What colors are green to an English speaker? Are they the same as what a French speaker calls vert?

A new study led by Colin Twomey reconsiders this classic question, using the mathematics of compression.

biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Languages partition visible colors into words in almost identical ways.

Maybe this universality is caused by shared mechanisms of color perception (how humans see color), or perhaps by shared needs to reference similar objects (what colors humans care to talk about).

Thank yo so much for this study, @leorahorwitzmd. It will be so useful to the rest of the county.

https://twitter.com/leorahorwitzmd/status/1250900206121635846

It's a tremendous datatset and I'm glad you put it out so quickly, and collected it under duress.

Morning commute to Princeton. Part 2.

Social networks can distort decision making and produce undemocratic outcomes, our latest study nature.com/articles/s4158… We describe “information gerrymandering” — how a social network's structure can bias a collective decision towards one party, even when both parties have equal sizes and each person has the same influence.

Joint work with great colleagues, led by @al_cibiades.

The response from organizers at ESEB 2017, after asking @oanacarja to remove her name from one of the symposia she submitted. 1/n One of the organizers took responsibility for the mistake and apologized to @oanacarja. 2/n