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BritSymphCup @britsymphcup.bsky.social · 4m

Born #OTD in 1946, English composer & musician, Daryl Runswick. His Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments premiered at Cadogan Hall, London, on 6 June 2017 as part of the composer’s 70th birthday gala concert. open.spotify.com/track/75D39V... #britsymphyear

Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments: I. Driving

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Nature @nature.com · 23h

Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as US President Donald Trump brokers first phase of peace deal.

go.nature.com/46LpjyD

Rebuilding Gaza: don't sideline Palestinian scientists, say experts

Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as US President Donald Trump brokers first phase of peace deal.

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Sep 8

I wrote a substack article:
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...

What Columbia Sacrificed In Its Deal With The Trump Administration

Ken Miller

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2h

Gaza Journalist Motasem A. Dalloul:

Burying MY THIRD SON whom I lost along with MY WIFE during the 2-year-Israeli genocide in Gaza..

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 1h

So outrageous. Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, "detained" by IL since Dec, held w/o charges at ILi torture ctr Sde Tieman, beaten, tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved, lost >40kg (~90 lbs), denied med treatment. They'll eventually claim he's Hamas but if so they'd have charged him.

mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 2h

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

Vaxxed and relaxed, just like President Trump. #MAHA

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 7h

One point that Hussein Ibish makes is that pro-Palestinian advocacy should avoid ambiguous slogans that have both good and bad meanings. I disagree with this.

Beethoven's 9th is a symbol of Nazi evil, but that did not prevent the European Union from rightly choosing its famous theme as its anthem.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 8h

Student governments of Vanderbilt, MIT, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, UVA, and Arizona issued a joint statement condemning the Compact and stating that "Academic Freedom is not negotiable." www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

On October 1st, 2025, the White House sent the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education to our seven universities, outlining expectations universities must meet to continue receiving federal benefits.

Although the compact's full implications remain unclear, the document outlines
unprecedented expectations universities must meet to receive federal benefits. This could systemically alter the mission of higher education and erode the independence that has long defined our universities. We must not allow these attempts to control what can be taught, studied, or spoken on our campuses.

Our universities represent the full spectrum of American higher education, from liberal arts colleges to leading research institutions. As students, this directly impacts us, and thus, our voices must be heard. We know firsthand that institutional autonomy is instrumental to the perpetuation of innovation and progress. As the Compact itself acknowledges, “American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation," yet the document undermines the very principles that make this statement true. Our administrations have been presented with a false choice between their commitments to knowledge and education and our access to the resources that sustain them. To preserve our status as world leaders in education, we must remain true to the foundation of academic freedom that has propelled us forward.

As student representatives, we stand in united opposition to the outlined conditions. We call on our community of students, faculty, alumni, and leadership to reaffirm our commitment to reject political interference and federal overreach. Academic freedom is not negotiable.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 8h

"I couldn't find my father in the temporary grave where I had buried him; the Zionists had exhumed the graves of all the martyrs"
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KHALIL𓂆 on X: "I couldn't find my father in the temporary grave where I had buried him; the Zionists had exhumed the graves of all the martyrs😭😭💔 https://t.co/MQvTElXr94" / X

I couldn't find my father in the temporary grave where I had buried him; the Zionists had exhumed the graves of all the martyrs😭😭💔 https://t.co/MQvTElXr94

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 11h

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A parietal grid-like code rotates with cognitive maps but lags rapid behavioral transfer

The neural grid code has been proposed to provide a mechanism for generalization and transfer of relational knowledge between situations enabling rapid adaptation of behavior in novel circumstances. H...

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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 9h

Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events - Nature

Using a new analytical method for tracking gamma band events in mouse visual cortex, flexible encoding of visual information according to behavioural context is shown.

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Birthday to Verdi!

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 15h

"... a new film by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Palestine 1936, which premieres in the UK this month. The film stars Jeremy Irons as the notorious British High Commissioner in Palestine, Arthur Wauchope (1874–1947)"

Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social · 23h

Your long weekend read by yours truly :-) There is something new here for everyone. The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/hid...

The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics

The UK government has belatedly recognised a Palestinian state, but memories of British repression in “mandate Palestine” linger — if the UK is sincere about wanting to foster a peaceful future, it ne...

www.abc.net.au

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Simon Schultz @simonschultz.bsky.social · 16h

New paper on BioRXiv:
Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields
Sihao Lu, Simon Schultz, Andriy Kozlov
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Astrocytes and neurons encode natural stimuli with partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields

Astrocytes are increasingly recognized as active participants in sensory processing, but whether they show selective responses to stimulus features, analogous to neuronal receptive fields, is not yet ...

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 16h

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 17h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 16h

MIT Rejects the Compact!
I am so proud.
"The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief ...

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 17h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 2d

"Reproducibility isn’t glamorous, but it’s essential."

@annechurchland.bsky.social speaks candidly in @thetransmitter.bsky.social about the obstacles to reproducibility and shares practical advice for other neuroscience labs.

🧠📈 www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

Reproducibility is a team sport

Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone knows that temporal contiguity is important for associative learning. As the interval between a cue (e.g., a light) and an outcome (e.g., shock) gets longer, the conditioned response (e.g., freezing to the tone) is acquired less quickly.

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noisefy.bsky.social @noisefy.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I believe no version can top this live one from Nine Inch Nails:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJK...

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (Live: Beside You In Time) (Explicit)

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

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Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social · 23h

Your long weekend read by yours truly :-) There is something new here for everyone. The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/hid...

The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics

The UK government has belatedly recognised a Palestinian state, but memories of British repression in “mandate Palestine” linger — if the UK is sincere about wanting to foster a peaceful future, it ne...

www.abc.net.au

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 23h

"One day, Jewish-Israeli society will recognize that this 'Jewish and democratic' thing gradually tightened the noose around it from the day of its founding." - Assaf David

One of the few Israelis with a direct line to Gazans urges public to confront horrors

Middle East Scholar Assaf David, One of the Few Israelis in Direct Contact With Gaza Residents, Wants His Fellow Citizens to Recognize the Horrors Unfolding There in Their Name. He Relays Chilling Acc...

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Jens Eisert @jenseisert.bsky.social · 23h

How hard is it to verify a classical shadow?

We look at the problem of establishing classical shadows from the perspective of computational complexity.

scirate.com/arxiv/2510.0...

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