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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

but i have to hope this reasoning at least moves the actual thinking into the right direction for a breakthrough

Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

when im working on a problem, the solution or steps to the solution just pop into my mind and i can not give a non-bs reason why i came up with that solution. if i get to the point where i have to recruit my mental voice and have it chain words in a coherent way, i know the task is too hard

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a modest proposal for multi-agent alignement

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

sweat bee and bee hunting wasp. im not sure either is aware of their respective roles in this relationship

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

currently my inaturalist is just "another batch of silk bees from the place that has all the silk bees"

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

f you did not know anything about damselflies, could you figure out from first principles which of these was male and which female?

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

im not sure if it can happen within my lifetime but it would be neat to see a european insect start mimicking the asian hornet. there is already a fly that mimicks european hornets. very rapid color evolution has happened in fruit flies but mostly through simple regulatory mutations

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

the decoy needs to be someone with large, attractive nostrils and ear canals since the bees are stingless and defend themselves by crawling into orifices and biting

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i would like to go to south america and encounter a new species of carnivorous bee so that i can name it trigona venatricula (little huntress), i think that would be a cute name

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

this is something i have changed my mind on recently. i think powerful LLMs should roll into a ball like frightened isopods more often when they encounter ambiguity. ofc there is a lot of pressure from consumers for them not do that

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i gave the hive a problem a single real bee could solve on her own www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

unsettling, cone-shaped habitus of a brood parasite that should be a normal, cuddly leafcutter

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

blatant violation of her contract with the flower

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

today i encountered the giant blood bee, sphecodes albilabris, it lived up to the name as it was almost as large as a honey bee worker

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this stinkbug reached its legs and antennae out for me, i let it climb on my finger. it started probing me with the proboscis which scared me so much i put it back down. it reached out again and i offered my finger a second time and it seemed to lose interest

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

the cutest bees are polyester bees. they look like honey bee plushies, often with more saturated colors and they are very animated

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

my favorite thing about leafcutters is the abdomen raising they do when collecting pollen

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

if you see a bumblebee and you are not perplexed, confused, you do not develop an affinity towards them, then your heart must be frigid like the artic

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

very hard to tell from the video but this could be bombus perplexus, maybe also sandersoni or vagans but im leaning perplexus

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

wool bee pondering her wool orb

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

。o O ( this is not a flower)

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

bumble drills hole into flower it is otherwise too fat to enter

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

bumble drills hole into flower it is otherwise too fat to enter

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

understanding if 2 images are the same image or different images is surprisingly complicated

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the genus name is epeoloides and it doesnt have a common name in english. jewelry bee is just the translated german name

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

encountered some jewelry bees. very beautiful but also brood parasitic. your stance towards them will ultimately be determined by your stance towards macropis oil-collecting bees

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

part of that is semantics. increasing the expression of a gene is also regulating it. but also you can down regulate down regulators, resulting in more expression of the regulators target. the regulatory grammar gets complex real quick

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/2026

1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

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Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

most evolutionary novelty is regulatory. you can see this nicely in arthropodes, mostly shared genomes achieve high morphological diversity by tuning the activity of genes. the same gene expressed throughout all of development achieves different results than the same gene expressed only briefly

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

whenever i see a crabspider the kill bill music plays in my head and i wonder if i should let nature take its course or smite the spider for the sake of the bees with which i have a covenant

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

i am using fable for smalltalk while opus is grinding on my bioweapons in the background

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

it is difficult for me to think of anything that is this convoluted in animals, frog chromosomes come to mind but they are not this convoluted and i dont have a nice diagram on hand

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

the noise at the end is not wind, it is me trying to hold back laughter

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

bumblebee emerges from flower, butt first, then gracefully takes off

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

i saw some bumblebees engage in nectar robbing. they chew holes into the sides of flowers for which they are too fat to fit in. smaller bees which can not chew holes themselves may stick their tongues into the existing ones made by carpenter or bumblebees

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

this is not from the literature, just guessing based on my observations

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

i think the heatwave and flower die-off force the bees to compete for scarcer resources, usually they avoid each other more. also they seem to be calmer with their con-specifics. pairs of bombus hortorum are peaceful, while the frantic behavior of b. lapidarius causes more friction

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

death grips? how is it embarassing to be a non-conformist übermensch with good taste?

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

apparently if you google boids a bird icon will appear at the bottom of the screen and if you click it this happens

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Low Fat Sweaty Cat 🐝/acc @silica-alien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i cant say anything about the mechanism of cancer resistance in mole rats

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