Atanas Stankov
@neuronasko.bsky.social
CUNY neuroscience PhD candidate. Interested in comp neuroscience, comp social science, causality, and philosophy of science. Previously at UMich[as visiting student]/Stanford/ETH Zurich & UZH/UIUC. Opinions are my own.
This subreddit is doing community analysis on itself via a repeating meme of cutting chives. In-group data analysis in real time. This IS collective reasoning.
www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...
www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...
From the KitchenConfidential community on Reddit: F1exican’s Daily Chive Cutdown: 57 Days
Explore this post and more from the KitchenConfidential community
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December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This subreddit is doing community analysis on itself via a repeating meme of cutting chives. In-group data analysis in real time. This IS collective reasoning.
www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...
www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...
AI will always need prompting.
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
AI will always need prompting.
It’s only going to get worse right?
Top comment puts the responsibility on the submitters but I feel they are out of touch bc there is no way to control this. Are the AI tool creators are responsible? If not, this quagmire is just more enshittification.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...
Top comment puts the responsibility on the submitters but I feel they are out of touch bc there is no way to control this. Are the AI tool creators are responsible? If not, this quagmire is just more enshittification.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...
At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s only going to get worse right?
Top comment puts the responsibility on the submitters but I feel they are out of touch bc there is no way to control this. Are the AI tool creators are responsible? If not, this quagmire is just more enshittification.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...
Top comment puts the responsibility on the submitters but I feel they are out of touch bc there is no way to control this. Are the AI tool creators are responsible? If not, this quagmire is just more enshittification.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...
Reposted by Atanas Stankov
Just to annoy all neuroscientists... (and others)
Even drawing this in terms of spikes and waves is just missing the point that biological complex systems are multilevel and have dense interlevel interactions. We're not in the domain of physics where one averages point particles in a chamber...
Even drawing this in terms of spikes and waves is just missing the point that biological complex systems are multilevel and have dense interlevel interactions. We're not in the domain of physics where one averages point particles in a chamber...
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just to annoy all neuroscientists... (and others)
Even drawing this in terms of spikes and waves is just missing the point that biological complex systems are multilevel and have dense interlevel interactions. We're not in the domain of physics where one averages point particles in a chamber...
Even drawing this in terms of spikes and waves is just missing the point that biological complex systems are multilevel and have dense interlevel interactions. We're not in the domain of physics where one averages point particles in a chamber...
Why does the rest of the world put up with the US tech/AI industry? It’s so bloated and non-robust. It’s running on vibes.
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why does the rest of the world put up with the US tech/AI industry? It’s so bloated and non-robust. It’s running on vibes.
@edzitron.com Please do an episode on how exactly the AI bubble affects the common citizen financially to make it relatable. The magnitude of the 2007 housing crisis was understandable because millions were home owners.
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
@edzitron.com Please do an episode on how exactly the AI bubble affects the common citizen financially to make it relatable. The magnitude of the 2007 housing crisis was understandable because millions were home owners.
Objectively, at point is the academic job market an “us” problem and not a “me” problem?
Does that point ever come even after COVID, AI disruption, and funding cuts?
Maybe there is no threshold-based phase transition on priorities even if all somehow funding gets cut?
We can be more unified.
🧪
Does that point ever come even after COVID, AI disruption, and funding cuts?
Maybe there is no threshold-based phase transition on priorities even if all somehow funding gets cut?
We can be more unified.
🧪
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Objectively, at point is the academic job market an “us” problem and not a “me” problem?
Does that point ever come even after COVID, AI disruption, and funding cuts?
Maybe there is no threshold-based phase transition on priorities even if all somehow funding gets cut?
We can be more unified.
🧪
Does that point ever come even after COVID, AI disruption, and funding cuts?
Maybe there is no threshold-based phase transition on priorities even if all somehow funding gets cut?
We can be more unified.
🧪
It would be cool if social media platforms had live linux terminals for each post to share some small code idea. Something plug and play.
Gamify computation by making it social.
Gamify computation by making it social.
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It would be cool if social media platforms had live linux terminals for each post to share some small code idea. Something plug and play.
Gamify computation by making it social.
Gamify computation by making it social.
For a podcast against science populism it has the same flavor as science populism. It’s the new game. Can’t escape it. 🤦
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnO...
Ep 0: The Rise of the Science Populists
YouTube video by Bad Boy of Science
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
For a podcast against science populism it has the same flavor as science populism. It’s the new game. Can’t escape it. 🤦
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnO...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQnO...
Pre-print: “Extracellular Stimulation and Ephaptic Coupling of Neurons in a Fully Coupled Finite Element-Based Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) Model”
They simulate neighboring Purkinje to Purkinje and neocortical pyramidal to pyramidal.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
They simulate neighboring Purkinje to Purkinje and neocortical pyramidal to pyramidal.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extracellular Stimulation and Ephaptic Coupling of Neurons in a Fully Coupled Finite Element-Based Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) Model
The extracellular potential surrounding neurons is of great importance: it is measured to interpret neural activity, it underpins ephaptic coupling between neighboring cells, and it forms the basis fo...
www.biorxiv.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Pre-print: “Extracellular Stimulation and Ephaptic Coupling of Neurons in a Fully Coupled Finite Element-Based Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) Model”
They simulate neighboring Purkinje to Purkinje and neocortical pyramidal to pyramidal.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
They simulate neighboring Purkinje to Purkinje and neocortical pyramidal to pyramidal.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gaming developers can see the creative limits of AI. It’s also why Valve will explicitly sate if a game was developed using AI on the Steam platform.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
Dan Houser probably won't be asking ChatGPT for help with his next game.
www.pcgamer.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gaming developers can see the creative limits of AI. It’s also why Valve will explicitly sate if a game was developed using AI on the Steam platform.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Great to see more neuroscientists are on the non-equilibrium stat mech train. Great comment section as well.
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x.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great to see more neuroscientists are on the non-equilibrium stat mech train. Great comment section as well.
x.com/doristsao/st...
x.com/doristsao/st...
Nature hates capitalism? Higher cancer rates amongst less cooperative species.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Coevolution of cooperative lifestyles and reduced cancer prevalence in mammals
While cooperative mammals evolve reducing cancer prevalence, oncogenes can be maintained by selection in competitive species.
www.science.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nature hates capitalism? Higher cancer rates amongst less cooperative species.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fastest cross-correlogram on the market. I’ve been wondering recently if it can be made faster if written in assembly?
github.com/cortex-lab/s...
github.com/cortex-lab/s...
github.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fastest cross-correlogram on the market. I’ve been wondering recently if it can be made faster if written in assembly?
github.com/cortex-lab/s...
github.com/cortex-lab/s...
If consciousness is emergent Pandora’s box is open. Any relative take has some validity and it’s only the core ideas that can be flushed out rigorously. It’s all back to what is neural representation? What is statistical modeling?
Podcasts will go crazy with this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=znyJ...
Podcasts will go crazy with this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=znyJ...
Is Consciousness Emergent?
YouTube video by StarTalk Plus
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
If consciousness is emergent Pandora’s box is open. Any relative take has some validity and it’s only the core ideas that can be flushed out rigorously. It’s all back to what is neural representation? What is statistical modeling?
Podcasts will go crazy with this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=znyJ...
Podcasts will go crazy with this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=znyJ...
Jonathan Haidt is the new Jordan Peterson.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jonathan Haidt is the new Jordan Peterson.
Does the brain compute polynomials?
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Does the brain compute polynomials?
Every social event follows a power law distribution (1/f), even the defunding of science.
That’s what I gather from applying some complex systems ideas I learned from Veritasium and Steven Strogatz this week.
That’s what I gather from applying some complex systems ideas I learned from Veritasium and Steven Strogatz this week.
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every social event follows a power law distribution (1/f), even the defunding of science.
That’s what I gather from applying some complex systems ideas I learned from Veritasium and Steven Strogatz this week.
That’s what I gather from applying some complex systems ideas I learned from Veritasium and Steven Strogatz this week.
The lack of power positions being held by the millennial cohort makes no sense, even in professional fields.
Income inequality has become a career issue too. Why are we all wasting the youth’s potential so much?
Income inequality has become a career issue too. Why are we all wasting the youth’s potential so much?
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The lack of power positions being held by the millennial cohort makes no sense, even in professional fields.
Income inequality has become a career issue too. Why are we all wasting the youth’s potential so much?
Income inequality has become a career issue too. Why are we all wasting the youth’s potential so much?
Causality bros and NeuroAI bros.
Those are definitely a thing.
Those are definitely a thing.
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Causality bros and NeuroAI bros.
Those are definitely a thing.
Those are definitely a thing.
Paul Feyerabend time. It’s part of the job of being a scientist to criticize archaic structures, even in academia.
A friend said at the beginning of the pandemic that status quo has changed. The context was using university resources to help rather than “get back to work”.
The CDC did the … 1/2
A friend said at the beginning of the pandemic that status quo has changed. The context was using university resources to help rather than “get back to work”.
The CDC did the … 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Paul Feyerabend time. It’s part of the job of being a scientist to criticize archaic structures, even in academia.
A friend said at the beginning of the pandemic that status quo has changed. The context was using university resources to help rather than “get back to work”.
The CDC did the … 1/2
A friend said at the beginning of the pandemic that status quo has changed. The context was using university resources to help rather than “get back to work”.
The CDC did the … 1/2
Hot take: One thing I learned from some GenZ students is that bad grades are a license to troll. And it makes complete sense since we tear their eyes out with tuition fees/student loans. It backfires spectacularly bc they learn to rebel.
Complaints about grade inflation signal being out of touch.
Complaints about grade inflation signal being out of touch.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hot take: One thing I learned from some GenZ students is that bad grades are a license to troll. And it makes complete sense since we tear their eyes out with tuition fees/student loans. It backfires spectacularly bc they learn to rebel.
Complaints about grade inflation signal being out of touch.
Complaints about grade inflation signal being out of touch.
Anyone should do their own research with the caveat of not being too solipsistic.
Even though they are in the right, academics that overly criticize the uneducated public will see harsher funding cuts once the public smartens up. And they will smarten up.
Stop treating the public like p-zombies.
Even though they are in the right, academics that overly criticize the uneducated public will see harsher funding cuts once the public smartens up. And they will smarten up.
Stop treating the public like p-zombies.
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anyone should do their own research with the caveat of not being too solipsistic.
Even though they are in the right, academics that overly criticize the uneducated public will see harsher funding cuts once the public smartens up. And they will smarten up.
Stop treating the public like p-zombies.
Even though they are in the right, academics that overly criticize the uneducated public will see harsher funding cuts once the public smartens up. And they will smarten up.
Stop treating the public like p-zombies.
There’s ephaptic coupling and then there’s coupling to Earth’s magnetic fields.
Pigeon brain has built-in “GPS”.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pigeon brain has built-in “GPS”.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
www.science.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
There’s ephaptic coupling and then there’s coupling to Earth’s magnetic fields.
Pigeon brain has built-in “GPS”.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pigeon brain has built-in “GPS”.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Does anyone know of literature that studies community-level “conspiratorial” thinking as a feature and not a bug?
Hypothesis: It’s a systems evolution process that somehow over time hones in on corrupt top-down control processes.
Also I’m tired of hearing how to think about it from profs.
🧪🌶️
Hypothesis: It’s a systems evolution process that somehow over time hones in on corrupt top-down control processes.
Also I’m tired of hearing how to think about it from profs.
🧪🌶️
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Does anyone know of literature that studies community-level “conspiratorial” thinking as a feature and not a bug?
Hypothesis: It’s a systems evolution process that somehow over time hones in on corrupt top-down control processes.
Also I’m tired of hearing how to think about it from profs.
🧪🌶️
Hypothesis: It’s a systems evolution process that somehow over time hones in on corrupt top-down control processes.
Also I’m tired of hearing how to think about it from profs.
🧪🌶️