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Kameron Decker Harris

@kamdh.bsky.social
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Computational neuroscientist and computer science professor Western Washington University Applied mathematics PhD Fan of Nature glomerul.us

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DurstewitzLab @durstewitzlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In our #NeurIPS2026 spotlight “Parallel-in-Time Training of Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamical Systems (DS) Reconstruction” (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12683) we speed up training of nonlinear RNNs on time series from chaotic DS by >100x by combining DEER with generalized teacher forcing.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dept of War branded cookie, wish me luck
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good local reporting
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SIAM MDS '26 registration fees: $625 (member), $425 (1-day), $845 (non-member) 🤦 www.siam.org/conferences-...
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MDS26 Registration | SIAM
Registration information for the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS26)
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last visit to Allen Inst we were given a tour of open scope by Severine Durand who told us about this wild work
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool work! Despite being someone who has worked on random models, it makes sense there would also be structure. An interesting question for me (which would require connectomics for multiple animals) is whether there's still variability for this and if the structure shown here is just "on average."
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nice piece, thanks for the gift article. I appreciate the compressed sensing history interwoven. I'm still working in that area!
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Preprint time! This is a cool one. Complex systems, be they neural nets, interacting genes, or power grids, can produce diverse dynamics-- things like point attractors, limit cycles, and chaos. The dynamic landscape you get depends on how elements interact. But those interactions can also change!
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Caught an incredible show by Johnny Blue Skies (the jam band version of Sturgill Simpson). Definitely check them out if you can! I went with my father in law Alan who is a longtime deadhead and retired infectious disease professor
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Agrawal lab has published its first paper! "Sticking the landing: leg mechanosensory feedback coordinates the transition from flight to landing" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This project was led by a technician in the lab, Tse-Wei (Wayne) Kuo. Brief 🧵on what we found
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I read another post on Terry Tao's blog by Nestor Guillen where he makes the great case about LLMs being cultural tech (h/t @alisongopnik.bsky.social ) terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...
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Happy, those able to know the causes of things
[This is a guest post by Nestor Guillen, crossposted from his blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Keywords: LLMs, cultural tech…
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reading this piece. I think this point is particularly important in math because, unfortunately, standards of exposition are really too low. How many seminars have you attended and understood very little? terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/d...
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Corinna Gebehart @corinnagebehart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This article is so frustrating to read. First, this is not just “google’s brain” - there has been so much effort made by scientists around the world to get these connectomes to where they are today, and none of that is recognized here, instead it’s all turned into “big tech company 👍🏻”. And second -
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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Most effective AI regulation legislation would have terrible side effects, leading to loss of privacy, concentration of power, and restrictions on free research. But there is an alternative: regulate only closed-source (or closed-weight) AI. Keep open-source and open-weight AI unregulated.
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
a good summary of how we got here and what it means. i would add is that everyone who works with the fly connectome datasets knows that they all far from "complete". each one, though monumental, has major reconstruction/annotation issues, not to mention the lack of a peripheral nervous system.
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Now published in PLoS Computational Biology! A cortical model combining geometric wave propagation with connectome-wired fast-conducting non-local projections (which strongly shape rapid stimulus-evoked responses but contribute little to slower spontaneous fluctuations) doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Modeling the influences of non-local connectomic projections on geometrically constrained cortical dynamics
Author summary Despite the complex wiring patterns found in the cortical connectome, many dynamical properties of macroscale cortical activity can be surprisingly well explained by treating the cortex...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is not just a wake up call for AI in research, it's an inadvertent comment on what needs to change in research culture: "the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas"
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism"
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What you are seeing in math right now is a consequence of the jagged frontier, and a precursor of what is to come in other professions. Yes, mathematicians do math, but they also have other tasks they view as important (mentor students, maintain a community, safeguard the future) that AI can't do.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@bingbrunton.bsky.social @tuthill.bsky.social
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spot. On.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 09/09/2026
I am suddenly much less excited about all of these AI-powered breakthroughs in math. ai-frontiers.org/articles/ai-...
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AI Could End Encryption as We Know It | AI Frontiers
Govind Pimpale, Sep 09, 2026 — Public-key encryption keeps your messaging and web browsing private, but it depends on shaky math assumptions. AI-powered math might break it.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Awesome story
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kid is getting pretty good at this game
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"At this very moment, we have an emerging alien—and uncontrollable—intelligence that bears scrutiny" Why do pple keep saying the models are "uncontrollable"? Any of them could be put in an unhackable sandbox--these exist! Any of these companies could shut any of these models off at any time.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everyone's favorite time of year: the Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. Economics especially spicy this year. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
War is costly, who needs science? democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 03/09/2026
#SpikingNeuralNetwork people - this year's SNUFA workshop is live! Talks by: ⭐ Eugene Izhikevich ⭐ @giuliadangelo.bsky.social ⭐ Mihai Petrovici ⭐ Susanne Schreiber Submit your abstracts by Sept 25th. Registration is open! More info at: snufa.net/2026/ cc @fzenke.bsky.social @albada.bsky.social
Picture of the SNUFA spiky hedgehog
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Vamos! Bellingham schools, you're lagging
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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 03/09/2026
Due to high demand, Mount Vernon School District expanded its dual language program to two more elementary schools. Students in these programs learn in both Spanish and English, with a goal of developing strong academic skills in both languages.
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In more Mount Vernon elementary schools, students are learning in both Spanish, English  | Cascadia Daily News
Expanded dual language program on par with what happens in ‘rest of the world’
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🗓️ Update from the DeepMath team. Dates have had to change to Oct 29-30, and we're extending the abstracts deadline until Sept 15! Please consider sending your #ml #ai #deeplearning theory work our way
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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/n
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The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality
Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social for including my perspective on how the funding situation affects those of us doing research at primarily undergrad institutions
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🧪⚛️ This is quite astonishing: directly measuring propagators to test Feynman path integral core assumptions that quantum probabilities are a coherent superposition of all possible paths with equal-magnitude amplitudes, and each path’s phase is determined by the classical action (in units of ħ).
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Direct experimental test of Feynman’s path integral postulates with single photons
The experimental validation of fundamental thought experiments in quantum mechanics has profoundly advanced quantum science and technology while deepening our understanding of quantum mechanics. Howev...
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thai massage therapist
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really good reporting on what it's like in smoke country. Luckily, we have only had a few days of bad smoke here in Bellingham, but I feel for the folks closer to the fires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital
A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief?
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is wild. >1/2 of HC synapses disappear in artificial hibernation, come back in same/similar locations & memories intact. ~1/2 of engram synapses-between two memory-tagged cells-are clustered on dendrites, those preferentially spared. Not biggest synapses. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This shows the visual abstract and a paragraph from the extended abstract of the linked article.
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Julijana Gjorgjieva @gjorjulijana.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Supper happy to see this published. In short, we show how dendrites and inhibition allow neural circuits to learn new representations while protecting representations that are already stored in the network. See below for a detailed post by @cmiehl.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We're trying to make it easier for young'uns to enroll and succeed, hoping it works out!
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 17/08/2026
Excellent work from 404. Respect for books is such a basic value that signals so many things about people.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
DeepMath 2026 is coming up this fall in Ohio! Anything related to mechanistic understanding of network learning is welcome. For more see: deepmath-conference.com
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 14/08/2026
The Danes have a word for it: nærvær.
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Found some old stuff in Mom's basement
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good article here www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Everybody needs a personal AI policy. Just ask Hank Green.
How can we reap AI’s benefits without melting our brains in the process?
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Kameron Decker Harris @kamdh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Right now, too much of global science works like a stadium with open doors but expensive tickets." While this is about Latin America, the obscene costs of disseminating science also affect researchers at teaching-focused institutions with small budgets
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