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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 10d

Yup

Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t even know what an ai wrapper is 😬

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 10d

That’s what I’m going to try to do in a grant writing class. Give them time in class to work and provided guided direction: e.g., this is how to write an abstract now write the first part and post in your google doc. Also partner work decreases AI use I think???

Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 10d

I guess we need to find ways to encourage active learning. Maybe more frequent testing or in class reading workshops- where students read/work in class without AI. Or tasks that involve AI but encourage active learning. At this point I think it all needs to change.

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, maybe. But try putting a pdf of a paper in and hit the create video button. I’ve found the videos do a better job of explaining complex papers than I can. I’ve used it to explain things to me I don’t understand.

Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 11d

Learning about notebooklm this past week was a defining moment/realization for me. Students don’t need me to lecture. The classroom is for human connection.

Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 11d

“faculty & staff will become a more critical component of the college experience, providing increased individualized & group human interactions. Instead of spending 3 hours a week in a lecture hall, students have more direct engagement w/ a professor...” www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

It’s The End Of College As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

The radical changes that AI is bringing to higher education includes a paradigm shift that is unprecedented. Only institutions with agility will survive.

www.forbes.com

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 20d

Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health

Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health

From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19d

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Aug 19

www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…

www.thetransmitter.org

Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Aug 17

Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at.
12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation?

😬is this good or bad parenting?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · Aug 15

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill

In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

bookriot.com

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Aug 15

Over 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine write to Congress:

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Aug 6

C👀L! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996)

The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of an attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation of…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Jul 31

I like this take on screen time and cutting NSF and NIH funding wont get us any closer to understanding the complexities. www.bbc.com/news/article... What screen time really does to children's brains - BBC News

What screen time really does to children's brains

Screen time has become synonymous with bad news - but the science may not be as straightforward as it seems

www.bbc.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 29

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The Invention of “Sesame Street”

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

www.newyorker.com

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · Jul 29

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · Jul 24

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.

Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Jul 20

📍 Join us at the WISE Luncheon at #2025SPR! We'll cover negotiating contracts, navigating unsupportive lab environments, applying for awards, and managing impostor syndrome.
Thurs 10/15 | 12:00–1:30 PM

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Jul 20

Vitamin D supplements may be a promising, low-cost strategy to support brain development while reducing racial disparities, according to a professor of nutrition science. theconversation.com/about-a-thir... By Melissa Melough @udelaware.bsky.social

About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research

Vitamin D has long been known to play essential roles in boosting immune health and protecting the nervous system. New research now points to its critical importance in fetal development as well.

theconversation.com

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jun 20

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet

AI is more than just chatbots! Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers ...

www.youtube.com

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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · Jul 12

Great trip to Ameila Island! Lots of fun finding and identifying fossils and getting up for the sunrise!

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Cengiz Pehlevan @cpehlevan.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great to see this one finally out in PNAS! Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Many thanks to my amazing co-authors Yue Lu, Mary Letey, Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social and Anindita Maiti!

Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention | PNAS

Transformers have a remarkable ability to learn and execute tasks based on examples provided within the input itself, without explicit prior traini...

www.pnas.org

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · Jul 9

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

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