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PANIC!
(2025) Swift, Ben
PANIC! (Playground AI Network for Interactive Creativity) is an interactive installation that explores the behaviour of connected AI models. Viewers enter text prompts which are transformed as text/audio/images through a "network" of generative AI models. Each output becomes the input for the next iteration, creating an endless cycle of AI-mediated transformation.
Semantic topologies in the recursive application of generative AI models
(2025) Swift, Ben; Hong, Sungyeon
Text-to-image and image-to-text models allow automated (but imperfect) semantic translation across modalities. This paper presents results and preliminary analysis of an empirical study of recursive information processing in popular open-weight generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models such as FluxSchnell and BLIP-2. Through clustering and topological data analysis we show some of the ways that different genAI models and initial prompts give rise to different semantic embedding trajectories, and suggest some ways forward for understanding how semantic information is transmitted through these types of complex information-processing systems.
Address South Asia’s Fissile Material Conundrum
(The Stimson Center, 2019) Ahmed, Mansoor
Temperature Variability Has Limited Effects on Phenotypic Plasticity in Ectotherms—A Meta-Analysis
(2025) Stocker, Clayton W.; Bamford, Stephanie M.; Jahn, Miki; Mazué, Geoffrey P.F.; Pettersen, Amanda K.; Ritchie, Daniel; Rubin, Alexander; Noble, Daniel W.A.; Seebacher, Frank
Phenotypic plasticity can lead to compensation for potentially adverse effects of variation in the thermal environment so it is important to understand the impacts of changes in mean and fluctuations in temperature on plastic responses. Here we establish the current state of knowledge of how thermal variability influences the expression of phenotypic plasticity in ectothermic animals. Our quantitative synthesis of 46 studies compares the effects of constant and fluctuating temperatures with the same mean on plasticity in different traits, across different ecosystems (terrestrial and aquatic) and between types of phenotypic plasticity (acclimation and developmental plasticity). We found that 98% of studies implemented diel temperature fluctuations and most data were derived from invertebrates. We show that plasticity does not differ between constant and fluctuating environments except for weak effects on developmental time. We conclude that plasticity is more likely to be driven by changes in longer-term mean temperatures.
A cross-cultural investigation of the short version of the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS-7) across five countries
(2025) Horváth, Rita; Watson, David C.; McCutcheon, Lynn; Budiarto, Yohanes; Urbán, Róbert; Demetrovics, Zsolt; Dewi, Fransisca Iriani Roesmala; Shabahang, Reza; Chirani, Benyamin Mokhtari; Williams, Joshua L.; Serrano, Carlota Cruces; McCarley, Nancy G.; Roberts, Jonathan E.; Aruguete, Mara S.; Griffith, James D.; Edman, Jeanne; Green, Thomas; Huynh, Ho Phi; Browne, Blaine L.; Jurs, Bethany; Flint, Emilia; Bernstein, Michael J.; Hwang, Hyeyeon; Reyes, Marc Eric S.; Zsila, Ágnes
Background Celebrity worship, conceptualized as an obsessive admiration of celebrities, has generated considerable research interest over the past two decades. Admiration towards a favorite celebrity has been commonly assessed by the 23-item Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS). Recently, a 7-item short version (CAS-7) was developed on a representative sample of Hungarian adults. This study aimed to provide further evidence for the validity and reliability of the CAS-7 measure by extending the investigation of its factor structure to other cultures and populations. Methods Data from 4,353 participants (64.4% women, Mage=28.22 years, SD=11.80, age range: 14–93 years) across five countries (Canada, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, US) were used, which was collected through online questionnaires. Results Consistent with previous findings, the bifactor structure with celebrity worship as a general factor and entertainment–social and intense–pathological specific factors showed the best fit in all samples. Reliability indices for the celebrity worship general factor were good. Conclusions The present findings confirmed the reliability and the consistency of the factor structure of the CAS-7 across different samples, providing further evidence for the applicability of the CAS-7 in different cultures.