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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I saw a crack that looks like an opossum today

crack in the sidewalk that looks like an opossum hanging down

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

…annnd in situ thanks to @neukili.bsky.social! I had a blast as always. Next year in Rio?? 👀👀

a picture of me from the back gesturing at my poster. My matching earring is clearly visible. I have short cropped hair and am wearing a blue sleeveless top.

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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thanks to a rogue Partiful RSVP form at #cogsci2025, I seem to have collected an unexpectedly large dataset (N=197) of whether cognitive scientists think the mind is composed of innate, domain-specialized modules…

A bar chart showing frequencies of answers to the question "Is the mind composed of innate, domain-specialized modules?" with N=197. The most prominent bars are no response (~60), yes (~30) and yo (~30). The rest of the entries are funny, e.g. "I hope so."

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

At 18:30 UK time, I will be presenting my work on learning and exploration across development at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Glushko Dissertation Prize Session! #CogSci participants can join at this link: underline.io/events/489/s...

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CogSci 2025

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

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Maisy Hallam @maisyhallam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If you like semantic category systems and efficiency biases, come say hi at #CogSci2025! Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology (P3-H-71, Friday 2 Aug @ 13:00)

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I’m here at #CogSci2025! And I made some earrings to match my stimuli! If you want to chat about the ✨emergence of compositional structure in iterated reference games✨, come by my poster today at P1-M-125

a picture of me wearing a blue shirt. I’m showing off a pair of earrings that are two shapes stacked on top of each other.

A picture of my poster, which shows that compositional structure only emerges when there is compositional structure in the environment (shapes with subshapes or no subshapes)

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? I’m writing abstracts and making figures

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

writing a bu abstract at 10pm at sfo as one does

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

back back back again here’s some knitwear as penance for disappearing

a picture of me in a hand knit neon rainbow tank top

a picture of me in a neon colorwork sweater

a picture of some bright colbolt blue yarn on a set of needles

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I saw some birds at the botanical gardens and thought you’d wanna see them too

An orange cheeked waxbill and a goldfinch

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Spent the weekend dying some rainbow pastel neon yarn to welcome the summer 🌈🧶

Yarn in a little bundle. The colors are splashes of pink and green and blue and yellow

The same yarn knit on a sample swatch. The colors pool and pattern in speckles of colors.

The yarn in progress in a pan. The colors are more vibrant and pooled

A selfie of me in my mask to help filter particulates.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Yarn day yarn day yarn day!! 🧶

Rainbow yarn in the sun. The colors are blue and neon and yellow and pink!

The same yarn boiling in a pot. The colors are deeper and more vibrant because they’ve just been applied.

A picture of me sprinkling dye into the yarn.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Trying to spin through my stash of random 1-2oz bits of fiber. First up: mystery wool from chile that I got to practice on my drop spindle 💚💙🧶

Yarn on a niddy noddy. It’s blue and green with stripes of barber-poles blends

The same yarn held in my hand with better lighting ti show the colors

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

I lost my password to this account but I FOUND IT and I have NEWS I’ve been dying yarn and roving and spinning and have run out of storage so I’ve opened a shop! Please buy my stuff! It deserves to be loved and used by someone more creative than me! 🧶🌈 follyfibers.etsy.com

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FollyFibers - Etsy

Shop Yarn, Fiber, and Supplies by FollyFibers located in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Spring spring spring spring spring (my north-facing window’s light catcher is catching light!!)

A picture of my couch which sits under a window. There is a beam of light streaming through which is being caught by a light catcher. The light catcher is throwing rainbow specks across the couch.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Me? opening an Etsy shop? More likely than you’d think (actually it’s been very likely I don’t have space for all the things I’m making)

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Broke out my spinning wheel last night and spun up some roving that I dyed all by myself!!!! 🧶💖💙

Roving hanging ti dry outside on a bike storage tent. The roving is blue and pink!

Now yarn has been spun into singles on two bobbins. The yarn stripes in pink and blue like the roving

The yarn is plied and twisted into a hank. Now the colors blend and twist into stripes of blue and pink and barberpole combinations of the two spun together

The same hank if yarn now displayed into a neat pile

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

I told my mom about the girl I’m dating which I’m realizing, several hours later, was the first time I’ve been explicit about my queerness to her and it really didn’t phase either of us

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

maybe I should start an etsy shop

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I don’t really want to go back to the real world tomorrow

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I dyed some roving all by myself and didn’t felt it are you proud of me?? 🍬🧶

Roving in a braid spun into a spiral. The colors are teal, pink, and slight gradients of purple.

A different braid of the same colorway, but folded in half.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Watch out everyone indie yarn dyer Jess is coming through 😈🧶

Bundles of yarn and wool displayed on a table. There is a gradient set of purples, blues, and pinks. And another gradient set of pinks and yellows. There are two bundles of wool in orange yellow and a set of miscellaneous browns and purples.

Five jars of dye with yarn in them. The colors are neon pink and orange and purple.

A bundle of the gradient purple through yellow yarn

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

viridis yarn experiment in progress?? 🧶🧪

Yarn dying in jars. The colors work out from a bright yellow through green and blue to a dark purple.

The viridis color palette, which is a scientific palette that has the same gradient from yellow to purple.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Fear not!! It still fits!! An alpaca miracle 🧶

A selfie of me with the shaka sign wearing the hand knit sweater

A full body shot of me wearing the sweater showing the length is reasonable

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

(Re)learned that alpaca stretches like nothing else when blocked, so I’m blocking now to see how much I (might??) need to rip back to get a normal length sweater 🤞🤞🧶

My hand knit horses sweater drying on a table. The yoke is handspun yarn in neon greens, pinks, and yellows

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

(Re)learned that alpaca stretches like nothing else when blocked, so I’m blocking now to see how much I (might??) need to rip back to get a normal length sweater 🤞🤞🧶

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

The yarn shop where I made most of my friends and connections is closing next week and I’m SO sad about it

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

I opened ucla tinder just for curiosities sake and everyone is just so pretty how does that happen

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Good morning I have a 7am flight

A selfie of me with terrible bed head. My hair is sticking straight up and then falling down like a fountain from every hair follicle on my head. I’m wearing yellow glasses and giving the camera a thumbs up with a look of despair on my face.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I have the kind of eczema that means when I get stressed my hands burn and blister for a week which just seems unfair

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I think I need a coffee table

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Winter means I can really start dressing (Coordinate my hand kits with my glasses 🤓🧶)

A selfie of me. I’m wearing a cabled hat and a cabled neck warmer. The yarn is purple and pink with speckles of green, red, and yellow. I’m wearing aqua classes and earrings.

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I saw a mouse in my kitchen last night and I have never cleaned so fast or so thoroughly

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Sleeves have been split successfully!! 🧶

Me trying on my yoked sweater which has neon handspun yarn and black colorwork details. There are horses galloping across my upper chest and the sweater fits pretty well so far!

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

It’s winter so I can really start dressing (wear four different shades of black and some funky socks)

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

This is a normal and not at all worrying amount to knit in one evening right 🧶

The yoke of a sweater in circular needles. The sweater is a colorwork sweater with motifs of black over stripes of green, blue, and bright pink

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Attempt #3 off to a promising start 🐎🧶

The yoke of a sweater in progress. Right now it is a circle with a repeating chevron pattern around the edge

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Jay/Jess @jmank.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I’m finally feeling well enough to think about stitch counts so I’m restarting my handspun colorwork sweater send me all your best sweater math vibes (attempt 1 memorialized here in perpetuity) 🧶