Joanna Bryson

John Lubbock (1883) on individuality of bees. It's always a bit sad when people write that individual differences in animal psychology are a recent discovery. Using the cutesy label of "animal personality" doesn't make it novel. The study of the phenomenon is as old as the study of animal behaviour.

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Interrail sale now on, so a 4 day Interrail pass is now £41 cheaper than a standard class Anytime Return Bath Spa - London Paddington instead of just £14 cheaper.

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homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/ & homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap/ did PhDs on these questions in the 1990s when we (incl @conjugateprior.org) were at Edinburgh. I always thought the work had legs (and was related to Mark Steedman's CCG & Will's (now my) large corpus semantics stuff.) Will have to read!

Iran on the Brink Iran is facing its most profound crisis since the 1979 revolution. Nationwide protests that began in late 2025 have reportedly been met with severe repression, mass arrests, and a near-total communica...

I think I heard that point about China from Ali Fathollah-Nejad www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev... but so much is happening lately I can't remember where I even read things anymore.

I've also seen people consider China to be winning, but they don't like instability and don't really want the rest of the world to eventually get access to buying Iranian oil since they get it cut rate at present.

President of the European Council:

The winner of US-Israel’s illegal war on Iran is… Russia 🎯

#StandWithUkraine
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
#DefendDemocracy

not a three word headline you see every day :-)

Sounds like I should read the book, but even this short review is super helpful to read, even though it's from 2001. A lot of lies put paid by a lot of data concerning peace, democratic and otherwise. www.jstor.org/stable/26156... via @tobiasbunde.bsky.social indirectly

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

Great article on a serious problem in Germany – I hope we're only "playing" at being Trump's good cop... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... h/t @soundbookpro.bsky.social

Similar to my own work on #affectivePolarisation, @bpalier.bsky.social comments on how the producers are actually doing OK economically, but they feel their horizons have shrunk, and complain there is nothing at the end of the month.

It seems to me this #precarity may also come from upselling… 3/3

The double quotes are his, it's work in progress. He hates that the poorest & most precarious are called "unskilled" – it is difficult & highly skilled work for a small woman to move elderly people around, for example. I suggested calling them "non-scaling" (1 on 1) and the "winners" "scaling" 2/3

Great talk by @bpalier.bsky.social yesterday:
Class recomposition in the digitalized knowledge-based economy
The "lowest" but growing class: "servants" like delivery people, healthcare.
What formerly was known as labour he calls "producers", shrinking in either number or wage.
Then the "winners" 1/2

Should we let someone use AI to delete human bias? Would we know what we were saying? artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

This could be the biggest contribution of #EoL to #AIEthics and law since @aylincaliskan.bsky.social and @randomwalker.bsky.social helped convert my Evolution of Language research programme into a Science paper back in 2016-2017 joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2016/07/shou...

The Phylogenetics of Artifacts - A deep dive into the evolution of cultural objects, artificial life forms and language models Developmental Systems, a Blog of the Flowers Lab

Wow, some of my old #EvolutionOfLanguage #EoL pals may have just done something huge for #AILaw data attribution #LLM #AIGovernance Specifically
@pyoudeyer.bsky.social @nicolasyax.bsky.social @stepalminteri.bsky.social

Evolutionary biology can track LLM phylogeny!
developmentalsystems.org/phylolm

We US Americans appear to be doing war crimes.

You cannot take drinking water away from anyone–even in Wales where it rains all the time, some of the first laws were about access to water (I vaguely remember reading this, genAI suggests it's in Cyfraith Hywel). www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/b...

What we do matters. Via @cherylrofer.bsky.social

This warms my heart.

Wow. scholar.google.com/citations?hl... @itamann.bsky.social

Is the guy all the Granville roads and Landsdowne roads are named after? And who is Carolina? Is she who the North & South Carolina are named after? www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5152-...

Check out our latest research drop! We show BLA dopamine signaling encodes the emotional weight of sensory transitions, but not the associative strength or value of stimuli. These signals dynamically rescale when the learning context changes: "this matters most!" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A user’s guide to navigating the intricate, often contradictory relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence.

The AI Paradox by Virginia Dignum is now available!

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Technology #Innovation #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Right, but that DIDN’T happen when I subsequently added pictures too.

Thanks! Is there a deadline for your own article, do you know? I have a lot going on but some of it is super related research, so I need to schedule when I read your article thoroughly (I'm behind on reviewing right now :-/ )

This is about pictures AND posts – it used to be you had to choose (as on xitter) but it seems weirdly now like you can post a link & then even delete it, & @support.bsky.team treats it like you are quoting another post & shows both on top of each other, which is great. But I couldn't get it there.

Hard Feelings The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.

I have a PhD in AI from MIT and I cannot figure out when @bsky.app is going to show an article preview. nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.com/intelligence... from @intelligencer.com via Xitter @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social → @hamzashaban.bsky.social (his photos) → @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social

Are we underestimating popular discontent with welfare state change, and the damage done to political-institutional trust? New measures of "welfare state emotions" suggest as much. With Tor Syrstad and Atle Haugsgjerd. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I don't understand why the ACL/ARR organizers think this is an appropriate way to communicate with area chairs... The peer review system is collapsing, and the whole system of science as we know it requires a rethink. But let's be kind to eachother in the process and not forget what we are here for.

It feels like about 2006 twitter here, some days maybe 2008, but the longer form means you can read less in the same time (twitter also got worse after 140 chars). Some communities are fine with 2006 scale, but I think you & I got used to a wider public. The closest I get to that now is LinkedIn.