Esther Mondragón

All Nobel Prizes 2025 The Nobel Prizes are awarded to those that have conferred the greated benefit to humankind. These are the 2025 laureates.

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Clearly, men need as much help as possible to overcome their situation of disadvantage and advance.

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
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This Is Fascism

Have a nice weekend, you all.
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The same sentence caught my attention as I read it. Sadly, more often than not, they are not

(An alliteration to hide the real cacophony)

Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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Indeed! During the ISI and ITI the context of learning is active and might become a significant cue. For the role of context as occasion setters, you can look at this
In N. A. Schmajuk & P. C. Holland (Eds.), Occasion Setting: Associative learning and cognition in animals
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

Coño! Bravo!
(Oh WOW!)
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

This is quite interesting
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Archetypal in Jungian terms too.

Allow me to answer his insipid rhetorical question.
Yes, indeed. It will increase in relevance in the long term.

Nero and his demented court.

and boys dressed in pink cloths, of course!
Girls no, they don't count.

One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏

I was reading some posts and wow! I thought that leaving Twitter we had got rid of pedantic and ill-mannered individuals (read men, since this is often the case) who believe themselves entitled to correct other people's posts. I was obviously wrong.
Bah!

One more for the boy! Poor boys, it is like they needed help. 9/1

Is this the supermacho Trump effect? 😏

8/1 so far. The Nobel Prize, at its best, perpetuating gender inequality. Not a surprise, but a shame.

Always nice to see papers out in the wild.

Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"

By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social

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minutiae 🙃

Excellence is a subjective quality.

Never mind that! With a bit of luck, the "AI" (agent?) will develop lab allergies (to rats, humans, dust, and, why not, conspecifics while running the replication experiments and cha chan 🥁 problem solved!

He is a very clever boy!

What is more important than that?

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Oooh! Gorgeous!

With that, I 100% do 😜 ❤️

I need to find the time, which, sadly, will not be this week.
Most likely, I will not fully agree with what l *guess* is said here, but chances are that I will concur and sympathise with the main point and the general approach.

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Narrator: “No they don’t. They do not even extend it to women.”

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