DeBarra Shaw

DeBarra Shaw

@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Interest AI/SI and Robotics

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Andrea de Varda
@andreadevarda.bsky.social

Our paper “The cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans” is now out in PNAS! 🤖🧠 w/ @fepdelia.bsky.social, @hopekean.bsky.social, @lampinen.bsky.social, and @evfedorenko.bsky.social Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/6)

pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Wildlife
@worldwildlife.bsky.social

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes): This 90cm (35in) species of fox is present across the entire northern hemisphere, from the Arctic north to Eurasia, North Africa and North America, invasive sp. in Australia. They are omnivorous. Fabulous Fox photo taken by Keith Willis in California, USA #foxoftheday #fox

DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Interesting read…

Andrew Lampinen@lampinen.bsky.social

New blog post! I wrote about why I think it's useful to use metaphorical (and anthropomorphic) terms to describe AI. I start by describing the role of metaphor in language and cognition, and how metaphors can help us to efficiently understand relational structure and make predictions 1/2

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Greta Tuckute
@gretatuckute.bsky.social

Thanks so much for the fun conversation @wiair.bsky.social ! A pleasure to chat about language, LLMs, and memory--covering some work with @bkhmsi.bsky.social @mschrimpf.bsky.social @michael-lepori.bsky.social @klemenkotar.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @thomashikaru.bsky.social, among others!

Women in AI Research - WiAIR@wiair.bsky.social

New episode of #WiAIRpodcast: Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social talks to @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social about what brain-LLM alignment does and does not tell us, and why, asked to keep one label out of neuroscience, cognitive science and AI, she drops AI first

DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Interesting read…skeletal alignment topic is rarely discussed…

Sophie's Friends@aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social

Skeletal Alignment – What Can Yoga Asanas Do? aurawellnesscenter.com/2026/10/21/s... #SkeletalAlignment #WhatCanYogaAsanasDo

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas
@blaiseaguera.bsky.social

Friends in San Francisco: Join me at @longnow.org on October 22 for a conversation on interdependence with @baratunde.com. We'll explore cooperation as the core governing principle of nature and synthetic minds, why intelligence is inherently collective, and what this means for our shared future.

The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org

How do we co-create a future with tech that actually serves humanity and the planet? On Oct 22, join @baratunde.com and @blaiseaguera.bsky.social for "On Interdependence": a 10,000-year look at civic action, Indigenous wisdom, and human survival. Tickets: longnow.org/talks/02026-...

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JBGarrity Photography
@joegarrity.bsky.social

I took this photo of a Nymphaea 'Pink Pearl' waterlily at a Buddhist monastery in Hualien, Taiwan. It's near my house. 😍 #naturephotography #nature #flowers #waterlily #lotus #floralphotography #eastcoastkin #photography

DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

✨Insightful and timely research opening new perspectives…learn more here…

Gasper Begus@begus.bsky.social

We form our identities always in relation to the other. The other used to be the animals, now the other is artificial, silicon intelligence. This provides an opportunity to identify as a biological intelligence that will unite the natural world. begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

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Milton
@miltonllera.bsky.social

Our work on adapting NCAs towards generating controlled morphological changes is now in preprint!

Mike Levin@drmichaellevin.bsky.social

new #preprint: t.co/eE1qqGSflK Ben Hartl explains: In 1917, D'Arcy Thompson drew Cartesian grids around different anatomical shapes & showed that deforming the grid could change one species' shape into that of another. We find that "reusable regulatory handles control phenotypic variation" in NCAs

t.cohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29755
DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Looking at AGI as an ecosystem…terrific work here expanding the aperture of perception. Have a look… ✨👀✨

Blaise Agüera y Arcas@blaiseaguera.bsky.social

What do we actually mean when we talk about “AGI”? Enjoyed discussing this with @georgemusser.com for his latest piece in @sciam.bsky.social.

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Sakana AI
@sakanaai.bsky.social

🐙 Fugu Max is now on Sakana Chat 🐙 Free for all to use. Try it: chat.sakana.ai Blog: sakana.ai/chat-fugumax... 🐡

Sakana AI@sakanaai.bsky.social

Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: the next evolution of Sakana Fugu’s multi-agent orchestration system. Try: sakana.ai/fugu Blog: sakana.ai/fugu-max-rel... The frontier that actually matters is the Pareto frontier: capability on one axis, cost on the other.

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@d2chattoway.bsky.social

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Ruslan Rust@rrust.bsky.social

📣 We are hiring! 📣 Since our NIH R01 on functionally engineered pericytes for Alzheimer's disease got funded, I am now looking for new people to join the lab at different levels (e.g., research tech, grad student, postdoc).

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The Long Now Foundation
@longnow.org

Science needs optimism. “This is the reason we tolerate failed experiments, broken theories, and rejections from journals. To do science well and rigorously, we must believe that a better truth is possible.” @cbo.bsky.social in a review of 𝘐𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘉𝘦 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦: www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

santafe.eduThe complexity of scientific optimism: A review of "It Could Be Otherwise"SFI Fractal Faculty member Stuart Firestein's new book, It Could Be Otherwise, "proposes a subtly radical notion," writes SFI Professor Brandon Ogbunu in this review: "that optimism, as much as confli...
DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Very cool and interesting preprint… ✨😎✨🧵

Blaise Agüera y Arcas@blaiseaguera.bsky.social

A beautiful demonstration of symbiogenesis in action in the world of artificial life from one of our student researchers in Pi, @kjha02.bsky.social. Evolving agents on a shared memory tape, he and his co-authors show that when compute is a budgeted resource, cooperation emerges organically.

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IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org

It’s a Cat-O-Tron! Designed by Spectrum's DIY editor Stephen Cass, who needs to know if there’s a cat in the box, so he can stop surprising the feral cats in his neighbourhood when cleaning their shelters. Build your own! spectrum.ieee.org/feral-cat-ra... #cats #diy #catsofbluesky #meow #maker

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@d2chattoway.bsky.social

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JBGarrity Photography@joegarrity.bsky.social

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

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Meow Yoga
@meowyoga.bsky.social

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” ~ Luther Burbank

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@d2chattoway.bsky.social

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Nina Beguš@ninabegus.bsky.social

We’re addressing the Authors Guild’s Human Authored Certification Mark in the new issue of @pw.org My take is we need more nuance than human vs. machine-authored. Every text after 2022 is potentially AI-touched, just as every iPhone photo is computationally mediated. Transparency matters.

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Blake Richards
@tyrellturing.bsky.social

1/15) What could drive AI agents to cooperate with each other, even if there is no chance for reciprocity or pay back? 🤔 🧵 Our team at Google, Paradigms of Intelligence, uncovered new paths to cooperation and a new game theory for foundation models 👇

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Mike Levin@drmichaellevin.bsky.social

new #preprint @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.28250 Once you get replicators, Darwinian evolution can happen. What's happening *before* replicators arise? "Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life"

arxiv.orgCausal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-LifeAgents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators; what is the causal structure of a medium before replicators appear, and evolution take...
DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Fascinating read…

Manuela Casasoli@manuelacasasoli.bsky.social

Noses on the wing... About the olfactory capacity of hawkmoth wings. "Never-before-seen ability may allow the #insects to home in on their favorite plants." 🧪 #Science #Biology #Ecology These moths smell with their wings 1- www.science.org/content/arti... 2- journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

DeBarra Shaw
@d2chattoway.bsky.social

Significant and timely presentation: “Language as informative imagitation”. This groundbreaking work is expanding our understanding of language and the world around us…✨🐋✨

Gasper Begus@begus.bsky.social

My talk on a new framing for language that will allow us to look past humans. This time with a working link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-W...

youtube.com2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Gašper BegušYouTube video by Vermont Complex Systems Institute
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JBGarrity Photography@joegarrity.bsky.social

Vietnamese Mossy tree frogs are both arboreal and aquatic. They wade in moss-covered puddles for camouflage and climb about the canopy in rainforests. #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #amphibian #treefrog #frog #herps #eastcoastkin #photography

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Gasper Begus
@begus.bsky.social

New technology can help us listen to the ocean. Yesterday we deployed an automatic glider that will record our whales for up to 30 days. Humbling to experience the vastness of whales’ lives.

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@d2chattoway.bsky.social

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Manuela Casasoli@manuelacasasoli.bsky.social

"Are dolphins the only #animals that call each other by name?" Read about the use of name-like calls in nonhuman animals and why this complex behavior is so difficult to find in the animal kingdom. 🧪 #Science #Biology #Neuroscience 1- www.science.org/content/arti... 2- www.cell.com/trends/cogni...