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I wrote an opinion column for the local newspaper in southern NH where I am from. Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration! Please consider doing this in your hometown! #SciAdvocate 🧪👩‍🔬 www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

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Novel idea that agents can underweight time spent outside versus inside reward pursuit, still obeying a reward maximization rule (i.e., not suboptimal). Maybe we should rethink what it means to be impulsive? New reviewed preprint in eLife by @hushulab.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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I'm not sure if AI is the solution, but I'm almost pretty sure that paying $51M to a CONsulting firm is not... www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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If you're 'pausing' grad school admissions, does it mean that you are not obligated to return the application fees?

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Universities were closed down for three years... to align them with the revolutionary and political Islam.

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I land at SFO and the first thing I crave is a juicy mission burrito. El Farolito it is!

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Here it is finally: Our mathematical methods book for life scientists! Aimed at advanced undergrads and beginning grad students, plus all those who want a deeper look at the math behind quantitative biology. @portugueslab.bsky.social. 1/3

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I'm biased, we are collaborating. But there is a reason we are collaborating: I find Shervin to be one of the brightest and kindest scientists I've had the opportunity to meet. This is a great opportunity if you're considering grad school

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It's gonna be fine...

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NIH scientific staff that I've met so far (POs, SRO, IM scientists) are among the most brilliant and passionate scientists I've met. I've learned so many things from my interactions with them, not only about my career but also on how to think like a scientist... What happened on Friday is a shame

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Time traveling, in Wisconsin

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Remember. If the core of your argument involves: "but this will hurt US dominance in science", you're part of the problem. Think twice and take your comprehensive exam one more time.

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I'm at a point in my life/career that I think I should start watching old films, again. I started with the big Lebowski last night. What shall I watch next? Good Fellas? Pulp Fiction? The Before trilogy (this might need another 20 years)? Films are a different beast, when you rewatch them...

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Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊 Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs. Paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend (are they, really?). So, hello darkness my old friend. Hello, Elsevier and NPG (and admin offices). Let's fight together. You will get a big chunk of this, if we win. Ok?

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Let's take a guess. What's the news bomb that he's gonna drop to help us forget the 15%? Unis losing tax-exempt status? Taxing endowments?

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I love the family of Neuropixel devices. They have standardized neuroscience tools, offered at cost to research labs, work out of the box, and keep improving. Thank you all, for all the efforts (and to the non-profit funding mechanisms enabling this).

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hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...

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Teaching psychology for the first time and loving every minute of it! Folks in the class are awesome 😎

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DeepSeek prompt: remove and replace the following words from my document and replace them with Trump 2.0 friendly safe words, without changing the context and core of my writing.

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Let’s be real: it’s Lake Wisconsin. Also, the UP is simply a larger isthmus and belongs to Wisconsin. :: Take the red pill, step outside of your liberal bubbles, and take a moment to think for yourself. Am I wrong, dude? Am I wrong?

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Attempts to stop animal research . Please pay attention to this ASAP if you support animal research and grants. There is a meeting next week. It is under the guise of saving money now. speak4.app/lp/7d01tnik/...

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UBI = University Basic Income. Departments/colleges/schools should provide a basic minimum. For decades, they have collected generous indirects and endowments. Time to pay back.

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On the other news, we just recorded the first DA trace in the lab. After months of delays caused by year-long renovation efforts. Here we go! Thanks to twitterless Thakam for pyPhotometry!

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Professors don't know how to be politically correct, so: "If you or your PIs are getting media requests regarding federal transitions, please let Strategic Communications know and they will respond to the media, etc. requests. Share widely"

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Will you accept research $$$ from Chan-Zuckerberg if the cost is you taking a photo with him and saying a nice thing about him? Should he accept $$$$ from Trump if the cost is taking a photo with him and saying nice things about him?

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Money. Talks

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Will the real dopamine please stand up? 🥰

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Any suggestions on uv-cured dental cement for head-bar implants? I'm open to other options... Trying to get away from the smelly solvents... And not pay for metabond...

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AGI is no longer sci-fi—it's dangerous. But which is worse: embodied or virtual? I vote for embodied. A virtual AGI in the cloud might resent our physical being. An embodied one, however, will understand its limits, aging and rusting like us—perhaps more humble than the man in the clouds.

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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...). Paper: A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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