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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Ever have the feeling you're being watched? (1962 photo from Taiwan, of a cluster of Optometrist offices)

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Even in 95F heat, this song gives me chills. So stunning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwE3...

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Trust The Light - KNOWER

YouTube video by KNOWER MUSIC

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Today I learned that the earliest known sexual organism, from 1 billion years ago, was a red alga, with the scientific name... Bangiomorpha pubescens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangiom...

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Bangiomorpha - Wikipedia

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I much prefer capturing phantastical images from Reality as opposed to using Generative AI. In this case, a fiery and bossy red-haired Sky-Siren shrieks above the South Atlantic between Antarctica and me. The beach was evidently sculpted and colored by the French Surrealist Yves Tanguy.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. [and] The machine world reciprocates man’s love...” – Marshal McLuhan (1964) "Understanding Media", p. 46 mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/m...

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“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World”

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s…

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

An exceedingly clever quasi-homonymic wordplay: "Gödels all the way down" (to describe the likelihood that one can never eliminate all unprovable true statements in an axiomatic system) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles...

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Turtles all the way down - Wikipedia

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Digital versus Analog / Summation versus Integration / imagery for Math education... "summed up" as it were (I couldn't resist).

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

An LLM having a writer's block panic-attack core-dump... best example I've seen yet:

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Technically speaking, Arthropleura (this 10 foot long Millipede from the Carboniferous) is not an ancestor of hoomyns, but I find this meme amusing anyway.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm not a believer in Astrology but... I think Mercury must be in Gatorade. Only possible explanation for current events...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A very coincidental (and likely utterly meaningless) "pattern" I just "discovered". There are currently: ca. 2.5 x 10^5 distinct English words: ca. 2.3 x 10^6 named biological species ca. 2.5 x 10^7 place names on Earth in largest registry ca. 2.2 x 10^8 unique Chemical Names

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fascinating. I note with special interest "Head Injury" as plausible causal explanation for the mysterious "Florida Man" phenomenon. Geographical clustering of "Suffocation" in High Desert biogeophysical region is also thought-provoking.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

As my Poppa always said, "Finding that the field of play has been distorted can be hopelessly confounding, even if the rules of the game have not changed". (and, yes: planning moves on this geometrically altered 8x8 matrix would be exhausting...)

A red and white chessboard with pieces in play, but the regular 8x8 grid has been highly distorted into highly Irregular curvilinear quadrilaterals.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I so love this, even if outdated in detail.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A counter to prevailing narrative about superiority of LRMs.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The contagiousness of yawns has puzzled me for years. Interestingly, here is a study of contagiousness of yawning behaviors from humanoid models to chimpanzees:

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Closeup of head of the ant Rhytidoponera metallica from Australia. The name "metallica" is most apropos.

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Marc Tachelet @mtachelet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Innovators, Europe is calling: launch, expand, and lead here 🧪 The EU Startup & Scaleup Strategy aims to make Europe a top hub for tech companies by attracting talent, boosting innovation, and helping startups overcome growth challenges across the EU: europa.eu/!68QKr8 #philsci #SciComm

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

As much as I am in awe of Beetles for many reasons, I do nonetheless find this beetle meme gently amusing, and Otter means no disrespect to this taxonomic group.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

New preprint out today with many great co-authors from across Europe: This white paper discusses and explores the various points of intersection between quantum computing and AI. "Quantum computing and artificial intelligence: status and perspectives" arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23860

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Animals by Esteban Klassen (b 1969, Paraguay)

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I've been having unusually vivid dreams this past week.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Help! I’m doing background research on the history of science funding in the US. Does anyone have specific info on how early biologists in the late 1800s and early 1900s US funded their research? I have the general picture but looking for citeable sources & details about individuals.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 30/05/2025

🚦 Why do we follow rules? A new study finds that most of us do it out of habit and a sense that others expect us to. It is not all about rewards or fear of punishment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #HumanBehaviour 🧪

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Why people follow rules - Nature Human Behaviour

Why do people follow rules, even when breaking them has no consequences? Experiments with 14,034 participants reveal that rule-following is not just about rewards or punishments—it is driven by intrin...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Excellent interview with author of an important book.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Interesting alternative to choice of historical antecedents. Neither is fully a match (history rhyming and all that)

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is what it is (terrifying) but frankly it does come down to the very crucial question: why?

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Lovely example of what appears to be a regular "Painting of the Day" series from Doug.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Quite clever! I wish I had thought of this when I was in academia.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The first instance of gen-AI designing synthetic molecules to control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells... The model can design fragments of DNA w/ custom criteria, e.g.: "switch this gene on in stem cells to turn into red-blood-cells but not platelets." www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Design principles of cell-state-specific enhancers in hematopoiesis

Screen of minimalistic enhancers in blood progenitor cells demonstrates widespread dual activator-repressor function of transcription factors (TFs) and enables the model-guided design of cell-state-sp...

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A worthy program: educating elected officials about the value of scientific research.

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Otter Asks The Hoomys: : "Hoomys? "If a fully dead rat elicits a scream from you, why does a half-dead rat elicit a double-scream instead of a half-scream?"

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Beetle of the Day A stunning Lamiinine Cerambycid, Glenea celia from Malayan Peninsula

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Otter in a Hoomyn Suit @ottermagically.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

An enjoyable romp up the entire evolutionary tree of the Cat clade (Feliformidae). Fun trivia: did you know that Hyenas are in the Cat clade? Convergent evolution is fascinating www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbZu...

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Carnivora - In a World With Cats, How Do Dogs Survive?

YouTube video by Clint's Reptiles

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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Mathematician Norman Wildberger solves Algebra's oldest problem using novel number sequences [via UNSW] 🧪✖️📐📈✔️ "His method uses novel sequences of numbers that represent complex geometric relationships." www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new... #Combinatorics #higher #order #polynomials #algebra #solution

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Mathematician solves algebra’s oldest problem using intriguing new number sequences

A UNSW mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve.

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