Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Simon Fisher
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Simon Fisher
“David Wu & his colleagues worked on a method to evaluate safety of medical LLM recommendations. ‘Rather than just reporting accuracy scores, studies should report adverse events’ he says. Preliminary findings across 31 LLMs found potential for severe harm from AI recommendations in ~22% of cases.”🧪
Seriously thinking about turning my Bsky into a bee stan account. 🐝🤩
Brighten up your day by watching this ingenious little bumble bee spontaneously solving a novel object manipulation task. Source: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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“Studies across diverse conditions in Spain & Japan show counterclockwise bias in roaming pedestrians is a robust reproducible feature, originating from individual tendencies. This challenges the view that social dynamics shape pedestrian motion & highlights existence of intrinsic locomotor bias.”🚶🧪
Stunning photographs encompass different ways in which science is used to decipher our complex & beautiful world.
#ScientistAtWork images in @nature.com.
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As @carlzimmer.com notes👇, next stages of controversial research on human embryo gene editing are funded by Nucleus Genomics, a company that plastered the NYC subway with “Have your best baby” “These babies have great genes” & other taglines that fuel misconceptions about complex trait genetics. 😒🧪
CRISPR gene-editing has revolutionized what we do in the lab. But what nobody talks about is how difficult it is to find the tiny scissors when you accidentally drop them in the middle of an experiment.
Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇
Simon Fisher
Simon Fisher
Simon Fisher
Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...
Counterclockwise motion has been documented in human gatherings. The authors show across five experiments in Spain and Japan that this bias reflects individual locomotor tendencies.
