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Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/brazil-bans-animal-tested-cosmetics-in-major-win-for-compassion?utm_source=Mastodon

Brazil Bans Animal-Tested Cosmetics in Major Win for Compassion — Species Unite
On July 30, 2025, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, approved a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and perfumes in the major South American nation. The bill was signed into law during a ceremony attended by Marina Silva, Brazil’s Minister of the Environment a

Cognitive Structure Generation: From Educational Priors to Policy Optimization
Hengnian Gu, Zhifu Chen, Yuxin Chen, Jin Peng Zhou, Dongdai Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12647 …

Cognitive Structure Generation: From Educational Priors to Policy Optimization
Cognitive structure is a student's subjective organization of an objective knowledge system, reflected in the psychological construction of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive structure assessment remains a long-standing challenge in student modeling and psychometrics, persisting as a foundational yet largely unassessable concept in educational practice. This paper introduces a novel framework, Cognitive Structure Generation (CSG), in which we first pretrain a Cognitive Structure D…

"…evidence shows…MAGA narrative of trans violence is entirely baseless…data from…Violence Prevention Project at Hamline…indicates…< 1% of shootings where 4 or more people were wounded in public were by trans people, &…over 97% of…mass killings…committed by cisgender men…PolitiFact also showed…“overwhelming” majority of shootings…perpetrated by cisgender men. And…trans people are 4x more likely than cisgender people to be…_victims_ of violent crime."

JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation
The suspect's alleged trans girlfriend is cooperating with investigators, but rightwingers are still using her identity to blame trans people.

A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the "marshmallow test",
and the results showed there's more going on in their strange little brains than we ever suspected.
Their ability to learn, anticipate future rewards, and adapt their behavior, the researchers said,
may have evolved to give cuttlefish an edge in the cutthroat eat-or-be-eaten marine world they live

Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Intended For Human Children
An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence.

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Mind & Motion: Opportunities and Applications of Integrating Biomechanics and Cognitive Models in HCI
Arthur Fleig, Florian Fischer, Markus Klar, Patrick Ebel, Miroslav Bachinski, Per Ola Kristensson, Roderick Murray-Smith, Antti Oulasvirta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13788

Mind & Motion: Opportunities and Applications of Integrating Biomechanics and Cognitive Models in HCI
Computational models of how users perceive and act within a virtual or physical environment offer enormous potential for the understanding and design of user interactions. Cognition models have been used to understand the role of attention and individual preferences and beliefs on human decision making during interaction, while biomechanical simulations have been successfully applied to analyse and predict physical effort, fatigue, and discomfort. The next frontier in HCI lies in connecting the…

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Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/brazil-approves-bill-banning-cosmetic-testing-live-vertebrates/

Brazil's Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Banning Cosmetic Testing on Live Vertebrates - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has approved the Senate's substitute text for a bill that would ban the testing of cosmetics, personal hygiene products, and

Shapes of Cognition for Computational Cognitive Modeling
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Sanjay Oruganti, Jesse English
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13288 https://

Shapes of Cognition for Computational Cognitive Modeling
Shapes of cognition is a new conceptual paradigm for the computational cognitive modeling of Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents (LEIAs). Shapes are remembered constellations of sensory, linguistic, conceptual, episodic, and procedural knowledge that allow agents to cut through the complexity of real life the same way as people do: by expecting things to be typical, recognizing patterns, acting by habit, reasoning by analogy, satisficing, and generally minimizing cognitive load to the degree si…

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Dennis Brown, Samuel Mulder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13413 https://

Large Language Models as Visualization Agents for Immersive Binary Reverse Engineering
Immersive virtual reality (VR) offers affordances that may reduce cognitive complexity in binary reverse engineering (RE), enabling embodied and external cognition to augment the RE process through enhancing memory, hypothesis testing, and visual organization. In prior work, we applied a cognitive systems engineering approach to identify an initial set of affordances and implemented a VR environment to support RE through spatial persistence and interactivity. In this work, we extend that platfo…