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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 1d

lol hope this lands and enough of your students lie at the intersection of critical AI thinkers and historians of the far side’s most inscrutable joke!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 3d

I think that might've happened. For what it's worth, in the old days POs used to tell me that NOSIs were really only used for keeping track of interest in various topics (ie, they didn't increase your chances). I assume they have more urgent issues to deal with now

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

This is my read too

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

I'm seeing a lot of folks post this with the caption "Dartmouth says no" or similar. I don't think that this message actually says "no". It says they are "committed" and will "defend" and "do better", but no actual action is specified - not even rejecting the compact. Keep the pressure on!

Screenshot of Dartmouth message: https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/response-compact-academic-excellence-higher-education

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 4d

From talking to people just a bit older or just a bit younger than me, I now realize that I vastly overestimated the cultural importance of The Mighty Ducks movies

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats Eartha!!!! Getting the bioRxiv out is the best milestone. The results look great!

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 12d

Not to say that i think the current system is working well at all. The system I've imagined: Censor journal names from grant applications, remove all requirements for peer review, but allow authors to attach optional & non-anonymous peer reviews to their preprints.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 12d

While very creative, this proposal would nearly require publishing in a gov-run journal, and I think right now is evidence of the danger in that. It wasn't that long ago (~2015) that people seriously pitched the idea of Twitter replacing journals, and I think we all see the danger in that now too.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 17d

Sounds like they could have sharpened up their operational def, but I don't see this as evidence that ODs aren't desirable. The main alternative - non-operational definitions - can lead to imputing all kinds of cognitive constructs willy nilly, like a mouse model of a case of the Mondays or whatever

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues

Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues. In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that slides freely within a power...

www.cell.com

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · Sep 8

With only 1 month of data, you have fewer pairs to correlate at +/- 20 days. This can show up as a decrease unless you normalize, which then produces high variance. If you repeat many times, does it reliably decrease, or do the error bars get wild at the long latencies?

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 31

numbers station morning...
@griph.bsky.social
I think if you return a digital library loan early the person who gets "your" copy should get it with a passive aggressive "you're welcome" note on the first page from you. Just a little idea to make everything slightly worse. Cheers.
September 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · Sep 3

The underlying values of diversity, equity, and inclusion remain important. Ending the DEI programs lends credence to the false claim that "DEI" is some sinister plot. The choice was likely made in an attempt to avoid gov ire, but premature compliance does not buy safety - look at Columbia.

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Sep 3

Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs.

This is egregious.

I know Emory’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts have meant a great deal to many, not just as programs, but as a statement about who we are and what we believe in. As someone who has reaped the benefits of the needs these programs were meant to address, I know they were created with the best of intentions and staffed by talented, committed professionals.

We live in a time of changing expectations and new requirements, however. Federal laws and mandates have been implemented that require higher education institutions to alter fundamentally or even close offices and programs focused on DEI. The standards are clear, and we must act accordingly.

Guided by the Office of General Counsel and other appropriate campus officials, we will work promptly and carefully to discontinue current DEI offices and programs. We will also work closely with each impacted employee to provide appropriate support and assistance through the transition.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

My quote of the day

At any moment, an old world is passing and a new world is coming into being. We have sharper eyes for the fall than the rise because the old world is the one we know.

John Updike

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · Sep 1

just realized that I say "a NIDCD fellowship" but "an NINDS fellowship". Crazy that the third letter of the initialism subconsciously drives the article that feels right to use!

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 29

My forever meme.

Bob's burger meme: I hope everyone's having a good time, and if you're not, I'd like to see you organize something on this budget and in this time frame.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 24

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is indeed the challenge of the moment.

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Aug 24

For all of us there should be some threshold where we put aside all our other projects and focus instead on resisting tyranny. It's just extremely difficult to see where that line is from the inside, when you're the frog being boiled.

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Aug 23

The most Canadian headline ever.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · Aug 20

2025 is your university providing programming for faculty on "Navigating Moral Distress"

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Bence Ölveczky @olveczky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Proud to be associated with this work led by Kiah Hardcastle and Jesse Marshall. It parses the role of the basal ganglia in the control of learned and innate behaviors, showing that they are essential for one but not the other. Then digs deeper to find the neural basis for this difference. Congrats!

Kiah Hardcastle @kiahhardcastle.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to announce that my first postdoc paper is now online!

Links:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eAcN7

In it, we examine the perennial question: what changes in the brain when learning a new motor skill?

Read more below to find out 👇

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across behavioral domains reflects different contributions to movement - Nature Neuroscience

Hardcastle and Marshall et al. show that striatal function is domain specific, required for task-related but not spontaneously expressed movements. This functional distinction is reflected in starkly ...

www.nature.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Aug 10

4/4 Russ Vought, Project 2025 mastermind, said about us:

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

He meant it literally. We won't forget.

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