Jay/Jess

crack in the sidewalk that looks like an opossum hanging down

I saw a crack that looks like an opossum today

…annnd in situ thanks to @neukili.bsky.social! I had a blast as always. Next year in Rio?? 👀👀

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."

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…

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.

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...

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)

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)

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

What is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? I’m writing abstracts and making figures

writing a bu abstract at 10pm at sfo as one does

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

back back back again here’s some knitwear as penance for disappearing

A common canary in a backdrop of green

An orange cheeked waxbill and a goldfinch

I saw some birds at the botanical gardens and thought you’d wanna see them too

Hi I’m baaaaaack

What do you do when you have no ac? You cook the worlds strangest soup

hehe thanks!!

Btw this is available and ready to ship and it’s pride and I’m gay just saying 💅 https://follyfibers.etsy.com/

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.

Spent the weekend dying some rainbow pastel neon yarn to welcome the summer 🌈🧶

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.

Yarn day yarn day yarn day!! 🧶

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

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 💚💙🧶

Wow y’all are so nice for reposting my heart is so full 🥲

FollyFibers - Etsy Shop Yarn, Fiber, and Supplies by FollyFibers located in Madison, Wisconsin.

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

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.

Spring spring spring spring spring (my north-facing window’s light catcher is catching light!!)

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)

No clue!! I might even sell it if anyone would buy it??

Thank you for noticing it was so difficult lolol

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

Broke out my spinning wheel last night and spun up some roving that I dyed all by myself!!!! 🧶💖💙

She went “oh that’s fun! Where are you two going for Valentine’s Day” and I completely forgot I was technically coming out

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

maybe I should start an etsy shop

I don’t really want to go back to the real world tomorrow

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.

I dyed some roving all by myself and didn’t felt it are you proud of me?? 🍬🧶