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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

we're finally getting good data from the mice brain! quiz: what imaging modality do you think this is?

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

remote work also not impossible, esp. for someone w/ directly relevant experiences for the project

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

... we're moving to a new office space in a month~ we'll probably start some collab with folks at Princeton and in Montreal too hiring at all levels

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

thank you. i agree it is imprecise. we had to cut down references so had to stretch a bit, but maybe too much. will consider a correction to replace the word embryos with fetuses there. about their interpretation of IIT, see their fig 1?

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

author prestige matters more in disciplines where research/claims aren't testible. surprise, surprise. interesting contrast between computer science vs medicine though. kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

BUT perhaps it just means they dimmed too much? from their own fig 2H, it seems like at some intermediate level, creating the pattern of RO>blank>RC is possible they could argue that at such level, % right choice for RC was not matched to lesion group BUT these were different cohorts of animals!

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

importantly they were not just totally blind on the right. coz when there was 1 target on the right only (RO), the mice still went right, more often than when there no target (blank) so the pattern of results that would logically hint at blindsight is that for % right choice, RO>blank>RC...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

so the mice had to do a 3-arm mace task & run towards where a target was. sometimes, there were 2 targets, e.g. one at right + one at center (condition RC), where right = correct choice after lesion to left V1, mice often went center in RC, as if they didn't see the target on the right...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

from a published academic paper by highly influential authors: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

it may be difficult to contemplate the significance of this

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

when people take drugs for fun, they may hallucinate knowing that it's illusory likewise, when we see a simple visual illusion like this, we know we're being tricked this is what i'm getting at -

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

maybe we shoudn't call this dlPFC? van Vulgt et al 2018 Science - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧠📈

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

so i do doubt the conclusions of the Neider et al study. but even they did not make such strong claims as having shown *phenomenal* consciousness. in fact, unlike your Declaration, they were far more careful about this -

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

who says that science doesn't generate profit?

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Russian Ruble (to USD) has bounced back ...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

i don't always eat breakfast. but when i do, i eat rice w/ sesame oil (& kimchi)

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

becoz members of my lab work on quite different projects, i've (tentatively) decided this will be the format of lab meetings from now on.

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

when i moved from New York to California over a decade ago, i told my friends that New Yorkers like to say that they enjoy the seasons; the variations makes things interesting. i say: weather is like domestic violece, boring is good. but here i am, in Korea. may i start to enjoy a bit of violence.

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

i heard it is getting cold in California. (picture from my window, in Gwanggyo, Korea)

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

phenomenal meal in Bundang. most outstanding was the water kimchi (korean gazpacho), which i finished & they promptly gave me a second becoz it's just part of the free appetizers /side dishes (banchan) the candle on the tartare was lit just becoz they could. it wasn't a birthday celebration.

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

i will post about this meeting in Gangneung, north east coast of Korea... John Ngai from NIH is up next

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

[...] She cannot discern 3D Kaniza shapes (A), she does not immediately experience the Corridor Size Illusion (B), [...] she cannot see the vase in Rubin face/vase illusion (D), she cannot see a 3D cube in the line drawings of Neckers cube, etc etc (!!!)

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

potential landmark paper alert (!): at least 1 aphantasic sees the below square as pure white, suggesting that she may be minimally influenced by automatic top-down inhibitory processes Deep Aphantasia may cause a sea change (& havoc to local recurrency theory?) t.co/593PIJmAYd #neuroskyence

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

does anyone know the source of this?

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

outstanding. kindness can be such a powerful thing. penned by Gregory Samanez-Larkin, i heard

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

insanely good cooking (inventiveness + precision) & interesting wine at this tiny bar in Akatsuka, Itabashi City. highly recommended. maps.app.goo.gl/FuegP1zrcDHR...

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