@fradl6.bsky.social
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Cont. #ayearinreview #philsky #philosophyforeveryone Coauthored with Anna Ichino and @matteomameli.bsky.social, an open-access paper on philosophy for and by everyone with illustrations from Philosophy Museum in Milan and the Philosophy Garden shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-... Out today!
December 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Cont. #ayearinreview #philsky #philosophyforeveryone Coauthored with Anna Ichino and @matteomameli.bsky.social, an open-access paper on philosophy for and by everyone with illustrations from Philosophy Museum in Milan and the Philosophy Garden shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-... Out today!
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Biology-inspired brain model matches animal learning and reveals overlooked neuron activity
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#neuroscience
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#neuroscience
Biology-inspired brain model matches animal learning and reveals overlooked neuron activity
A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the disc...
phys.org
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Biology-inspired brain model matches animal learning and reveals overlooked neuron activity
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#neuroscience
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#neuroscience
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
The Entangled Brain
Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger ...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
Annual reminder that the book is open access.
How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing.
Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective?
#neuroskyence
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
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Consciousness scientists at the Galapagos.
Short backstage video from the conference; the complete film is in progress...
drive.google.com/file/d/1EveP...
Short backstage video from the conference; the complete film is in progress...
drive.google.com/file/d/1EveP...
Большой ролик_Галапагосы_2025.mp4
drive.google.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Consciousness scientists at the Galapagos.
Short backstage video from the conference; the complete film is in progress...
drive.google.com/file/d/1EveP...
Short backstage video from the conference; the complete film is in progress...
drive.google.com/file/d/1EveP...
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Yeah, analog.
Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation
neurosciencenews.com/consciousnes...
#neuroscience
Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation
neurosciencenews.com/consciousnes...
#neuroscience
Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation - Neuroscience News
A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.
neurosciencenews.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yeah, analog.
Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation
neurosciencenews.com/consciousnes...
#neuroscience
Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation
neurosciencenews.com/consciousnes...
#neuroscience
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In episode 1119, I talk with Dr. Anna Ivanova about language and large language models. #Linguistics #Science
youtu.be/Ivzmoq2iL40
youtu.be/Ivzmoq2iL40
#1119 Anna Ivanova: Language and Large Language Models
YouTube video by The Dissenter
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
In episode 1119, I talk with Dr. Anna Ivanova about language and large language models. #Linguistics #Science
youtu.be/Ivzmoq2iL40
youtu.be/Ivzmoq2iL40
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𝗢𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝗔 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Excellent paper discussing how considering biology is important to understand consciousness.
Really enjoyed this one.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
Excellent paper discussing how considering biology is important to understand consciousness.
Really enjoyed this one.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
𝗢𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝗔 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Excellent paper discussing how considering biology is important to understand consciousness.
Really enjoyed this one.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
Excellent paper discussing how considering biology is important to understand consciousness.
Really enjoyed this one.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
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Natale, consigli per gli acquisti (ammetto, non disinteressati!): tre saggi e un romanzo.
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Natale, consigli per gli acquisti (ammetto, non disinteressati!): tre saggi e un romanzo.
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Latest papers: Nicola Chinchella & Ben White aim to provide the theoretical foundation and guidelines for the principled use of virtual reality in cognitive behavioural therapy treatments for depression doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Latest papers: Nicola Chinchella & Ben White aim to provide the theoretical foundation and guidelines for the principled use of virtual reality in cognitive behavioural therapy treatments for depression doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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I do find it interesting trying to explain to people that historians deal in arguments, not in facts. History isn’t a catalogue of dates and names, but what happened around those things, and how we now and those who were alive at the time perceived and responded to those events.
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I do find it interesting trying to explain to people that historians deal in arguments, not in facts. History isn’t a catalogue of dates and names, but what happened around those things, and how we now and those who were alive at the time perceived and responded to those events.
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"Evidence indicates that many people living with dementia can make valuable contributions to research on topics that directly impact their lives" - *and beyond*
Great new publication for #projectEPIC: Lara Calabrese did a scoping review of research on #epistemicinjustice and dementia: "I am still here and my opinion matters" #philsky #philpsy link.springer.com/article/10.1... #openaccess
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Evidence indicates that many people living with dementia can make valuable contributions to research on topics that directly impact their lives" - *and beyond*
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It's all about beta, baby!
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
Bracco et al. show that pre-movement beta oscillations emerge in a cerebello-cortical
network as the environment becomes predictable and outcomes stabilize. The evolution
of these oscillations predict...
www.cell.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's all about beta, baby!
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
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How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs
Review by Eli Stark-Elster (@eselster.bsky.social) & Manvir Singh (@manvir.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/y9dbwaa5
Review by Eli Stark-Elster (@eselster.bsky.social) & Manvir Singh (@manvir.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/y9dbwaa5
December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs
Review by Eli Stark-Elster (@eselster.bsky.social) & Manvir Singh (@manvir.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/y9dbwaa5
Review by Eli Stark-Elster (@eselster.bsky.social) & Manvir Singh (@manvir.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/y9dbwaa5
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While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults
Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.
www.science.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While stories of singular DNA changes that drove evolution of human brain/behaviour remain seductive, advances across multiple fields of biology cast doubt on such simplistic narratives of our origins. A new paper from my lab shows how biobanks may speak to this fundamental question.🧪
Explainer🧵👇1/n
Explainer🧵👇1/n
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🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding.
How is this massive network organized?
Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
How is this massive network organized?
Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
New lab paper - will say more about this in a little while
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding.
How is this massive network organized?
Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
How is this massive network organized?
Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/
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Yes. It's all motor cortex. Brains didn't evolve so we could sit in the corner and think.
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yes. It's all motor cortex. Brains didn't evolve so we could sit in the corner and think.
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We also used to think, for a minute or two, that "what" and "where" were separate in the prefrontal cortex. Now we know that is not true. They are not even separate in visual cortex. The solution to the perceptual binding problem is that there is no perceptual binding problem.
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We also used to think, for a minute or two, that "what" and "where" were separate in the prefrontal cortex. Now we know that is not true. They are not even separate in visual cortex. The solution to the perceptual binding problem is that there is no perceptual binding problem.
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And to carry this point further, we also used to think neurons were specialized. But we now know that many neurons are multifunctional and show "mixed selectivity".
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And to carry this point further, we also used to think neurons were specialized. But we now know that many neurons are multifunctional and show "mixed selectivity".
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Indeed. The more we learn, the less specialization we see. There are motor signals in primary visual cortex, for example.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Indeed. The more we learn, the less specialization we see. There are motor signals in primary visual cortex, for example.
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𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆
Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end.
Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-)
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end.
Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-)
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆
Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end.
Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-)
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end.
Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-)
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
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**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Point taken about RT but let's not broaden it up too much because then you get close to "non-functional". I assume that if there is a brain signal and we can't find the function (yet), it is far, far, more likely that the problem is our lack of understanding.
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Point taken about RT but let's not broaden it up too much because then you get close to "non-functional". I assume that if there is a brain signal and we can't find the function (yet), it is far, far, more likely that the problem is our lack of understanding.
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Nobody? Are you sure about that? I still see phrenology like claims of functional localization from some people. You are right. It is wrong and ignores neurophysiology.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nobody? Are you sure about that? I still see phrenology like claims of functional localization from some people. You are right. It is wrong and ignores neurophysiology.
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I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
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Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills.
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills.
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory
Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience.
#WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory