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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2026

What happens when access to training becomes a catalyst for something bigger? For Gideon Alex, a computational neuroscience workshop run by @trendcamina.bsky.social helped open the door to a network of students, faculty, and organizers working to expand scientific opportunity across Africa.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are you getting a quantitative PhD and looking to apply those skills to #neuroscience? Come join the next cohort of Shanahan Fellows at the @alleninstitute.org!

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2026

"An exciting opportunity to make fundamental discoveries." The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Experience in #neuroscience is not needed. 🌟Apply by Dec. 1: bit.ly/4h762LH

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The new Studio D3 Fellowships are open for anyone interested in creative approaches in theoretical and mathematical biology. Come join us!

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 15/09/2026

Applications are open for the Studio D3 Fellowship at the Allen Institute! This 3-year fellowship gives early-career scientists the freedom to pursue creative, high-impact ideas in biology alongside Institute scientists and Studio D3 Affiliates. 🌟Apply by Dec. 1: bit.ly/4rgbTmD

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great. Now talk about banning crypto and making sure criminals in the administration see justice. Remember voting against impeachment?

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune

Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

here's a definitive refutation of this Telegraph piece, written by a much better writer than Page who you might have heard of, 50 years ago libcom.org/article/star...

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Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock

An essay by Michael Moorcock on the saturation of Fascistic and authoritarian themes and messages in Science Fiction literature.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, the beloved global entertainment icon who sold more than 100 million records and whose songwriting prowess and sure-handed approach to her career reshaped the face of country music, popular music, and the entertainment industry at large, has died. 🕊️

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And here we are: bsky.app/profile/thed...

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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 20/08/2026

DYK the Allen Cell Catalog now includes disease-specific cell line collections? 🧫✨ Each collection carries mutations associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - the most common genetic heart condition in the world. Full catalog: bit.ly/4u00PtG @coriellinstitute.bsky.social

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I thought you guys said “biscuit”.

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Artur Czeszumski @arturczeszumski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Note that you didn’t need to know anyone called it that.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Could not agree more. I can almost never remember the names of stuff and too many times I realized I’ve made up my own name no one else uses. Learn concepts and rederive.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes. (Excepting that sometimes folks are loose with terminology and call any field an “operator”.)

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The initial conditions for such might be reasonably assumed to be a counting process, e.g. particles are uniformly distributed across configuration space. Using the Doi-Peliti transformation simplifies these initial conditions. We did this with the Kuramoto work.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It comes up if you define a path integral for any kind of counting-type process. For example, the path integral for a Klimontovich equation (continuity equation) essentially "counts" the number of particles in some neighborhood.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'd need to see more to say for certain, but it sounds like you're doing a reasonable thing and then defining a change of variables to something that looks like Doi-Peliti. If so, we called that a "Dot-Peliti transformation".

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If they give you a hard time about a derivation, you have my permission to say "Michael said it works this way." 😀

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Which path integral? I can define a path integral for a point process in terms of the measured configuration variable or I can define it with a Doi-Peliti construction. The DP approach yields a bilinear action for a Poisson process, which is one of its advantages.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You are talking apples and oranges. Doi-Peliti is about the operator construction, which you then use to define a path integral.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t recall questioning your credentials and I certainly apologize if I did so unintentionally.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yikes. Sorry, I did not mean to start or continue any kind of fight. I’ll wager in a face to face conversation you and I would largely agree on these topics. We certainly seem to agree on the potential and capability of @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You have impostor syndrome. It’s more common than folks admit. I’ll tell you at what career stage it goes away when I find out myself.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Demonstrated success, particularly in a self driven activity, seems like an extraordinary indicator.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What you just described was “substantial undergraduate experience with demonstrated commitment and drive”. Not clear how that doesn’t look good on paper.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Interviews are, of course, notoriously subject to implicit and confirmation bias, not to mention the limited scale of the measurement. I could easily imagine someone like @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social failing an interview because of the way her lack of confidence might appear to certain people.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That having been said, it is (to my understanding, I could be wrong) the best predictor of college performance…as measured by GPA. It should not be surprising that among the data available to admissions committees the best predictor of one measurement is a similar measurement.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Best” and “good” are not the same thing. I brought that up not to advocate for just using GPA but to highlight the difficulty of the question.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What background did you have before starting your postbac?

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think you’ve got the idea. What is needed is a reliable way of determining these things though. Interviews generally won’t do it, I think. You need a measure of something that will translate that you can be confident in. The best predictor of college performance is GPA, for example.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I guess let me ask the question differently. What are the predictors that someone would be successful in such a program, given the lack of traditional technical experience?

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Any technical requirements or is everyone coming in "cold", so to speak?

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's more than making QFT understandable. The Wilsonian picture underlies how we think about the entire structure of physics.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026

I got curious and checked “Last of the Mohicans,” and while it’s true that the prose is starchy, this opening paragraph is a banger and you should not deny yourself the pleasure of the effort.

T was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practised native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem, that in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

John Crowley (1942-2026) locusmag.com/2026/08...

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As for the article that uses these images, I'd be curious to see counter-points.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Amusingly, I asked Google's AI if the other image in the article is an homage of anything and got this reply:

An image of a Google AI response about images of which a particular image is an homage. Notably, Google responds as if I'd shared the other image in the article, which references Spider-man #50.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's surreal to see an homage to a page from a 60s era Spider-man comic as the illustration on the main page of The Atlantic.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How would you structure such a program?

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not symmetric either. One must ask if it is even reflexive. 😀

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

She has an excellent example of a category of privilege with an equivalence to a subcategory of natural numbers with divisor as the relation, and from there to a category of sets with inclusion.

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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yeah, it seems to occupy a strange position between popular science book and textbook. Honestly there should probably be more of these.

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