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“After they annex a whole ass sovereign country, they’ll definitely allocate electoral votes proportionally and run entirely fair elections” This is not the fucking Onion.

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This is what happens when you rely on international student fees to subsidise inadequate government funding for #HigherEducation, and then create a hostile environment for immigration.

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Four recent ethnographies that I thought were pretty good, gives me confidence in the future of anthropology

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Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.

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Leslie Ungerleider (1946 - 2020) was an extraordinary, pioneering neuroscientist. The latest issue of @jocn.bsky.social honors her legacy with articles authored by former colleagues & trainees that highlight critical aspects of her work and its influence https://buff.ly/4156UKw #cogsci #neuroscience

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Check out our latest, led by @marlietandoc.bsky.social!! We find that memory for individual features of objects is rapidly distorted by the objects' category structure. Plus simulations that provide an account of how the hippocampus may contribute to this effect.

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If you're interested, for those that I don't know, here is a thread with some open access articles I've published on Navajo poets and poetry The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem journals.openedition.org/jsa/14602

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it's too late, I've already written up a poorly fitting analogy that makes your position on the matter seem foolish

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how do you say imbécile heureux in English

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Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

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Very excited to share our brand new paper "Self-esteem modulates the similarity of the representation of the self in the brains of others." We show brain patterns for self are reflected brain-to-brain in those of our peers & are influenced by self-evaluative attitudes www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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hey can someone share some introductory texts to quine? specially in his view of ontology?

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being unable to focus in a paper ABOUT attentional mechanisms is the summary of my academic life

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hoping elon will be visited by three spirits this christmas 🙏🏼

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Just wanted to say--as I occasionally did on Twitter--that I hope everyone out there is doing okay. It's a brutal, cruel world, and things are going to get very bad over the next few years (and, ahem, decades/centuries, if only because of climate change), so please take care of yourselves. <3

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Academic social media is surreal bc I'll post something like "Here comes the Big Sad, time to eat 7 burritos" and the official account of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy of Science will like it and comment ":/" or something

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📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

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News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

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Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Credit to the.language.nerds IG

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This link can save my family life by evacuating them from gaza please share it if can’t support . Please retweet it’s will help so much gofund.me/f4cd6a7f

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millions of ppl in the US will cry over a video of a dog being rescued in a flood but can’t understand why i care about a generation of Palestinian children growing up as amputees

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This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

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"Unfortunately, clinical psychology and psychiatry have devoted most of their resources to studying the diagnostic labels that summarize the complex mental health states of people, rather than how biopsychosocial processes give rise to mental health problems." 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Mis ensemble, les 54 pays de l'Afrique sont responsables d'à peine 4 % des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre. À lui seul, le Tchad de Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim est officiellement responsable de… 0,008 % des émissions de la planète. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/212...

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oh wow I love this guy accidentally discovered a glossary in the back of an old bible, turns out to be the only written record of an extinct language which is then used to (partially) resurrect it 🤯

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I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...

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When I will respond to your email

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Neuroscientists are flocking to Bluesky, but X still has ten times more users. My story on the migration, featuring @nicolecrust.bsky.social @russpoldrack.bsky.social @charan-neuro.bsky.social @therealdrdukes.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social + more! www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

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I worry that in analytic philosophy we attain neither the epistemic benefits of scientific work or the aesthetic benefits of more literary work. So it seems like a sort of worst of all worlds. It's like we opted for taking Aristotle's aesthetics and Plato's rigour or something.

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I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A colleague has asked if there's a good 5-10 minute video explaining how Large Language Models work, both technically and how they create material that feels like language, from the perspective of linguistics. I personally don't know anything, thought I'd put it out there in case you do!

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what do you do when a fibromyalgia episode starts in the middle of a work shift … hurts so bad yet nothing makes it better 😔

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Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

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𝗜𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? "Recurrent systems naturally implement many-to-many mappings between their units, leading to inherent plurifunctionality and many irreducible high-order mechanisms." doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

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The Vocal Fries made it into the New York Times as one of the top 5 podcasts for word nerds! #linguistics

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Bernie Sanders just spent ~5 minutes on the Senate floor listing horrors American doctors in Gaza saw, as he brings resolutions to block $20bil of weapons to Israel. Those testimonies were collected by a doctor named Feroze Sidhwa, who I interviewed last month: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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the whole thing is such a joke!! demonstrates such a shallow understanding of gender and sexuality and arrives to very weird conclusions… not surpringsily THIS is the kind of questions the author does on Quora. the preconceived notion of gender as some kind of delusion is the behavior of a biggot!

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being productive today !

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Academic Memories is a project designed to help undergrad & junior researchers learn more and succeed in science. There are some great articles and guides, like this one on how to prepare for a presentation/talk about your (desired) research, written by me :) www.academicmemories.com/presenting-r...

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academics are amazing because each of them, in getting a phd, wrote an entire book that nobody will ever read (their dissertation). you would think that would lead to total ego death but let me tell you buddy

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