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An LLM that invented a "language for a cephalopod species that uses colors and gestures instead of sounds" is something straight out of Adrian Tchaikovskys Children of Time books. bsky.app/profile/lane...

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An LLM that constructs new languages

This edited collection by @macrinephd.bsky.social, Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Arsen Abdulali, and Josie Hughes moves beyond the traditional focus on brains and code to explore embodied intelligence across various disciplines: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205349...

About perception in the lower #animals. Discover how turtles find their way to that speck of land in the midst of the great Atlantic Ocean. 🧪 #Science #Biology #Ecology Migrating sea turtles only sort of know where they’re going 1- www.science.org/content/arti... 2- www.nature.com/articles/007...

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📖 Our paper “Thousand-Brain Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning and Inference” is now published in Neural Computation! Read more about how Monty works, its capabilities, and advantages over transformers: direct.mit.edu/neco/article...

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Wow, what a capture!

Nice and thoughtful read…

Fascinating read. Thanks Manuela! ✨😊✨

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Dr. Levin’s nature photography always brings a smile, and some random visitors, too. Stay tuned… ✨😊✨🌱✨

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I have personally benefited from “The Yoga of Breath” and have practiced Yoga for many years. Nice overview here… ✨🧘‍♀️✨

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Sneak peek at our upcoming @MITPress Open Access Embodied Intelligence, with Jennifer Fugate, Arsen Abdulali, & Josie Hughes (June, 2026). A major transdisciplinary effort rethink ing intelligence. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053495/…#EmbodiedIntelligencec#CognitiveSciencec#AIAI @mitpress.bsky.social

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Artist and Long Now council member Katie Paterson has spent the last decade building the Future Library in Oslo, Norway. Over the next 100 years one writer every year will contribute a text. A forest was planted to supply paper for the books when they’re ready to publish in 02114.

Harlequin Shrimp form long-lasting, monogamous relationships and devote themselves to one mate for life. Their diet consists primarily of starfish. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #scuba #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #shrimp #photography

Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.

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Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io): This colourful butterfly species is native to temperate Asia and Europe, it has a wingspan of 55mm (2.16in) and hibernates in trees or buildings during winter, it can use its eye-spots as an anti-predator deterrent. Beautiful photo taken by Ellena Bailey in the UK.

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How do our cells organize their “second genome”? Scientists solved a century-old mystery: a temporary shape change called "mitochondrial pearling" evenly distributing mitochondrial DNA. Could unlock new insights into aging and neurodegenerative diseases! actu.epfl.ch/news/how-mit...

Meg Shriber on fiction and technology, discussing the Pygmalion myth in American SciFi and technology-making and concluding with a comparison with other cultural traditions - Japanese, Latin American, Afrofuturism. www.harbus.org/post/monkey-...

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A baby whale is born with 10 female whales and one male helping. During the most beautiful event that happens in life—birth—whales were very chatty. We found vowels during the birth event as well. @projectceti.bsky.social The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I'm glad to see this paper and happy to see Sheila Heti and Ken Liu mentioned as "distinguished novelists [who] have already begun experimenting with these tools." We need to approach narration and AI both through literature and through literary studies.

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Little blue… 💙

Final version of this paper with Richard Watson is out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Machines all the way up and cognition all the way down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology" (quite a bit different than the original preprint at osf.io/preprints/os...).

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