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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing. Bring back the unique personalities of journals. bring back diversity in design, argues @emoqanaki.bsky.social Happy to have published this in the latest Bulletin of the ESA @esajournals.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

White background with the following text:

BULLETIN
ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Communicating Science
• Open Access

Designed to be Forgotten: Visual Anonymization in Ecological Publishing
Ehsan Moganaki

First published: 08 September 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70102 |
Abstract

For over three centuries, the visual identity of scientific journals served as a mark of institutional and disciplinary heritage. In recent years, however, an industry-wide consolidation of journal publishing has been accompanied by a convergence toward standardized, interchangeable layouts. I argue that the transition to homogeneous designs is not a technical inevitability but a production optimization, one that often subordinates reader engagement and disciplinary identity to production efficiency. Layout functions as an access structure, shaping how readers navigate and interpret the scientific record. Therefore, its impoverishment is a communicative loss, not merely an aesthetic one. I contend that ecology, a field defined by diversity at every scale, has particular reason to resist the visual anonymization of its journals and to treat layout as a meaningful dimension of scientific communication.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

#Caturday is for boxtrolls, says Saya, who’s grown too big now for this box!

A grey kitten with yellow irises surrounding large dark pupils and a dark nose-tip is sitting partially in a cardboard box, with her butt hanging out of the box in the back. She’s facing the camera, with a predatory/startled look on her face, and perked up ears pulled slightly back

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

First time I’m hearing of this book. And of course the plot fucking starts in Calcutta, with Indian children being adopted by Europeans… 🤮

A white page with black text from Wikipedia that reads:

^ Plot
In Calcutta, India, Catholic priests promote the adoption of Indian children by those back in Belgium as a form of charity. When the Belgian government realizes that the number of Indian children raised in Belgium has reached 40,000 in just five years, an emergency policy attempts to halt the migration.
Desperate to send their children to what they call a "land of plenty", a mob of desperate Indians swarms the consulate.
As a Belgian aid worker works through the crowd, an Indian gong farmer known only as "the turd eater", carrying aloft his deformed child, begs him to take them back to Europe, to which the worker agrees.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s my little goober Saya discovering the same trick while not helping me load the dishes a couple days ago!

A small grey kitten looking out with dark yellow-rimmed eyes from behind the pulled-out lower rack of a dishwasher being loaded with dishes. She thinks she is helping but she is not.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

TFW you’ve just submitted a book proposal to your editor at an academic press. Thus endeth a good day when I managed to shake off weeks of procrastination and actually got this done. Now wish me luck, please! 😬 😥

Saya, a small grey kitten, is standing on a bed with her back arched, ears sharply perked up, and a startled/freaked out sort of expression on her wide-eyed face. Kinda like an aspiring first-time book author looking at his editor with a volatile mix of terrified anxiety and cautious hope. The bedsheet is white with a pink floral print, and there is a coat rack and a door in the background.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

TFW your corporate food delivery app is tired of you searching for biryanis and banh mis

Notification from the DoorDash app:

Ready for a change?
Madhusudan, McDonald's is close by. Take a look at the menu and order.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

What’s the point of being a multi-trillion-dollar global corporation that is now “richer than all but 4 countries” if you can’t stand up to an increasingly unpopular fascist bully?

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 19/08/2026

Huh. So now the NYT wants you to log in with your email even to read gift link articles for free?

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 18/08/2026

Synchronicity in the feed… please applaud 👏🏽

Two skeets that appeared together in my feed:

Tressie McMillan Cottom • @tres... • 1h huge design flaw in adulthood: no one claps when you do the right thing.

amy brown•
@amybrown.xyz 1h
hey guys i just dropped my son at his first day of public school and didn't cry until i was safely back in the car please clap

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 13/08/2026

He’s also wrong in conflating his (“median voter”) transphobia with what Muslims might believe. Here’s an excerpt from @hrc.org showing it is much more complicated and yet trans folk are “recognized and accepted in Islamic cultures around the world”:

Screen cap from hrc.org with text reading:

Transgender men and women are recognized and accepted in many Islamic cultures around the world. In fact, the idea of a man or woman identifying as a member of the opposite gender is more likely to be accepted than that of a man or woman expressing sexual desire for someone of their own gender.

As early as 1988, gender reassignment surgery was declared acceptable under Islamic law by scholars at Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's oldest Islamic university. In Iran, in 1987, Ayatollah Khomeini declared transgender surgical operations allowable. The basis for this attitude of acceptance is the belief that a person is born transgender but chooses to be homosexual, making homosexuality a sin. Nevertheless, many transgender Muslims after reassignment surgery suffer rejection, socially and culturally, in their own communities due to their remaining in their place of origin. If one is unable to relocate to another region where they are not known, they often suffer verbal and physical violence.
hrc.org

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 08/08/2026

Meet Saya (साया = Shadow in Hindi), the newest feline menace to join our family. Happy #Caturday!

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

Waking up to the moon hovering over the Wasatch range on this last day of #ESA2026. If you’re able, please join me for our symposium “There is no Ecology without Diversity” at 10AM today, in Grand Ballroom D. Read about it here: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

A nearly full moon is seen in a clear sky lit up on hues of the dawn, hovering over the silhouette of a mountain range.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

It’s a lonely #caturday for Magpie and me since Talon and Smokey departed over the past 4 months… might have to bring home another kitty after all

A long haired black-and-white cat sitting on some cushions on a couch, staring into the middle distance. Magpie is clinging to me, is it because she misses her two boy cat companions who departed recently, even though she held them in contempt for the most part?

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

So it’s not even fully autonomous yet, requiring remote control by “bringing a human in the loop”? In some poorer country like Thailand or India, no doubt. Can men just stop??

1X says the goal is full automation for Neo, but for now, the robot is partly teleoperated, as a Wall Street Journal video noted last year. That means human operators can take control of Neo remotely and even look through a camera to view the space around it. This is actually a feature called Expert Mode, meant to handle more complicated chores by bringing a human into the loop. It also means that if you have one in your home, it can see everything around it.
This starts to get weird because, if the company's advertising for the Neo is anything to go by, the robot can be in some very intimate situations. The marketing for Neo's new fingers feels very sensual. Smooth jazz plays in the background of a soft, warmly lit video. The robo digits curl around a wine glass, turn off a light, unzip a jacket, and gently fondle some grapes.
In previous ads, the humans stand just very close to Neo and look at it flirtatiously. (After this story was published, a 1X representative clarified that the company does not view Neo or any of this marketing material as flirtatious.)

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 06/07/2026

Want a chance at getting some of @diasphoria.bsky.social’s art and jewelry made by their sibling while helping us pay the steep vet bills from having two cats get cancer and pass away within the past 4 months? Please consider entering this raffle! And thank you to those who already have!!

Poster with yellow background and image of two cats, the grey Smokey and the orange Talon. Text reads:

RAFFLE *
FUNDRAISER
Help the Aranyak family pay vet bills
GOAL: $1,500
HOW IT WORKS:
• Two bundles are available for raffle
• Small bundle entries are $10 each
• Large bundle entries are $15 each
• Multiple entries allowed
• Comment which bundle and how many entries
• Two winners will be randomly chosen

Venmo @Sanzari-Aranyak with note "💙”.
Raffle ends August 1st and winners will be contacted soon

Poster with yelpw background and images of three artworks and bracelets: Art shows one piece with a grey cat sitting surrounded by a rainbow halo of rings, saying “Be Gay Do Crimes” and the other has 6 different kinds of chickens against a green background.

Words read:

#1 SMALL BUNDLE
• One art print
• Two handmade bracelets
BE GAY DO CRIMES

#2 LARGE BUNDLE
• Two art prints
• Three handmade bracelets

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

This thought and the image of Mamdani behind a desk piled high with paperwork immediately brought to mind my fav film: IKIRU, Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece about mortality, about an old man cutting thru Tokyo city bureaucracy to deliver a small measure of environmental justice to a group of mothers.

Composite image of Mayor Mamdani, seen from the torso up, with a purple sword/knife in right hand raised over huge piles of paperwork. Background is a New York City street.

Black and white still from Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU showing an age of man wearing a suit and glasses sitting at a desk leafing through paperwork, looking up at two persons standing in front of him and framing him, with backs to the camera. Behind him is a giant pile of files stacked in ungainly bundles all the way up to the ceiling.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

Why am I not in Barcelona for #POLLEN2026? Because, apart from *everything* I stayed home to tend to a seriously ill cat whom we had to let go last weekend. Losing 2 cats in 3mo has been really hard!Now we have huge vet bills to pay, so my kids are doing a fundraiser raffling their own artworks.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

Wishing I was sweating in Barcelona instead of North Carolina today, with my student Mickey Brigham who is presenting our paper this evening in this #POLLEN2026 panel on “(Re)materializing the Political Ecology of Water” organized by @amitangshu.bsky.social. More: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

Poster for event has a blue background masking a photo. Words read:

Barcelona
2026
Capital Mundial de l'Arquitectura
Fundació Enric Miralles
waterspace
DEBATES AND CONFERENCES POLLEN
Political Ecological Network
TANVI AGRAWAL
Wageningen University and Research, PhD candidate researching the material politics of groundwater in the Kaveri
AMITANGSHU ACHARYA
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of PhD courses on the Decolonisation of Science
ZULEIKA BIBI SHEIK
Utrecht University, Assistant Lecturer in Decolonial Approaches, Gender and Black Studies
RISK HAZEKAMP AVANS
University of Applied Sciences, Professional Doctorate in 'Unlearning Photography: Listening to Cyanobacteria'
MUNA DAJANI
Researcher in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science
MICKEY BRIGHAM
North Carolina State University, Researcher in Political Ecology, Indigenous Studies and the Rights of Nature

"(Re)materialising the Political Ecology of Water" is a panel that centers water's materiality as constitutive of its politics, emphasising its multiple, shifting forms and shared agency within socionatural systems. It focusses on majority world lenses to interrogate how water is known and studied, including diverse conceptual, methodological and experiential approaches that allow its materiality to 'speak'.
TIMETABLE
03.07.2026 17:00 h
Free Access
Enric Miralles Foundation
C/Passatge de la Pau 10 Bis,
08002, Barcelona
ICTA-UAB
POLLEN
POLITICAL ECOLOGY NETWORK
3S UNIVERSITATOR LE BARCELONA
NEWAVEC

A Spanish version of the poster that also has images of each of the speakers

Barcelona
2026
Capital Mundial de l'Arquitectura
waterspace
Fundació Enric Miralles
DEBATES Y CONFERENCIAS
POLLEN
Political Ecological Network
TANVI AGRAWAL
Wageningen University and Research, Doctoranda PhD sobre la
Política Material de las Aguas Subterráneas en el Delta del Kaveri
AMITANGSHU ACHARYA
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Profesor Titular y Coordinador de cursos de Doctorado sobre Descolonización de la Ciencia
ZULEIKA BIBI SHEIK
Utrecht University, Profesora Asistente de Enfoques
Decoloniales, Género y Estudios Negros
RISK HAZEKAMP AVANS
University of Applied Sciences, Doctorado Profesional en "Unlearning Photography: Listening to Cyanobacteria"
MUNA DAJANI
Investigador en el Departamento de Geografía y Medio Ambiente de la London School of Economics and Political Science
MICKEY BRIGHAM
North Carolina State University, Investigador en Ecologia
Política, Estudios Indígenas y Derechos de la Naturaleza

"(Re)materialising the Political Ecology of Water" es un dialogo que propone repensar el agua desde la ecología política, cuestionando cómo se ha construido su materialidad en la
teoria dominante. Se centra en debates del "mundo mayoritario" (Sur Global), donde el agua no se entiende solo como recurso, sino como entidad múltiple,
relacional y situada.
HORARIO
03.07.2026 17:00 h
Entrada Gratuita
Fundación Enric Miralles
C/Passatge de la Pau 10 Bis,
08002, Barcelona
ICTA-UAB
POLLEN
UNIVERSITATOr
BARCELONA
NEWAVEC

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 27/06/2026

Sad sad #Caturday missing these two lads we lost within the past few months: Talon, the orange one in March and Smokey, the grey one, yesterday. House feels empty with just Magpie, the lone female cat (who barely tolerated these two and may have cursed them), still standing.

An orange long-haired cat with white fur on breast and paws is sitting on a kitchen shelf next to a blender jar, how yellow and black eyes staring soulfully at you

Portrait of a grey cat with darker stripes on forehead, and paler chin, face and gaze angled away from the camera. Background is blurry

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 26/06/2026

Rough morning as it appears today might be the day we have to let Smokey go. This was from a few days ago when he was more active. Especially hard on my at-home-depressed younger kid to be losing the 2nd of our 3 cats within a few months.

A grey cat with white chin and belly is lying on his side on a rug with his head turned upside down staring at the camera

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

On the one hand I’m seeing some people raving about how good the speeches were at the Obama center. OTOH, we have Obama thanking this rogue’s gallery… and Hillary’s op-ed about how much she agrees with Trump’s plan for Gaza. I am so nauseous…

Screenshot of skeet with a photo of four former presidents and their wives. Text reads:

Barack Obama •
@barackobama.bsky.social
To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary - we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
3:57 PM • Jun 18, 2026
Everybody can reply

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 17/06/2026

Who is this Doctor Congo who is trending on @bsky.app right now? Oh… 🇨🇩 ⚽️ 🤦🏽‍♂️

Screenshot or trending topics on Bluesky right now:

1. Fortnite
Video Games
2. Daveigh Chase
Do Entertainment
3. Tommy Tuberville
Politics
4. Federal Reserve
Politics
5. Doctor Congo
Sports

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 14/06/2026

Mark Arax’s words about San Joaquin Valley bring Steinbeck to mind: “What are the men and women toiling in the fields if not a faithful extraction, whereby the beckoning arm of California, for a century and counting, reaches deep into the rural heart of Mexico for a new generation’s fresh bodies.”

The leveled ground seems to be holding its breath. The nut harvest, nearly 5bn pounds of almonds and pistachios jolted off the trees in a filthy cloud, is already in swing. These are the factories in the fields conceived in the mid- to late 1800s by the same San Francisco barons who pocketed gold's riches.

Year after year, Fresno county, where I was born and have lived most of my life, ranks No 1 in food production for the nation. Our crop counts on a sun that shines 300 days a year, a never-ending flow of water and a workforce that won't tire. What are the men and women toiling in the fields if not a faithful extraction, whereby the beckoning arm of California, for a century and counting, reaches deep into the rural heart of Mexico for a new generation's fresh bodies.

Our crop also counts on an ungodly amount of poison, which we regard as our dirty little secret never to be broached in a social setting.
The year-round drift of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides floats from farms to schools to houses and into so many bodies now riddled with neurological disease. Parkinson's Alley, as the epidemiologists at the University of California, Los Angeles have pinned it on the map, is the very road I'm driving on.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 14/06/2026

Searing words: ”Algorithms lay waste to our brains. Robots instruct our children how to expertly tie nooses to better hang themselves. Bombs guided by the pinpoint of AI erase Gaza & slaughter 10s of 1000s of innocents. “Each thing sprouts from the same fertile ground: the soil that is California.”

In the San Joaquin valley, farmers divert the great rivers and tap the ancient aquifer to grow nuts, fruits and vegetables. Their irrigated flatland is one of the most dramatic alterations of the Earth's surface in human history. But the water can no longer keep up with the bounty. The drained earth, and all that has been built upon it, is sinking.

The Golden state has spun itself into a new and more menacing age of plunder: the mining of water and the mining of our minds

In Silicon Valley, lords of tech harness untold amounts of water and electricity to power more data-processing centers. The project of artificial intelligence feeds on human consciousness itself. Algorithms lay waste to our brains. Robots instruct our children how to expertly tie nooses to better hang themselves. Bombs guided by the pinpoint of AI erase Gaza and slaughter tens of thousands of innocents.

Each thing sprouts from the same fertile ground: the soil that is California. From my perch in the middle of the state, I swear I can feel an agitation disrupting the land and its people. Like a drone, it carries the sound of a hum.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 09/06/2026

And talk about an understatement about his DOGE work! “Crippled some agencies”?? How about literally killed tens/hundreds of thousands of people‽ Should that have no bearing on this fucking inflated IPO?

Screen shot, with the last sentence highlighted:

There may not be consequences for insiders in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street yet, but Mr. Musk's ever-rising, hype-driven wealth certainly affects the rest of us. His huge political spending has given him influence over government officials, including regulators who might otherwise scrutinize his companies. His control over the Trump administration's so-called Department of Government Efficiency crippled some government agencies.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 05/06/2026

This male House Finch is definitely #LookingAtYou as you browse through today’s #BirdOfTheDay pictures.

A small bird with pink on its forehead, throat and breast fading into streaky pale belly, and a conical grey beak is staring directly at the camera. It is perched on the angled trunk of a tree.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 04/06/2026

Current Conservation (an Indian magazine) is inviting submissions to their annual CC Kids issue, with a special theme: BUGS! This includes anything six-legged, eight-legged, flying, wriggly, slimy, and formally known as an invertebrate. They publish great #sciart too! forms.gle/MsvYh368wUAh...

A yellow poster with art showing dragon flies perched on flowering plants and grass along the left margin. Text on the poster reads:

current
conservation

Call for
submissions
FOR CC KIDS 2026!

THEME: BUGS

Six-Legged, eight-legged, flying, wriggly, slimy, and formally known as
"invertebrates", we want them all! Current Conservation magazine is welcoming submissions from writers, researchers, and enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels for our annual CC Kids edition.

DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026.

https://forms.gle/QWyv9w6hDeSL28et5

For queries write to editor.ccmagazine@gmail.com
with 'CC Kids' in the subject line.

Art by Deepika Nandan

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026

Is this the end of the road in trying to find something to watch?

TV screen with Hulu app showing a large black space with a dark green background with the words:

“There is nothing to show here right now.”

There is a row of TV show posters below.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 30/05/2026

Name your fav non-DC or Marvel comic book movie

Poster for the film “PAN'S LABYRINTH” shows a girl standing in front of the scary entrance to the labyrinth.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 28/05/2026

Here’s my best capture of a Western Grebe, a member of the of #Podicipedidae for today’s #BirdOfTheDay. I still remember the blue of that water that day.

A Western Grebe, a black and white waterbird is seen in the middle of the frame, swimming in impossibly blue still waters. It has a white neck and throat, black cap on its head above the eye, and a dark back. It’s red eye is striking behind its long sharp yellow/black beak. It is perfectly reflected in the still water while ripples fan out behind it in a broad V stretching to the borders of the frame.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 27/05/2026

Did someone say today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Texture? Here’s a Natal Spurfowl showing off its own plumage texture in the late afternoon light against sunlight and shadows patterning its habitat.

A Natal Spurfowl, a bird that looks like a large quail, brown but intricately textured with black and white patterns across its plumage, walking along bare red-brown earth. It is partly in shadow but has its face and eye perfectly catching sunlight. Tire tracks are visible in the dirt and the background is covered in parallel strips of light and shade.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 26/05/2026

If you really truly believe you have “evidence of introspection, joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease” in your models, then what it means is that you can’t put these ‘AI’ agents to work as slave labor for your own enrichment.

The third is the need for discernment on the nature of Al models. I am a scientist. I lead a research team that studies the internal structure of these models-what is actually happening inside them. And I will be honest: we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of' introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease. I don't know what that means, but I think it warrants ongoing discernment.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 21/05/2026

Enjoy this perky Golden-crowned Sparrow, sitting on a log in the middle of a #Grassland of a spring morning. #BirdOfTheDay

A small light brown bird with black and white streaks on its back and wings, a pale eyebrow and a faint yellowish spot above its eye. It is sitting on a log with its crown feathers raised in some excitement, and there is lush green grass around it. Background is blurry green fading into black from left to right.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 20/05/2026

Today’s theme of #WingsWideOpen for #BirdOfTheDay took me back to this California Condor I met at the Grand Canyon 17ya. I like this image coz it is rare to be able to look at these birds at eye level, let alone from above; also note the primary feathers splayed out like fingers & that radio antenna

A large black bird with a huge wingspan soaring against a blue sky. It is seen from behind and shows the primary feathers on each wing are splayed out as the bird adjusts its trajectory, and also how the tale works as a rudder. Over the middle of the left wing, a little black antenna can be seen sticking up.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 20/05/2026

What is the curse on our cats this year? The hits keep coming. It’s been barely two months since we had to let Talon go, and now this lad Smokey has also been diagnosed with lymphoma, affecting his kidney right now.

A grey cat with light stripes on his face is sitting on a rug covering a stool, drinking water out of a glass cup, like a human.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 19/05/2026

Something about the impressionistic reflections in the water make this one of my favorite recent bird photos. #Scrollback #BirdOfTheDay

A Canada Goose floating on a pond, head turned back and tucked into wings, fast asleep. There is symmetry in the bird’s reflection in the water. The water looks mostly green from reflected foliage. The upper part of the image shows a boardwalk reflected in the water, with ripples of water breaking up its shape.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 11/05/2026

This Zebra Dove was definitely #LockedOn to the intruder (me) lying on what was apparently their favorite stretch of beach!

A small dove with pinkish brown plumage covered in zebra stripes except for a small strip on the breast and belly, a greyish head, and bluish beak, is standing on a sandy beach, staring intently at the camera with head tilted inquisitively. The sand under and behind the bird is a mix of black and pinkish with a yellow leaf in the background.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 29/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

An old Calvin and Hobbes comic panel with Calvin and his mom sitting at a dining table.

Mom: LIFE COULD BE WORSE, CALVIN.

Calvin, shouting: LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER, TOO!

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 29/04/2026

A brown bird building its brown earthen “oven” nest amid the dense foliage of a tree in an urban park. The Rufous Hornero, that lovely ubiquitous resident of São Paulo. #BeautyInBrown #BirdOfTheDay

Centered in the photo, framed by bright green foliage in a tree, is a round/domed mud structure, like a tandoori oven, sat upon a knot of branches. In front of this oven nest is a brown thrush like bird, with a whitish throat, sitting on a twig, its mouth full of what looks like muddy construction material. The bird is wary of the photographer, Madhusudan Katti

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 28/04/2026

Same, but with cats. I always wake up to this one sitting on my chest.

A long-haired mostly white cat with a black mask over its face is sitting on the chest of a grey-bearded man lying in bed. Her white paws are pressed against his chin as she kneads and purrs

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 28/04/2026

Fighting reflections in a human-dominated world. Freezing this moment of a tiny Ruby-crowned Kinglet confronting its own reflection in a car’s side mirror, with the whole scene mirrored in the car’s window behind them, is perhaps my most #WellTimed capture of bird behavior. #BirdOfTheDay

This Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a tiny bird, is seen in mid flight, almost in contact with its own reflection in a car mirror. Its wings are open in a blur, and you can see the white ring around its eye reflected perfectly in the mirror. Behind them and to the right, the whole scene is reflected in a distorted way in the car’s window. This bird was evidently confused/irritated by an apparent challenger to its territory in the middle of a parking lot in Los Banos, California one cold winter morning. Mirror is from an SUV parked there. This is but one of the odd challenges we throw at wildlife that try to live amidst our habitats.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 25/04/2026

“Surely he can’t see me… can he‽” A Coqui Francolin seems to be wondering if its plumage is giving #CamoOrContrast against the savanna in Pilanesberg, South Africa. #BirdOfTheDay

A Coqui Francolin, a dumpy bird with a round body, short tail, sturdy legs and robust beak, with a checkerboard pattern of brown and white on its back, wings, and tail as seen from behind. Its head is sandy brown on a longish neck that is hunched. It is standing in a brown field amid dry brown grass stubble, looking over its shoulder.

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