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elisennesh.bsky.social
Abolish the value function!
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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Doing the size comparison that really matters

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Full employment, withdrawal from Afghanistan, Executive Order 13988 (rescinded by Trump), federal documentation for trans individuals (also rescinded by Trump), 183.6 billion dollars in student loan forgiveness…

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 13 hours ago • 610 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzh...

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Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public). www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

submitted 16 hours ago • 266 comments

Unlike the rest of you, I think about Warhammer 40k

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The key takeaway is that people hate the GOP bill when they learn what's in it, but most people don't know what's in it. One of the most important things we can do is keep sharing and talking to people about the fact that Republicans are cutting Medicaid & SNAP to give tax breaks to billionaires.

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This is a big reason why the tech oligarch/DOGE world thinks they can blow up NSF and NIH. We cannot overstate this: It is so full of shit. This is not real science or research, which is a creative endeavor. “AI scientists” would not have built CAR-T therapies and will not treat Alzheimer’s.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons rdcu.be/epxkE - temporal delay discounting and reward magnitude are simultaneously mapped in mouse dopamine neurons

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Interesting preprint: functional connectivity between pairs of neurons in V1 isn't about tuning properties nearly as much as it is about which neurons engage with pupil diameter. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... IMO we should be looking more often to neuromodulator receptor profiles in cortex

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"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

i think people who use that slogan also elide the possibility that both sides may have independently discovered non-mutually exclusive things are wrong with your work

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I've been wondering this for months now tbh

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

The problem with this approach is there's no political program accompanying it, which Netanyahu is doing by design. It's penny wise, pound foolish. The U.S. learned this the hard way with Afghan mujahideen. Israel apparently wants to learn again.

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"They also said they now feel overwhelmed by economic anxiety, making “traditional milestones,” like buying a home or saving for kids’ college, “feel impossible,” an analysis of the research said." what gets me: no one pretends to have or want solutions to these www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Today, I learned internet leftists are powerless, I owe all of my rights to them, and liberals are genocidal lunatics no better than Republicans and also of course they all voted Kamala, how dare you suggest otherwise. At this point, I’m just owning the deliberate epistemic closure via block.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Again, noting the way "The People" stands in for actual small-d democratic work on this stuff. Voters are fickle and difficult; The People are all standing out of frame just waiting for Chuck Schumer to see how powerful we are

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