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rdgao.bsky.social
computational neuroscience, machine learning, occasionally cognitive science | inverting brain circuits towards translational neuroscience. 🌊 www.rdgao.com
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Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone. @clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991 But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

good guy to work for and with

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submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

a whole flowchart that could have been communicated in one sentence. ...it would be funny if it wasn't horrifying, truly one for the ages.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

1) Some exciting science in turbulent times: How do mice distinguish self-generated vs. object-generated looming stimuli? Our new study combines VR and neural recordings from superior colliculus (SC) 🧠🐭 to explore this question. Check out our preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

batman: what drove you to this dark madness? villain: ...you see, I was an NIH-funded postdoc in 2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I thought I was just an asshole

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

"exhaust fumes" made it into the official abstract! hence completing the journey from an epiphenomenal shitpost blog to a full-blown review paper. all thanks to this cast of co-authors (esp. Sander), our TICS editor Lindsey Drayton, and two very engaged reviewers (@danielemarinazzo.bsky.social)

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

yesterday my grandma (that lives with my parents in Canada) told me in Beijing they were handing out robots that do your dishes, laundry, and groceries for 3 grand a unit. Grandma living in 2055 already.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Come From Away is possibly the greatest piece of Canadian propaganda ever produced and I am ALL FOR IT 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

one word comes to mind reading through the thread: elegant. really beautiful combination of behavior and brain

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but recent work by @lappalainenjk.bsky.social et al. shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/improving...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

really great essay: I often think about how we can formalize the communication of our own values and expertise as an evaluator (or simply when providing feedback). something like "my technical expertise is in / not in..." when reviewing, but for more vague things like vision, values, taste.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

blasphemy

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

submitted 94 days ago • 55 comments

damn who would've thought it'd get so spicy on a Friday afternoon at a huge nerd gathering

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

the latest and greatest installment on our mission to generate really good counterfeit neural recordings... now with latents! (which makes it both AI4Neuro and neuroAI)

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment