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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4h

🧪An important read by @ianlmorgan.bsky.social about the plight of research. Reduction of force includes essential purchasing & communication staff. Cancelation of 35% in contract spending = hiring freezes & job insecurity.

Jay Bhattacharya is not interested in a solution.
This affects all of us.

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 3h

This sounds a lot like the free energy principle/predictive coding without mentioning them. How does it differ?

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 6h

“Though the changes in complexity may be small, we have seen that similarly small changes in other neuroimaging measures have a massive effect on subjective experience,” argues David Nutt. | https://bit.ly/424mS7y

#philsky #philsci #consky 🧪

David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

iai.tv

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 11h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 23h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 4h

arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 5h

For some reason, I was moved to do some research on eye protection.

Ophthalmologists
www.aao.org/eye-health/t...

These seem like good goggles, based upon info from specialists, and according to criteria like cost and being 'low-profile':
Dewalt DPG82 Concealer Anti-Fog Dual Mold Safety Goggle.

Eye Safety During Protests

Protesters who take to the streets may come under fire from rubber bullets, projectiles, tear gas, pepper spray or paintball guns. Here is what the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends if your

www.aao.org

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 6h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 6h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 5h

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 9h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

If you are buying silly costumes and whistles to help stop our country from sliding into fascism: congratulations on doing more than our elected Democratic congresspeople!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 6h

Shouldn’t the journalist then tell him the numbers that she varied when preparing for this interview? It’s honestly amazing how journalism in the US seems to have no ability to deal with lies and serial liars. They are absolutely useless in this moment when they’re needed the most.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 1d

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 1d

Over the summer I was interviewed by Will Millership and @cccalum.bsky.social for PRISM, a non-profit preparing society for a future with conscious, or seemingly conscious, AI.
Audio + summary: www.prism-global.com/podcast/keit...
Video: youtu.be/9lkMfX4KK9s
PRISM: www.prism-global.com

Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines

In this episode of the "Exploring Machine Consciousness" podcast, we discuss the theory of illusionism with philosopher Keith Frankish. Frankish challenges the traditional understanding of consciousne...

www.prism-global.com

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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 1d

Sensory expectations in human motor cortex in the absence of a motor task in participants implanted with electrode arrays. Deployment of attention to individual fingers results in digit-specific activation of motor cortex- sensory cortex remains unperturbed. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Expectation of Tactile Signals in Human Motor Cortex

Somatosensory feedback and attention are critical for the execution of dexterous behaviors. Indeed, tactile and proprioceptive signals are sent to motor cortex such that they can be integrated into th...

www.medrxiv.org

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 1d

"These books are medicinal!” 😂

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 4d

Librarian humor

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

doomscroll break

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news: Most people don't trust Trump and RFK Jr.'s claims about autism.
Just four percent of respondents told a KFF poll they believed the claim was definitely true, while 30 percent said it was probably false and 35 percent said it was definitely false
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Only 4% of Americans think Trump claims about Tylenol and autism ‘definitely true’

Americans are largely divided on partisan lines on whether they trust the Trump administration’s health claims on autism and vaccines

www.independent.co.uk

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 1d

I see absolutely no sign of this.

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