthetist was a beautiful woman named... DR WATSON! Naturally, I bored her about my next book, SLEUTH-HOUND - about Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, which includes a real Dr. Watson.
But guess what?! My anaesthetist was a beautiful woman named... DR WATSON! Naturally, I bored her about my next book, SLEUTH-HOUND - about Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, which includes a real Dr. Watson.
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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer? -Jeremy Bentham
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer? -Jeremy Bentham
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This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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We are in theaters TOMORROW!! See my pinned post for a theater finder link ❤️❤️💀⏰ #WakeUpDeadMan
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We are in theaters TOMORROW!! See my pinned post for a theater finder link ❤️❤️💀⏰ #WakeUpDeadMan
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@rianjohnson.bsky.social i am watching the hell out of this movie. Repeatedly. Thank you for saying what we are all thinking.
F*ck AI.
F*ck AI.
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
@rianjohnson.bsky.social i am watching the hell out of this movie. Repeatedly. Thank you for saying what we are all thinking.
F*ck AI.
F*ck AI.
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The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
Ok I am reading "Sleeping Murder", one of the Marple books right now and I am about 75% done. I just figured out the murderer I think... #booksky, we shall find out if I am right...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ok I am reading "Sleeping Murder", one of the Marple books right now and I am about 75% done. I just figured out the murderer I think... #booksky, we shall find out if I am right...
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"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of a victim has ceased to become a victim: he or she becomes a threat." —James Baldwin
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of a victim has ceased to become a victim: he or she becomes a threat." —James Baldwin
I want to screen this movie with a shadow cast
years ago a bunch of friends roasted me because I said I thought Tim Curry was hot in Muppet Treasure Island, and then they all sat down and watched the movie for the first time and ended up apologizing to me
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I want to screen this movie with a shadow cast
Word. I work to pay my own bills. How is it fair that Andrew gets to live in a mansion while a monarch takes care of him after what he's been accused of? This isn't a punishment, it looks like a PR move.
Imagine acting like Andrew having to move to another mansion is 'punishment'. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein
Unlike Buckingham Palace or the government, we're actually trying to hold Andrew to account. We're pursuing a prosecution of Andrew. Donate to our legal fund today - link in bio.
Unlike Buckingham Palace or the government, we're actually trying to hold Andrew to account. We're pursuing a prosecution of Andrew. Donate to our legal fund today - link in bio.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Word. I work to pay my own bills. How is it fair that Andrew gets to live in a mansion while a monarch takes care of him after what he's been accused of? This isn't a punishment, it looks like a PR move.
I dont want to ever hear the Hot Take that Rocky Horror is problematic because Frank arguably coerces Brad and Janet into sex. The man is a human eating murderer, and THATS why he's problematic??
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I dont want to ever hear the Hot Take that Rocky Horror is problematic because Frank arguably coerces Brad and Janet into sex. The man is a human eating murderer, and THATS why he's problematic??
Ive just played Magenta tonight in the Berlin shadow cast. Glad to hear @pzmyers.bsky.social is a fellow fan 🦇🦇🦇👾👾💃💃👯♀️
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Ive just played Magenta tonight in the Berlin shadow cast. Glad to hear @pzmyers.bsky.social is a fellow fan 🦇🦇🦇👾👾💃💃👯♀️
GET EM!! GO GET EM!!!
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
GET EM!! GO GET EM!!!
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
@currentaffairs.bsky.social
As a vegan I don't even suffer the moral conflict of participating in industrialized animal murder and I could barely get through this piece. Hard-hitting stuff
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
As a vegan I don't even suffer the moral conflict of participating in industrialized animal murder and I could barely get through this piece. Hard-hitting stuff
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@currentaffairs.bsky.social
As a vegan I don't even suffer the moral conflict of participating in industrialized animal murder and I could barely get through this piece. Hard-hitting stuff
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
As a vegan I don't even suffer the moral conflict of participating in industrialized animal murder and I could barely get through this piece. Hard-hitting stuff
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...
@vatsan16.bsky.social finally did it and had this come out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kudos to him 🦭🦭🦭 and may there be more!!
Kudos to him 🦭🦭🦭 and may there be more!!
Degradation path indicators for lithium-ion batteries
Battery aging can follow multiple degradation pathways, which influence future aging due to self-amplification, self-limitation, and interactions amon…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@vatsan16.bsky.social finally did it and had this come out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kudos to him 🦭🦭🦭 and may there be more!!
Kudos to him 🦭🦭🦭 and may there be more!!
Got 8 books from a friend who's moving and trying to get rid of his stash. I then went ahead and bought the book by @unlearnecon.bsky.social anyway. I am unstoppable.
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Got 8 books from a friend who's moving and trying to get rid of his stash. I then went ahead and bought the book by @unlearnecon.bsky.social anyway. I am unstoppable.