Huw Swanborough

@huwroscience.bsky.social

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Cognitive neuroscientist at ETH Zurich. Primary interests in the neuroscience of affect processing/perception! Outside of science: Hiking, huts, snow, bluegrass, folk, and all things creative. ------- Everything's a signal, man.... Everything's a signal

Charcoal sketch of a pensive looking black cat peeking up from behind something. Only nose and higher are visible.
electric longtail cargo bike with rear section for transporting goods or people. Feat protective cage. If you like highly practical city bikes, it's very cool. If not? It's very lame.
The walrus from Alice in Wonderland that gave everyone nightmares as a kid.
Highlighting uses of AND. King Arthur was at Caerlleon upon Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber; and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner; and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needlework by the window. And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur’s palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers, and to receive them with honour, and to inform them of the manners and customs of the Court; and to direct those who came to the Hall or to the presence-chamber, and those who came to take up their lodging. In the centre of the chamber King Arthur sat upon a seat of green rushes, over which was spread a covering of flame-coloured satin, and a cushion of red satin was under his elbow. Then Arthur spoke, “If I thought you would not disparage me,” said he, “I would sleep while I wait for my repast; and you can entertain one another with relating tales, and can obtain a flagon of mead and some meat from Kai.” And the King went to sleep. And Kynon the son of Clydno asked Kai for that which Arthur had promised them. “I, too, will have the good tale which he promised to me,” said Kai. “Nay,” answered Kynon, “fairer will it be for thee to fulfill Arthur’s behest, in the first place, and then we will tell thee the best tale that we know.” So Kai went to the kitchen and to the mead-cellar, and returned bearing a flagon of mead and a golden goblet, and a handful of skewers, upon which were broiled collops of meat. Then they ate the collops and began to drink the mead. “Now,” said Kai, “it is time for you to give me my story.” “Kynon,” said Owain, “do thou pay to Kai the tale that is his due.” “Truly,” said Kynon, “thou are older, and art a better teller of tales, and hast seen more marvellous things than I; do thou therefore pay Kai his tale.” “Begin thyself,” quoth Owain, “with the best that thou knowest.” “I will do so,” answered Kynon.
Swiss national TV Teletext homepage.
Japanese pressing of the ventures, surfing USA. Indescribably cool.
The same tweet but the image lane is blank.
Brazil 1 - Norway 2 Haaland and neymar scorers, late into the game.
St nazaire train station, built in the 1950s after the original was destroyed in WW2. It has been designed to look like a ferry and it's very dinky.
Algeria - 3. Austria - 3 scorecard.
Image of an advert for an upcoming boulodrome on a beachfront
Concrete and brick wall, substantially wider than my hand span.
One of the overarching themes of the 21st century will be the expanding reach of intelligence and what we choose to do with it. We talk to artificial intelligences every day - and increasingly we talk to them about our health. Whether we’re talking to doctors or AIs, what we do with our health comes down to having data and an awareness of our bodies. You want as much data as you can get about your health as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In other words, you want a technology optimized for getting as many “megabytes per second per dollar” of information about your body.
Menu item for the meal: "Meat & Beet"
Elevator floor label. Floor B - Parking Orange. Floor A - Parking Green.
Broad Description: a series of examples of visual illusions demonstrating gestalt principles of perceptual object formation. Bottom left: This shows a series of dots that, if they had no cutouts, may not have particularly strong coherent properties that would make you percieve them as a single object, likely a collection of objects. However, the cutout lines giving the ilusion of a wire-frame cube because they have shared properties, in this case edges oriented in specific angles and relationships to each other that allow us to "see" a white cube, despite there being no cube drawn. This is almost the opposite of disruptive pattern materials, rather than disrupting object formation by breaking coherence, you're creating the illusion of an object by creating a pattern that it would otherwise have, where it present. This illusion in particular is so strong that the gut reaction is to say "but the cube is there, it's just drawn in white on black", but no lines are drawn between the corners, only the corners themselves are presented. We still percieve these black circles as being present, equal sized, and the same distance away from us, yet the cutouts imply an object that would be masking them in a way that is impossible (they could not be equally sized and distance away while also being behind the white lines like this). We percieve two objects featuring properties that cannot co-exist, because of pattern properties that our perceptual system relies on for stimuli features together to perceive "a single object".
Bland concrete balcony, absolutely festooned in plants. Including an aggressively creeping pumpkin plant about 3 meters in length.
a fish with a man head....the head has a....dongle? I dont even know man, just the most cursed man-headed fish thing.
A road tunnel bathed in blue light with a red escape light reflecting off the wet tarmac on the right of the scene. The car, shining light towards the screen, sits behind supernatural growths resembling hands, made out of manakins.
Kambucha girl meme, left 'no thank you' panel: "They're transitioning". Right "oh, this works" panel: "They're crossing the rubicon primaris"
Graphite, charcoal, pastel sketch of an eyeball in a mouth. It's a little bit unnerving.
Pan Pipe Moods album cover. Papyrus typeset and that garish, oversaturated, velvetty colour palette.
A Devon Rex looking as weird as Devon Rexes look.
Headline "Worst leak I've ever seen" us cyber agency accidentally exposed secret access keys on GitHub"
A poster for the 100th year anniversary festival of Zurich water treatment (in German). Aerial shot of a water treatment plant with cartoon image of joyful parent and child eating ice-cream (at the water treatment plant? Ew) The text advertises an insight into the water treatment system at a colourful festival for big and small!
Tweet: Eurovision:" maybe you could do something different " France, every single year... Picture: very french man with three baguettes, beret, wine, stripped top, scarf, moustache, smirk.
Graphite, ink, and pastel sketch of an eye protruding from the ground, staring straight up at the sky. Angle is from the side. It doesn't look like it's the most relaxed eye.
3 seagulls in a line on a beach hut. Black and white and moody
nanobanana generated image of an office with tiled floor. The perspective lines traced on the tiles and desk have many disparate convergence points, and the tiled floor lines are visibly skewiff.
the MGN, having a little cameo in some old MRI results of mine.
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A giant snowman atop an even gianter pyre.
Poster for a 1 year anniversary of a brew pub, written in German. The poster adverstises specialist beers, wine, live musik, and a "Gulash Canon"
Laptop screen showing an eye tracker locked onto someone's pupil
Sepia-monochrome-ish oil pastel of a sparse city skyline in late dusk over a waterfront.
Black and white sketch of an eye in a mouth. Charcoal, pastel, graphite, blending stump. It's a generally unsettling vibe.
Lighthouse out at sea, turbulent waves sloshing through rocks and navigation pylons. The lighthouse is poured concrete.
Dim silhouette of the village skyline cast by a single, central, powerful white beam of light.
Waves crash hard against rocky waters, two navigation towers are closer to shore with a lighthouse further out (Phare Du Nividic)
a bird (unknown, maybe a sparrow) flying, but with wings back so it looks like a potato shot from a potato cannon.
A crucifix with a very undersized jesus.
A tube of Daddy sugar.
Two graphite drawings of an eye and a mouth. The eye directly above the mouth, both upright on an easel. The eye does not look comforting.
Epic handshake meme: me, astronauts, both dealing with outlook.
At this point, however, some may be tempted to ask the question: “Why did speech and the human voice become so dominant for human communication over other modalities, such as gesture?” It is not the goal of this thesis to attempt to answer this question, nor invite the repurcussions of doing so (Chomsky, 1986; Pinker, 1994)
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Eng: light house with black and white stripes frames by tree branches. De: Leuchtturm, eingerahmt von Ästen