iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Daniel Reznik 🎶 @reznikdaniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now out in Hippocampus!! 📣💥 We examined anatomical inputs to the hippocampal region in six species - the tenrec, rat, marmoset, cat, macaque, and human - and found that hippocampal processing operates on fundamentally different types of information across species! (1/3) dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo...

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Phylogeny of Cortical‐Hippocampal Projections Reveals Selective Elimination of Input From Sensory Regions

The study of cross-species differences in the organization of the cerebral cortex received significant attention during the past century. However, the evolutionary principles governing changes in bra...

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Political hot take (I hope I don't regret this)- Trump (and any leader) should be limited by what the people in their militaries are willing and unwilling to do in an obvious way. I mean, shouldn't it be obvious to Trump (and everyone else) that the order to invade Greenland will not be obeyed?

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There's a lot of work on how the neocortex is special in implementing computations that subcortical structures are (presumably) not suitable for. But it seems birds achieve the same outcome with a nuclear organization. So why not the mammalian subcortex as well?

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Following recommendations on here I'm listening to More Everything Forever and it is INSANE. So many things in there but I have to ask- can philosophers just put numbers at the end of their sentences now? Supposedly it makes their claims more believable because they came up with special numbers?

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

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Nir Zacks @nirzacks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

עוד מוקדם לומר אם ביבי עשה טעות היסטורית כשביקש מטראמפ לא להתערב בזמן ההפגנות באיראן ולהמר על "שאגת הארי" כדרך להסיר את האיום הקיומי ממדינת ישראל. אבל חייבים כבר להתחיל לדבר על איום קיומי אחר. איום קיומי שיש לו צנטריפוגות של שנאה ותאוות נקם וכורים של ייאוש.

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Howard Eichenbaum was a master at writing the closing statements of his papers. He just goes for it and that's so helpful.

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Tulving wrote in 2002: "It seems that humans are the only animals that travel mentally in time." He never gives any justifications for this claim, or at least I haven't come across any. It's quite hard to show that animals do this, but around 2002 I don't think anyone was trying that hard either.

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 25/02/2026

It has been argued that what sets model organisms apart from other experimental 🐋🌱 is their high representational power. In our latest 📃, we argue otherwise: the hallmark of MOs lies in the dimensions of modeling versatility they afford to scientists 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS

Header and abstract page of an original research article in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2026, volume 48, article 12) titled "Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms," authored by Guido I. Prieto and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda.

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In recent years, discussions on the epistemology of model organism-based research have emerged in the philosophy of science. A key topic of discussion is how the epistemic insights gained from model organisms differ from those gained through other experimental organisms used in laboratory and field research. Here, we argue that model organisms are epistemically special due to their nature as ontogenetically changeable, standardized, and evolved material model carriers. These characteristics afford six important kinds of modeling versatility that biologists marshal in their investigations: (i) synchronic target versatility; (ii) synchronic scope versatility; (iii) diachronic target versatility; (iv) diachronic scope versatility; (v) manipulation versatility; and (vi) discovery versatility. In presenting these dimensions of modeling versatility, we also clarify key notions such as ‘representational target,’ ‘representational scope,’ and ‘representational power’ as these apply to modeling practices that involve model organisms.

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏

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Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

Postdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual...

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Hot take: the hippocampus isn't actually "evolutionarily ancient" and its not helpful to think of it as such. The full argument for this take is right here (but you need to scroll down to sections 5-6): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective

The study of imagination has progressed due to its operationalization through a variety of behavioural tasks, initially designed for human participant…

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Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Imagination is insane- we have a movie theater in our head and we use it basically for everything. But how did it evolve? Honestly, I have no idea, but I would like to find out. This is a first step in this direction. Would love to get thoughts from people here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨 We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪 - cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo - bioinformatics and molecular biology Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My god. I think this is the best thing I’ve ever read on the art of trying to get life down on paper. From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

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Wealth, shown to scale

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 04/12/2024

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A huge phenetic tree visualising our global string figure dataset.

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

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