Top recent posts by Computational Cognitive Scientists on Bluesky

A Green Heron goes into maximum neck mode to grab a tadpole and then resets into minimum neck mode after the snack was acquired.

Never Too Much…🌺 #BeachLife

Let’s just say if a certain soccer team needs help today they’re READY 🇺🇸⚽️

I've been really enjoying videos of visitors discovering how large the US is. Today we're driving from central Ohio to Newport Rhode Island for an academic conference. It'll be 12-14 hours depending on the traffic. For context, that's the distance from London to Milan.

A mega-school of striped parrotfish falls into formation behind a porcupine puffer 🐡🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #porcupinepuffer #pufferfishofcoralcity #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

I get angry when people talk about "declining trust in science" as though there weren't a coordinated effort by billionaire criminals to smear science as a way to decrease regulations, spread propaganda, and enrich themselves. Scientists are being scapegoated and we should not play along.

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

I just love birds so much. And sunsets. And silhouettes. 😍 (Great and Snowy Egrets) #birds #SunsetAndSilhouettes #Silhouettes 🌿

The founding fathers called America “God’s best idea”. The founding fathers called America “Jesus’s A+ end-of-semester project”. The founding fathers called America “a triple-double wrapped inside a 400 batting average wrapped up in a Wendy’s $6 Bacon Double-Stack Biggie Bag with Frosty Fusion”

Need some distraction? May I offer: CATBIRD BABY WHO JUST EMERGED FROM ITS NEST! #birds 🌿

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

Bullfrog of the day! Monday, 6 June 2026

Argentina vs. Cabo Verde England vs. Mexico Wow, wow, wow. Absolute cinema just days apart.

The business end of a Red-tailed Hawk.

Skye light

Speaking from experience in a current role I'm occupying: for every two you know there are more like ten.

Kentucky should be furious that they are underrepresented in the Senate while we wait for them to announce that McConnell is no longer fit to serve. Special elections take time. Even if he "recovers" (side-eye), realistically he is not leaping back into the senate.

How can one be a scientist in this world and not be an activist?

Was photographing this white pelican when a great egret showed up and switched into ~ 𝘓 𝘖 𝘕 𝘎 ~ mode. #Birds

Peeking cautiously out to survey the week (Baby Groundhog) #mammals 🌿

*looks at timeline* TIME TO BREAK INTO THE EMERGENCY CUTE ARCHIVE (Young raccoon in the wetlands) #mammals 🌿

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ICYMI, I made a comic about heat waves. It was stressful and emotional to make, but as @katharinehayhoe.com tells us, we have to talk about this.

We explored a breathtaking wilderness & witnessed amazing scenes in the Yukon's Peel Watershed, Canada, but this was the most memorable: A spectacle of fast moving rain showers sweeping over towering, black mountain ranges. #photography #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #landscapephotography

Close encounters of the mother deer and fawn kind....

11-dimensional campaign chess brain vs Don’t run people with Nazi tattoos

Hey Bay Area folks, just a reminder that I curate the @coyotemedia.org calendar and am always looking for interesting stuff. What are you all up to this week? Do you know of cool things going on? Send them my way! [email protected] <3

Update: the landed gentry have found yesterday's video (youtu.be/BVRRcQjKcPM?...)

Update #3! We have 12 states totally full! RI, NC,DE, DC, MD, NC, AL, AR, ND, SD, WY, MT, OR, NM! Good work to those states! One state remains bubbleless: Indiana. States with 5 or fewer to finish: Maine Alaska Mississippi Nevada Idaho Let's fill this map! givebutter.com/USS2026a

NEW JWST IMAGE OF THE GALAXY CENTAURUS A IN HONOR OF 4 YEARS OF SCIENCE!!

Update #2! We're rapidly approaching 20% of all bubbles filled. Seven states remain completely untouched: Indiana Delaware West Virginia Louisiana South Carolina Virginia Hawaii (but let's give Hawaii a break, it's not even 7am yet out there) Let's fill this map! givebutter.com/USS2026

Hello we are back from a holiday weekend and the Office of Management and Budget is still trying to make sure federal grants can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. There's still time to stop it. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

Someone on mastodon once complained that my linguistics podcast was too much about linguistics Like, I'm really not sure how to help you, have you considered perhaps... listening to something else?

"He's....he's right behind me, isn't he?" Squirrel of the Day for July 6, 2026 #sqrlpix 😬😱

Folks, if you're in the DC area, I'm giving a free public talk tomorrow/Tuesday July 7th at the Wheaton library. I'll have copies of my book Why Sharks Matter for sale (and signing) afterwards! mcpl.libnet.info/event/16557143 @hopkinspress.bsky.social 🦑🌍🧪🦈 #SciComm @themocoshow.bsky.social

as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

sports or Maine politics, we report you decide

AI — like all forms of fascism and capitalism — turbochargers all the social nonsense we have going on

A moment of peace with the trumpeter swans of Whirlpool Lake. #birds

“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here are some real photographers to follow instead. They love what they do, don’t use AI and will happily answer your questions and share real info (scrapers often provide misinfo.) go.bsky.app/DknVNVG

A raven 'teenager' following its parents around. At this age, they're capable of feeding themselves, but still scream for food as they fly around as a family learning how to be ravens. I admire their parents' patience. #birds

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

One of the first Milky Way shots I ever took. This is a re-edited version taken at the beautiful Elan Valley, Mid Wales UK.

"Besides ChatGPT do you think anyone's proud of you" Free insult in case anyone needs it

You can pry my incredibly heavy and difficult to move library from my cold dead hands

Van Hollen is a fairly middle of the road Democrat with a safe seat and he consistently stands up and does the work. Why the "we need moderates" folks aren't constantly singing his praise is baffling.

I don't know if this counts but I've been thinking about it all day. My advisor said the language in my dissertation was "too readable". 😂

He’s dropping out, and still has to injure her further and ensure a bunch of misogynist make her life a misery. Just cuz.

Brown pelican chilling on the pier. 🌿🪶

Wake up nerds, new JWST image! ✨ Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is an active galaxy 11 million light years away. Lurking at its center is a supermassive black hole consuming surrounding material and launching massive jets of energy.

Hopefully moving toward a fully-efficient world where referees are replaced by a real-time AI mechanism that decides whether each and every challenge counts as a foul, a yellow card, or a red card based on an algorithm that dynamically balances online betting, bribery, and foreign policy sentiment.

It's a day of fab asteroid news! 🤩 Image drop from yesterday's Japanese Space Agency JAXA high-speed close flyby of asteroid #Torifune (~450m across). This is the extension mission of #Hayabusa2, after its successful 2020 asteroid-sample collection from Ryugu. Next stop: another asteroid in 2031 🤩🔭🧪

what’s joy look like in this deranged ‘AI or die world’ you ask: well, today for me, it is computer science and statistics students quoting Ruha Benjamin and bell hooks in their research papers

Scruffy bebe Steller's has the blue brows, still working on replacing all the gray bebe feathers on their body! Also still working on the "find the peanut" game (they are NOT hidden, trust me) #birds #becurious

Nature's abstract art...

Not to gatekeep but I do kinda think that if you just started watching soccer 10 days ago maybe you should stop confidently opining quite so much.

Alriiiight, book deadline met, United States of Science fundraiser launched and is going well (omg thank you everyone), I am celebrating with one of these little cans of tea from the fancypants grocery store

Just in from Mitch McConnell's office

It's hard to be *more* corrupt than FIFA, but if there's one guy who could pull it off... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

Red-spotted Purple Butterfly Peaceful repose...

I can basically guarantee you are not being ambitious enough with the work you are assigning Fable Start asking for the maximum possible thing to figure out the far edges of what it can do. After that, you can decide where the system reaches it limits & revise requests downward or add scaffolding

If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Got my first good look at an Eastern Kingbird on Friday! FOY. #birds #EasternKingbird

When in Central Florida, you find the smallest salticid known to science - I do make the rules Neonella camillae lad, 1.5mm full grown 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Nine years ago today 🌿 Aquilegia coerulea, our Rocky Mountain Blue Columbine, blooming in RMNP #nativeplants

And I know that Mika takes this as read, but I’m saying it out loud anyway: find out who in your neighborhood is gonna need help the second after the shaking stops. You can actually be a hero if you’re prepared.

Public attention to federal funding research cuts has been on direct impacts, such as current cancer research. But as I wrote last year, the private sector won't train scientists, and universities need federal research $ to do that training. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Adorable juvie Scrub Jay is adorable! #birds #becurious

First map update! OR coming on strong as the first over-10-bubble state to close! It's not even 9am for them! Strong starts as always from North Carolina, Philly, & Midwest. A few years ago Rhode Island was the last to close, this year it's the 1st! Keep filling bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2026

Alright I gotta go run a potentially soggy moth night Do me a kindness and close some states while I'm out talking urban biodiversity with my fellow Philadelphians 🥺 $10 to fill a bubble. Fill this map in: givebutter.com/USS2026

Easy, breezy, beautiful, coverbirb. #Photography #Birds

The squirrels of DC are still resplendent ❤️

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Bluebird Sky 💙

Pink posing...

Things are really shaping up at the end of the East Coast work day here on Day 1 of the United States of Science. 13 States + DC squared away 12 states under 10 bubbles away from completion: 9: HI 8: TN, MA 7: IA 6: WV, NH 5: LA, UT 4: ID 3: AK 2: ME, NV Fill a few here: givebutter.com/USS2026

A Great Blue Heron standing watch from a large deadfall at the river's edge. Sheffield, #NewBrunswick, Canada July 2025 📸 #birds #heron #GBHE #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

We made it through the July 4 weekend. Happy Bunday from DC

There is no magic that removes bias. Racism, misogyny, it doesn't matter the flavor. They hold on to power by having these double standards.

Eastern chipmunk ... 🤣

Reasons to smile...

Dashboard video shows Florida cop speeding down highway, nearly causing head-on collision in order to pull over a woman he had been stalking and ask why she hadn't followed him back on Instagram www.404media.co/footage-show...

In the absence of funding for mural arts in Philadelphia, the city should consider how to support orgs who are continuing this work. How can they lower the bureaucratic barriers to entry for community groups continuing this work?

Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthropic.com/research/glo...

Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deleting this because I found I had left a setting on Claude Code allowing writing to memory files on one of my computers, so I am not sure where this all crept in, but it might be my fault!

Call me bananas but I have the strangest feeling that if he were conscious, they would feel comfortable confirming that.

Torifune is about 450m across with a mass of 180 million tonnes; Kamo'oalewa is about 20m across with a mass of only 7000 tonnes.

Red Squirrel So this is what a balanced diet looks like....

A perfect example of why we don't want our police force to be all powerful and omniscient in the name of "fighting crime": they can very easily become worse than the thing they're ostensibly fighting to stop.

If the bad ones got actual consequences for bad behavior we wouldn’t have to suspect every single guy we meet is going to be a bad one. It would really be a better situation for most guys, I promise.

🤩 image drop from Chinese Space Agency asteroid sample return mission #Tianwen-2 (Heavenly Questions-2)! It's now orbiting Kamoʻoalewa, just 18m across, looking for a place to land, drill, & return 100g back to Earth to see if this is a missing piece of the moon. Then it goes on to a comet 😮🧪🔭

Super weird thing about Fable is that it keeps learning about me even with memories and personalization turned off. The thinking traces are full of references to my preferences from other sessions. Some of it is little notes it writes in various .md files, but maybe it is leaking from elsewhere.

Last day of Metal Heron shirt preorders! topatoco.com/collections/...

My poor rain barrel. She tried her best. I emptied her out yesterday to prepare but...uhh... I think we've gotten about 15 rain barrels by now.

Ten years ago today 🌿 Claytonia megarhiza, our Alpine Spring Beauty, blooming on Mt Blue Sky #nativeplants

Ebony Jewelwing Dragonfly Fluorescent finishings...

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Here is a citronella ant, one of the most aromatic of all insects. I really love these things. New photo from western New York.