It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?
Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!
And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!
Plato tells us that there is but one Jason Statham movie, which we perceive as many due to our inability to access true knowledge in the realm of the forms
I don't think that's it. Lots of charitable enterprises force us into the same admission, but don't generate the same discomfort or attract the same kinds of wankers. The things that generate the discomfort are the same things that attract the wankers, imo.
Once had a masters student tell me, apparently concerned, that they were the only one in their cohort not applying for PhDs. I said, attempting to make them feel better, 'well, it's not all it's cracked up to be'. They snorted derisively and said 'it's not cracked up to be much'.
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
*pinches bridge of nose*
#ohgodsherewegoagain #animalstudies #STS #scicomm #histSTM
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Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers is very good, actually.
Wow.
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I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
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Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound
My crowning achievement
Thank god, I was worried I was the only one
⚛️ Do molecules have structure?
Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research.
📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa...
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@thebsps.bsky.social
⏰ Next week!
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In case you need a distraction from... *gestures broadly at everything* here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨:
Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices.
Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20
I thought that was a tin can knit! That one's on my list :)
If there was any justice in the world, tennis elbow would be more commonly known as knitter’s elbow. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
hey scientists, have you seen a cool paper recently that didn't get enough attention? let me know! I'm always looking for new studies to cover and would love to hear from you👇
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
An AI-generated animal alphabet of such intense wrongness (e.g. “O is penguin” by an image of a quail) that it achieves something like sublimity
Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet
source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!
me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
I once had an anaesthesiologist reply ‘nothing philosophical about this [anaesthesia]; it’s pure science’. Sadly he said this just as he was giving me a general anaesthetic, so I only got as far as ‘um, actually -‘ before losing consciousness. When I came to he was nowhere to be seen, the coward.
Loved the @manymindspod.bsky.social on the function of memory, with @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social. Highly recommended if you didn't listen to it (yet)!
Episode on episodic memory. Another banger from the Many Minds Podcast.
As usual, I am late to the party, but I just finished listening to the fantastic episode on episodic memory from @manymindspod.bsky.social. Super informative interview to @aliboyle.bsky.social and @jomahr.bsky.social by @kensycoop.bsky.social. Cheers to the Many Minds Team! Highly recommend!
