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 :)
Posts by nikita
amazing !!
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time.
dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
In case you needed any more reason to be an @aaup.org member
🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....
i wonder what part of the brain represents the idea of fMRI localizers