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03.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Orsima ichneumon, jumping spider-ant
#Jumpingspiders are best known for being cute, but there's also a branch of not-so-cute-but-wonderful ant-mimicking species. The head mimics the abdomen, which is a bit disorienting! Probably evolved mainly to avoid predation—ants are unattractive prey. youtu.be/XRUZGtdp_TM... #biology #science
03.02.2026 06:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Algoritme van de samenleving - Wat heeft een mier aan AI
Vergelijkend onderzoek laat verrassende overeenkomsten zien in het denken van mens, dier en AI. Wat betekent dit voor dierenwelzijn? Kijk de @knaw-nl.bsky.social lezing terug! #AI #psychologie #biologie youtu.be/5AWt641DlJI...
02.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Na een interview met@knaw-nl.bsky.social kreeg ik een vriendelijk mailtje van Thomas Moerland. Ben benieuwd wat hij te zeggen heeft in Van IQ naar #AI. Sowieso leuk om Nederlandse boeken te ontdekken die qua onderwerp raken aan Een Wereld Vol Denkers. #wetenschap #boeken
01.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30.01.2026 07:39 — 👍 129 🔁 69 💬 1 📌 4
Another study by @cvanbuck.bsky.social. Results similar to our preprint: pupil size is a reliable overall measure of bright/ dark processing, but this effect does not (or only very weakly) correlate with individual differences in #mentalimagery / #aphantasia
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #psychology
30.01.2026 08:42 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Digital illustration of a na'abak done in 2015. This bird is mostly brown, with a reddish brow, white throat, black speckled breast, and a big broad fan-shaped tail - orange the base, fading to black, with a white tip. The brushstrokes here are clumsy, the posture is stiff, and there's little attempt at shading or rendering.
Same bird in a very similar posture to before, but this looks much more active now, at a 3/4 view instead of side on, perched on a branch. The eyes look wide and alert, the tail is slightly cocked as it prepares to leap right off its perch. The rendering is much more precise, as is the lighting, giving a more lifelike appearance.
Then vs now(ish): 2015 (left) vs 2022 (right) of the same bird, Micronesian Rufous Fantail/na'abak. I started taking my own art a lot more seriously in 2014 and some pretty explosive growth in skill and quality happened fast. Practice really is everything. 🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
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Volgens @rensbod.bsky.social in Het unieke dier is het vermogen tot onbegrensde recursie het cruciale verschil tussen mens en dier – een sterke (en mijn inziens twijfelachtige) bewering. Ben benieuwd wat voor onderbouwing er volgt! #wetenschap
29.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.01.2026 19:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Een wereld vol denkers”: A book by Sebastiaan Mathôt | Mindwise
"If you look closely, there are lots of similarities in how humans, animals, plants, and AI think. But there are also differences, and these differences are just as fascinating and important." mindwise-groningen.nl/een-wereld-v... #psychology #biology #AI #science
28.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Really excellent talk! Good presentation, good build-up, good science. 👏
28.01.2026 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How reality is simulated by your brain | Surgya Gayet | TEDxEindhoven
My first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-)
youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...
28.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Feature and space-based interference with functionally active and passive items in working memory
Functionally active and passive states in working memory have been related to different neural mechanisms. Memoranda in active states might be maintained by persistent neural firing, whereas memoranda in passive states might be maintained through short-term synaptic plasticity. We reasoned that this might make these items differentially susceptible to interference during maintenance, in particular that passively maintained items might be more robust. To test this hypothesis, we gave our participants a working memory task in which one item was prioritised (active) by always probing it first, while the other item was deprioritised (passive) by always probing it second. In two experiments, on half the trials, we presented an interfering task during memory maintenance, in which the stimuli matched either the feature dimension of the memory items (colour or orientation), or their spatial location. Whether the interfering task appeared on a given trial was unpredictable. In a third experiment where participants were given prior knowledge of the interference condition, and finally in a fourth experiment we used a reward-based prioritisation cue. Across experiments, we found that both active and passive memory items were affected by interference to a similar extent, with overall performance being closely matched in all experiments. We further investigated precision and probability of target response parameters from the standard mixture model, which also showed no differences between states. We conclude that active and passive items, although potentially stored in different neuronal states, do not show differential susceptibility to interference. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
🎉 My first first-author paper was just accepted in JEP:HPP! We asked what “active” vs “passive” WM states do - do they protect against interference? Across 4 behavioural experiments we find no reliable protection. Updated preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.05.578913 @elkanakyurek.bsky.social
27.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We can do without them: how the UG is cutting ties with Big Tech
By 2030, the university aims to be digitally independent. And that’s not a pipe dream, say proponents of the plan.
University of Groningen: ⭐ no more big-tech by 2030 ⭐ Google Workplace 🚫 Windows 🚫 MS Office 🚫 ChatGPT 🚫 A huge challenge! Meeting culture won't get us there. Dedication and focus will. 💪🚀 Let's get to work.
ukrant.nl/magazine/we-... @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #science
21.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
I know! I'm curious to learn what you find. Good luck!
16.01.2026 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Re: the lord of the rings stories. These are part of Exp 2 but not analyzed separately.
16.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lack of variability can of course explain the null result, that's true. But in my view, the simplest and this most likely explanation is that there really is no between-subjects correlation there. Until I see compelling evidence otherwise.
16.01.2026 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
* Vanbuckhave 😅
15.01.2026 09:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Perhaps of interest to @katechristodoulou.bsky.social @kerblooee.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @rebecca-keogh.bsky.social
15.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This suggests that pupil responses to bright or dark content are reliably different, but this difference is *not* a good measure of individual differences in mental imagery/ aphantasia as a personal trait. 3/3 🧵
15.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
… moment-to-moment fluctuations *within a participant* in self-reported vividness indeed predicted how strongly pupil size was affected by imagined brightness. However, individual differences *between participants* (also based on self-report) did not. 2/3 🧵
15.01.2026 09:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's fashionable among animal-cognition researchers to claim that all higher cognitive abilities (empathy, irony, self control, planning, theory of mind, etc.) exist to some degree in all animals. Yet Donald Trump shows this is not true. QED
13.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Animal Consciousness (first paragraph of the article).
First published Sat Dec 23, 1995; substantive revision Tue Jan 13, 2026.
Is there something it’s like to be an octopus, a bee, a snail? For much of the twentieth century, research into animal cognition tended to avoid questions of consciousness, following the lead of human neuroscience, where such questions were also marginalized (see the entries on animal cognition, methods in comparative cognition). However, the growing profile of consciousness science since 2000 has brought the topic of consciousness back into the scientific mainstream (see the entry on the neuroscience of consciousness), and this has led to resurgent interest in studying conscious experience in other animals.
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
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