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Esther Mondragón

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Hic sunt dracones I represent myself, no one else. Computational and associative learning. Biologically-inspired AI. She/They https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ablation study and resulting optimal architecture that considerably improves recent research on CNN-Hebbian learning integration with competition mechanisms.
with @julian-jn.bsky.social
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Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Networks

The research presented in this paper advances the integration of Hebbian learning into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image processing, syst…

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 11h

8/1 so far. The Nobel Prize, at its best, perpetuating gender inequality. Not a surprise, but a shame.

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 1d

Always nice to see papers out in the wild.

Opening the batting in this month's @qjep.bsky.social is "Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning"

By @davidgeorge.bsky.social, Dominic Dwyer, Me & @mikelepelley.bsky.social

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

minutiae 🙃

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 1d

Excellence is a subjective quality.

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

Never mind that! With a bit of luck, the "AI" (agent?) will develop lab allergies (to rats, humans, dust, and, why not, conspecifics while running the replication experiments and cha chan 🥁 problem solved!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

He is a very clever boy!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

What is more important than that?

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh! Gorgeous!

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

With that, I 100% do 😜 ❤️

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

I need to find the time, which, sadly, will not be this week.
Most likely, I will not fully agree with what l *guess* is said here, but chances are that I will concur and sympathise with the main point and the general approach.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

🎩

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

Narrator: “No they don’t. They do not even extend it to women.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

Do all these AI bros defending the personhood of chatbots etc extend their ethics to their interactions with non-human animals or no

Because I’m very curious now

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

Marking (grading) again. Four MCs AI dissertations. One down, three left.

a cartoon character sleeping in a hole in a rock

ALT: a cartoon character sleeping in a hole in a rock

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

System Settings/Trackpad/Tap to Click 😊

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 3d

I remember it too 😊. This very determined young woman with, what I then thought, a little wild but clear idea of what she wanted to do. Of course, I said yes!

It has been an honour, Corina. And thank you for your constant support.

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to @corinacatarau.bsky.social for passing her viva with flying colours, and for, in the words of the examiners, a courageous and very original approach to address reinforcement learning agents' generalisation.

Bravo, Corina. I am very proud of you!

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

Txotx!

Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

Oh! I now officially hate you! 🤣

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

Always target! So tiresome! Boys, go play cowboys!

"The same advancements made in GANs in 2018 have led to the proliferation of hyper-realistic deepfakes, which are now being used to target women and erode people’s belief in documentation and evidence. "

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

I dunno what's sadder that or the fact an ethics person will come in and whitewash it as we see them doing effortlessly in academia and outside. Or saddest, we've been asking them to stop for so long too. www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/27/5...

In 2020, let’s stop AI ethics-washing and actually do something

There’s more talk of AI ethics than ever before. But talk is just that—it’s not enough.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 7d

Very sad news.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - BBC News

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91

The primatologist was a

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 7d

Speakers

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 7d

"Fascism is here, let’s not mistake ourselves. We need to know who the enemy [of freedom of speech] is" . @ealonso.bsky.social

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