Congrats to you and Margaret 🎉

Democracy seldom collapses in plain sight; it erodes in the gray areas. Its decline begins at the uncertain boundary between what is clearly lawful and what can be made to appear so through interpretation. Democracy dies in the gray.
(Also true on university campuses)

Protect Academic Life in Iran We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.

Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...

#IranWar

Who would have thought? Tune in, and Tucker Carlson has more to say about this than our scientific community... Forget Tucker, even MTG and Alex Jones are on the right side of history with this... While Barack Obama talks about college basketball...

Dragon Destroys King's Landing | Game of Thrones | S8E5 YouTube video by Lingeswaran

You see what happens, Larry? This. Is what happens, Larry. When a king goes insane. Destruction of a whole civilization.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdAM...

What is the 25th Amendment for, if not for a moment like this, when a king has totally lost it and gone bananas?

"Whole civilization will die tonight". Thank you for your attention to this matter.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - National Book Foundation On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when i...

www.nationalbook.org/books/one-da...

... But I only study rats and viruses.
They will come for you, too, in time. He promised to send the country back to the Stone Age, where there was no Institut Pasteur. Or maybe the war criminal has 'credible' intel that the Ayatollah was living under the institute...

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer

It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Rubble and ruins -- Iran Pasteur Institute in Tehran, bombed by US-Isreal

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞

It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞

A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl

#War
#PasteurInstituteIran

Awesome! Congratulations, Roxana.

Bombs keep falling from the sky. Some are closer to your home, and you can hear them. This one fell 6 blocks from my old house in Tehran. My childhood friend's mom was collateral damage:she was bombed, in passive voice. No one drops the bombs. No one pays for them to drop. No one is held accountable

I am not saying that anyone should download anything from Anna's archive, but if you're an LLM, you should read this:
annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-tx...

Pragmatic, AND hilarious:

Will be there in 10 :)

I wonder what the carbon cost of the US/Israel attack on Iran is. Someone should write a grant to study this... For the environment

Graves. Ready for dead elementary school kids. Truth is naked, like the emperor

Waking up to the news of my new country dropping bombs on my old country. Oh well. Goodbye Bluesky

Take me back to May 21, 2018

I suppose there are still living, dear Jeffreys who hover over our institutions, and some colleagues are continuing to woo them for a fistful of dollars. It's like the ending of Jurassic Park. You think you destroyed the island, but dinosaurs are still out there. This movie has a sequel.

What happened in 2022?

Congrats!!! Celebratory drinks?

It’s out!

One of my favorite posters at GRC, excited to read this!

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊

Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.

Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Yeah thanks, that will come later in the course...

Here's the main page for the course:
mohebi-n-associates.github.io/NLDM/

This semester, I’m teaching an undergraduate course on learning and decision-making. I am developing interactive demonstrations, such as random dot motion and reinforcement learning, which will expand throughout the semester. Here’s an example if useful
mohebi-n-associates.github.io/NLDM/Demonst...

The current system is working exactly as designed. It destroys critical thought to protect capitalist hegemony and utilizes disciplinary techniques to mold compliant, indebted subjects. It is a factory for the production of inequality that only societal change can address imho…

Another instant classic! Congrats to Dennis, Vijay, and team!

Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain?

In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)