⚛️ Do molecules have structure?
Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research.
📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...
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Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices.
Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20
I thought that was a tin can knit! That one's on my list :)
22.01.2026 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If there was any justice in the world, tennis elbow would be more commonly known as knitter’s elbow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
22.01.2026 10:49 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇
16.01.2026 20:58 — 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
An AI-generated animal alphabet of such intense wrongness (e.g. “O is penguin” by an image of a quail) that it achieves something like sublimity
Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet
source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
11.12.2025 17:27 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
11.12.2025 17:27 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Loved the @manymindspod.bsky.social on the function of memory, with @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social. Highly recommended if you didn't listen to it (yet)!
10.12.2025 15:14 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Episode on episodic memory. Another banger from the Many Minds Podcast.
As usual, I am late to the party, but I just finished listening to the fantastic episode on episodic memory from @manymindspod.bsky.social. Super informative interview to @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social. Cheers to the Many Minds Team! Highly recommend!
09.12.2025 17:20 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
the moral circle is now available in paperback for the low price of $12! an excellent holiday gift for all the near-future insect and AI welfare advocates in your life :)
03.12.2025 16:27 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
If you‘re in London on the 11th December, there’s a great event exploring the role of photography in building empathy towards nonhuman animals. I can really recommend events at this venue, it’s a wonderful space: www.kairos.london/event/why-lo...
03.12.2025 10:19 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
If you loved THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, then you'll love its action-packed sequel, PRINCE CASPIAN! The Pevensie children are back, even Edmund, but what about all your favorite friends: Mr. Tumnus, the Beavers, the friendly giant? Well, they've been dead for a thousand years. Sorry.
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Article from Des Moines Register 27 November 1908: NO BEER; CAT LEAVES TOWN Feline Deserts Connecticut Village That Went "Dry." WINSTED, Conn., Nov. 28. Fannie, a cat owned by Barreuther Bros., had liking for lager beer. When the town recently voted "dry" her owners went out of business and Fannie missed her drink. For some days she went to her saucer and cried for beer, but as none was forthcoming she disappeared. It is suspected she has gone to the nearest license town.
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
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"You seem happier"
Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
Years ago I sent a review to the editor of a leading journal, very late. I apologised, maybe a bit too profusely. He replied (apparently in all seriousness) ‘it’s ok. We’ve all done things we are ashamed of.’ I often think of this when I need a good laugh.
28.11.2025 07:59 — 👍 72 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Anti-Colonial Science? The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge Inclusion in Science-Based Policy Arlene Lo An aspect of the Indigenous struggle against colonial oppression is the struggle for the inclusion of their knowledge in policymaking. Perceived as epistemically inferior to science, Indigenous knowledge and subsequently interests are systematically excluded in science-based policy. This article advances an anti-colonial political philosophy of science. As Indigenous knowledge feeds into the necessary political value judgements in policy-relevant science, Indigenous knowledge inclusion, I contend, should be treated as a political, not solely epistemic, matter. I further argue that Indigenous peoples, not just scientists, should have the power to make such political value judgements given the politics of representation under coloniality.
My student Arlene Lo has a paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Canada's attempts to integrate Indigenous groups into its environmental impact assessments. It's now out in (appropriately enough!) the Canadian journal of philosophy. It's good, check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A conversation with @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social about the functions of memory.
We may not immediately think of memory as an evolutionary puzzle. But in certain respects—and from certain angles—it is quite puzzling indeed.
Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...
This thread is utterly extraordinary. I both have a new respect for Home Alone and am laughing my ass off
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