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Ben Hayden

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Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
3. Assuming all acting was dialed to 11 Not true. Actors regulated their performances depending on the genre they were working in. There were some hams, to be sure, but assuming everyone was flailing and fainting just isn’t accurate
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
2. Not hitting your period’s cinematography and editing right You can pretty confidently date a silent film within a few years with knowledge of the mechanics of film and things were changing constantly. Too many movies set, say, pre-WWI are shot like it’s 1928
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Biggest Anachronisms in Modern Silent Films: 1. Thinking it’s 1 line of dialogue = 1 title card It just wasn’t and doing this kills your pacing dead. There was a lot of gesturing, lip reading and general trust of the audience. But modern folks get scared and chicken out and use too many cards
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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is supposed to be during the Siege of La Rochelle
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Valentinexyz @valentinexyz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The second Mamma Mia movie takes place ~2005 or so, but it came out in 2018 and an establishing shot of Tokyo shows an ad for the anime Boruto (2017) and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (2014).
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Orange carrots in medieval banquets
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Jasper J. Jaspers @jaspers47.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's an episode of MASH where the doctors are talking about Audrey Hepburn. It's the middle of the Korean War, Audrey had her first leading role in 1953. Unless these three all saw Gigi on Broadway before being deployed, they should have no idea who Audrey Hepburn is
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Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Prompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The typeface used for the name cards in the tv film Conspiracy about the Wannsee Conference had been banned a year prior (for being too Jewish)
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
sometimes i miss living in the pierogi belt, but the solution isnt moving again, it's more pierogi
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 12/10/2026
This new ingestible paper #battery developed by MIT scientists could power medical devices inside the body before safely breaking down. buff.ly/6Na0bRk
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
why would you simulate the functional organization of the brain, rather than instead simulating the Causing Intentionality part of the brain?
The problem with the brain simulator is that it is simulating the wrong things about the brain. As long as it simulates only the formal structure of the sequence of neuron firings at the synapses, it won't have simulated what matters about the brain, namely its causal properties, its ability to produce intentional states.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why don't people caught burning in the samsara's flames of eternal love not simply release all their attachments? Are they stupid?
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Amanda LeBel @amandalebel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A new paper from my PhD work! Attention reshapes how the cortex represents meaning. Does the same thing happen in the cerebellum?
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"He began taking classes at MIT and published math papers while an active member of the Ravens."
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wayne Mondok (Canadian, born 1961) Yellow Light
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Frog poured some water on the hat.
Frog pours a tall pitcher of water onto Toad's hat, an obvious act of sabotage.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The yellow heart emoji ⟨💛⟩ is mistakenly displayed as a pink "hairy heart" ⟨a pink heart symbol with marks representing short hair.⟩ in Google's Android 4.4 mobile operating system (released 2013) because Google's emoji art team misinterpreted the dots in Unicode's black-and-white reference images ⟨Heart symbol with dots.⟩ as being hair stubble. In reality, the dotted pattern is simply used as a colorless way to represent the color yellow (in accordance with heraldic hatching).
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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 10/10/2026
just to be absolutely clear: Terrence Tao is not only not an anti-AI person, but has been one of the most prominent advocates for formal methods via the Lean proof language and autoformalization with AI I strongly encourage people to read the slides: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/m...
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Math 2.0
I am uploading my slides to my public lecture “Math 2.0” that I gave yesterday evening at Caltech. (The talk was planned over a year ago, and was initially titled “Machine Assiste…
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage disposal." buff.ly/zlLH4L9
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Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise
- The National Association of Xylophone X-Ray Zebra Paleontologists, briefly - The sound a chicken bone may make when accidentally dropped into a garbage dis...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Saul Steinberg, Self Portrait, 1949
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Wendy's Country Fried Steak Sandwich (1990-1994): A piece of breaded, fried steak, topped with lettuce and country-style gravy, on a bun. Sold incredibly well during testing and was added to the 99-cent menu, where it stayed on and off for several years.
A hockey puck-shaped piece of breaded and fried steak sits on a shiny bun, along with green leaf lettuce and a touch of gravy. It also indicates that the sandwich costs 99 cents
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 08/10/2026
Whenever I face a major life decision, I imagine a parallel universe where I chose the other path and died in a fiery car crash. That way I know I definitely made the right choice
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Pekka Lund @pekka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just imagine that.
https://x.com/marcusabramovi1/status/2107994961476190457
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social!
If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Ben & Jerry's Coconutterly Fair (2010-2011): Chocolate ice cream loaded with a coconut-caramel swirl, and chocolate-covered pieces of "coconut-caramel crunch"
A blue ice cream pint with a tropical design, complete with palm trees and a cow being bonked on the head by a coconut. From the top, scoops of brown ice cream emerge, studded with little brown and tan nuggets
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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 08/10/2026
People are panicking on the other site so I put up a Manifold market. manifold.markets/JohnDavidPre...
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Will we "lose public key cryptography" by EoY 2028?
50% chance. Free to play with play money. The cryptography professor Matthew Green makes a stark prediction: I think we might lose public key cryptography. https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/21079...
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dylan Moore Hits Home Run for Mariners
Alt: Dylan Moore Hits Home Run for Mariners
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 08/10/2026
In September, OpenAI said 10,000 #AI agents had partially "solved" the Navier–Stokes problem, one of maths' great open questions. #univienna mathematicians Nathanaël Berestycki & Vera Fischer: the field will never be the same, but maths is far more than producing proofs at speed. 🧮
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Can AI replace mathematicians? Vienna researchers weigh in
In September, OpenAI announced that some 10,000 AI agents partially 'solved' the Navier–Stokes problem, one of the most prestigious open challenges in mathematics. University of Vienna mathematicians ...
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't think it's a vision, it's just the way things are now. It's true that lots of people are trying to get AI to prove things for them, but most of my mathematician friends mainly use it to learn stuff. Of course things could change.
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Math isn't being devastated. A bunch of medium hard to quite hard problems that humans have made up and worked on extensively are getting finished off by AI. AI is also a great way for mathematicians to learn more math. The future is unpredictable, but I wouldn't declare devastation just yet.
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What if people just work less hard because the AI is doing the work for them and so it’s a net increase in utility?
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazon has figured out my one interest/hobby
Interests and Hobbies: Uses multiple desk fans
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If science is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, then maybe our future is one where we humans get to focus on the 1% of the job that is fun and let robots to the 99% that is tedious.
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I bet back in the OpenAi offices they are working on that too.
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 07/10/2026
The point is that for maths they have a ready supply of interesting conjectures and a guaranteed way of deciding if they've solved them. For other fields, the difficulty is finding the right question that generates understanding. Mathematicians are now realising that proofs aren't that.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/10/2026
I hate when someone uses Chowderhead as an insult. Even if they ultimately failed to advance their goals, the Boston Chowderplant Worker's Movement of 1887-1891 was a significant if largely forgotten milestone in New England labor history
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no reason for Garfield to hate Mondays, as cats don't observe a schedule. The only possible answer is that Garfield deeply loves Jon and is saddened when he has to work.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
Dungeon debris (Jim Pitts, White Dwarf 27, Oct/Nov 1981, header for “Treasure Chest” column introducing 7 new spells for AD&D) oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8296690...
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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ended on a great panel discussion on AI and neuroscience with Kenji Doya, Wilma Bainbridge, Andrew Lampinen myself and John Duncan. Hosted by Shigeru Kitazawa. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Inferring the evolving objectives that organize animal behavior
Understanding how the brain supports flexible, goal-directed behavior is a central aim of neuroscience. Yet such behavior is highly variable and unfolds over long timescales, making it challenging to ...
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 18/09/2026
This article wins the data visualisation of the month contest. www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/...
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Melissa Franch, PhD @mfranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Link to post explaining the main results: bsky.app/profile/mfra...
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Melissa Franch, PhD @mfranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excited to see this work published! We find that the brain codes semantic relationships similar to contextual LLMs (like GPT2) but unlike LLMs, uses contrastive coding to prevent confusion of highly similar words. Many thanks to the reviewers and BCM neurosurgery team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A population code for semantics in human hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Franch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model...
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Paul Sawchuk @paulsawchuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It still floors me that there's a reference to Kodak film in Dracula. It feels so wrong and anachronistic.
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s odd how so many adaptations of Dracula doesn’t take advantage if it’s setting in the 1890s, a time where the world was on the cusp of what we think of as modernity. It’s entirely plausible that Dracula could have driven an automobile
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
#NationalPoetryDay
A tweet from Mike Ginn in 2014 that reads 'We get it poets: things are like other things'
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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