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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

AI accelerationists frequently hype the amazing increases in productivity that AI will deliver, and the enormous benefits to society that will result.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

tfw most of your favourite albums are available in their "20th anniversary edition" #genxthings

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A few months ago I had the great pleasure to chat with @giuliadangelo.bsky.social and @fabhertz.bsky.social for their new #Sottosoglia #podcast. We covered the differences between working in #academia and the #startup life, as well as a lot of very personal ground...

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SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #3: DYLAN MUIR

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What a horrifying article to see posted by the premier science journal. Attacks on scientists and on science are direct attacks on the rational basis for liberal democracies. None of this is normal or acceptable, and leads very quickly to a very dark place.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

1/7. Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the years. At @commhsp.bsky.social we’ve been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In a new 538 article, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social and I share what we’ve been seeing and why it matters. abcnews.go.com/538/national...

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How the national conversation shifted from structural racism to DEI

How the conversation about DEI has evolved over time.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Government is big business. *Somebody* has to do the work required to keep public agencies grinding along. If you fire full-time staff, you spend much more in personnel contracting, consultants and private firms taking up the contracts. 🤔 Funny, sounds just like #LNP policy… #Dutton #auspol

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How many millions of dollars and terawatts of energy will it take to convince the math sand to do math

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The main barriers to commercial adoption of #neuromorphic technology in 2025 are not technological — Neuromorphic #processors are already available, with #benchmark #applications in #audio and #vision processing showing massive advantages over conventional processing.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Came back today to the amazing #tenochtitlan tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl by @thomaskole.bsky.social . Breath-taking and heart-rending from a colonial perspective.

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a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Peter #Dutton is claiming inflation is too high under #Labor. The inflation rate was 6.1% when the #LNP were booted out of power. It's now 3.2%. #insiders #misinformation #auspol

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It should be trivial for #Labor and #Albanese — along with every person with a sense of ethics or international law — to reject this revolting proposal for ethnic cleaning in Gaza. Australian politicians need to find a backbone and get louder. #auspol

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Dutton praises Trump as ‘big thinker’ as Albanese avoids direct comment on proposed US Gaza takeover

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, condemns Australian government’s response as ‘pathetic’

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 06/02/2025

Let's remember every single company and institution that's rolling back their DEI programmes right now without even being forced to do so. The fact that they're doing it so fast means they were just waiting for the opportunity. True colours shown. Google, Meta, HHMI 😢, ...

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/02/2025

The fundamental point is: they are coming for trans people because they are coming for queer people because they are coming for cis women because they are coming for Black people

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Let’s be really clear, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS. This is about *violence* against Trans women. This is about enforcing hate as public policy. This is pure evil.

How many transgender athletes are there in the U.S.?
Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there are fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, the N.C.A.A. president, said in January.
source: New York Times

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/02/2025

Trump: "I'm also directing Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem to deny any and all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States as women athletes." A visa ban on trans people.

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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Exciting opportunity for a talented scientific software developer to join our Global Disease Modelling team(bit.ly/4gtvnNN) to build & maintain #malaria & disease #models! If you share a passion for achieving impact in #GlobalHealth, please apply here: bit.ly/40ZSdrF Closing date: 12th Feb

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The OpportunityIt is a very exciting time at The Kids Research Institute Australia as we continue to evolve from what began in the 1980’s as a ...

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reading the news then watching Inglourious Basterds as catharsis

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

In my birth state of Queensland, children of 10 years old can now be put in jail on life sentences. A shocking degradation of human rights, rushed through by a right-wing government, under a completely made-up pretext pushed just to win an election.

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Children will get sentences ‘more punitive than necessary’ under new crime law, Queensland LNP admits

Attorney general Deb Frecklington acknowledges bill likely to increase number of children in state watch houses

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Ordering the NIH, NSF, and CDC to erase any mention of "LGBT", trans people, gender... We are watching Magnus Hirschfeld's research institute be burnt down by Nazis all over again This is *why* people see transness as a fad. We were erased from history! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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Brains and Machines @brainsandmachines.net · 01/02/2025

Friends in the neuromorphic community may be interested in Brains and Machine's own Giulia D'Angelo and her new podcast Sottosoglia with co-host Fabrizio Ottati and first guest Jason Eshraghian. Different vibe from Brains and Machines, but fun! @giuliadangelo.bsky.social youtu.be/2mMVPsZBPr0?...

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SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #1: JASON ESHRAGHIAN

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

What is it about ML research, that makes people think they can submit papers with N=1 and no statistical analysis? If your plots show N=1, and you claim some effect, I assume your science amounts to reading tea-leaves.

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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Mathematical models are and have been incredibly useful in our fight to defeat #malaria— let’s collectively ensure they remain so! Check out our new article from @jalinegerardin.bsky.social and I on "How can modelling responsibly inform decision-making in malaria?" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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How can modeling responsibly inform decision-making in malaria?

When models are used to inform decision-making, both their strengths and limitations must be considered. Using malaria as an example, this Perspective explains how and why models are limited and offer...

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

More #culture-war crap being imported by the #Australian conservative #Liberal party. If there is a problem with inappropriate treatment by a particular clinic, address it directly. There's no rationale to block treatment state-wide, except reactionary anti-"woke" bullshit from Crisafulli.

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Queensland halts prescription of puberty blockers and hormones for children with gender dysphoria

Pause comes as Crisafulli government launches independent review after reports gender-affirming hormones were given without proper consultation

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The cost of living crisis is caused by unreasonable and unsustainable capitalist profit-taking, not government expenditure.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

BREAKING via NPR: Oracle, run by Trump associate Larry Ellison is likely to take over Tiktok, leaving Facebook, Instagram, X, and Tiktok and Fox (along with Rogan etc) all largely controlled by one party. The country remains split politically but the right has vastly more influence over the media.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It’s such a privilege to set foot on this ancient land. These rocks have seen tens of thousands of years of First Nations communities — “Australia” is something brand new, in comparison, and we have the moral obligation to listen and learn, and correct our mistakes.

A photo of Elephant Rocks, in south Western Australia. Australian scrub, winding down to a small cove with enormous granite boulders that look like a herd of elephants. Turquoise sea in the distance.

A starry night sky, taken from southern Western Australia. The milky way is visible, along with the Southern Cross constellation and the Pointer stars.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Our latest ASIC, taped out on Intel’s new 1m process

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yum yum yum @yyyuuummm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We can pinpoint the beginning of the immigrant crisis

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Would love to see Melon in an Indiana Jones movie

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ultimately, and I mean this, Americans have to stop being giant babies about paying taxes. taxes are the price of a functional society. Everything we complain about in US...the disorder, the mess, the lack of services and support is because we don't pay taxes.

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

... and so it begins again.🧠🌴🌊🌍 Imbizo.africa is on its way, ... without me 😥, but look! at the views through those windows. I wanna go and learn about all things neuro at one of the most beautiful spots in the world. Don't you, too?

Serene, empty lecture hall with assigned seats (dark table-clothed desks with named mugs for every participants; white plastic chairs) that looks out onto a landscape of dunes and summery beaches, waiting to be filled with life of the next class of Imbizo.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Maria Van Kerkhove: “The world I live in right now, no one wants to talk about COVID-19…Everyone is acting as tho this pandemic didn’t really happen…I feel this massive gravitational pull to go back to what we were doing before…There’s no way we should be going back.” www.science.org/content/arti...

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COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting

Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/01/2025

Rep Suzanne Bonamici: "This bill would make sports more dangerous for women and girls. It would empower child predators. It would affect every sport from K-12 to Colleges." "As of last month, of 510,000 NCAA athletes, only 10 are transgender"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/01/2025

Happening now, a transgender sports ban is being heard in Congress. This ban might ban trans people from dancing, darts, and even chess in many universities. It'll also target 9 year olds playing soccer. I'm covering live, follow along with me. live.house.gov

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Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

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Charlotte @charlotteinny.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The tampon thing and the trans theme being stripped from Messenger really lay the agenda bare. There's no guise of that being a free speech thing. (Not that any of this is.) Just pure cruelty and exclusion.

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Thomas Nowotny @drtnowotny.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We are proposing PhD project ideas along these lines:

Event-based machine learning and neuromorphic computing (EP25/53) EPSRC category: Interdisciplinary Research Lead Supervisors: James Knight and Thomas Nowotny Department: Informatics Research outline: Event-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are inspired by the efficiency of biological neurons and with recent advances such as Eventprop (Wunderlich & Pehle (2021), Nowotny et al. (2024)) we can train them using supervised learning. However, there are technical difficulties and the methods have thus far only been applied to a few benchmark problems. Equally important, like in ML more generally, lack of labelled data is becoming a problem. Self-supervised approaches are an exciting and competitive alternative (Chen et al. (2020), Illinger et al. (2020), Halvagal & Zenke (2023)). We are looking for PhD students interested in working on these challenges using our GPU-accelerated SNN simulation framework (Knight et al. (2021), Knight & Nowotny (2023) to: • further improve methods for gradient descent in SNNs • extend gradient descent methods towards real-world problems • combine SNNs and self-supervised learning to solve real-world tasks • train SNNs for deployment on neuromorphic hardware like Loihi 2 Key Publications: Nowotny T, Turner, JP, Knight, JC (2024). Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with EventProp in spiking neural networks, arXiv. (link) Knight, JC & Nowotny, T (2023). Easy and efficient spike-based machine learning with mlGeNN. Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Conference, 115–120. (link)

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