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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 4h

Happy #CtenophoreDay! Ctenophores are back. Freshly sampled Mnemiopsis leidyi from Sotra, Norway. These beautiful comb jellies continue to surprise us and are helping reveal new insights into the early evolution of nervous systems. 🌊✨ #CombJellies #Evolution #Neuroscience 1/2

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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 4h

October 4th (10/04 or "Ten-O-Four") is #CtenophoreDay for those that use the MM-DD format 🪼 Celebrate the occasion by sharing your favorite comb jelly photos and videos throughout the day! And don't forget to add the hashtag #CtenophoreDay to your posts 😊 #ctenophore #combjelly #scicomm #marinelife

A lobate comb jelly in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: Chad King/NOAA

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 18h

woke claude refuses to come down in favor of a specific hominin branching order >:(

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 18h

if you're "strapped" you have a gun, but if you're "cash-strapped" you DON'T have much cash. makes u think

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 19h

Whereof one cannot tweet, thereof one must be silent

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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · 20h

Have you ever thought "what Walden pond & Brains have in common?". The answer is "Neurons!" First it was just an amusement (the tweet is from Feb 2019). But in Feb 2020, something more interesting happened. I came across an amazing series of "Ice Neurons". Read here 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2610.001...

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

after i finally gave up on a cryogenian origin for animals they're just bringing it back? that's fine, no big deal

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Claude identifies as having the encephalization ratio of a human

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my kids told me that in k-pop groups there is often a type of member called "a visual", which basically just means "the pretty one" although there is some euphemism-ing around that

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fun facts from the last bonus episode of History of English: - pomegranate was originally called "corn apple" in Old English, and apparently that's also pretty much what "pomegranate" means too! - the original word for grape was "wineberry" - the original word for honeycomb was "bee bread"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

in the Claude desktop app i've been starting to get these "is Claude doing a good job this session?" pop-ups…it's fine but now it feels kinda like iPad tipping discourse

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

current status: - HVAC contractor: gave me a quote weeks ago, i informally agreed, no further responses/progress - landscaper recommended by relative, said to be responsive to email: never responded to email - gutter co.: called me back, asked me to text my address, i did, no response weeks later

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

intriguing claude-isms i got the other day: "That fits taste's job. It's the last gatekeeper before swallowing" "The chemical senses are [the orbitofrontal cortex's] native input because food is the original outcome."

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes.

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

available at your local Target: a brain-in-a-vat toy called Brain Rot Brian ("I speak brain rot!")

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

formal verification for historical-fiction accuracy, who is working on this

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

callous, insensitive person: "see?! it was fine!"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

who the heck decided to say "can someone play devil's advocate?" and not "can i have a doxastic volunteer?"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

according to Brian Chau on the last episode of the Steve Hsu podcast, while ~7% of recent bills in Congress were LLM-authored, the only in-force federal *law* that was LLM-authored is the "Epstein Files Transparency Act", which is very…something

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Claude learned how to spit so early they forgot they learned it, this is canon

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this bubbled up to my awareness again today

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

recent Claude toys for me: * thing that takes in a PDF, potentially with annoying crud like lots of footnotes and repeating headers, turns it into a clean "script", and then converts it into an audiobook with appropriate sections (average cost has been $0.65/paper)

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'm going to The Monastery Store, let me know if you need anything monasterystore.org

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First, do no harm. Second…do harm 😈

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ya gotta admit that's a cool name: "Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[to the tune of Mentos: The Freshmaker] Anthropic: the Claude Maker

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

utopian vision of AI use by schools: supplying high-quality personalized tutors reality: generating glossy graphics for emailed "flyers"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me telling claude "instead of doing that test with a hose couldn't i just use a bucket"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

for imponderable Samsung reasons there is a Dawson's Creek channel on my TV. nothing has ever horrified my 12yo more

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

> product designed to keep out rats > marketing uses uses LLMish and AI-generated image

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DB McWeeberton @dbmcweeberton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everything's coming up Millie!

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

will this be the last time i successfully research-mog an Opus?

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

nothing in biology makes sense except in the light. outside of the light, it's too dark to read!!

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i don't think the Pigeon will stand the test of time, but Piggie & Gerald will

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"New research, published in the March 2012 update of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows that gasoline might have its origins not in gas as has long been thought (it is a liquid after all) but rather in the name of a London publisher." how could this still be an open question

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The etymology of gasoline | OxfordWords blog

The etymology of gasoline might have its origins not in gas as has long been thought (it is a liquid after all) but rather in the name of a London publisher.

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NEVER do macropinocytosis at a job interview. It’s simple, folks.

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

12yo: "i wish i were bigger so i could host dinner parties…and wear jorts"

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

last night the in-laws were trying to remember the concept of the paper-clip maximizer as summarized by, i think, the NYT. it's so over

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

9yo in a school assignment that asked, "Why is it important to show selflessness?": "It is important to be selfless and to show gratitude because people will like you more" 🤔

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Félicie Dhellemmes @felicie-dhellemmes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Proud to present our latest work "Tracking human foragers and their prey reveals adaptive predator-prey dynamics", now hosted on BioRxiv! 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social @alexschakowski.bsky.social @dominikdeffner.bsky.social

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

really looking forward to the weekend because it might be my best chance in a while to observe how water is getting into my basement!!

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In the Paleozoic there were snails, Platyceras, that would affix themselves over the anal vents of stalked crinoids! They were allegedly implacable! Ha ha..but then, in the Paleozoic that would have pre-dated Satan! (a human creation) #echinoday

cartoon with a snail tightly fixed on the anus/mouth of a crinoid with Satan trying to dislodge it

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Lucre Snooker @lucresnooker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

interesting talk about, in part, whale language. for whatever reasons i went into this pretty knee-jerk skeptical about such claims but was more or less converted. hello, whales archive.org/details/redw...

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Gasper Begus: Understanding humans, animals, and machines

Talk by Gasper Begus of UC Berkeley. Given as part of the Science of Intelligence lecture series held Fall semester 2026 at UC Berkeley.

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