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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 1d

The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The unfathomable richness of seeing

Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho...

www.cell.com

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 20h

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 20h

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

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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

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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 23h

Open Access UCL Research: Biofeedback and Training of Interoceptive Insight and Metacognitive Efficacy Beliefs to Improve Adaptive Interoception: A Subclinical Randomised Controlled Trial discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Biofeedback and Training of Interoceptive Insight and Metacognitive Efficacy Beliefs to Improve Adaptive Interoception: A Subclinical Randomised Controlled Trial - UCL Discovery ...

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

discovery.ucl.ac.uk

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John Nadra @johnnadra.bsky.social · Feb 25

Hello all!

New paper out on bioRxiv: 'Unconscious Neural Activity Predicts Overt Attention in Visual Search'. We looked at the EEG activity preceding the first saccade into a visual search.

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #EEG #neuroimaging

Unconscious Neural Activity Predicts Overt Attention in Visual Search

Unconscious neural activity has been shown to precede both motor and cognitive acts. In the present study, we investigated the neural antecedents of overt attention during visual search, where subject...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 26

The roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition are incompletely understood. This #neuroimaging and computational #modelling study characterizes the nature of recurrent processing and how it affects object representations. 🧪
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Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain

The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 24d

Together, results demonstrated vast improvements in fMRI functional connectivity estimation using regularized partial correlation. Thanks to first author Kirsten Peterson, and coauthors Ruben Sanchez-Romero and
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Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding

Abstract. Functional connectivity (FC) has been invaluable for understanding the brain's communication network, with strong potential for enhanced FC approaches to yield additional insights. Unlike wi...

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GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · 1d

An atlas‑free Brain Network Transformer creates functional maps from resting‑state fMRI and outperforms atlas‑based models on sex classification and age prediction. https://getnews.me/atlas-free-brain-network-transformer-boosts-neuroimaging-accuracy/ #brainnetwork #neuroimaging

Atlas‑Free Brain Network Transformer Boosts Neuroimaging Accuracy

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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.

Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

i can say with confidence that this is how most faculty senate meetings discussing the 'compact' would go down. it's terrible and seen for what it is - trump's effort to end university autonomy in favor of rw dominance.

faculty get it. the question is whether administrators do.

USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

www.latimes.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 1d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

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

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any specific advice for overseas students applying? I ask because I did my PhD in the UK w/ an overseas studentship many years ago (1995) & I’m advising my current undergrad students at UCLA who are interested in doing this as well but my info is probably quite out of date.

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Just Nikki @muskies73.bsky.social · 2d

So everybody in Portland is kung fu fighting? Is that what I’m hearing?

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast about the 17th-century princess who challenged Descartes is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

#PhilSky #philosophy #WiseWomen @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

This Week: Elisabeth of Bohemia

Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk: Select Episodes · 10/05/2025 · 51m

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting paper suggesting a mechanism for why in-context learning happens in LLMs.

They show that LLMs implicitly apply an internal low-rank weight update adjusted by the context. It’s cheap (due to the low-rank) but effective for adapting the model’s behavior.

#MLSky

arxiv.org/abs/2507.16003

Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning

One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Research also shows that spreading smaller amounts of funding out over more researchers generally delivers better scientific outcomes per dollar spent than focusing bigger grants on fewer researchers.

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