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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11d

If you are an academic in the European Union, please consider signing: "to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions & for EU to uphold its own legal obligations and immediately end the EU-Israel Association agreement in view of Israel’s breach of Article 2."

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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine

Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on their academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in grave violations of international law (jus cogens), including illegal occupation, segregation and apartheid, genocide and the violation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.
We call on the European Union to uphold its own legal obligations and immediately end the EU-Israel Association agreement in view of Israel’s breach of Article 2. Under the Agreement, the European Commission has granted over €2.12 billion in European research funding to Israeli institutions, including institutions complicit in grave violations of international law (notably the Israeli Ministry of Defence).
In the absence of principled action as outlined above, we declare our conscientious objection to collaboration with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in grave violations of international law and we pledge our support for the right of the Palestinian people to life, dignity, and self-determination.

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · 11d

Please consider sharing this with your followers @ucu.org.uk @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social

Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · 11d

Abdelrahman Al Gherbawi is so close to being able to begin his postgraduate studies in Ireland - he has his visa, the university have waived his tuition. Now he needs to fundraise his living and evacuation costs. If you can, please help by donating here: #Gaza #Palestine
chuffed.org/project/1514...

Help Get Abdelrahman from Gaza to Ireland to Study

For the past four years, I have been working to secure a postgraduate study opportunity abroad. When the war on Gaza began two years ago, it shattered those efforts and dreams, and survival itself bec...

chuffed.org

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 14d

Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Aug 8

For anyone who is not yet taking part, join the full cultural and academic boycott of Israel bdsmovement.net/get-involved...

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 8

Israel’s Gaza escalation sparks global outcry, with leaders warning of devastating humanitarian consequences.

How the world is reacting to Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City

Israel’s Gaza escalation sparks global outcry, with leaders warning of devastating humanitarian consequences.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.

Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.

Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 1

Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987.

No?

Well, now you do 😌

Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...

Professor Margaret Boden - Human-level AI: Is it Looming or Illusory?

YouTube video by CSER Cambridge

www.youtube.com

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you are UK academic please consider signing this open letter to Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Falconer calling on them to do what France, Italy, Ireland and others have already done: defer the req for biometrics & enable the safe passage of students in Gaza to the UK
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 25

The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state.

He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.

Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

The betas look about right to me. For example, for the pilot data +1 imagery corresponds to ~42ms drop in RT, which matches the slope in the figure

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:

1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

4. Being beholden to Big-Tech empowers the people. Also, Big Tech and its beneficiaries are definitely not part of the privileged class and it is definitely in my interest to be replaced by AI.

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

3. Appropriately feeling bad for passing off AI-generated content as your own is a "mental condition"

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

2. Author claims this quote supports the view that "AI-shaming" is racist when the quote is obviously articulating the view that AI itself is racist

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is the most appalling sophistry. I don't even know where to start, but here are some of my personal highlights:

1. "AI-shaming" is classist because AI allows everyone to "pass" as part of the bourgeoisie, which would be a good thing that Marx would like

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's a thrill to see this project, led by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social, see the light of day. It's led me to rethink how emergence and consciousness relate, and it's been an honour and pleasure to work on it with Boki and team (@thomasandrillon.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter).👇🏽

Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Jul 20

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜

I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
[email protected] @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter

Strap in!
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Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics

Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...

www.biorxiv.org

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 20

Depends on what you mean by "many", I guess. But very few Israelis refuse to serve and the number that burned their draft papers recently was very small. +972 said 10. Perhaps it's more, but it's still the tiny minority

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Maxine Sherman @maxinesherman.bsky.social · Jul 20

Unfortunately polling doesnt support this. There's support for mass expulsion/ethnic cleansing & the genocidal statement "there are no innocents in Gaza". Older polling showed Israelis felt the gov action in Gaza was "about right". Much of the anger relates to other things, eg the Israeli hostages

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is disgraceful. Students in Gaza accepted to many universities (not just Cambridge or Oxford!) being blocked by the UK Home Office's unreasonable and inflexible demands. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office

Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands

www.thetimes.com

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Jul 11

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.

But...

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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors

Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jul 10

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jun 27

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 9

Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero.

The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law.

The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.

Photo of the crew holding their hands up after being intercepted and attacked by the genocidal Israeli navy — and kidnapped

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Debbie Rua @debbierua.bsky.social · Jun 9

#madleen #flotilla #gaza #greta

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