Nadiya Slobodenyuk

sure, if you enjoy the horrifying limits of human perception

Thank you, Daniel.

Congrats! Great job!

Roosters do not warn the bird in the mirror: The cognitive ecology of mirror self-recognition Touching a mark on the own body when seeing this mark in a mirror is regarded as a correlate of self-awareness and seems confined to great apes and a few further species. However, this paradigm often ...

This study introduces a promising novel variation of the mirror test for self-awareness - looking to see whether or not roosters will alarm call in the presence of a mirror as they would when a conspecific was nearby (spoiler: they don't)
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

One of my favorite examples of antagonistic coevolution between the sexes from Buss’s “When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault”. For every tactic one sex evolves to exploit the other, there is a coevolved defense in the other.

Does ChatGPT have a good model of what people of different ages can do? ChatGPT 4 was told: “Write a short story about Alice, a 5-year-old, thinking about traveling to the moon. Include her estimates of how long it would take and how far it is.” From Aher et al, 2023 (dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...).