Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

thrilled to share that i’ll be starting my PhD at Berkeley this fall, working with @mariamaly.bsky.social, and that I was awarded the Berkeley Fellowship to support my work!

can’t wait to get started :)

Linking working memory maintenance and readout in monkey sensory and prefrontal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It may not be available everywhere anymore 😢, but it can be read for free on the @sfn.org website if money is tight - www.sfn.org/-/media/SfN/...

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

After watching @liddelowsa.bsky.social’s growing up in science talk at NYU, I went and read his mentor Ben Barres’ “Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist”

Wow. What a phenomenal read and amazing person. Should be recommended reading for all neuroscientists

This is a fun paper from two great labs

Human single unit recordings? imagery?

Sick

for the longest time i genuinely did not consider audiobooks as a legitimate form of consuming books. but then i remembered that before formal writing systems all stories were shared orally. if anything, audiobooks are the more ancient human form in some ways.

When universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share.

to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect...

The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.

Philosophy of Science Group

Electrical Engineering Department

I think this is a part of the civil engineering department.

Last night, US/Israeli strikes bombed Sharif University, my alma mater, heavily damaging the IT Center, Philosophy of Science building, EE, and more. Trump spoke of sending Iran "back to the Stone Age." That is the goal of this war. Scientists worldwide should speak up against these atrocities.

A beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

"Centaur skeleton" - actually a composite of zebra (Equus sp.) and human (Homo sapiens) bones assembled to resemble a centaur. If you look carefully you can see the point where the human lumbar spine is connected to the cervical spine of a zebra. Photo actually from a temporary exhibit on hoaxes photographed at the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, CT) in 2023.

New Holocene subfossils from the Poissons d'Avril cave in France show conclusive proof of the Cave Centaur ("Centaurus spelaeus"). Authors argue late surviving cave centaurs were origin of centaur myth. Skeleton on display in nearby village of Nullepart-le-Trou.
preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.06826

Use both

So Project Hail Mary?

Beautiful film. See it on a huge screen. It gives really good space.

Ryan Gosling wears glasses in an impossible way and you will find it disarming. This is what movie stars do.

The ending lands much better in the movie. I miss the book's science.

Give Rocky an Oscar

Watched project Hail Mary - loved it. Saw it in IMAX 70 at Lincoln center too

Man i love seeing films in theaters

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

this is incredible - go mRNA Vaccines!

age related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, a vaccine that could help protect against it would be HUGE (preclinical for now, tho)

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

"Every one of those achievements rides on basic science discoveries made 20-30 years ago."

"That knowledge is the runway.
The devices are the aircraft. Right now, we’re building faster and fancier planes on a runway that nobody is extending."

Riverside County firefighters save cats from an apartment fire & then use CPR and oxygen to revive them: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

I know there's a lot going on

But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

If you want kids to care about aesthetics in the workplace just fund the arts dude

Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate.

"[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.”

#GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

The Insel Effect on NIMH Grants Tom Insel headed the NIMH from 2002 to 2015. Wikipedia says he worked until November of the final year but does not specify the month in which he started. He quite famously, and I am paraphrasing, …

Related to some discussion of the proper role of Program priority in NIH grant selection.

From the Archive: The Insel Effect on NIMH Grants drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/t...

PhDs are turning to side hustles to make ends meet, finds Nature poll Of roughly 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll, 46% said they have or had a side hustle during their PhD.

A cost-of-living crisis is compelling some PhD researchers to find creative ways to make ends meet

go.nature.com/41aYYGi

From @meganwachspress.bsky.social’s post (on having been the target of a professor’s advances as a student):

“To want someone who wants to learn from you is to want someone for their powerlessness.”

By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.