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Ehud

@duhe.bsky.social
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Do you really don’t know? (I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.) www.ehudlamm.com

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 8h
Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.
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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 33m
Kevin actually called it!
screenshot from twitter. 

Nathan @NathanpmYoung asks "Does it actually work?"

and Kevin Roose replies "not really, but the power!"
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Maëlle Bellec @bellecmaelle.bsky.social · 7h
DNA → RNA → protein. From single mRNAs to an entire developing vertebrate embryo, we can now watch this last step unfold in real time. Our paper is out today! 🐟🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Real-time single-molecule imaging in zebrafish embryos uncovers noncanonical translation
Precise spatiotemporal control of protein synthesis is essential during embryogenesis, yet directly measuring translation kinetics in vivo remains challenging in vertebrates. In particular, it remains...
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 8h
Thanks to Felipe De Brigard for his generous review of Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind in BJPS: "In sum, Piccinini has put together a fantastic volume. The fourteen chapters that comprise it cover a wide range of topics and explore different ways that neuroscientific 1/
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 7h
One stop codon to evade two divergent immune systems www.fredhutch.org/content/www/... Great writeup by Ashley Person @fredhutch.org Original paper by @tamanash.bsky.social here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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One stop codon to evade two divergent immune systems
A recent study reveals how a single stop codon helps alphaviruses evade immune defenses in both mosquitoes and humans
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Abhishek Dedhe @adedhe.bsky.social · 8h
🧠 Is hierarchical reasoning uniquely human, or do we share this capacity across species and development? Our new paper in Cognition, "Flexibility of hierarchical reasoning across age and species," explores how humans and non-humans flexibly deploy recursive strategies! 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 25m
Me explaining this in essentially every meeting with students. Results of this conversation vary.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 30m
This purported result is causing so much turbulence
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 36m
Do veterinary surgeons count?
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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 12h
The brain represents expected sensory information before it arrives. Activity predicting upcoming visual or tactile input appeared even in early subcortical sensory regions, suggesting prediction is built into sensory processing from its earliest stages. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Modality-specific reactive and predictive responses in the human superior colliculus - Nature Neuroscience
Chen et al. use 7-Tesla fMRI to show that the human superior colliculus has modality-specific, depth-dependent activity prior to visual or somatosensory events, resembling its response to actual stimu...
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Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social · 11h
What an excellent week for new books! Today’s congratulations to my brilliant former colleague @tmbejan.bsky.social. Excited to read. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 13h
Yup
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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 15h
1/ Workshop CFP Resilient Societies: Shocks, Adaptation and the Persistence of Inequality in Historical Perspective. How have societies responded to historical shocks, and why have some individuals or societies proved more resilient than others? LSE, 20–21 May 2027
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026
Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19h
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 18h
Half my feed: people are not reading because of AI. Other half of my feed: AI is because people are not reading.
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 20h
This is good, but I think missing a crucial point: the goal of peer review is not just to publish the most accurate and novel papers possible. It also has a social function: reviewers are part of the process of creating and transmitting knowledge to other humans. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Can AI help solve the peer-review crisis? Here are its promises and pitfalls
Amid a shortage of human reviewers, tests indicate AI can assist—but is not a savior
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 20h
what’s with the bunny?
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 20h
Didn’t we invent the notion of agency to avoid having to discuss free will and indeterminism?
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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New discussion paper: "Does agency require indeterminism?", philpapers.org/archive/LISD...
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 20h
This is an enjoyable and useful episode situating transhumanism within Darwinism and 19th century socialism. You’ll get to meet old friends like Haldane and Bernal and wonder whether eugenics was always already part of the story. www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...
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The History of Transhumanism: Origins
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 05/10/2026
If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...
Currently, authors posting to arXiv have no control over whether bots scrape their full-text PDFs and LaTeX source files.

We are calling on arXiv to implement a simple permission toggle during submission, allowing authors to decide what automated scrapers can access:

Full Access: Bots can read and scrape the full text and source files.

Metadata Only: Bots are restricted to the Title, Abstract, and Citation metadata.

Open science for human readers should not mean mandatory, unconsented data harvesting by commercial entities. Advancing scientific knowledge demands immense time, resources, and intellectual rigor — we deserve a say in whether our original work is fed into massive, opaque training sets.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h
Anarchists don’t beg for research funding
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 22h
Reminder that we are offering this really cool opportunity. The deadline for expressions of interest is October 31!
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 22h
Ofc the real problem is that school is a prison and trying to avoid involuntary forced labor totally makes sense. (This post is not about AI)
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2026. Children from six cultures reliably help their peers—but in different ways | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Children from six cultures reliably help their peers—but in different ways | PNAS
Helping others is an integral part of human sociality, but systematic cross-cultural comparisons of children’s helping behavior are rare. Existing ...
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 23h
Reminder: no one knows how to continuously improve LLMs without exponential increase in compute resources beyond what is physically possible.
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The people I mentioned?
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 23h
These are celebrities. Most AI researchers are skeptical of AGI and RSI being realistic with current approaches (e.g. ⬇️) and prominent economists who studied the issue (e.g., @dacemoglumit.bsky.social ) including >= 2 Nobelists, are skeptical of the all-jobs-gone scenario. bsky.app/profile/duhe...
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Without assuming a background in philosophy of biology or evolutionary theory, @bufordrat.bsky.social and I discussed ideas from my book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance (from @uchicagopress.bsky.social) on his Elucidations podcast. 🌱🐋 #evobio elucidations.vercel.app/posts/episod...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In looking for the best metaphor for understanding and teaching people about today’s AI, I went to mirror made of math when cognitive hot dog was right there
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.
"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good point. Minecraft at least has the right ethos.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not just MacGyver — the A-Team too: they are always building things. What are the kids these days watching?
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Jake Wojtowicz @jakewojtowicz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Challenge to philosophy departments: post a job for someone who doesn't have to work on AI.
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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If that is the goal, what is the best way to introduce yourself?
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tell this to a taxi driver a report back
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Most histories take the double helix as the obvious goal of xrc on DNA fibers. If we want to honor Franklin, we need to stop trying to explain her work as almost getting the double helix. We need to understand her on her own terms. The Sponsel and Sutton paper takes us a good step in that direction
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reposting for the morning crowd my mini-thread from yesterday on the new Sponsel & Sutton paper on Rosalind Franklin's work. tl;dr: Why didn't Franklin find the double helix? Because she wasn't looking for it! She had her own DNA project that had nothing to do w/ the gene.
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In heterogeneous system of AI agents, when agents disagree, who persuades whom? We found: 1) Models easily influence each other 2) Model size/certainty doesn't imply resistance to influence 3) Opinion shift is determined mostly by the resistance of the hearer. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2610.03095
Screenshot of the title page of the paper, showing the author names and the abstract.
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BES Evolutionary Ecology Group @bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are so excited to announce Arvid Ågren as our next webinar speaker on the 21st October at 3:30PM (BST). @arvidagren.bsky.social works on genomic conflict—the selective tensions within every cell and how they are resolved. Register (for free) here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ironically, at the time I felt I need to pay lip service to the work of Haidt, Ariely, and Sunstein.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reminded me of the answer I gave when asked a similar “Edge” question: understanding human rationality. ehudlamm.com/questions.html
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Ehud Lamm - Odyssey Question
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was waiting for the espresso machine to finish...
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