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Curious about the history of the manifold/trajectory view of neural activity. My own first exposure was Gilles Laurent's chapter in "21 Problems in Systems Neuroscience", where he cites odor trajectories in locust AL (2005). This was v inspiring as a biophysics student studying dynamical systems...

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We wrote a paper about why such practices are not only pseudoscientific and unethical, but should also pay off financially on a par with consulting tarot cards: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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My latest piece at @thenation.com takes issue with the conventional wisdom that the Dems don't know how to fight Musk's GOP brownshirts effectively. They know how. We know this because they've been waging that kind of ruthless fight against the left for 25 years. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Coordinating multiple mental faculties during learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

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@analog-ashley.bsky.social, who works extensively with community colleges, when I read this headline to her: "OF COURSE THEY ARE. Community colleges are the best"

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do not skip this, it's important.

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I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz

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“Before Noether’s theorem, the principle of conservation of energy was shrouded in mystery,” the physicist and mathematician Feza Gürsey wrote in 1983. “… Noether’s simple and profound mathematical formulation did much to demystify physics.” https://buff.ly/414iuVL

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Now watching: Neuroscience vs Philosophy | Full Debate | Margaret Boden, Barry Smith, Steven Rose, Roger Bolton www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yp...

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Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

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If I turned these in to my undergrad data viz labs I would fail.

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man i am just straight up not interested in people who will be perfectly okay in the next couple years moaning in public over and over and over again that we’re all cooked and doing nothing else. fuck off man! some of us have things to live for

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this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

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"Our party must act swiftly. There’s no time for hesitation. Or delay. Or dawdling. Or dragging our feet. Or indecision. Or dilly-dallying. Or stalling. Or hemming and hawing. Or equivocation. Or grandstanding. Or mincing words. Or slow-walking. Or procrastinating."

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Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

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Got a response from Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) about the NIH and actually got a decent response:

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Sherelle's History of The Amen Break 6 Music show from a few weeks back is a total blast. So many fave tunes and some stuff I'd never heard before. Always a top listen!

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Found a copy of the Kandel book for $11 used at a local bookstore. A good day.

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Aren’t we suffering enough?

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Proud of UNC for doing the right thing.

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Incredible news. After immense pressure and threats of protest, Children's Wisconsin has reinstated treatment for at least one trans teen under its care. Several hospitals across the country determined their fear of Trump's illegal EO was more important than their trans patients.

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Humanities and sciences are all in the same boat. We need to act like it or we all drown.

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ok, so your motivation is, "capitalism must be destroyed"

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Please help out this little angel / gremlin if you can!

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I was not able to stay long enough for public comments, but I will be writing and calling my rep with my prepared comments, still, but next week. I’m already exhausted with this.

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I’m planning for the comments I’m going to give to my house rep. today. I’m going to reiterate all the economic numbers for the NIH and NSF specifically for North Carolina. Wake Forest University is the most likely the largest recipient of NIH funding in our district. I’m also…

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Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

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honestly what i really need right now is to have an entirely empty couple of days to lock myself in a room and make the most knocking and chaotic drum and bass tracks i can come up with

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Nope. To quote my Trump supporting siblings: “We’ve already cured cancer. They [woke liberal government] are just hiding it from us.” This is why they don’t care about this.

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From another North Carolinian:

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In North Carolina: NIH funding: $2.28B Jobs Supported: 25,801 Economic Activity Supported: $5.34B Keep it going! You can find your state here:

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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

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