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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

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Heritability ≠ genetic causation Tuberculosis has a heritability close to schizophrenia - yet it's caused by an infection. How could that be? A great read on why schizophrenia genetics has disappointed us in the search for a cause. 👇

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new blue sky mission statement just dropped

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I'm not a huge NFL fan but this was pretty interesting

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In this article, experts (incl. @drdamienfair.bsky.social, @tuite002.bsky.social and @sdukehan.bsky.social) offer a Portable MRI Research ELSI Checklist w/practical operational guidance for researchers contemplating using this technology. #PortableMRI #Neuroimaging www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Philly Bluesky peeps: to escape the madness my 11yo and I are going to Philly this weekend. Any recs? I dragged her to Monks last time so can't do that again, and we did the Museum of Art. We love art, music, donuts, shopping, beer (well, I do), weird things.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Congrats @lukejchang.bsky.social!

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Neuroscientists also had strong reason to believe this wasn't the only way 🧠 😁

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Two reasons why this isn't great for the AI bubble. One, if you are convinced by DeepSeek, this spells big trouble for those extremely bloated AI companies, their energy suppliers, etc. If AI can be done at an order of mag cheaper, others will follow 1/n

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DeepSeek R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-r1s-bold-bet-on-reinforcement-learning-how-it-outpaced-openai-at-3-of-the-cost/ #AI #DeepSeek (super interesting article)

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Can't see Ange surviving if Spurs lose this one. Even a draw will be tough. They won't go down but even being in wiff of relegation will be too much

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How population stratification makes environments look like genes. A short 🧵:

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This is especially important if you live in a red state. Many red states have invested heavily in biomed at their flagship colleges, with a big emphasis on NIH funding. Your house rep, senator, even governor needs to hear how wrecking the NIH this will destroy that investment

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THEM: I can't stand it. ME: [under my breath] I know you planned it THEM: What? ME: Nothing. [under my breath] Imma set it straight this Watergate THEM: What? ME: What?

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

all the discussions on here of how to reconceptualize masculine virtue are well-taken, but it's also worth considering why we are framing ideas of duty, honor, integrity as the province of men

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

I really hope someone smart is out there building a communities-friendly app on ATProtocol. So many people I know stay on F***book for local community connections, news etc

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Highlighting the last one and circulating it on the dept listserv without further comment

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@cmzparker5.bsky.social went for a run today in Brookland, nice to see all the neighbors had shoveled. But every single city (or fed? for the bridge) sidewalk was not shoveled and dangerous. Unbelievable neglect.

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