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Jen B @jenbaty.bsky.social · 3d

It really would help all of us if Trump clips came with an automatic Jennifer Coolidge voice filter.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oh wow- that’s perfect! I’ll keep it bookmarked!

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amazing- love that- I have to look out for that. I loved how Inside out 2 portrayed emotions in teenagers (and I could relate to anxiety A LOT!)

Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ah classic scanner error! I love that one- I used to do a talk about the real science in spotless mind, definitely too 5 for me!

Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

True! Awakenings is a favourite- I adore all things Oliver Sacks

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

Neuroscientists: which films do a pretty decent job in being scientifically accurate when it comes to the brain (including sci fi grounded in neuroscience)? I’m making a watchlist!

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Aug 21

I really want this as a print 🙏🏽

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Aug 21

OMG! i love it 😍

GJ Charles @thestatichand.bsky.social · Aug 21

An @abeba.bsky.social tweet turned into a protest banner artwork at BCU MA graduate show. Brilliant!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oh, build a *big* Dyson sphere, why didn’t I think of that? Please take all of my money

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 18

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel:

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”

Von: Yeah.

Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

doi.org

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 3

This you?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 16

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jun 15

Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 15

Correct. This was an easy test for media outlets and many of them failed horribly. No need to give them yet another chance.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Jun 15

I think a good rule of thumb is if your preferred source of news referred to yesterday's protest as "tens of thousands" and not "millions", you need to find a different news source.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jun 15

how the fuck is it possible to be this bad at drinking coffee

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · Jun 15

These people are the enemy.

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · May 1

Can be flexible- your experience is perfect! Might just be an advisory thing, still ideating, but your profile is such a great fit!!

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · May 1

Probably >6 months? Are you up for a chat?

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Apr 30

I’m in the early stages of an exciting project and am looking for people who might (in the longer term) be interested in being involved. If that’s too cryptic, just reach out and we can chat!

Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Looking for a very specific person to speak to - please reach out in your networks.

1. Background in developmental psych/neuroscience
2. Open science advocate (good knowledge of the problems/scene)
3. Interested in exploring jobs/ projects outside of academia and/or translational neuroscience

a cat holding a sign that says help

ALT: a cat holding a sign that says help

media.tenor.com

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Harris Doshay @hdoshay.bsky.social · Mar 21

You know the old joke. What do you call 9 polite Germans having a nice dinner with a Nazi? A Nazi and nine people who create the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments.

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Kalanit Grill-Spector @kalanitgs.bsky.social · Mar 21

Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work

Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 17

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth

Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...

rdcu.be

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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · Mar 21

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · Feb 17

Over on LinkedIn, we have reached peak LinkedIn. Moments away from it becoming “L” or something

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