iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods! 📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking 🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration Let’s dive in! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Interesting scheme for categorizing sensory systems- from Ching Kung, motivated by exploring sensory needs beginning with single-cell organisms.

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Britton Sauerbrei @brittonsauerbrei.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching. A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀 github.com/danionella/w...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 15/05/2025

We made a film! About Michael Saylor and his amazing magic money machine. Take bitcoin, add mind-boggling amounts of financial engineering and a huge dose of very online crypto hype, and suddenly a lot of people are making a LOT of money www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Wj...

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Michael Saylor's $40bn bitcoin bet | FT Film

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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

if you love the handbasket and want to keep it going strong, quote post this with why you’re a paid subscriber! i’m 200 away from a major goal. LFG. www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

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The Handbasket

100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

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Michael Orger @daniobrain.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.

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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It is of course painful that all this is gone.. Gottfried Benn on Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6R4...

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Gottfried Benn im Interview 1956

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“Relevant computations happen in here too” Maimon on the limitations of pure connectivity data in the fly

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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Whether foundation models are the answer or not, what should be mentioned is that scaling up neuroscience is also an ... experimental problem, not just an archival one. I think the IBL experiments are maybe the most complex experiments that have been run at scale and they are mid-level complexity.

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Daryl Gohl @darylgohl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

University of Minnesota Genomics Center Model Organism Sequencing Service Flyer. $25 for a 30x Drosophila genome.

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

if anyone happens to be a physicist thinking about this offer, drop me a DM and I will give glowing character reference for one of the profs there who did an exchange to Exeter university a few years ago and is an absolutely top lad www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/ac...

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Safe Place For Science : Aix Marseille Université prête à accueillir les scientifiques américains | Aix Marseille Université

Dans un contexte où certains scientifiques aux États-Unis peuvent se sentir menacés ou entravés dans leurs recherches, notre université annonce mettre en place le programme Safe Place For Science dédi...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In the newest issue of Science, meself, @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi and James Evans, "Large AI Models are Cultural and Social Technologies." More soon ... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The horseshoe theory, but for animal and AI consciousness

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 24/02/2025

The youth gender divide is real and important, but it can mask the fact that the populist right is gaining ground among young women as well as young men in many countries (this was also true in the US). AfD tripled their vote share among 18-24 year old men, but the same was true of young women.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

12. In the medium to longer term, perhaps developing some of the tools that it had begun to experiment with as an alternative to dollar payments in Trump's first term. Mutterings about the strategic value of separate European digital payments systems are likely to get a _lot_ louder.

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇 www.rnd.de/politik/bund...

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Warum ich erstmals in meinem Leben keine Wahl habe

Unser US-Korrespondent hat wie Tausende andere Auslandsdeutsche in den Vereinigten Staaten bis heute seine Briefwahlunterlagen nicht erhalten. Deshalb kann er seine Stimme bei der Bundestagswahl nicht...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/02/2025

ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm. This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country. RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ACADEMIC WORKERS UNITE!
DEFEND PUBLIC
RESEARCH FUNDING
JOIN THE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
FEBRUARY 19, 4:00PM
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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What are the best benchmarks and the SOTA on Sound Source Localization? arxiv.org/html/2409.06... seems to suggest that VGG-SS can be largely solved with video only?

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Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy to see Helen DeWitt finally getting her due.

Photo of books on a table with a sign "Timeless fiction" and the book "The Last Samurai" by Helen DeWitt on the table.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

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Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore

If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

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Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Stocks are up cause of Jevons Paradox. As soon as they went down in price, everyone could afford to buy more of them.

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Tom Baden @neurofishh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

a GCaMP tadpole for #fluorescenceFriday as an introductory hello on BlueSky :) Transgenic by Lora Sweeney (ISTA), and picci by our postdoc Michi Forsthofer

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

by the one and only @urslucasboehm.bsky.social, who just joined bluesky

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Benjamin Judkewitz @benjulab.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

We’re seeking a postdoc/student excited about animal communication, brain-wide circuits, microscopy, singing fish (Danionella), wacky ideas and who likes to: get things done, experiment, analyze, ask, learn, help and cooperate. jlab.berlin

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Hessam Akhlaghpour @thehessam.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Are transformers/LLMs actually Turing-complete? (i.e., capable of computing anything a standard programming language can compute) I look at 16 papers on the subject. My conclusion is that, despite the claims, no one has proved this yet. lifeiscomputation.com/transformers...

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Philosophy Bits @philosophybits.com · 13/10/2024

“What is your aim in philosophy? — To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations #philosophy #philsky

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

How can we convince neuroscientists to act like serious people in public.

“Mind uploading has been a science fiction, but now mind uploading — for a fly, at least — is becoming mainstream science,” Dr. Seung said.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

It's weird that you never see "Universe probably made of glorp and gravity is a myth, says biologist," but science news outlets will print literally any time-cube bullshit a physicist coming up for air after a bong hit makes up about brains.

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

One example of a negative probability, which Taleb mentions here, is the probability of learning anything from this word salad

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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Sunday Jazz #1: Tangens - Sam Rivers / Alexander von Schlippenbach ( destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/tangens)

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Maximilian Hoffmann @mh123.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Re-reading "Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience" They write: 'Tasks are not experimental paradigms, even though it is common [...] to encounter phrasing like “we ran the movie-watching task.”' - it feels like this covers 99.9% of use cases, though... #neuroscience

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