Reclaiming the Banjo's Hidden Black History
Follow Hannah Mayree, musician, banjo maker, and founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, as they organize workshops and performances celebrating the banjo’s Black history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVv...
Boote und Klippen (Boats and Cliffs), 1927, Paul Klee ...but it's behind plexiglass that is reflecting an awful overhead lighting pattern
another one for your collection, mumok (Vienna) w the awful overhead lighting pattern reflected within the frame (all kinds of paintings there subjected to this foolishness)
my uninformed speculation is that there was some kind of personal data privacy directive that was applied to the hosted archives in a batch process
military ID number? unredacted here: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
I will present at ISDAACRST26
❌ no one knows what that is
I will present at the International Society for the Development of Advanced Additional Components of Research and Study Topics 2026 Annual Meeting
❌ over word/char limit
I'll present at Int'l Soc Dev Adv Add'l Comp Res Study Topics '26
🤔🤷
Thanks Alexey!
photo of (reddish-brown) ancho pulled chicken in a pot, demonstrating a lack of food photography skills (unstaged + unfiltered phone snap).
new to the pressure cooker (in the kitchen at least). experimenting.
in <1 hour incl. prep: made quick ancho (poblano) chilli+tomato sauce in saucepan, 10min. sauce+6 bone-in legs, pressure cooker, 20min+10 to open. tipped into pot, fell off bones w no effort, removed 'em, reduced a few minutes (📷)
photo of (reddish-brown) ancho pulled chicken in a pot, demonstrating a lack of food photography skills (unstaged + unfiltered phone snap).
new to the pressure cooker (in the kitchen at least). experimenting.
in <1 hour incl. prep: made quick ancho (poblano) chilli+tomato sauce in saucepan, 10min. sauce+6 bone-in legs, pressure cooker, 20min+10 to open. tipped into pot, fell off bones w no effort, removed 'em, reduced a few minutes (📷)
One week left, send your abstracts!
At 50:12, casual, "hard drive music", black magic (2026)
@zotero.org Name Normalizer now supports normalizing Publishers, Locations, and Journals too!
Get suggestions like "Springer" → "Springer" (standardized) or "Cambridge, MA" → "Cambridge, Massachusetts"
Your metadata just got way more consistent. github.com/milekpl/zote...
#Zotero
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/23/234/20250687/479613/Alerting-and-orienting-attention-in-anti-predator Figure S1. The default alerting behaviour of sentinel vigilance is monitoring the surroundings via head rotations. Alerting entails the agent hypothesis that a predator may or may not be present, whereas orienting is initiated when the agent has a sufficiently low uncertainty belief that a predator is present, i.e., acute risk increases. In a scenario with high background and low acute predation risk, we experimentally induced a shift to high acute risk, using a pre-recorded hawk call (diagonal arrows, upper right quadrant). In accordance with our hypothesis, this produced a behavioural shift from high to low head rotation frequency, and a shift in the neurocognitive model to a belief that a predator is present along with a reduction in simulated head rotation frequency. Our model provides a feasible interpretation of the underlying neurocognition that distinguishes two identical observational scenarios (low head rotation frequency under low and high acute risk).
In a field experiment and its simulation, we manipulated perceived acute predation risk and measured head rotation frequency. Our model provides a neurocognitive interpretation that distinguishes two identical observational scenarios (low head rotation freq. under low vs. high acute predation risk).
scrub-jays overcome visual limitations kind of like we do:
- rotate your head to see behind you
- move your eyes for narrow focus
- change your elevation to see over obstructions
how do these relate to habitat-specific predation strategies?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
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Simulation examples. Scenarios A–D above correspond to agent behaviour sequences in rows A–D below. The sequences indicate 12 time steps, one per box, which proceed horizontally (i.e. the leftmost box is t1, the rightmost box is t12). In the lower rows, beak direction is depicted with a triangle such that head rotations are visible (e.g. in row B, there is a head rotation each time step). The circular area connected to the triangle represents a top view of the scrub-jay head (filled circle with unfilled sectors). Circles with two unfilled sectors show the default foveal position bilaterally, and circles with four unfilled sectors show further foveation during a fixed head position. Unfilled row squares indicate that the scrub-jay has high uncertainty about whether a hawk is present due to lack of sensory evidence (no hawk shape is visible and no hawk call is audible). Filled row squares that progress from dark (orange) to light (yellow) represent the strength of the belief that a hawk is present, beginning with low uncertainty during three time steps when the hawk shape is visible and an increasing belief that the hawk is no longer present once the shape is no longer visible. Upper half: the filled circle indicates the scrub-jay’s proximal surroundings. In the top left (A), a single hawk suggests low background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every two time steps (row A). (Dotted lines indicate possible but not actual approaches.) Three hawks are shown in B, indicating high background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every time step (row B). Rectangular cover in C presents a skewed distribution of possible hawk approaches. This leads to a head rotation pattern that proportionately increases the time monitoring exposed areas (row C). In the upper right (D), two actual hawk approaches are shown (solid lines extended by dotted lines). The dark orange solid segment corresponds to the dark orange boxes in row D, when the hawk shape is visible.
Paper out today on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Alerting and orienting attention in anti-predator vigilance: neurocognitive modelling and behavioural evidence"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids #OpenAccess
Simulation examples. Scenarios A–D above correspond to agent behaviour sequences in rows A–D below. The sequences indicate 12 time steps, one per box, which proceed horizontally (i.e. the leftmost box is t1, the rightmost box is t12). In the lower rows, beak direction is depicted with a triangle such that head rotations are visible (e.g. in row B, there is a head rotation each time step). The circular area connected to the triangle represents a top view of the scrub-jay head (filled circle with unfilled sectors). Circles with two unfilled sectors show the default foveal position bilaterally, and circles with four unfilled sectors show further foveation during a fixed head position. Unfilled row squares indicate that the scrub-jay has high uncertainty about whether a hawk is present due to lack of sensory evidence (no hawk shape is visible and no hawk call is audible). Filled row squares that progress from dark (orange) to light (yellow) represent the strength of the belief that a hawk is present, beginning with low uncertainty during three time steps when the hawk shape is visible and an increasing belief that the hawk is no longer present once the shape is no longer visible. Upper half: the filled circle indicates the scrub-jay’s proximal surroundings. In the top left (A), a single hawk suggests low background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every two time steps (row A). (Dotted lines indicate possible but not actual approaches.) Three hawks are shown in B, indicating high background predation risk, which elicits a head rotation every time step (row B). Rectangular cover in C presents a skewed distribution of possible hawk approaches. This leads to a head rotation pattern that proportionately increases the time monitoring exposed areas (row C). In the upper right (D), two actual hawk approaches are shown (solid lines extended by dotted lines). The dark orange solid segment corresponds to the dark orange boxes in row D, when the hawk shape is visible.
Paper out today on @royalsocietypublishing.org:
"Alerting and orienting attention in anti-predator vigilance: neurocognitive modelling and behavioural evidence"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
🧪🌎🪶 #corvids #OpenAccess
#Communiqué 🗞️ L'@academiesciences.bsky.social et le CNRS signent un accord de coédition pour développer un modèle de publication scientifique en libre accès et gratuit. ✍️
👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/la...
We are pouring our heart into this conference to keep it high quality, supportive, and accessible (no registration fee!). Do consider it for your #philsci content broadly conceived. I also can't wait to see Bucharest in September.
later that evening...
Santa Severa (outside Rome, west coast) #medievalsky #caturday
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Black and white photograph of women of Nation of Islam, dressed in all white with white head coverings. Ethel Sharrieff in Chicago in the front. Photograph by Gordon Parks; 1963.
Black and white photograph of a large group of men, sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, protesting with “I Am A Man” printed on their signs. Photograph by Ernest C. Withers.
Black and white photograph. “Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi, 1968.” Photograph by Doris A. Derby.
“First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition Explores Photography’s Role in the ‘Black Arts Movement’” petapixel.com/2025/11/30/f...
was hoping you'd post this one...have this on 10", vaguely recall picking it up at a live show of theirs, maybe in Westwood (?), likely heard about it on KXLU!
Panic! At the oven window! It's regarding the pumpkin pie filling height! Relative to the crust edge height! Oh wait it's levelled out now! Sorry for the false alarm it's my first go and it was convex for a minute and I'd never seen that happen before!
An installation view of a museum gallery shows a large-scale Guerilla Girls collage that features Ingres's "Grand Odalisque" wearing a gorilla mask.
“Art should look like the rest of our culture,” says Frida Kahlo of the Guerilla Girls. Otherwise, “it’s not really history of art, it’s a history of power.”
I have a look at the timely Guerilla Girls show the Getty for Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/guerrilla-gi...
The call for applications for 2026 European Advanced School in Philosophy of Life Sciences is now open! Deadline 15 Jan 2026, theme will be “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”, all info here: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... graduate students &early postdocs, do consider joining us! #philsci
In honor of Tomas Schmit's archives being digitalised (drawingmatter.org/tomas-schmit...) we decided to release ICP010 on Bandcamp this morning:
icporchestra.bandcamp.com/album/icp010...
sign in a Viennese venue: "RUHE"
Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.
Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM
Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, in ancient Antinous pose, 1.80m.
Montpellier. Louis Auzoux's 1830 medical education mannequin, 1.80m in ancient Antinous pose. Divides vertically: flayed display (r), moveable complete dissection (l), down to skeleton w 130 numbered pieces, 1700 detailed objects. more (🇫🇷): collections.umontpellier.fr/component/k2... (my 📷) #histSTM