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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

For others like me who might be unsure what this is about www.eu-inc.org has some further details

Why the EU–INC?

Europe has the talent, ambition, and ecosystems to create innovative companies, but fragmentation between European nations is holding us back.

"A startup from California can expand and raise money all across the United States. But our companies still face way too many national barriers that make it hard to work Europa-wide, and way too much regulatory burden."

– Ursula von der Leyen, Oct 2024

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Update: I gave up on the blue goop in favour of a normal beer.

A hazy beer in a wine glass, with a can in the foreground labeled "long time coming ddh IPA"

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is the most insane beer I have ever had. Can you even call it a beer???

A glass of bright blue, opaque beer. Next to it is the can which is labeled "SCOOP ice cream sour"

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My husband got me the tiny flowers Lego set for my birthday. I love how some of the classic pieces are reused—e.g. flat newsboy caps for Jade plant leaves!

Green flat caps which would normally be used for Lego minifigs

Diagram in the instructions explaining that the flat caps are used for the leaves.

The assembled Jade plant, with some of the other assembled plants in the background.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I suppose I'm a bit of a chaos gardener, didn't know there was a term for it! I am limited to containers but love just trying stuff, seeing what happens, and being delighted by surprises like my nemesia and violas from last year self-seeding 🌱🌸🤩

Self-seeded nemesia with pink and orange tones

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's rhododendron season! 🌱🌸

Blooming rhododendron with multi toned flowers, starting as hot pink and fading to pale pink/white

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Love these pink and peach tulips in Holkham Hall's walked garden. 😍🌷

Two toned tulips with pink and orange shades. Photo taken at Holkham Hall.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Though, an update from the authors who did the benchmarking shows Gemini 2.5 has made some good progress.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some of the coolest latte art I've ever gotten 🤩 (courtesy of Hot Numbers Coffee).

Latte in a red cup, with seahorse latte art

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Spring flowers are popping up in my garden. They remind me each morning of beauty in the world, despite the trashfire which is the news lately.

Daffodils and yellow violas illuminated by the sun from behind

Flowering yellow daffodils and blue and pink pulmonaria

Pink and yellow primrose with purple irises in the background

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Spring flowers at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridge.

Crocuses, irises and other colorful plants with hues of blue, red, yellow, and green

A blanket of snowdrops stretching into the distance

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Crocuses 💜 and snowdrops 🤍

A macro shot of a purple crocus with bright orange stamen

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My garden is starting to wake up 🥰

A garden with a pot of pale blue irises in the foreground and lots with yellow daffodils and ferns in the background

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Nice post! I had a similar frustration when I helped run a workshop a few years back—the big names you find easily from cogsci are all white men. My co-organizers and I put some effort into making at least a slightly more gender diverse list...

A non-exhaustive list of influential cognitive scientists

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Digging this bird's vibe this morning at the rail station. 🌤️

A sleepy pigeon with its feathers puffed up, basking in the morning sunlight.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

32. The whole Zelda franchise in general, but Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild in particular. OoT was one of the first games I played all the way through (many years after its release, when I was in college) and BoTW was majestic. Both are masterpieces and have stuck with me.

A screenshot from ocarina of time showing link playing the ocarina

A screenshot from breath of the wild showing link looking over hyrule

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

31. Coffee. One in the morning and one after lunch ☕

A latte I made myself, complete with amateur latte art

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

30. Spirit Island, a collaborative board game where you play spirits trying to oust colonizers from your island. A much lower learning curve than Gloomhaven and really fun to play.

A board game layed out on a table, along with some glasses of wine and a garden and hammock in the background.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

28. Our Bakfiets. It is fantastic for taking our daughter around town or making big trips to the store. Almost completely removes the need for us to have a car.

Inaugural trip with baby in the cargo bike (Bakfiets).

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

27. Cream and/or egg based desserts. Creme brulee, cannoli (ok technically cheese, not cream, but still fits the category), flan, strawberries and cream, tiramisu, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, ... 🤤

A slice of Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte: chocolate cake with layers of cream and cherries.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

22. Craft beer, especially in cans with cool artwork. 🍺

Duration 'dripping pitch' west coast IPA

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

21. Dangly earrings. I don't wear much jewelry with the exception of dangly earrings, which I have always found fun and pretty. I am a particular fan of these ones made out of circuit boards.

Me wearing a green shirt, wide brimmed blue hat, sunglasses, and dangly earrings made from green circuit boards.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

19. Research. I love the process of discovery and figuring out how something works.

A long forgotten cognitive modeling idea from my grad school days, scribbled on a whiteboard.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

17. Traveling to new places. I've been fortunate to be able to travel a lot during and since grad school and every trip brings a new perspective to my life.

Visiting Okinawa, taking a bike trip and finding pineapples.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

15. Gloomhaven, which is perhaps one of the most complicated board games ever, but really fun to play. Feels almost like a video game, but everything is manual. Definitely got us through lockdowns and isolating jack in 2020 and 2021!

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

14. Bubble tea. It is just so delicious. Tapioca pudding was my favourite dessert growing up and then when I discovered bubble tea in highschool it blew my mind.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

13. Learning to exercise properly. I've never really loved exercising while I'm doing it, but I do love the process of seeing myself get stronger and more in tune with my body.

Me doing a lunge with a bar on my shoulders

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

12. Hiking, which I rarely am able to do these days, but which is so refreshing when I can. I love being in nature and being forced to disconnect from technology for even a short while.

Me, looking out at a sweeping valley in Sardinia, with a bright blue sky with puffy clouds. The valley is rocky with scrubs and bushes.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

11. My husband's cooking. He loves to do it and I love eating it! I am so grateful to have such incredible meals from him all the time.

Toast with a fried egg, smashed avocado, and blackberries

Knödel with gravy and vegetarian sausage, sauerkraut, fried onions, and peas

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

10. Taking baths with bath bombs. I find it such a good way to both relax, have some alone time, and read.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

9. Colorful things, in general. Bright colours and patterns make me feel happy!

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

8. Seeing my daughter's artwork improve as she gets older. For a while she was not into drawing at all and now she *loves* it (she's almost 3).

Children's artwork, with pink, blue, brown, black, yellow, and red patches

Children's artwork, with all different colors

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

7. Watching the spring bulbs start to come up and in general seeing all the plants start to awaken.

Various plants in pots, including a fern and daffodils which are just coming up

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

6. Our front door, which looks absolutely magical at certain times of day (assuming the sun is out!)

Sun coming through a multicoloured stained glass window in a door

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

4. Parker's Piece in Cambridge. So nice to have such a large green space right in the middle of the city.

Bright blue sky and green grass with a row of houses and trees on the horizon

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

3. Outer Wilds, which is my favourite game of all time. It is an exploration/mystery game about wonder, discovery, loss, and renewal. The less you know about the game going in the better but I highly highly recommend it to everyone.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Multi-coloured flowers, especially dahlias. There is something about colour gradients in flowers that I just find absolutely stunning.

A different type of pink and yellow dahlia, with spiky petals

Orange and pink coloured African daisies

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My cat, Kumulus, who is basically the sweetest cat you've ever met. He lives for sitting on your lap.

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A year ago, I built a deck and raised beds in my garden and had a wonderful space to enjoy all year long. Can't wait for the first flowers to be able to start working out there again. 🌷

An empty back garden, tiled with uneven paving slabs

Work in progress on raised wooden flower beds

Finished deck and flower beds in late winter/early spring

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Absolutely love that there is a Zelda game with Zelda as the protagonist, but have to say I've been having trouble getting into Echoes of Wisdom. Not sure why... Too slow paced? Art too cutesy/plasticky? Or perhaps just no Zelda game can top BoTW for me 😁

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Reminding myself of things that bring joy today. Soft morning light over Cambridge. Continually grateful I get to live in such a wonderful place. 🌤️

Soft morning light over a row of terraced houses

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The frost here has been lovely this week ❄️

Frost covering hot pink cyclamen in a clay pot

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Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

A tall orange flower with multicolour foliage in the background

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