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Rob Woodry

@robwoodry.bsky.social
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NYU PhD Candidate | NIH F99/K00 DSPAN Scholar | Computational Neuroscience & Psychology 🇨🇺🇺🇸 rwoodry.github.io I use neuroimaging and computational models to understand how we use the visual parts of the brain to remember and imagine stuff

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
talent gets all the credit, where grit does all the work
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NeuroSI(s)
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think I’m gonna head to Okinawa for a couple weeks in January to celebrate the PHD, turning 30, postdoc job, and grant Plan to do a lot of seeing, drawing, and writing
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NYU’s Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology are jointly running the Application Support Group again (I’m on the org committee)! Keep an eye out for information to apply soon, we aim to provide 1on1 PHD application mentorship with existing PhD students and postdocs at NYU
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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If there are any PhD hopefuls on here, I wanted to share a few thoughts on your timeline for the upcoming admissions cycle, with apps due starting mid-November. What should you be doing right now? ✔️ Generating a list of schools ✔️ Reaching out to possible recommenders 🧵!
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

Whether you call it New York City, Nueva Yol, or PueblaYork, Hispanic and Latino New Yorkers are at the heart of the city we love. 

From the labor activism of Luisa Moreno, to the marches of the Young Lords in the South Bronx in 1969. 

From Juan Rodriguez, a free, mixed-race Dominican sailor who became the first non-indigenous resident of Manhattan in 1613, to Jose Alvarado, NYCHA's very own Knicks Champion. 

From the Nuyorican Poets Café on the Lower East Side, to Toñita's in Williamsburg, New York City would not be New York City without its Hispanic Heritage. 

And yet, more than three-quarters of Latino New Yorkers struggle to afford living in New York City. As we mark Hispanic Heritage Month, we remember that Hispanic and Latino families must be at the heart of our affordability agenda.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
there's a dog here sniffing people's luggage at baggage claim but it's not like a police K9, it's just somebody's lapdog. absolute hustler. just doing it for the love of the game
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
Actual technology with deep, generous purpose remains extremely cool and good. I miss feeling good about machines and computers
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 10/09/2026
Are you saying that the Wolverine game lacks a certain x-factor
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Some more recent sketches I enjoyed Ivy | Toad #artsky #sketch #ink
Photo of a sketchbook. On the left page is an ink sketch of a building facade whose upper half is covered in ivy. On the right is a stylized ink sketch of a Toad half submerged in water
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do we prevent memories from competing to guide attention? More distinct hippocampal representations for competing memories are linked to precise preparatory coding in visual cortex & more accurate eye movements to target locations. Thrilled to share this work by the incomparable Serra Favila!
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Hippocampal mechanisms underlying the resolution of competition in memory and perception - Nature Communications
Memory and perception both require selecting behaviorally relevant information. Here, the authors show that more distinct hippocampal memories are linked to precise anticipatory signals in visual cort...
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/09/2026
Categories are fake, there will always be weird edge cases where the boundaries fail, this is just a fact. The question is not "is this category REAL or TRUE" the question is "is this category USEFUL" because categories are tools, not features of the universe.
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am once again tormented by *thoughts* www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
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Is There a Wrong Way To Chase Your Dreams? Some Thoughts Post WorldCon. | Micaiah Johnson
Follow me to a scene from a few years back: A writer whose name rhymes with Mariah is sitting in the lobby during an SFF con whose name rhy
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“they learned it by reading” goes HARD
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pretty happy with how this sketch turned out from a visit to @mblscience.bsky.social #artsky
An ink sketch of a bell tower at the edge of the water, next to a tree
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/08/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Aug After forcing trans service menbers out, the Pentagon is now stiffing many for tens of thousands of dollars in severance pay they were promised, leaving many of them destitute and on the street. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My short scifi story “Coda” from last year that was solicited by Future Tense Fiction Magazine has been selected for The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2025. Super honored it was picked, I’m unsure of my ability to write super short and tend to write novellas so this was a really great surprise.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the democratizing argument feels weird because art has always been free but genai is clearly pay to play
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
**I wish more academic folks on the left with strong anti-racist views would sign this “i support a self-proclaimed racist” letter**
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
what scholarship
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Luis Cedeño-Rosario, PhD @luisci22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It is NOA day! 🎉 I feel blessed and excited to receive the K99/R00 from NIH NIGMS! Thanks to everyone who has supported me and continues to support me on this journey. I appreciate you all! 🙏🏾✨🧪 @uofubiochem.bsky.social @rutterlab.bsky.social
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 13/08/2026
Hey everybody. I’ve seen the statement by Matt Karch, the CEO of Saber Entertainment, and all of the truly horrendous things he said about me. I think it should be obvious to anyone who reads that statement that he’s lashing out because he did not want people to know there was AI use in the game.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 11/08/2026
And now that I'm back home, it's time to break out the reminder that we are in the midst of a subscription drive to increase staff and contributor pay to celebrate our 20th anniversary issue in October. Subscribe here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Text reads: We're running a subscription drive!
Clarkesworld will publish its 20th anniversary issue in October and we'd like to recognize this milestone by giving our staff and contributors a raise. Each new subscriber brings us one step closer to reaching our goal.

We are within 200 new subscribers of our target!

On the right, there is a cover of the recent issue. Clarkesworld robot looks up at the text from the bottom left corner.
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Another master study of a piece from @mikemignola.bsky.social’s quarantine sketchbook Incredibly fun shapes and line work, learning a lot! #artsky
Two images side by side. The image on the left is a master study sketch of the image on the right. The image on the right is from Mike mignola’s quarantine sketchbook, and is of an octopus-type creature with a top hat
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/08/2026
This week I sat down with Bernie Wagenblast, the voice of the NYC subway system - a sound that any New Yorker can recognize almost instantly. We discussed how she got the job, her experience as a trans woman in New York City, and so much more. Watch the full stream below: youtu.be/XuAqiaCvxT8?...
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lea’s great, the mentioned study is awesome, and this is cool
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
/me looks at DUNE film ads plastered all over my streaming channels and YouTube, nine hundred podcasts about THE WAY OF KINGS, and C&P on most AP English lists... "disappearing??"
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John Travolta as Vincent Vega: Lost and Confused
Alt: A gif taken from Pulp Fiction. John Travolta (as Vincent Vega) looks very confused.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 05/08/2026
"The guy I’d just told to fuck off on Nextdoor lived on my block, and was chatting with my—no, OUR—neighbors..." @amybrown.xyz on becoming the most reviled Nextdoor user in El Cerrito:
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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tomorrow you'll be able to find some work from my lab: First, my PhD student Chris's poster "Learning in a Visual Search Meta-Task: Sharper or Stronger Attention?" Poster B93, Rosenthall, Tuesday 2-3:45pm We ask what mechanisms can support learning when search targets change every trial. #CCN2026
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Collette is right on target: Fight back and we can win. Write your Senator now to make sure its included in the final bill
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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Very excited to attend #CCN2026 this week and to present various projects from my lab! Here's a list of our posters and talks in case you'd like to see what we've been up to.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026
this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
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The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
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Rob Woodry @robwoodry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My line work (no shading tho) master study of @mikemignola.bsky.social ”man crab” from his Covid sketchbook Took a few hours and lots of erasing but learned a lot!
A photo of two sketches side by side. The left sketch is “man crab” from Mike Mignolas Covid sketchbook, the right is my master study of the non-shading linework
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/07/2026
We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026
Now serving: a new era for small business.
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