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It's not fall until I make my grandma's apple cake recipe. Last year's cake (quoted post) vs. this year's cake.

I'm sure there's no metaphorical interpretation of this.

Stop by my office for a handful of cake any time today!

The wrecked remains of an apple cake on a blue plate

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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we say that up here???

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 1d

The Wu Tsai Institute at Yale is hiring another faculty member in neurocomputation. Come work with us in a growing community at the interface of neuroscience and AI!

More info below 👇

Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 6d

📣 WTI is hiring faculty positions! Are you interested in advancing our understanding of the brain + how it gives rise to cognition?

Two calls are open:

Open-rank search, Neurocomputation, deadline: 12.1.25
Senior search, Neurodevelopment, rolling review

🔗 wti.yale.edu/opportunities

#KnowTogether

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

New entry in the genre, “for sale: baby shoes, never worn”

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

Heavyweight is one of my favorite podcasts, and I was relieved to see it back after a long hiatus (Spotify cut it loose to pay for Joe Rogan —ahem—). This week’s episode is a quiet heartbreaker. overcast.fm/+ABNzfgKxvqs

#61 The Bank Robber — Heavyweight

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

Hang on a minute, there, buster…

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 2d

Deadline 11/15 "candidates whose work develops computational methods in any area of linguistics and specifically connects linguistics to artificial intelligence" faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 2d

It looks a lot like the "busy box" my grandpa made for me when I was a baby.

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

How dry is it in CT? Not a set up to a joke, we can’t actually know!

CTNewsJunkie @ctnewsjunkie.bsky.social · 3d

Dry Conditions Remain in CT; Shutdown Will Affect Drought Data Access #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics

Dry Conditions Remain in CT; Shutdown Will Affect Drought Data Access

As of the end of September, about 92.4% of Connecticut was in the abnormally dry category, with moderate drought in 7.6% of the state.

dlvr.it

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

Twould that it twere!

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

Man hands on misery to man / it deepens like a coastal shelf

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Hannah Mechtenberg @hannahmech.bsky.social · 3d

Why are we so good at adapting to "sub-optimal" speech? I argue, in this review paper, that adaptation may be driven by the combined action of dopamine and norepinephrine via prediction error signaling. It's early days with this idea, but I'm excited to have it out there and to keep exploring more!

Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

Stop, drop everything and pick up this new review paper from LABlab member @hannahmech.bsky.social. In it, Hannah argues for considering speech adaptation through the lens of reinforcement learning. Good stuff. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error

link.springer.com

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 3d

Stop, drop everything and pick up this new review paper from LABlab member @hannahmech.bsky.social. In it, Hannah argues for considering speech adaptation through the lens of reinforcement learning. Good stuff. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error

link.springer.com

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 4d

I literally know 5 people who for one reason or another have shut down their social media accounts

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