iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know what I expected of a thing that is called IceCube, but it somehow wasn't a cubic kilometer of ice.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's theme was unexpectedly "Dikkie Dik and the concept of the Dutch roepnaam" vs. my automatically generated Teams account.

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OH MY GOD THERES A SHEEPQUEL

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking extra dramatic in the evening

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm designing a course for next year and am trying to AI-proof it. Not super easy so far...

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New academic year, new me... Or rather, being told that I should become a new, better communicator me when working with clinicians. I'm just not sure how, when any knowledge I have and they lack means that that knowledge was irrelevant. But any knowledge I lack just proves my general incompetence.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you play American football, you will get CTE. Almost all of 338 ex-players who died in 2008-21 and donated their brains had CTE. It's possible that the other 1374 who died in that period were all fine, but seems unlikely to me. CTE risk is between ~18 and ~99%. Horrifying. @nicoleackermans.com

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the many odd things from these academic freedom avengers: "He should be able to work on this completely discredited idea because he's a philosopher." I guess they think it's a soft bullshit discipline that must/can be completely divorced from other knowledge. Fuck philosophy I guess?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guess you can only be blessed by the bikesharing gods once per week 😭

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I watched "The Residence" because of @technicaltea.show and it was delightful. Netflix hid that from me. Netflix then recommended Mr. Mercedes as more of the same delight and I'd like a word with that algorithm please 😕

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 24/08/2026

Man abhors a vacuum.

SHOULD MEN VACUUM MORE?
Bouke de Vries
Cross-national surveys show that among heterosexual couples who share
a household, women tend to perform more housework than their male
partners. Many feminists believe that this must be unjust, the assumption
being that justice requires an equal distribution of housework between the
sexes. My aim in this contribution is to challenge this view. To do so, I dis-
tinguish three possible interpretations of it. The first says that heterosexual
co-residential partners, construed broadly to include married individuals,
should do as much housework as their partner and not more. The second
interpretation maintains that they should split evenly the housework that
must be done to realize a minimally decent living standard. And the third
maintains that the housework co-residential male and female partners
each perform as a group ought to be equal, whether or not the constituent
loads are equalized on an individual household level. All three versions
are found to be untenable.
Keywords: Housework, domestic labor, romantic
relationships, gender inequality, feminism

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1) looks interesting and I wonder if this would work for neural data 2) o no, yet another thing called bonsai

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Somewhat related to my zbiotics thread: they are not the only ones who publish limited results while making soaring claims. See for example this episode of conspirituality about the book Disrupted Science. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/boo...

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Book Club: How the Internet Disrupted Science — Conspirituality

How the Internet Disrupted Science is an enlightening gaze into the shady world of for-profit and open access scientific publishing. Authors Kent Anderson and Joy Moore join Derek to discuss their exc...

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was going to make fun of podcasters who are selling generic viagra, but at least that's a proven effective medication.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ve been hearing this stupid “Get totally wasted without a hangover with our supplement!” ad everywhere and when a youtube lawyer yelled “Proven effective. We read the whitepaper and so should you!” I snapped and did it. Also, the phrase “rough mornings after drinking” should be banned.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also, we're approaching "will anyone show up to the lecture" season again. How fun 😐

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Well shit man, not using the genAI bots feels more and more untenable. I'd like to be good at my job and not feel like a complete hypocrite (not more than usual anyway).

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Gotta love a list of tips that goes from bare minimum to completely creative ideas that sound like a nightmare in pratice www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings

Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have any of you started an investigator-initiated study in collaboration with a pharma company? How did you approach them? What kind of information should I sent for a first proposal/email?

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This talk also sounded the most alchemical about LLMs. The model only works when the correct incantations are used (you're smart! you're creative!) in combination with the right kind of markdown sigils (*_*). Very Rudolf II

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

While I’m on the topic of still being annoyed by a conference that happened a month ago: I’m in systems-neuroscience (sorta) and was looking forward to Ken Harris’s talk. Instead of new exciting things, we got: 1) a re-introduction to perception as manifolds (it’s fine) and 2) the Big New Thing

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Catching up with my post #FENS2026 notes and I came across something that still bothers me. I'm more frustrated than anything else, so 🧵 In the Brain Debate, the panel discussed what arguments to make to elected officials in favor of the continued use of experimental animals in (neuro)science.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Until we get some more info than a ******** in a tweet, I'm going to assume that Elder Scrolls 6 exists in the same place as ASOIAF 6.

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"But AI companies would never steal from you. You're not a big coder" Well guess what you guys...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"So we've stopped calling you 'killer whales' because frankly it made you sound like aquatic psychopaths." "Oh, okay, cool. Here, hold this sunfish for me a moment will you?"

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The poster session is until 17.30. Why is the the right side of the exhibition hall a ghost town? Half of the posters are gone too. #fens2026

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is today! #fens2026

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Come see Parvathi's poster today! #fens2026

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Presenting today! #fens2026

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And finally on Wednesday afternoon, Parvathi Satheesh will take you from cellular phenotypes to CRISPR-based genome editing in a mouse model of SCA1

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Also on Wednesday afternoon, Nilpawan Roy Chaudhury presents about Abnormalities of the Lurcher Mouse and Diazepam Treatment for Stress Reactivity

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On Wednesday afternoon, check out Amritesh Suresh's poster about Different Population Activity Dynamics during Recall of Spatial Representations across Dorsal Hippocampal CA1 and CA3.

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On Tuesday afternoon, you can learn about Dynamics of Hippocampal Map-switching in Slowly Morphing Environments from @susanleemburg.bsky.social

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Also on Tuesday morning, Siddharth Baindur is presenting his work on Disrupted Spatial Representation Retrieval and Encoding in Large Neuronal Populations in Hippocampal CA1 under NMDA Receptor Blockade 😵‍💫🧠💭

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

On Tuesday morning, Patricia Karkusova will present her poster From Unstable Landmarks to False Beliefs: Hippocampal Information Processing in MK-801 Psychosis Model. 😵‍💫🧠🧭

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neuropilsen @neuropilsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Come check out our posters at #FENS2026!

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Nikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

With #FENS2026 just around the corner, our unofficial @fens.org abstract explorer is back: fens2026.neuronaldynamics.eu • Search abstracts by author, keyword, affiliation, and more • Discover related work using abstract similarity • Save favorites, add notes and tags, and build your own itinerary

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I just learned that the podcast The Digital Period by Judith Zoë Blijden exists. I'm looking forward to listening and if you like to think about technology, data, and being human, I think you will enjoy it as well. Check it out: thedigitalperiod.com

thedigitalperiod.com

Home - The Digital Period

The podcast examining our relationship with technology. 900+ participants 1900+ listens 25+ guests Listen to Season 2 Dating apps & Vulnerability Subscribe to the infrequent newsletter

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Susan Leemburg @susanleemburg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

That's about this thing, btw: www.wsj.com/opinion/a-wa... I first saw the post from @kordinglab.bsky.social, but I've also seen others react like this. I think that's worryingly naive.

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