Size of a double contrabass flute, also known as an octobass flute,

In the latest Science, Henry Farrell, Cosma Shailizi, James Evans and I make the case for LLM's as powerful, transformative cultural and social technologies, ways for people to learn from other people, rather than intelligent agents. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

My 10 y.o. got a star of the week certificate from his teacher. He absolutely *loves* this, but tells me he's being f'ing manipulated. (Not quite those words but it's a fair translation.) Damn right it's on the fridge now.

Franklin Fearing's neglected classic, *Reflex action: a study in the history of physiological psychology,* is now online at Internet Archive. My book on W. James wouldn't have been possible without Fearing's excellent scholarship. archive.org/details/reflex… via Internet Archive

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann responds to the White House press secretary’s attack after he suggested France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty: “Dear Americans, since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:” 1/n

“Trichobatrachus robustus actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog’s toe pads, probably when it is threatened.” newscientist.com/article/dn1399…

I'm hiring a postdoc next year in the history and philosophy of psychology. Do you or someone you know work in this area? Here's the listing. Please share, and feel free to be in touch! philjobs.org/job/show/28930

Dogs can see ultraviolet light, which we can't; they also hear higher frequencies of sound than we can. Seems harder to conceive of what colors that are unseeable by humans might look like than to conceive of what sounds that are unhearable by us might sound like. But why?