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404 Media @404media.co · 9d

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 15d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 15d

Love this!

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing news, congratulations!!

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 16d

*10y ago oops

Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 17d

I love watching mentees transform wonderment into knowledge & growth, it reminds me of our collective responsibility & power 👩🏻‍🏫 Also surreal that it was 10y that my UG experience was transformed by amazing, kind mentors like Eve, Rishi and Tim 😊 @timothyoleary.bsky.social
@cnl-mbu-iisc.bsky.social

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 23d

Qualifications:
PhD in CompNeuro/ML/related field.
Strong background in ML and programming
Previous research experience in RL, probabilistic ML, or statistical methods for neural data analysis.
Strong motivation & ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 23d

Application:
To apply please email [email protected]:
- your CV
- contact details of at least 2 references
- a brief (one page maximum) description of why are you interested in the position and how your expertise fits the call.

Or Job Ad here: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

#neuroskyence

Postdoctoral Associate (Savin Lab) - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 23d

Job post alert!👩‍🔬 Postdoctoral fellow in CompNeuro/ML in the Artificial and Biological Computation lab at NYU (csavin.wixsite.com/savinlab).
Exciting opening in the Data and Theory team in the new Simons Collaboration in Ecological Neuroscience!
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
#neuroskyence

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26d

"The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time."
Great thread on our report:

Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 27d

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.

www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab

A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database

www.netzeropolicylab.com

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · 28d

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mchurchland.bsky.social @mchurchland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills

Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

www.biorxiv.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government's burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · Sep 4

as an aside, arealization does not need to imply modules in a feedforward chain; in fact these studies very much reconcile recurrent computation with dissociable contributons.

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · Sep 4

A recent example from the Inagaki lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and a couple of classics from Brody lab: elifesciences.org/articles/34929 and elifesciences.org/articles/05457 use perturbations to show discriminable roles despite similar representations.

Integrator dynamics in the cortico-basal ganglia loop underlie flexible motor timing

Flexible control of motor timing is crucial for behavior. Before volitional movement begins, the frontal cortex and striatum exhibit ramping spiking activity, with variable ramp slopes anticipating mo...

www.biorxiv.org

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Aug 28

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it.

My full statement.

Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray

Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...

www.murray.senate.gov

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Let's knock out general election fundraising before the summer ends.

zohranfornyc.com/donate

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · Aug 21

The president’s promise to get rid of mail voting is completely unconstitutional. The Constitution gives states and Congress the power to run elections, and presidents have no authority to rewrite election rules.
bit.ly/4mnLGiK

A Voting Power Grab, with a Nod to Putin

Free and fair elections in 2026 could be at stake.

www.brennancenter.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

It's time to make calls ☎️ no experience required!

Sign up for tomorrow night's phonebank: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

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Harsha Gurnani @harshag.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congrats!! Excited to dig into this!

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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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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 8

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

www.npr.org

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 8

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.

How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.

www.vox.com

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