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Dean Buonomano

@deanbuono.bsky.social

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Author of Your Brain is a Time Machine: the Neuroscience and Physics of time. A brain studying brains at UCLA

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Dec 2

Visualizations from previous work with @rodlaje.bsky.social. The two output units in the top panel are driven by a chaotic RNN-and a small perturbation is injected at 0.16. In the lower panel the RNN is trained to "tame chaos"-creating a "dynamic attractor"-and a larger perturbation is injected.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 2d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 7d

thanks for speaking out @markhisted.org

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 7d

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:

"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."

youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Josh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴

Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.

Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10d

When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership

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The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership | Skeptical Inquirer

His nation’s leadership placed him in a position of profound influence that would impact the health of a nation. Once installed, he offered rapid solutions ...

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · 15d

LLMs are like witnesses, you should not ask them leading questions.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16d

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Lindsay De Biase @debiaselm.bsky.social · 18d

www.aft.org/column/why-f...
New book by Randi Weingarten
President, AFT

“They fear what educators do—the teaching of critical thinking, of honest history, of pluralism—because their brand of greed, power and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens.”

Why Fascists Fear Teachers

Teachers are under siege not for anything they do wrong, but for what they do right.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 24d

Trump wants UCLA to pay $1.2 billion to settle allegations it violated civil rights law. I took a look at the more than 7,300-word proposed UCLA settlement. Here's the detailed breakdown of Trump's plan to remake one of the nation's top public campuses: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

www.latimes.com

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · 25d

Very proud of my Brazilian heritage today.
(We went to celebrate at our favorite Brazilian restaurant where some menu items were unavailable because of the 50% tariffs Trump imposed to punish Brazil for prosecuting Bolsonaro).

Open access article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed

www.nytimes.com

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wait, isn’t Anthropic’s motto Helpful, Honest, and Harmless.

If you train AIs on pirated books are you teaching AIs to pirate?

(Open access article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

www.nytimes.com

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · Sep 3

join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well this is going to be a tragic natural experiment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 29

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

www.science.org

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Aug 29

Despite Supreme Court win, NIH may not quickly kill again some 900 grants on sensitive topics | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Despite Supreme Court win, NIH may not quickly kill again some 900 grants on sensitive topics

Government legal advice would preserve restored projects studying health disparities, transgender health but threats remain

www.science.org

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think there must be a cognitive bias by which we assume that two scientific mysteries must somehow cancel eachother out (looking at you Dr. Penrose).

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Aug 28

Wavefunction Collapse

xkcd.com/3134/

4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.

Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Aug 27

"When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish."
Quote of @whysharksmatter.bsky.social (David Shiffman)

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Ciarán Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · Aug 21

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with Université de Montréal | 12843808

Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, in the field of neurocircuitry involved in the production of complex behaviors

www.nature.com

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Clare Richardson @clarer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Rather than voters picking politicians, politicians picking voters. With the redistricting arms race on, I spoke to @samwang.bsky.social for a big-picture view of gerrymandering.

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Dean Buonomano @deanbuono.bsky.social · Aug 21

"On Aug 19, 2025, the gov filed a citation of suppl authorities requesting that NSF join the arguments raised in the government’s motion to stay the injunction. See Fed. R. App. P. 28(j). Bcs the gov has not moved for NSF to join that motion, we do not address the request here."
What does that mean?