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This is unanswerable youtu.be/CVxHFhhWea4?...

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Join us March 6th for a workshop on #Computational_Neuroscience. We’ll discuss several research topics within this interdisciplinary field, and ways to grow the local community. @upcite.bsky.social biomedicale.u-paris.fr/workshop-on-...

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Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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Here is a nice mushroom

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Coders: the math is always right in the end

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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Academics: citation count is a flawed metric Academics: that/he/she/they didn't get many citations therefore blah

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More omes:

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New from me for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: #neuroskyence 🧪

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The visa and ESTA of my two PhD students has been rejected so they cant come to #SPSP2025 with me. If you are there and want to talk about behsci interventions, generalizability, happiness, megastudies, contact me so I won’t feel so alone! Also, check out my talk about our Happines Megastudy!

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We grumbled while presiding over a rotten system. Now the grumbling has been weaponised to ruin the system completely. I think this goes beyond science.

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Doctored by @charlespiller.bsky.social is a must-read. It lays out a devastating case for widespread corruption and fraud within the field of Alzheimer’s disease research, driven by the single-minded pursuit of the amyloid cascade hypothesis alongside major financial COIs.

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My lab is looking for a computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Come join us at the @dondersinst.bsky.social!

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Methods: we sat around and thought about it for a while Seems laughable but it is probably more important than anything else, and is increasingly displaced by random busy work and bucket lists of 'real' methods

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Is it fair to say we are in a synthetic biology winter?

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Happening now and quite disturbing youtu.be/6-reyBinLCU

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why do PIs give job talks at seminars instead of giving seminars?

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An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

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The only way to learn is the hard way, it seems...

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One for my extended family...Niche but great.

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Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

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I have offended ECRs by making this exact point during discussions about non academic careers

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I don't think satire is possible anymore. I watched "Don't look up" just after it came out and it seemed prescient. Now it watches like a watered down version of real life, without the comet.

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I recommend dipping into this. Michael has done some phenomenally creative and scientifically deep work, that more people should know about. The ensuing discussion (around 35:00) is revealing, and illustrates some of the challenges of genuine interdisciplinary work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAdc...

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Well yeah...

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Suppose there's no AI to write your code, and instead you contract it out to a human. Do you trust it at face value? Or do you do a few sanity checks? Here's the point: how would you know how to sanity check without knowing the fundamentals yourself? How would you know what could go wrong?

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