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Nathan Insel

@networksunknown.bsky.social

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Exploring social neuroscience and animal behavior. Based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Expired mystery

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

One of the best books I read in 2025 was Nachum Ulanovsky's _Natural Neuroscience_. If my copy looks a little worn, it's because I was intent on reading it in natural habitats.

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

On the Nobel Prize winner, Camillo Golgi (from Cani and Mazzarello, 2016)

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Seller's profile pic:

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I appreciate the debates about machine intelligence, and how LLMs are forcing us to review our constructs. But I also think it's fun to think of LLMs as a mirror we've put in front of animals that don't have a concept of mirrors (image from @theonion.com)

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

This hurts my brain. But I've also had a long term dependence on ATP

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Best part of the Lumen festival in Waterloo was the photonics. I wouldn't call the installations controversial, but some were definitely polarizing. (Yes, I am licensed for terrible dad jokes.)

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Nathan Insel @networksunknown.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

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