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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 18h

Them: lots of new followers — this account posts about X, Y, Z. Hope you enjoy! Me: lots of new followers, uh, apologies in advance?

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somehow simultaneously an abomination that should never have been conjured into this world and something I want injected directly and constantly into my tastebuds thank you

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tuesday: 2 (two!) rejections and an unrelated (non-serious) visit to the emergency room Wednesday:

A photo of a mountain landscape in the early evening. The moon is partially visible and the sky is mostly clear

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I became a 2x human with one simple trick: read some science news that my brain is actually 2 organs

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

<catching up on the latest science news> Study: we implanted human neurons in the brains of mice Me: wow cool Study: people of your socioeconomic background are less likely to make it in academia Me: wow cool wait what

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Email: we regret to inform you— Me: *closes app* Me: Me: whew, that was a close one!

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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you turn something into a benchmark with quantifiable rewards and progress metrics, don’t be surprised when the machines achieve dominance there. At that point it will be too late to gesture at intrinsic non-economic values, you’ve made them illegible (in Scott’s sense) to any outside observer.

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 17/09/2026

LLMs are everywhere, as are companies advertising LLM-powered products by their “beyond-human” performance levels. But how do LLMs *actually* fare against humans across the board? Join our effort to organize empirical evidence from the field into a systematic and publicly accessible overview ⬇️

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me: let’s make a list to keep track of projects and tasks so that I don’t get overwhelmed Also me, feeling overwhelmed looking at list of projects and tasks: well this sucks

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was going through my notes and found this. Something terrible must have happened back in May

A page from my notes reads “Sheaf Theory. 26.05.2026”. The rest is blank

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Them: we have cracked the physics of fluids using artificial intelligence, solving one of the toughest puzzles in mathematics Me trying to make latte art, attempt number [redacted]:

A latte seen from above. Just a terrible attempt at latte art. A white blob on a crema canvas

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

How does the architecture of a city shape the way we think, talk, and draw space? And how do spatial conventions travel across cultural generations? New paper in Open Mind, spearheaded by Z Alinam (w J Nölle, C Vesper, K Tylén & me): doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.380 🧵 1/

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When the City Speaks: How Urban Form Shapes the Cultural Transmission of Spatial Conceptualization

Abstract. How do urban environments shape the way people conceptualize and communicate space? Using a cultural transmission experiment in virtual reality, we asked participants to navigate one of two ...

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Updating my cv with all the invited talks about *checks spam folder* “materials science”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Updating my cv with all the invited talks about *checks spam folder* “materials science”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You see in math we want to be really precise and to remove any hint of ambiguity. Any questions? 🙋🏻‍♂️ good question ok that p is a probability 🙋🏽 no that other p is a mass function 🙋🏼 you’d think so but this p is a density 🙋🏿 haha no here p is a specific number Ok be rigorous out there class dismissed

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Me: right, I need to get these 3 things done today Brain: you can have one Me: no really these 3 Brain: I said one Me: but why? Brain: we’re down to zero now because you spent it on thinking about why good night

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

English: having cake means having it and eating it too but you can’t have cake and eat it too English speakers: yeah you can’t have cake and eat it too that’s right you can’t

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The Algonauts Project @algonautsproject.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(1/2) We’re excited to announce the Algonauts Project Challenge 2027 with CNeuroMod: How The Human Brain Makes Sense of Video Games 🎮 🧠 Launching end of 2026. Top 3 teams will present at CCN 2027 in Edinburgh. algonautsproject.com/2027/ #Algonauts2027 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #fMRI

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The Algonauts Project Challenge 2027

The Algonauts Project 2027 Challenge — how the human brain makes sense of video games. Launching end of 2026. Sign up to stay updated.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guy about to sit at the next table gives a quick hi in acknowledgment (Me: aw how friendly) Guy: *speaks to himself and other non-animate objects around* (Me: uh, I’ll take it)

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Me overthinking job applications: I have to be very specific about my research program and what makes it different from others Successful applicants: my lab will focus on how the brain gives rise to behavior in a complex world oh and something AI too

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to share our latest work where we built a dataset of every single line delivered by the famous actor Al Pacino and used it to train a chabot. We call it AI Pacino

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excited to share our latest work where we built a dataset of every single line delivered by the famous actor Al Pacino and used it to train a chabot. We call it AI Pacino

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The existence of Philosophers implies the existence of Jillosophers and Billosophers and such so keep an eye out because it seems we’ve only been seeing the tip of the iceberg

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Bluesky Professor of Cups: this is not funny, cups do this when they are in distress

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Bluesky Professor of Cups: this is not funny, cups do this when they are in distress

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi I’m 6 or 7 completely unrelated events

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As area chair I’m finding myself too often having to refocus discussion between authors and reviewers away from forced homogeneity, value judgements, gatekeeping, ad hominem attacks and general adversarial issues, and towards clarification and understanding. Not sure how we’ve come to be so weird…

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In fact, what we most need is funding to build out and stabilize the network of academic workers. We need more secure positions for people who work in universities, so they can do good teaching and research, day in and day out. We do not need to hire stars.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A humble academic proposal: let's not have stars. Everyone hired as an academic at a university is there to teach younger generations, to make new knowledge, to have that knowledge critically evaluated by others, and to act on collective insights. We do not need to designate some people as stars.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Got it taken care of right away. Me, forgetting what comes next in the movie: is this it? Is this all you can conjure, universe?

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Injured myself on the street but I was already on my way to the hospital. Nice try, universe

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Dr: you might have carpal tunnel syndrome — we can fix it with a quick surgery after we test for it Me: wonderful *test comes back negative* Dr: yea the test is not sensitive enough but I think you have CTS and we can fix it with a quick surgery Me, resisting every single impulse: wonderful

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Me, trying to project gravitas while supervising students: The key to modeling is patience. Like that time I shook a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice & went to bed. It didn’t react. It silently waited. Then waited some more. Until at 3 AM it exploded with the fury of eleventy thunderbolts.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Funder: that’s an important research program with an innovative methodology you got there. What are some concrete deliverables? Me: for example nothing

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As scientists we are used to explore at the edge of knowledge. To straddle the boundary between possible and impossible. We are guided by plausibility but not enslaved by it. Like that time I was out of milk so I tried yogurt in my coffee. A long shot, yes. But did it work? Not even a little bit.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Funder: that’s an important research program with an innovative methodology you got there. What are some concrete deliverables? Me: for example nothing

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A stock scene in American shows that always confuses me A: you look like shit, B, you should get some sleep B: yeah *looks fabulous*

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Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yeah exactly, just like if you ask for mayo and you get aioli, it looks the same but only when all the information is integrated together does the model fail, showing that single point estimates do not reflect dynamical systems. See? simple intuitions.

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As a total outsider who has never really done any serious science communication work, I wonder if we could do a bit more of “I can’t explain X in lay terms, but I can tell you it’s role in giving us Y which I can give intuition for” (metatheory) and less “X is to Y as feet are to soccer balls”

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 16/07/2026

New preprint (well, very updated). 🤖🧠🧪 We find that an abstract model of neuromodulation lets spiking neural networks perform much better, particularly in challenging noisy environments, using less energy. Relevant to #neuroscience and #neuromorphic computing. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Neuromodulation enhances the capability and efficiency of spiking neural networks

Spiking neurons underlie the brain’s extreme energy efficiency, and therefore have great potential in neuromorphic computing, although realising this efficiency in practice has proven challenging. We ...

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