Dirk Gütlin
@gutlin.bsky.social
I post mainly about Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, or Stats papers.
Working on neural learning /w @auksz.bsky.social CCNB/BCCN/Free University Berlin.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
Working on neural learning /w @auksz.bsky.social CCNB/BCCN/Free University Berlin.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.2)
✅ Reducing #inequality is key to a more sustainable future.
✅ Scandinavia leads the way.
❌ #Unequal US and UK are failing (again…).
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
✅ Reducing #inequality is key to a more sustainable future.
✅ Scandinavia leads the way.
❌ #Unequal US and UK are failing (again…).
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
April 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.2)
✅ Reducing #inequality is key to a more sustainable future.
✅ Scandinavia leads the way.
❌ #Unequal US and UK are failing (again…).
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
✅ Reducing #inequality is key to a more sustainable future.
✅ Scandinavia leads the way.
❌ #Unequal US and UK are failing (again…).
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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ICYMI: The Trump revenge tour continues.
Chaos in FL.
Chaos in FL.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
ICYMI: The Trump revenge tour continues.
Chaos in FL.
Chaos in FL.
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs - Nature Neuroscience
Cortical neurons comprising an output pathway form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target, potentially improving the accuracy of decision-mak...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extremely cool project by @initself.bsky.social , querying neural data in order to understand it. 👇
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Extremely cool project by @initself.bsky.social , querying neural data in order to understand it. 👇
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🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Prize question: What exactly was it that made the industry that was supposed to provide us with information, to devolve into providing exactly the opposite - disinformation (/manipulation).
Or was it always this way?
Or was it always this way?
Rupert Murdoch-owned @thetimes.com of London completely fabricates a hit piece on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , gets called out by former mayor Deblasio — then deletes it.🤔
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Prize question: What exactly was it that made the industry that was supposed to provide us with information, to devolve into providing exactly the opposite - disinformation (/manipulation).
Or was it always this way?
Or was it always this way?
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Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss
Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hi US-Americans, just a reminder from normality:
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hi US-Americans, just a reminder from normality:
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.
Why do you let this happen? You have the power!
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S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
October 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
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Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds
In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial
recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal
a temporally organize...
www.cell.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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Pick your battle because it’s one or the other. Either we shut everything down with a general strike and protest every day or we let assholes like this terrorize us. Which do you want?
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Pick your battle because it’s one or the other. Either we shut everything down with a general strike and protest every day or we let assholes like this terrorize us. Which do you want?
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This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
October 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.
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“Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.” press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Utopianism for a Dying Planet
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises
press.princeton.edu
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.” press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.
Source: @pewresearch.org
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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
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👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human!
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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