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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 3h

Who was Grace Hopper?

#COBOL
#FLOW-MATIC
#WomenInSTEM
#WyrdWomen

Who is Grace Hopper?

YouTube video by Women's Stories

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · 2d

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Home Page - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

The Georgetown Difference We are invested in providing a transformative experience through holistic training, accessible resources, and personalized career strategies to help you reach your aspiration...

neuroscience.georgetown.edu

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 7d

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 10d

One project measures the #EEG dynamics of naturalistic braille reading. The other explores artificial ultrasonic #echolocation for blind and low-vision travelers. Every contribution helps the lab develop equipment, recruit participants, and prepare future grants. Visit the project pages for details!

Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho

Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language

Blind and low-vision readers read and write text using braille, a tactile system of raised dots. In this project, we will monitor braille readers' hand movements and electroencephalographic (EEG) brai...

experiment.com

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Jefferson Ortega @jortega.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to share that our paper "Continuous affect tracking reveals that overestimation during the recollection of affect is idiosyncratic and stable" is out now in @ARVOJOV !

doi.org/10.1167/jov....

A short thread on the findings below 👇🏽📷(1/7)

Continuous affect tracking reveals that overestimation during the recollection of affect is idiosyncratic and stable | JOV | ARVO Journals

doi.org

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · 16d

This is one of the many reasons why we must fund #science.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 16d

Truly an amazing breakthrough for one of the cruelest diseases that afflicts humanity.

Here’s hoping the results bear out and can be operationalized at scale.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21d

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

Gift link:

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

www.nytimes.com

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · Sep 10

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · Sep 3

My lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle!

Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change.

More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io

My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io

Please help repost/spread the word!

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Aug 31

@haydeegl.bsky.social presented blind experts and sighted novices with click trains of varying length, asking them to lateralize the echoes. Psychophysics and EEG tracked evidence accumulation (or lack thereof) successive clicks, independent of low-level acoustics or repetition suppression.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Aug 31

🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 31

Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202v1

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · Aug 29

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · Aug 16

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder:
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is Transcendence on there? Not amazing, but worth including 🧠🤖

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Eric Leonardis @ericleonardis.bsky.social · Aug 14

I started a list about films about neurology and the brain: letterboxd.com/ericleonardi...
Let me know if any others come to mind and I can add them too!

Neuro Films

Films about neurology and neuroscience.

letterboxd.com

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Neuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · Aug 11

*Please read and share!* My NIH funds at UCLA were suspended last week.
It's hard to find the words to describe the impact of these grant suspensions. I have felt speechless and heartbroken that people in my lab, my friends, colleagues, researchers, trainees, and undergrads 1/9

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Sofia Krasovskaya @cortexophie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you #imrf2025 for providing the space to share ideas and to all the people who were interested in our Kalman Filter-based echolocators and provided valuable comments. The poster session was a blast!

And thanks @echodislocation.bsky.social for capturing only the best facial expressions!

Person presents her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a group of three people in a large room filled with other presenters during a poster session. The image is from a top-down angled view.

A gif of a person presenting her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a few people. The gif contains two altering images of the person with different funny facial expressions as they explain their poster. The images are from behind the listeners, with the backs of their heads, with a direct view of the speaker.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Jul 13

Yes, you need bolt cutters for each hair.

Superman IV (1987) Location - Winter Gardens, Milton Keynes

YouTube video by UK Movie Locations

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Jul 1

this figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗

(compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)

Black-and-white scientific illustration of the first EEG topoplot by Koiti Motokawa (1944).
G = glabella
P = protuberantia occipitalis externa,
S = central sulcus

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · Jun 28

There is precedent for claiming your first authorship without taking it away from your late colleague. For example
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Author contribution snippet reading, "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smas Bros. Both YB and BZ contributed equally and have the right to list their name first in their CV."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 17

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 17

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Jun 17

I'd like to make a list of PhD programs that (1) are in Europe (which does include the UK); (2) offer opportunities in systems neuroscience; and obviously (3) pay a stipend. Please share and/or respond to add your suggestions?

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