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Grigori Guitchounts @guitchounts.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I wrote an essay for @noemamag.com about AI consciousness, animal research, and the limits of what we can know about another mind. My argument: the lessons neuroscientists learned hunting for neural markers of consciousness in animals are exactly the ones we'll need as we start asking...

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Check out the first in a 3-part series of posts explaining @guitchounts.bsky.social and I's latest paper exploring dynamics of transformers! Watching a transformer spin open.substack.com/pub/oftwomin...

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Ruairidh McLennan Battleday @battleday.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join: www.neuromonster.org

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Renormalization in the brain? With @andreasantoro.bsky.social and @jesseba.bsky.social we're organizing a workshop at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social (Lisbon, March 16) on how coarse-graining principles from physics can explain neural computation across scales. nplresearch.github.io/neurorenorm2...

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Max Andrews @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com has converted the Epstein email drop into a searchable, visualized, network that allows you to explore relationships among the actors and examine the nature of their connections. You'll find D. Trump in the "yolk." 👏Max epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/11/2025

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

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David Schoppik @schoppik.com · 19/10/2025

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Already counting down till next year ⏳

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NPlab @nplab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

and then we double down with @jesseba.bsky.social talking about adaptive networks in a learn-relearning generalization task in rodents vs artificial networks (Biological networks #2, 2/9, with @scarpino.bsky.social).

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 26/06/2025

“The idea that taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking, but might well meet with skepticism in practice.” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The forgotten half of scientific thinking | PNAS

The forgotten half of scientific thinking

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

- did not measure people's creativity performance by any reputable creativity task or measure, just measured the ESSAY content (after giving people different instructions) - did not measure people's overall MEMORY ABILITY - false on "brain activity," DIFFERENT activity is not "weaker"

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Joe @joeposting.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This must have been what it felt like at the end of the first triumvirate. This is so cool, I love living through history.

Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Super, super excited to be here at the sixth annual conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI!

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift

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Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brainstem sensing of multiple body signals during food consumption

Studies of body-to-brain communication often examine one stimulus or organ at a time, yet the brain must integrate many body signals during behavior. For example, food consumption generates diverse or...

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I guess it’s homegrown crim of me to publicize my thoughts on Columbia rolling over so easily

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

We are rallying at noon at Cambridge Common for the leadership of the Harvard Corporation to stand up and stand with us as we defend higher education and democracy in the United States from an unprecedented attack.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Over 800 faculty have urged Harvard's leadership to "legally contest ... unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance." The Cambridge City Council has called on it to "stand up in defense of the values that are fundamental to both the University and our democracy."

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Cambridge City Council Calls on Harvard, President Garber to Resist Trump’s Threats | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Cambridge City Council voted unanimously on Monday to call on the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — to refuse the Trump administration’s demands as $9 billion in gove...

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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place.

A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

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Hands Off!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

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March 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/ How do AI models actually work? 🤷‍♂️ AI models are complex, nonlinear systems, and their inner workings remain largely mysterious. Enter Mechanistic Interpretability. But MechInterp has struggled to explain a lot of the observed phenomena…

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Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A small sample of populations served by NIH proposals that I personally know are stalled in review right now: kids with concussions, people with Alzheimer’s, caregivers of people with disabilities, adults ages 60+ Just keeping a record of who’s on the losing end of executive orders.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Six years later and this, from the editorial board of Nature (the single highest citation-indexed science periodical in the world) is sadly once again highly relevant. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science

A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned.

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Giovanni Petri @lordgrilo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

@jesseba.bsky.social from @nunetsi.bsky.social discussing joint work with @scarpino.bsky.social on network reps in a learn-relearning in mice vs artificial neural networks (while herself surviving music interference of a nearby Indian wedding :)). Literally context adaption live #netsci2025x

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I said I wanted background music so I got what I asked for 😂

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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

How do the neuronal dynamics in the mouse brain differ from those in a neural net when they learn the same association task? @jesseba.bsky.social (@nunetsi.bsky.social x @lordgrilo.bsky.social x me PhD student) presenting her amazing new work at #netscix2025!

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Jesseba Fernando @jesseba.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Talking about “going off the grid” and ramping up my Bluesky presence are the two wolves in me

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/01/2024

worst Joy Division cover ever

Chart: More days at the highest temperatures in 2023
Daily global air temperature compared with the 1991-2020 average, by year

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