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Serge Thill

@thill.bsky.social
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Director of the Donders Centre for Cognition at www.ru.nl/donders Interested, amongst others, in natural and artificial cognition, how humans and intelligent systems interact, and in theories of embodiment.

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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yo, I heard you like cells so I put cells into the cells that I put into your cells. (And why is the worked example project management? What happened to project management software?)
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
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Margarete Stokowski @margaowski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Die Botschaft: Kranke, behinderte, alte und arme Menschen liegen »uns« auf der Tasche. Wer nicht arbeitet, stört. Wer krank ist, ist verdächtig. Wer Hilfe vom Staat braucht, verhindert den Wohlstand einer imaginierten Allgemeinheit und hängt ihr wie ein Klotz am Bein. www.spiegel.de/kultur/attes...
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(S+) Meinung: Attestpflicht ab erstem Krankheitstag? Sie müssen jetzt ganz stark sein (und gesund) - Essay
Attestpflicht ab dem ersten Krankheitstag? Dahinter steckt eine menschenverachtende Botschaft.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Fibonacci approaches the golden ratio (about 1.618) Mile/km is very close to golden ratio (about 1.609) It works even as the numbers get larger.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🧵👇👀
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Dr. Ji Y. Son @cogscimom.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I would like to thank Companion AI for helping promote my latest in @mcsweeneys.net. I had worried my satire was too dark. This Einstein product reassures me that it was optimistic sunshine. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If this world seems to get weirder and weirder, you're just seeing Anthroponuclear Multiple Worlds Theory in action 😁 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/histor...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History is Weird
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History is Weird
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
2023 post from Avery Edison: 

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
So that "chatGPT ate my notes" thing today. Imagine complaining "I put all my stuff on someone else's machine and now it's gone" a decade ago. You'd have been laughed all the way back to Data Security 101. But wrap a non-story in genAI and suddenly you're in every feed.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Donders Institute seeks to appoint a new Scientific Director to lead our internationally oriented and interdisciplinary organisation 🌍🧠 Are you ready to help shape the future of brain, cognition, and behaviour research?👇 www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Sadly, it feels like more people than you’d hope can still learn from this. 😉https://www.smbc-comics.com
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protocol
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protocol
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Heh, apparently MS stuff has crashed enough times for macOS to think it appropriate to auto-add the error reporting tool to my dock 😂
Image of the Microsoft Error Reporting tool being auto-added to the macos dock.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Since you all need more animals in your timeline, meet Smokey and Sparkles 😉
Grey araucana chickenblack with golden speckles araucana chicken
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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is high art
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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY
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Neural networks don't have "representations"

They have embeddings, or meaningful patterns of neuron activation

They're meaningful in the sense of enabling us to do certain things

Differences that make a difference (to us)

They don't copy, reflect, or re-present the world
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what does a "representation" mean here?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 20/03/2025
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—a risk to Earthlings everywhere. An illustrated essay by @weinersmith.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, based on their Hugo Award-winning book, "A City on Mars."
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Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—it's a risk to Earthlings everywhere.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Spearheading the attempt at a new record
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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 03/03/2025
Still from ST:DS9

Gul Dukat:  But to this day, is there a single... statue of me on Bajor?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 01/03/2025
Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
In order to understand cognition, we often recruit analogies as building blocks of theories to aid us in this quest. One such attempt, originating in folklore and alchemy, is the homunculus: a miniature human who resides in the skull and performs cognition. Perhaps surprisingly, this appears indistinguishable from the implicit proposal of many neurocognitive theories, including that of the 'cognitive map,' which proposes a representational substrate for episodic memories and navigational capacities. In such 'small cakes' cases, neurocognitive representations are assumed to be meaningful and about the world, though it is wholly unclear who is reading them, how they are interpreted, and how they come to mean what they do. We analyze the 'small cakes' problem in neurocognitive theories (including, but not limited to, the cognitive map) and find that such an approach a) causes infinite regress in the explanatory chain, requiring a human-in-the-loop to resolve, and b) results in a computationally inert account of representation, providing neither a function nor a mechanism. We caution against a 'small cakes' theoretical practice across computational cognitive modelling, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, wherein the scientist inserts their (or other humans') cognition into models because otherwise the models neither perform as advertised, nor mean what they are purported to, without said 'cake insertion.' We argue that the solution is to tease apart explanandum and explanans for a given scientific investigation, with an eye towards avoiding van Rooij's (formal) or Ryle's (informal) infinite regresses.

Figure 1 in https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/Box 1 in https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/Box 2 in https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
And for today’s class, we‘ll talk about calculating forward and inverse kinematics of spring-damper systems vs more traditional motors.
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
resonates.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hey Meta, friendly reminder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzy...
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You wouldn't STEAL a CAR? (Hilarious anti piracy commercial)
YouTube video by PopMov
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Anyone else remember this argument from when it was just kids downloading their favourite movie? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Meta’s copyright defense may hinge on court ignorance of torrenting terminology.
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🤝 The Donders Institute, Radboud University, and Maastricht University are joining forces by establishing a platform for research, education and medical applications. The first project to make use of this platform is #Neural #Control: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
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Radboud University and Maastricht University collaborate for Neural Control Research | Donders Institute
The Donders Institute, the Radboud University and the Faculties of Psychology and Neuroscience and Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of the Maastricht University are launching an innovative platform ...
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Not sure how to feel about the fact that Luxembourg's the only thing not getting renamed in this 🤔
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🧠 🤝 DI and @nin-knaw.bsky.social have awarded €500,000 to five research projects. The goal of this DI-NIN Fund is to support new and innovative research and to strengthen collaboration: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
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DI-NIN funding for five projects | Donders Institute
The Donders Institute and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have awarded €500,000 from the DI-NIN Fund to five research projects. There were 13 applications, and after a careful review,...
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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
✒️ 🔝 In 2024, the #Donders #Wonders #blog received 94k visits! Every week, our researchers dive into the brain, cognition, and behaviour. Our latest blogs: 🔹 Why do we #dream? 🔹 Does your #zodiac #sign influence your #happiness? Discover more on www.donderswonders.nl!
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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 19/01/2025
Le 20 janvier sera l'occasion d'une grande vague de départs de Twitter. Si vos contacts hésitent à venir sur Bluesky, voici un article synthétique qui explique son fonctionnement et ses différences avec Mastodon, Twitter etc. : bonpote.com/bluesky-enfi...
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Bluesky : enfin une vraie alternative à Twitter ?
Bluesky est une alternative à Twitter, construit à l’origine au sein même de l’entreprise Twitter, initié par son cofondateur et PDG
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 10/01/2025
For a forensic analysis of Truss’s letter, see: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/a-cl... It’s even worse than it seems to be. 😄
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A close look at Truss’s legal threat to Starmer – a glorious but seemingly hopeless cease-and-desist letter
9th January 2025 This post is about a “cease-and-desist” letter that has reportedly been sent on behalf of the former Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss to the current Prime Minister Keir Starmer. For …
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How about I just tell you which squares don't have a bus instead?
CAPTCHA asking to mark all squares with a bus. The bus occupies 15 out of 16 squares.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/12/2024
"I forgot something important. Something really powerful and kind of beautiful: So many of you—a critical mass of you, possibly a majority of you—are really fucking stupid. And I’ve always loved that about you!"
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Baby, It’s Me, Polio, and I’ve Missed You
Can I be vulnerable with you for a second? I always believed we’d get back together. Smallpox thought I was nuts. He kept telling me, “You’re delus...
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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Explain this, humankind
Comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Two green aliens are at a press conference, sitting behind microphones. One alien happily says, "Jesus? We love that guy!" Panel 2: A human reporter with a microphone looks surprised and says, "We’ve been waiting centuries for his second coming." Panel 3: The first alien casually responds, "Really? He comes to us every year." The second alien adds, "We invited him for cookies. What did you do?" The reporter starts to sweat. Panel 4: Both aliens pause, looking inquisitive. One alien asks, "Wait. What did you do?" All reporters sweat.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Et tu, NZ? www.science.org/content/arti...
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Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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a police officer wearing sunglasses and a helmet has the letter o on his cap
ALT: a police officer wearing sunglasses and a helmet has the letter o on his cap
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A version of the 'distracted boyfriend' meme but where his girlfriend has been replaced by someone in a gorilla suit, and the girl he's looking at's head has been replaced by a basketball
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It wasn't that viral on Twitter, but to this day, philosophy meme accounts share the screenshot, and then people inform me I am famous and I say, "Oh ok cool"
Existence is a scam made up by philosophers to sell more philosophy
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Judith Holler @judithholler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition
1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l
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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Der Tag hat ja noch ein paar Stunden.... Vielleicht stirbt noch der Papst?
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
It's a crap day to be sharing good news? But for anyone looking to permanently join Edinburgh's lovely philosophy department and EFI's Centre for Technomoral Futures (@technomoralfutures.bsky.social) we are hiring a new Lecturer in Ethics of AI - closing date is 6 December. Please RT/share widely!
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Lecturer
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint a lecturer (Philosophy of Technology) on a full, time open ended contract, into the Department of Philosophy.
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Mood
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Serge Thill @thill.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Is there a prize for finding the /smallest/ hitherto undiscovered prime? Feels like an intellectually more interesting problem than just number-crunching increasingly large Mersenne prime candidates…
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