iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD @gguerre.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Are you at #NDiSTEM2025? Come by tomorrow to hear how important questions about the brain benefit from interdisciplinary & inclusive approaches. Featuring amazing scientists Cristina Román + @wutsaiyale.bsky.social fellows @lester-rodriguez.bsky.social & @josueortc.bsky.social ! @sacnas.bsky.social

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

@josueortc.bsky.social @wutsaiyale.bsky.social explored spatiotemporal cholinergic & calcium signalling dynamics across learning. 🎨Using dual-color imaging and multimodal transformers 🤖, he showed how cortical neuromodulation reshapes with experience and task demands.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Earlier this year, after receiving emails from people in the throes of AI psychosis, I stayed in touch with one man as he journeyed to recovery. I'm grateful to James that he was willing to go on record. He wanted people to know: humanlike chatbots are dangerous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...

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He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🚀 The Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 (#CRSy25) kicked off today in Lisbon under the theme “#NeuroCybernetics at Scale”, exploring #intelligence and the future of brain–AI research!

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Memming Park @memming.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excellent list of speakers! Come join the symposium at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Register now. #neurocybernetics #computationalNeuroscience

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What problem is explainability/interpretability research trying to solve in ML, and do you have a favorite paper articulating what that problem is?

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca

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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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Graham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

IMO, the #1 personality trait for a successful scientist is perseverance and #2 is a deep (insatiable) curiosity (dopamine!) about the world. After that is luck/serendipity, decent intuition and way down the list is “good grades”, problem solving or some other measure of intellectual capability 1/2

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Call these representatives, tell them that funding NIH and protecting it from partisan political control serves their constituents, not only with cures but with jobs, too!

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Got my summary statement back and all I got was: not enough experimental work. Yes Sherlock I am a comp neuroscientist. Apparently that makes it impossible to get a k99

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/08/2025

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The GAO just found the Trump admin illegally delayed/cut $8B+ in NIH research grants—blocking Congress-approved funds, harming medical research, and violating the Impoundment Control Act. Science, equity, and accountability are on the line. Congress must act. www.highereddive.com/news/nih-cut...

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Trump administration illegally axed NIH grants, government watchdog says

The U.S. Government Accountability Office can file a lawsuit in an attempt to restore the grants, though the agency has not yet opted to do so.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It didn’t help that the rejection came on my birthday…

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Got my green card accepted and my k99 rejected within the same month. Academia is a roller coaster of emotions

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

How many trainees were supported by your award?
Enter your answer
14.What was the reason given for your grant’s cancelation?
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15.Is there anything else you would like to share with the Committee?
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16.Are you comfortable with the Committee publicly sharing the information you provided?
If you select “ask me first,” please be sure you have provided an email address or phone number.

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Maxime Peyrard @peyrardmax.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our paper "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" will be presented at #ICLR2025! It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉 blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia... An explanatory thread 🧵:

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What was it doing with my face? 😂

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It’s on the neurofm-workshop.github.io

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Come to my talk today at #COSYNE2025 where I will talk about developing spatiotemporal models of brain dynamics

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hey scientists. This rules. Check it out.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

JB Pritzker flat out says the birthright "order" is unconstitutional and "we will not obey an unconstitutional order," attacks Trump for having the oligarchs in the front row. See, @schumer.senate.gov? It's not that hard!

politico.com

Pritzker attacks Trump over birthright citizenship order: It’s ‘chaos’

The Illinois Democrat called the president’s plan “unconstitutional.”

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

We built a simple parametric test of this in our paper: Similarity between (crossval) encoding weights tells you whether encoding dims are orthogonal. Similarity between **absolute** (crossval) encoding weights tells you about the selectivity and sparsity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using encoding geometry analysis to measure encoding segregation. Correlations between absolute patterns can measure whether encoding is in separate channels, and the encoding sparsity.

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Poppy Northcutt @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Biden has 42 days left to protect equal rights by publishing the ERA which has been ratified by the required 38 states. Only one step left which Trump refused to do. Join me in telling the president to #BidenPublishTheERA

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I am always amazed by how few reviews there are in machine learning. Truly such a great resource for a lot of fields

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2024

To my trans 🏳️‍⚧️ kin: You are important. You count. Your presence in this world matters. Your identity and medical needs are valid. Stay with us ♥️ www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Stay With Us — Assigned

Assigned Media wants you to live! And, what keeps us steadfast and ready to meet the moment is the example of other members of our community who refuse to let fear or hopelessness keep them from their...

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Sharena Rice, PhD @sharenarice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Found the Bluesky directory, which is an easy way to search + find starter packs, which makes Bluesky more relevant + enjoyable. Sharing in case anyone finds it helpful :) #starterpacks #starterpack blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory

Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

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Antonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

For the Blueskyers interested in #NeuroAI 🧠🤖, I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂 go.bsky.app/CscFTAr

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Carsen Stringer @computingnature.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Janelia is recruiting AI scientists and theory fellows to collaborate with experimental scientists on hard biological problems - these positions have a considerable level of independence and very competitive salaries. Join our great community! Ai.hhmi.org janelia.org/theoryfellow #neuroscience #AI

AI at hhmi, link ai.hhmi.org; theory fellows, link janelia.org/theoryfellow

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Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

BREAKING NEWS: 3,000+ resident physicians, interns, and fellows across Philadelphia and in Wilmington, DE are unionizing with @cirseiu @SEIU. If successful, 100% of housestaff in Philly be unionized. CIR currently repesents staff at the U Penn and Pennsylvania hospitals

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is Einstein Health Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are 568 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all interns, residents, chief residents, and fellows employed by Einstein Health Newtork.

Pictured are 2 filings from the National Labor Relations Board website showing 2 petitions for certification of a labor organization as the representative of 2 seperate collective bargaining unit. The first employer Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and the second is Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, both are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are 1013 employees in the first proposed bargaining unit, and 500 in the second proposed bargaining unit. Both bargaining units are made up of all interns, residents, chief residents, and fellows employed by the respective health systems.

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I would like to be added! Thanks!

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"With endless rewarding stimulation a fingertip away, onewould assume that boredom has become a rare experience. Yet, the reverse has happened" v interesting reflective piece about the rise of boredom, by Katy Tam & Michael Inzlicht: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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People are increasingly bored in our digital age - Communications Psychology

In recent years, there has been an increase in both reports of boredom and greater use of digital media. Digital media may exacerbate boredom via multiple pathways including dividing attention and red...

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I bought a Ninja Foodi and I have to say: I am glad I was born in this era. What a magnificent machine.

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I meant the first but I do think it can make a little of difference at least it has in more neuro-AI space. However it has not made much difference in the more comp neuro side of things.

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Yeah I think neuroscience is lacking in theory in all levels, and I say this as a theorist. However, I think actually some amount of this will be alleviated by the increase in computational capabilities we have now.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Every (neuro)biologist should read this indeed, so I'll put it here to save you the clicks. #neuroskyence #compneuro #PsychSciSky

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

This week on #MovementMemos, I talk with Antony Loewenstein about how Israel has used Palestine as a laboratory for its tools of surveillance and war-making, and why Netanyahuism poses a global threat. I also talk with Ahmad Abuznaid about the genocide in Gaza. Transcript + audio:

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Israel’s Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally

“This will only grow and worsen,” says author Antony Loewenstein.

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Josué Ortega Caro @josueortc.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Went to see Stop Making Sense for the first time yesterday and I have to say it’s always fun to see where other people pull their inspirations from.

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