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Grace Lindsay

@neurograce.bsky.social

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Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)

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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 ...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jill BSky @jilles.bsky.social · 5h

PA! Heads up!

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 1d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 7h

That's why I'm doing stuff like this bsky.app/profile/nyud...

NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 13h

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

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CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 13h

CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

nyudatascience.medium.com

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 8h

Seems like an important job!

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 11h

Best consideration deadline, Friday Oct 10:

#SCIMaP (scienceimacts.org) seeks to hire a Research Communications and Media Outreach Specialist at U-Maryland to facilitate public engagement related to federal investment in science and health research.

umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

SCIMaP job opportunity - https://umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/job/Research-Communications-and-Media-Outreach-Specialist_JR102577

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 8h

Yea I see parallels to some stuff in neuro and how useful it will be is TBD

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 16h

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 9h

I originally told MI people to avoid looking at neuro because I wanted to see what they'd discover on their own without all our baggage. I think maybe there would have still been convergent evolution tho: start with trying to understand single cells near the input, realize that doesn't scale then ??

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 10h

Regardless of what explainability/mech interp in AI is actually after, and whether or not they know what they’re searching for, we can confidently say they’re pursuing what systems neuroscience has pursued for decades, with very similar puzzles and confusions.

Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11h

What problem is explainability/interpretability research trying to solve in ML, and do you have a favorite paper articulating what that problem is?

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 9h

If your audience is academics, you need to allow for a lot more than 30 minutes of inactivity.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 9h

Quick question to my psychologist friends: is APA PsycNet designed to be antagonistic?

Why does my "session" on a paper's page need to time out at all? And why when it does so does the site erase all trace of whatever paper I was viewing, never to be found again?

screenshot of apa psycnet page telling me my session has timed out because i was inactive for 30 minutes

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of good folks on this list. (I'm sure they all are, but I don't know them all.)

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prizes, 5 of 6 having so far gone to US based scientists, are a reminder of why we must stand up for science against this horrid administration. Here are some great Scientist Activists to follow.

go.bsky.app/14W5Rdk

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 14h

Yea if you want people to have specific background, seems best to point them to it directly rather than assume they ask a model the right question. The latter approach is also wildly inefficient (I mean at the very least link to a pre-compiled answer from a model)

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𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 @kassandraseven.bsky.social · 15h

Every single American needs to see this video of a peaceful religious man pleading for humanity and getting shot in the head for it.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 16h

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Why is cancer research in the US being destroyed? Why are cancer and Alzheimer's cures being ended?

Because science depends on expertise, and the right's political project—led now by Trump, Vought, and Miller—involves discrediting expertise to allow autocratic control.
And SCOTUS is in on it.

Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 1d

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

well-organized? funded? ....leftist??? That's how you know he's lying

Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 3d

Hate to say...

Stephen Miller auf X:

"The issue before is now is very simple and clear.
There is a large and growing movement of leftwing
terrorism in this country. It is well organized and
funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat
judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The
only remedy is to use legitimate state power to
dismantle terrorism and terror networks."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 1d

My general rule: Anonymous/pseudonymous accounts are presumed to have zero credibility without further verification. Many are people looking to be active in a way I think is misguided; some are intentionally farming clout. 3/

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

Yea, I'm not sure what the Allen reports about that. I think resource use for things that are valuable (like expediting science) are justifiable, and given this is text-only and "using it a lot" still only means a few times a week, I'm not too worried. But it is something that should be reported.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting opportunity 👇

Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

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

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

I really am using this a lot. It's not always perfect but it's a good check against my own literature search to make sure I'm not missing things.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 23d

I don't know that it works perfectly, but I have to say that the Asta search tool from @ai2.bsky.social is exactly what I want from an AI-powered research search tool for scientists: Describe a style of experiment or work and see if there are papers that have done that.
asta.allen.ai/chat

Ai2 Asta

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 1d

The Fall 2026 application for the PhD in Data Science is now open.

Deadline: Dec 4, 2025, 5pm EST.

Join our info session Oct 16 @ 9:30am EST to learn about the application process, requirements, and program.

Register: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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