Bug spreadsheets don't write themselves 😌

Taking my nightly Tylenol to top up that autism

LIVE ON TWITCH Wake up babe, we're programming today twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

this exists it is called thinking

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Doing a bit of science (& maybe a bit more Hollow Knight) twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

GOBLIN BEE

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Hollow Knight, but every time I die I have to do a Just Dance song... twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH It's Doom day today! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

1) LLMs are capable of transmitting and sending programmed biases to student models without using explicit semantic language understood by humans or parsed by AI safety judges. arxiv.org/abs/2507.14805

"Dr. Inés, what sort of science do you cover in your streams?" I'll usually collate a number of articles that I find interesting, and then poll chat for what they would be just interested in. Here are three papers that we analysed over the last week that focused primarily on LLMs:

La desinformación es peligrosa porque no hay forma adecuada de retractarla una vez que se ha difundido. Está diseñada deliberadamente para cultivar emociones poderosas (indignación, disgusto, resentimiento, ansiedad, etc.)

"Dr. Inés, what sort of science do you cover in your streams?" I'll usually collate a number of articles that I find interesting, and then poll chat for what they would be just interested in. Here are three papers that we analysed over the last week that focused primarily on LLMs:

LIVE NOW on Twitch Entomologist avidly plays more Hollow Knight! Also, go grab your daily bug! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW So many new redeems on stream today! Bonus Bugs! VIP badges! New Tangia alerts! (...and you know, the usual!) twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

If you cheer 345 bits during my stream tomorrow, something fun will happen!

My latest shower gel is jasmin + coconut and it's the best thing to have ever happened to my nostrils

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Poison Ivy Lite today attempting to program in Python! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

Thinking about how I saw a green bright fireball (visible whilst driving with LA streetlights) and wondering if anyone else saw it too!

Sunset is about 19:40 this evening in the UK. If you have clear skies, there’s a chance you might get an aurora photo.

We covered the recent preprint from MIT on how LLMs affect cognition on stream today ("Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task") VOD (starting around 45 - 60mins in): www.twitch.tv/videos/25581... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Live on Twitch! Talking about how chatGPT sends hidden messages and biased to other models trained upon it (Also rare no make up strim) twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

I think about this so often. How can you describe to a stranger the feeling of realizing that stress in every sector of your life is reduced when the system takes care of you? I’ve felt it multiple times living abroad, but if you haven’t, then U.S.-normal is all you know

I am also under obligation of my mod to advertise for subtember... ...if you want to watch my streams ad free + all of the additional perks that subscribing on Twitch offers + help support my work, subscription prices are highly reduced this month (25% off 1 and 3 month subs, 30% off 6 month subs)!

Tomorrow there will be part 2 from another recent study - how LLMs are capable of transmitting hidden biases when training other AI models, whilst evading detection from humans - also live on Twitch!

We covered the recent preprint from MIT on how LLMs affect cognition on stream today ("Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task") VOD (starting around 45 - 60mins in): www.twitch.tv/videos/25581... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

There is a heatwave and it was 30°C+ indoors - dressing to not overheat should neither make people feel sorry for me nor does it negate my skills as an educator.

LIVE ON TWITCH Going to be going through some of my favourite papers today - science stream anyone? twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE (again) on Twitch for anyone who wants more bugs! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH I have missed you all!!! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

Why yes.. someone has studied the defecation patterns of seabirds while in flight... www.cell.com/current-biol...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Friday Flyday! Here’s an ephydrid fly I found at the beach in Victoria, Australia. Couldn’t identify it beyond family.

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm. “Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.” 🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH back for a second hurrah because new Pokémon TCG packs are dropping!! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH I heard I can build a lab on Slime Rancher... twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

Chrysomyia rufifacies is a much more beautiful insect than its common name would suggest. (the common name is Hairy Maggot Blow Fly)

Wildfires ravaging the EU have torched more than 1m hectares this year, marking 2025 as the worst year on record, a full month before the fire season ends. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Trying a new game today! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

New comic about the science of water strider bugs! Was great working with Bhamla Lab on this, check out the paper upthread.

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📈🧵La reciente ola de calor ha sido la más intensa desde que hay registros en España. → Con datos provisionales, tuvo una anomalía de 4.6 °C y supera a la de julio de 2022, la más intensa hasta ahora con 4.5 °C de anomalía.

Streamer meetups are the absolute best. ✨️ So grateful to have so many LA friends to gather together in one space! 💕

LIVE NOW on Twitch! Just Dance stream! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Can I finish my bug-themed art today? Come learn about bugs, collect them and watch me paint them! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Trialling a slightly different make up look today twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH back from camping, back to bugs, go get your dailies Couldn't choose which glasses so here's both twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

Re-entering civilization after nearly a week in the wilderness... What have I missed?? (Streams back tomorrow!)

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH Unsure if painting bugs, talking about bugs or coding bugs - but come say hi! twitch.tv/drawcuriosity