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Chuzodepunta @chuzodepunta.bsky.social · 2h

Tú dices: "¡Vete a tomar por culo ya con los refranes! ".
Cervantes decía: "¡Sesenta mil satanases te lleven a ti y a tus refranes! Una hora ha que los estás ensartando y dándome con cada uno tragos de tormento".

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 17h

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Things that may mean you’re either very rich or very poor:

- To own a horse
- To have a family member in prison
- To have many children
- To own an old car
- That not just anyone can enter your neighborhood
- Ripped/Torn clothes
- Intermittent fasting

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 22h

Me as a researcher: "I’m so sorry, I’m too busy to review this, October is the cruelest month."

Me as an editor: "PLEASE review this. I’m begging. Bribe a friend. Summon a ghost. I’ll take a review written by your Roomba."

#academia #science #academy #philosophy #philsky #philosophysky

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 15d

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Lizardo Bizarro @lizardobizarro.bsky.social · 1d

El verdadero peligro de la IA

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Bombín @bombin.bsky.social · 1d

Por dios, reclamad, os lo digo muy en serio. Id a atención al paciente con vuestro volante y reclamad la cita.

Sotosinmás @sotosinmas.bsky.social · 1d

Que lo de las mamografías de Andalucía y las palabras de la Quironesa no nos hagan olvidar esta noticia del 15 de septiembre de 2025

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Manolo K. @epicureo64.aldea.social · 1d

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇

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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 1d

Every developmental psychologist Is like “but my lecture slides!”

Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 2d

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Screenshot of a paper abstract:

“Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 1d

🏆Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 SPSP Cialdini Prize! This year's prize goes to Madalina Vlasceanu, Kim Doell, and their co-authors who conducted groundbreaking research on addressing climate change with behavioral science.

Learn more: ow.ly/BVwA50X989m

Congratulations to SPSP’s 2025 Cialdini Prize Recipients!

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Pedro Fresco @pedrofresco.bsky.social · 1d

1/Sobre el supuesto "riesgo inminente de apagón". Estamos asistiendo a la proliferación de desinformación y bulos como pasó después del apagón. Prudencia todo el mundo, los hechos son estos:
Empecemos por el principio: el apagón se originó por un problema de sobretensión como han certificado todos..

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

"Es que la R2 es muy baja porque es menor de 1"

"Es que los datos son aleatorios porque la nube de puntos no tiene la forma de mi polla"

Si me dieran 1 euro cada vez que escucho estos argumentos... Os invitaba a una cena a todos, cojona.

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

"Voy dando lecciones de estadística pero nunca he trabajado con datos reales y calculo el ajuste a ojo, como debe ser".

Si eres de esos, igual te apetece leer este blog:
fernandoblancopsy.com/2023/06/18/e...

El Dunning-Kruger estadístico, o por qué no siempre deberías hacer caso cuando te dicen que tu correlación es muy débil

Ya sabemos que las redes sociales las carga el diablo, y en concreto Twitter nos puede servir para aprender muchas cosas interesantes y compartir papers, pero también para montarnos discusiones ete…

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

Tienes un título en una carrera técnica, ves un gráfico de dispersión con una linea de ajuste, y lo único que sabes decir es "jaja menudo imbécil el que ha pintado la recta de regresión sobre datos que claramente son aleatorios". En fin.

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

Y el cómic de Randall Munroe, premio especial.

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

He visto las respuestas y ya me has triggereao para toda la tarde. 😂

La gente habla de estadística son haber visto datos reales en su vida.

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

Al gato no hace falta ponérselo en el hocico, no seas bestia, que tiene los bigotillos y capta la humedad casi a distancia como si fueran antenas 😅

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 2d

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Eduardo Garzón @edugaresp.bsky.social · 3d

¿Por qué las burbujas económicas (vivienda, bolsa, IA, bitcoin...) últimamente duran tanto y no explotan? Pues porque el mundo ha cambiado mucho desde la crisis de 2008: ya no es el crédito privado el que genera las burbujas, sino los fondos de inversión con dinero propio. Hilo🧵

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 2d

Por cierto, el truco para saber si la ropa sigue húmeda o solo está fría es acercársela al hocico, que por algún motivo es más sensible y si está mojada lo notas.

De nada guapos.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy Is-the-laundry-on-the-clothesline-still-wet-or-is-it-just-cold season to those who celebrate 🥳

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 2d

it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"

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