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would it be more prudent to get a masters in applied math or computer science

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

well i won't be violating any actual laws so... but seriously what in the absolute expletive is this nonsense? you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro. #iwillnotcomplyinadvance

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated. Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will. Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵

submitted 62 days ago • 87 comments

hey @ucirvine.bsky.social why isn't our chancellor among the signatories here?

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

reminder that the scaffolding for this already exists with mental health and addiction courts and drug treatment facilities that are glorified prison labor

submitted 63 days ago • 42 comments

Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This is cool. Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID. Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation. idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Tomorrow is No Kings Day, I'll be protesting in Falmouth. See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

It has been weeks since he was detained, and there are still no specific accusations about why they revoked his visa and detained him. He didn’t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

1. In 2025, over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been filed across the United States - the most in US history. Most bills target transgender people. The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

Today I gave my first-ever political speech at a walk-out organized by @aaup.bsky.social (I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂) Here is what I said 🧵

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments

The language of "Science", "objective reality", and "biological fact" is being mobilised towards the oppression of trans people in the UK and elsewhere—just as it has been mobilised towards the oppression of women, queers, disabled people, black people, and the colonised the world over

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

LLMs are able to achieve Spinoza’s second type of cognition but not his third type of cognition

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners! The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Harvard. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

submitted 70 days ago • 408 comments

Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 70 days ago • 19 comments

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at so many conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

submitted 70 days ago • 38 comments

Rutgers started some excellent trouble. Yesterday, UMass Amherst Faculty Senate passed a Mutual Academic Defense Compact resolution, calling on the 250 Public and Land Grant institutions to come to each others' aid if the fascists infringe on freedom of inquiry, or speech. #academicsky

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 72 days ago • 116 comments

Therapists at Kaiser went on a hunger strike in Los Angeles to protest "factory" like working conditions and the automation of healthcare. I went down to the picket line on the last day to talk to the workers, some of whom hadn't eaten for 100 hours. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...

submitted 72 days ago • 19 comments

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Or is there more to optogenetics to understand the brain?? Discussion with Kevin Mitchell (@wiringthebrain.bsky.social), Henry Potter and Peter Tse who joined us. Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon now online! youtu.be/sVyFttbuOLQ

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

i drop this when people are prone to click bait in the NYT 1—don’t, that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day 2—you don’t need to listen; the thesis is “we think people who want minorities dead are interesting & good & we always have” 3—STOP CLICKING, STOP LINKING, STOP PAYING FOR THIS

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 74 days ago • 167 comments

The Massachusetts House has taken a major step towards banning trans athletes in sports. It would be the first blue state to do so. The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill. This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/m...

submitted 74 days ago • 60 comments

neuroscientists will describe technological and scientific horrors beyond our compression and be like “we hope to use these techniques to treat depression and anxiety 😌”

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

it could not really get more obvious that these guys aren't just nazis, they're nazis who are hoping to become the largest open slave market on the planet.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

new link, through which I can get donations within two days or sooner. help me get through this struggle, which is becoming more difficult by the day. I am currently displaced and suffering indescribably. Please share so that I can survive and seek refuge as soon as possible.ً

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 77 days ago • 921 comments

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submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The Trump administration swiftly cancelled dozens of international student visas Friday at Stanford and University of California campuses, including UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One UC San Diego student was taken into custody at the border for deportation: www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 79 days ago • 36 comments