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john sakon

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I’m a neuroscientist studying memory @ UCLA 🌌 *Were most of your stars out?* 🌌

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Hank & Townes’s Mom @katehascats.bsky.social · 1d

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Kaleb Horton Obituary (2025) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times

View Kaleb Charles Horton's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 3d

Wait until he reads this sternly written letter

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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 9d

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

Writing can be beautiful.

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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 5d

Recently saw this played live and there’s no way it’s outside the top 25

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 5d

…substance at the national stage. Turns out promising people things like cost of living reductions or popular policies help win elections! Kamala waited until the last week (when polling must have looked bad) to cave on $15 min wage and legalizing pot. Way too little too late.

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t buy the Americans are stupid or Americans are racist lines of argument. Probably less so than most countries!

I think we have one party that appears authentic (Trump will at least tell you the discriminatory/regressive things his base wants to hear). Democrats refuse to say anything of…

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah does seem about the right number. Not that I trust Newsom, but does feel like the 4th largest economy in the world (bigger than Japan or India!) should have some options

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 6d

People like Gates think they deserve to be kings. Since they’re not allowed, they make their foundations answer to them, essentially creating their own kingdoms with their largesse. Which is to say, I don’t trust them to do anything. Wealth tax or bust.

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah figured it was something big like that since UCLA is over $1b alone. But seems like plenty to carry us for three years and deal with next election when it comes

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 6d

$21b bond sure seems like it would…

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yeah @markhisted.org

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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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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

…Let me say that again: Expert coders using "generative AI" demonstrated a nearly 20% *increase* in their time, vs when writing code on their own; oh, and those increases are *worse* on the tasks with which they have more familiarity.

But that's not even the crucial part; this is the crucial part:…

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 9d

And maybe I could get him to send me $27 💰

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 9d

Done. It’s insane, Dems caving on their morals for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. This is not an issue anyone votes on! 26th our of 27 across age groups!

It’s a Fox News talking point that’s used to distract from Rs ushering in fascism. @ezraklein.bsky.social

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for the link. But yeah also see differing neural results in rodents in VR than real life m, suggesting vestibular/sensory cues necessary for “full” system engagement pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Multi-sensory Control of Hippocampal Spatiotemporal Selectivity

Virtual reality reveals how sensory cues differentially influence hippocampal activity, theta rhythm, place cells and phase precession

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 10d

at least it’s monday put on in the background at work football for us

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 10d

Turns out it’s really easy to use AI after you learn hard skills

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kelsey jaffer @kelatonin.bsky.social · 15d

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 15d

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

www.colorado.edu

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 19d

They’re probably bad students!

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 19d

And the person I’m usually discussing this with published this paper showing persistent theta during immobility in ferrets www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So we always try to imagine what mechanisms persist throughout other models/humans and which we’re not as sure

Behaviourally modulated hippocampal theta oscillations in the ferret persist during both locomotion and immobility - Nature Communications

Cross-species research is key to fully understanding brain function. Here, the authors present the ferret as a species for hippocampal research and show that, in stark contrast to rats, ferrets have r...

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 19d

We’ve asked this question to ourselves several times when seeing impressive rodent results like yours. I mean, it’s *possible* humans learn worst at rest? I dunno if it’s been studied much, but certainly staying active helps memory. I’d guess the effect is much more pronounced in rats though

john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 19d

Semi silly but semi serious question: doesn’t this imply that rats struggle to generate memories when moving and struggle to learn when at rest?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 25d

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com