Kameron Decker Harris
@kamdh.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist and computer science professor
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
TIL about the Hamantash spectrum!
From "Ramanujan bigraphs and applications"
math.huji.ac.il/~parzan/bigr...
From "Ramanujan bigraphs and applications"
math.huji.ac.il/~parzan/bigr...
January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
TIL about the Hamantash spectrum!
From "Ramanujan bigraphs and applications"
math.huji.ac.il/~parzan/bigr...
From "Ramanujan bigraphs and applications"
math.huji.ac.il/~parzan/bigr...
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If you have tenure consider publishing less... doi.org/10.1038/d415...
I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.
doi.org
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 PM
If you have tenure consider publishing less... doi.org/10.1038/d415...
Subtle little typos in Google's AI overview for the search "approximation of sum by integral" found in office hours yesterday. I was leading the student through the derivation then we went to check online, and I found the AI answer was wrong.
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Subtle little typos in Google's AI overview for the search "approximation of sum by integral" found in office hours yesterday. I was leading the student through the derivation then we went to check online, and I found the AI answer was wrong.
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- DeMarzo et al. (2003) "Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Unidimensional Opinions", QJE. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
- DellaPosta et al. (2015) "Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?, " AJS. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- DellaPosta et al. (2015) "Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?, " AJS. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
i feel like it's somehow a very controversial take to say one generally supports immigration enforcement but not shooting unarmed women in the face
January 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
- DeMarzo et al. (2003) "Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Unidimensional Opinions", QJE. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
- DellaPosta et al. (2015) "Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?, " AJS. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- DellaPosta et al. (2015) "Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?, " AJS. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Winter break is over, hail the new quarter
January 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Winter break is over, hail the new quarter
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Feel like this fresh year needs some serious culture change?
We got you covered! With @clarekelly.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social Anna van 't Veer
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
We got you covered! With @clarekelly.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social Anna van 't Veer
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Feel like this fresh year needs some serious culture change?
We got you covered! With @clarekelly.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social Anna van 't Veer
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
We got you covered! With @clarekelly.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social Anna van 't Veer
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
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Periscelis wheeleri, the most grumpy old man fly I've ever seen
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Periscelis wheeleri, the most grumpy old man fly I've ever seen
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"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain"
Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain
Much effort has been spent clustering neurons into transcriptomic or functional cell types and characterizing the differences between them. Beyond sub…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain"
Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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sometimes... sometimes anime isn't a mistake
December 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
sometimes... sometimes anime isn't a mistake
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0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
Alpenglow on the Canadian border peaks
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Alpenglow on the Canadian border peaks
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📣
Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University.
We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January.
But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching.
Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.
Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University.
We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January.
But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching.
Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
📣
Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University.
We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January.
But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching.
Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.
Faculty line in cognitive psychology in my department at Western Washington University.
We just, finally, received permission to search. Details will be posted in early January.
But hey, I just want to get this out so people will be watching.
Nice place and university. I’ve liked it.
Deltron 3030 still is one of my favorite hip hop albums.
youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
MAKING DELTRON 3030
YouTube video by OfficialDELTRON
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Deltron 3030 still is one of my favorite hip hop albums.
youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
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Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The rain has briefly stopped
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The rain has briefly stopped
Great post! It is just a job!!! Sometimes it's fun and awesome, sometimes it's a drag. For me it's been a good job overall, but I could have ended up happy in other jobs.
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge
I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What ideas would you add? 💡
#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge
I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What ideas would you add? 💡
#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Great post! It is just a job!!! Sometimes it's fun and awesome, sometimes it's a drag. For me it's been a good job overall, but I could have ended up happy in other jobs.
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Returning from #EurIPS via a long-distance night bus rather than airplane for carbon footprint reason.
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Returning from #EurIPS via a long-distance night bus rather than airplane for carbon footprint reason.
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
Are there any good journals for short machine learning papers that could otherwise end up at workshops? The conference cycle & its impermanence doesn't seem to work that well for a lot of my students' work. #AI #ML #academicsky
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Are there any good journals for short machine learning papers that could otherwise end up at workshops? The conference cycle & its impermanence doesn't seem to work that well for a lot of my students' work. #AI #ML #academicsky
This article ends with some remarks about student getting IEPs in K-12. However, the requirements for an IEP are so much more stringent than accommodations at the college level, which probably explains the lower rates in K-12 than higher ed.
When I was in undergrad, a lot of the smartest and most successful kids also had extra time on all their tests. Always felt like a scam
Now 40% of Stanford students have a disability? Might as well just give everyone all the time they need www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Now 40% of Stanford students have a disability? Might as well just give everyone all the time they need www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This article ends with some remarks about student getting IEPs in K-12. However, the requirements for an IEP are so much more stringent than accommodations at the college level, which probably explains the lower rates in K-12 than higher ed.
Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
Good thread about dimensionality here
Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way.
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Good thread about dimensionality here
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📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below: