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Grace Lindsay

@neurograce.bsky.social

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Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jun 20

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet

AI is more than just chatbots! Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers ...

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 38m

@skylight.social is that, yea?

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Elizabeth @ekbhome.bsky.social · 13d

We have 2 duties in the Constitution: serve on juries and vote. Both of them is extremely significant always but especially now. Don’t skip either, no matter how “inconvenient “ you think it might be.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 10h

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 14h

This is a really really big deal. This weekly report listed all the outbreaks amd incidences of notifiable diseases, like measles. Anyone could read it. Health professionals often keep tabs on it. They don't care if we get sick.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!!

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, Tony!

Tony Durham @rhamdu.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent book by @neurograce.bsky.social , accessible but not dumbed down. The math takes a back seat during a tour of important historic and current research in neuroscience. Even if you know parts of the story you may find new insights and connections. GL has a good nose for neurononsense.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14h

‘“One judge compared their district's current relationship with the Supreme Court to "a war zone." Another said the courts were in the midst of a "judicial crisis."’

We can’t do law like this.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I mean..

www.salesforce.com/news/press-r...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

With the assumption being that no, we can't generally do that yet (or ever????)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

That's what we're saying people should try to do here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Testing methods of neural systems understanding

Neuroscientists apply a range of analysis tools to recorded neural activity in order to glean insights into how neural circuits drive behavior in orga…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

And before we even get dishwashing robots

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun."

Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law.

Congress can stop this. A thread: 1/

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

www.pbs.org

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna get a lot more people interested in coming out to No Kings on the 18th now that they can do it out of spite

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: 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 that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

Not something they should have to be told of course, but good that they were bsky.app/profile/jare...

Scared Bootecki (but really Jared Rutecki) 🎃 @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge ruled ICE agents at the Broadview facility cannot use “riot control weapons” like tear gas, pepper spray or less lethal bullets against reporters, protesters and members of the clergy who aren’t posing an immediate threat to the safety of law enforcement.

Judge Temporarily Bars Feds From Using Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Against Reporters in Broadview

A federal judge ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Broadview facility cannot use “riot control weapons” like tear gas, pepper spray or rubber bullets against reporters, protesters...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

At the Broadview IL detention center this week: communion and hymns. See what can happen when ICE is told they're not allowed to shoot people?

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d

This will be increasingly clear for US science too. The decades-long apolitical science enterprise, built on NIH and NSF, is gone.

We will have to think about how to rebuild.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

We want to think that the repeated, widespread abuse of basic rights by DHS; the DOJ actions against former officials like James Comey and John Bolton; the presence of 2020 election deniers across congressional and executive branch leaders; the unconstitutional dismantling of federal agencies; the consolidation of old and new media under leadership favorable to Trump; the use of lawsuits and executive branch power to intimidate and silence critics; and the clear attempts to subvert the 2026 and 2028 elections; and Trump's constant insinuation that he might seek a third term do not all in fact mean
that we have crossed the threshold into a competitive authoritarian environment.
But we have. We have passed through the veil. Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy in the near or distant future, it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 2d

note that this is a comment about the field, not a comment on the review (not sure that's better!)

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 2d

probably why I didn't remember my take-aways!

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 2d

Realized a review I came across was already in my paperpile collection, so I checked the notes to see what my take-aways were...

screenshot of paperpile notes saying "ok everything is a goddam mess"

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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