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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

actually, the thing about coffee is that it's the only drug you can do at work

Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is also what happens if you use too much AI

The poem "Jimmy Jet and his TV Set" by Shel Silverstein, about a boy who watches so much TV that he turns into one

Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to say that our paper on an open-source device for measuring the auditory brainstem response (ABR) is published at J Neurophysiology! Now with a better name (OpenSABR) and a peak detection algorithm. Reach out if you'd like to build one yourself, we are building a user community!

Graphical abstract for OpenSABR paper. Upper left: pictures of the component PCBs. Upper right: ABR peak identification by ridge tracing. Lower: Workflow, with the sham surgery leading to a healthy ABR and hte malleus removal leading to hearing loss. All figures taken from paper.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So it was bicameral after all, just on the rostral/caudal axis not left/right

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/09/2026

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But comforting isn't enough: If you have felt the federal level to be overwhelming, also know that the local/state level can often matter a whole lot more in aggregate. Personally, part of my day-to-day work still involves supporting NSF grantees--a mission I still remain very much committed to.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No matter how justified, you can’t spend all of your time angry about world events. It’s important to take a step back and focus on the little things around you that will also make you angry.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is a "Drunk History" about Madonna. Madonna is a historical figure now www.avclub.com/drunk-histor...

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Meghan Trainor is Madonna as Drunk History returns

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looks like this is indeed a watershed moment in postwar German history - in the worst possible way. Exit polls indicate the AfD is even stronger than what polls suggested, even an outright majority of seats is possible. The extremists will likely have a path to power. bsky.app/profile/wahl...

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Changing my lab website's banner to "We Study AI (Actual Intelligence)"

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An unnecessary "genuine" makes me wonder .. Is that peace also going to be "load-bearing"?

An NYT headline stating "For Trump, the Iran War is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace"

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The accuracy of this. These problems can't be solved via computing solutions. Thus, the are "problems" for someone else to figure out.

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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The DEI committee at Temple University is hosting a “Demystifying grad school apps” workshop in which prospective psychology grad school applicants can learn about how to apply. If you’d like to attend, be sure to submit the form by September 1st!

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Going to start beginning all my non sequiturs with “Surprisingly,”

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Amazing how far cat technology has come. Five years ago we would have been left to guess

"Meow meow meow"
→ I want attention or food

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Due to some bizarre bug, my iphone occasionally renders the NYT homepage with stories from June 26th instead of whatever the current day is. They are often still relevant ("US attacks Iran") giving me an intense sense of deja vu. The only way to distinguish is the World Cup games in the top banner

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Abby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

this beer ad has the statistical rigor of a 1980s electrophysiology paper in Nature

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We do these things not because they are simple but because they are complex

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is a cool idea. Reminder for all of us: Although we do have three types of cones and there are three primary colors, color is *not* one-dimensional (wavelength) and not three-dimensional (not a simple mix of red, green, and blue). It's way more complex than that.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 19/06/2026

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary via www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

A Sankey diagram showing how votes from Troy Jackson, Shenna Bellows, and Angus King III contributed to Hannah Pingree’s victory in the Maine Democratic primary for the gubernatorial race, even though Nirav Shah had more votes than Pingree in the first round of voting

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some of my favorite papers are from Jonathan. His lab at York in Toronto is recruiting a postdoc. Take a look!

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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Terrific opportunity to work with an amazing young PI! - bsky.app/profile/vulc...

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Submit an OMB Comment!

SAVE AMERICAN SCIENCE (Please! 💜 Annika @annikabarber.bsky.social) What are the proposed changes to scientific grant review and award? Read the Federal Register directly here: Regulation for Federal...

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

becoming overtrained at recognized LLM-generated text

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Passage from Arendt's "Totalitarianism": The people would "at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true... hold every statement to be a lie anyhow ... [and] would admire [leaders who lie] for their superior tactical cleverness"

picture of book from which the quote came

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I guess the plural form of "follow-up" should really be "follows-up"

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Looking forward to the 2026 Rotman Graduate Student Conference at @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social Western University (UWO) with @danisbassett.bsky.social as a keynote. Registration, program (w all talks!), and zoom link w rsvp below: #philsci #philsky #HPS rotman.uwo.ca/events/2026-...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10/04/2026

Yes. Give people grace, everyone. There is a light on the horizon. But things are bad right now, and people are not doing well. Hold fast, take care of yourself, be kind, and if you can, keep doing something to bend the arc of history.

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Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!

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Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

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Computational framework to predict and shape human–machine interactions in closed-loop, co-adaptive neural interfaces - Nature Machine Intelligence

Madduri et al. introduce a computational framework grounded in control and game theory to model co-adaptation between users and decoders in neural interfaces. This framework enables a principled desig...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I had a great time talking to Meenakshi about my trajectory through neuroscience! Tune in for electric fish, imaging the hypothalamus, and trying to find a path in theory that stays relevant to the brain. Also, my early phd experiences of trying to do science when real life rears its head.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I submitted my comments! The form is short and you can do it too.

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Fabricio Nicola @fabricionicola.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Mammals have hundreds of joints and muscles. Controlling them individually would be nearly impossible. How does the nervous system organize such complexity into coherent actions? Our new study explores this question through a natural behavior: jumping.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Substituting bacon grease for butter in this recipe (kare udon roux) 😬

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Jeff Markowitz @vulcnethologist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Second preprint from the lab. Collab with @dkoveal.bsky.social, with many more to come! Effort led by @xshirleyz.bsky.social with help from Brittany Addison, @ezeyulu00.bsky.social, Claire Deng (on the grad school market, better act fast, Claire’s amazing!), @ajemanuel.bsky.social, and many others!

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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 20/02/2026

Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

The Google Summer of Code and Neuroinformatics Unit logos next to each other.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

1/7 How tightly can 4 raspberry pis be synchronized over wifi? Our experiments require ~1 ms synchronization for reporting sound onsets. It seemed crazy to try to achieve this but with chrony (chrony-project.org) it actually works! Details in thread

chrony-project.org

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/02/2026

The point of building is not just to throw the finished product over the line; if you’re doing it right, the process shapes the creator, too.

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Chris Rodgers @chrisxrodgers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Not to get too carried away with optimism or anything 😆

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