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fully generalized kayfabe requires both the audience and the performer to negotiate the fantasy-reality boundaries and responsibly track any slippage. this is,, Not Easy. otoh if this was sublimated from kitsch into camp i'd totally be in the target market of this soo

Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026 Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...

The next session of our transdisciplinary (biology-philosophy) seminar on Agency will take place next Wednesday. Marek Špinka will talk about play in nonhuman animals,
and I expect it to be super cool ! 😎

More info here :
www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...

this is why I judge hedonic welfare theorists mainly by the quality of their BDSM fic

I like posting on here so I'm going to use that to help me prepare for my quals.

Each week starting next week, I will post 3 threads on things I've learned in developmental biology, neuroscience/computational neuro, & math (mostly stochastic processes), on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday evening.

the struggle of being a heel guy when the fuck ice chants start lol

Wikipedia: "As of 2025, ActBlue reports that it has raised $16 billion for Democratic candidates and causes since it was established.[4]"

I'm not maximally anti-electoral or maximally awed by FNB's impact potential but jfc can you even *imagine*

(note that a lot of those tactics have not been very high profile this year except in narrow circumstances, because ~most of the people involved have in fact been fairly responsive to context and capable of personal discernment all along)

'are you sentient' is a very flattering question to ask me because it has the shocking implicit presumption that your answer might be Yes

looking forward to the mesaoptimizer crowd's response here

Fintan Mallory, Teleosemantics for Neural Word Embeddings - PhilPapers This paper applies a consumer-based teleosemantic framework to give a detailed analysis of a particular algorithm for generating word embeddings. In the process, it addresses several of the challenges...

Weird new paper alert! What happens if you apply a consumer-based teleosemantics to the simplest case of neural word embeddings? philpapers.org/rec/MALTFN-2

tragically they ran out of supplies for the 'feed the fire inside you / melt the ice' design, which would've been perfect but i'm smitten with this anyways

fit check. (my huel shirt was the best i had available for screenprinting lol)

do not go piggly into that good wiggly

i am under the impression that a lot of people are not moved by Jaynes' arguments (that thermodynamical entropy is information entropy), but what are some good responses to him?

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

extremely strong assumption should be the other way around; they collect far more info than they can meaningfully use, they injure far more people than they can meaningfully track, & after Miller ordered them to dig up anything 'incriminating' it still took them days to find
bsky.app/profile/whst...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

How the olfactory bulb maintains stable odor manifolds amid adaptation and representational drift https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701335v1

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Edoardo Lecce, Paolo Amoruso, Francesco Felici and Ilenia Bazzucchi (Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Foro Italico) #review the #resistance training-induced #adaptations in the #neuromuscular system.

📜 physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Supracellular actomyosin assemblies: master coordinators of development

In this Review, Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social discusses supracellular actomyosin structures, tissues where they function, their known roles as well as potential properties

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Everyone—of all walks of life and all political affiliations—must understand the urgency of standing up to ICE in the Twin Cities and around the country.

Only a horizontal, decentralized, grassroots movement can rise to this challenge.

We welcome everyone who is prepared to participate.

🖤🏴

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Julian Bacharach with A minimalist approach to memory causality
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

#philsky #philpsy
5/5

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

How do neural circuits generate the walking rhythm?

Using connectome simulations, @sarahpugly.bsky.social found a minimal central pattern generator (CPG) that produces oscillations in leg motor neurons. Same circuit motif for each 🪰 leg.

w @bingbrunton.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents.

Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents.

We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis: