Long autolysis, overnight ferment, relatively wet dough. They carefully shape the pie to not deflate it

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Pizza crust worked out nicely today!

First blue oyster harvest of the year! 😋

The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal? Can you squeeze your graduate programme into a 40-hour working week? These 13 current and former PhD candidates reveal their top time-management tips.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

14 things PhD supervisors can do to help their students www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New preprint from my lab! We study how reinforcement learning & selective attention interact. To do so, we built a set of models describing different ways that value & reward prediction error can modulate top-down attention. We compare model outcomes to monkey data from a color value learning task

Fossil Fuel Chokepoints Make Renewables Key to Energy Security “I have been to 20 countries in the last three months, and what I’m seeing on the ground is not just clear, it is loud,” writes one investment advisor. “Energy security = clean energy. Energy access =...

Whether or not the ceasefire holds, the US-Israeli war on Iran has laid bare the security case for renewables.

Bill McKibben summarized it nicely:

Oil and Gas = Peril and Poverty

Solar and Wind = Prosperity and Protection

@cape-acme.bsky.social

www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuel-...

Ten simple rules for postdoctoral mums to stay competitive in academia

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This will have dramatic impacts on cancer treatment--new mRNA vaccine approaches are posed to revolutionize some of the most challenging cancers
www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

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"These words are America’s words, until and unless Americans reject them."

Yoshua Bengio, Prix Turing 2018, lanceur d’alerte sur l’intelligence artificielle « Les gourous de l’IA » (9/12). Le Canadien d’origine franco-marocaine a fondé, dès 1993, l’un des plus importants instituts de recherche sur l’IA. Il appelle tout d’abord à identifier et à réduire le...

Un tour d’horizon de ma vision pour une IA plus sécuritaire et au service de l'humanité, dans le cadre de la série « les gourous de l’IA » de @lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Post from me from December 2024 that says RFK Jr. is not trained in any area of medicine or science. He has never applied for a research grant, conducted an experiment, or published a peer-reviewed paper. We should never, EVER compromise with people who lie about vaccines and public health.

I have never wavered in my position that there can be no compromise with RFK Jr. He is a dangerous fraud who has caused incalculable damage to public health.

It’s extremely disappointing that the President of the American Medical Association was doing a photo op with RFK Jr. this morning.

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#PresidentPedoPutinPuppet

Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

AI conference organizers hid LLM prompts in conference text, instructing LLMs to use specific words as watermarks when generating conference abstracts. This led to the disqualification of 497 submitted papers.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don't miss the Connected Minds Book Launch! March 26, 11 AM–2 PM at York. Three featured authors including Dr. Michael G. Sherbert discuss technology, society, and justice. Readings, moderated panel, audience Q&A, networking. Free event, open to the public. Register here: lnkd.in/ejc-QCgu

Congratulations to our three Connected Minds-affiliated finalists in the 2026 Queen's 3MT! Brooke McNeil, Mateus Karvat Camara (Ingenuity Labs), and Amr Mostafa (Dr. Gavin Winston's lab) are among 13 finalists. Join on March 25, 5-7 PM, Kinesiology Building Rm 101 to cheer them on: lnkd.in/e6e_tWpe

V-Dem's 2026 democracy report is crushing and depressing.

www.v-dem.net/publications...

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A cautionary tale...!

Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams - PubMed Data analysis workflows in many scientific domains have become increasingly complex and flexible. Here we assess the effect of this flexibility on the results of functional magnetic resonance imaging by asking 70 independent teams to analyse the same dataset, testing the same 9 ex-ante hypotheses …

Humans happen to have the same problem...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32483374/

Conclusion : AI is human? 🤪😱🤦

Image of News in focus article from Nature entitled "How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas - in numbers"

The impact of bioRxiv in numbers

@richardsever.bsky.social

What Geoffrey Hinton gets wrong and right about AGI (super short post) artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

Both are pandering. Responsible and aligned AI tend to anthropomorphise AI and hope that there is some way to make the systems themselves autonomously moral and beneficent towards humanity, cf eg Hinton’s batshit maternity Hail Mary joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/06/what... 1/2 #AIEthics

first time i applied to PhD programs i got *zero* interviews! ZERO.

my story here:
bsky.app/profile/mega...

Solar panels aren’t being held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

A point worth making

Want to work on a belief-updating Bayesian framework to understand how tests for consciousness can be applied to artificial systems?

Do you want a stipend to go along with that work? And opportunities to meet like-minded peers and do all sorts of fun workshops?

Yeah you do.

Come join me 😀

To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...

The most recent one I did is doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

My first suggestion if you go for it is to test the waters and check with the editor if they are interested in principle in a reply, but if course not necessary and not always indication of much