Poeh, Eddie Vedder, wat sta jij daar een potje prachtig te zingen, schitterend.
Eddie Vedder, Markéta Irglová, Thomas Bartlett and The Frames perform at Glen Hansard's funeral
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Alison Barth discovers how different neuron types contribute to cortical function www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Alison Barth on different neuron types’ roles in cortex
Barth uses learning tasks in mice to drive synaptic plasticity in the sensory cortex, hoping to unlock general principles of how the cortex works.
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After more than 1,000 days beneath the rubble, the remains of over 100 victims have finally been recovered and laid to rest.
With Paul Weiss’s settlement back in the news, re-upping @knightcolumbia.org's podcast, “Lawyering Without Law,” exploring the role and responsibility of lawyers in an era of authoritarianism. It’s *really* good. Please listen & share it with your lawyer friends. knightcolumbia.org/content/lawy...
Lawyering Without Law
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New Substack post! Another guest post from my brilliant PhD student Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello on the moralization of AI. Moralizing AI could be a reasonable position, she argues, but is it? Depends on what we know about AI and about how moralization works. She also calls my opinions dumb. Ouch!
Some Things Are Not Negotiable. Is AI One of Them?
Here is another guest post by my PhD student, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello.
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Cortical territories compete in developmental space race doi.org/10.53053/HIF...
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race
Sensory and association regions are established through a reciprocal process, according to a new model of cortical development.
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For all the fans of Australia’s amazingly diverse native wildflowers, vote now for your favourite 🌿🌸🌺 #ozflora #wildoz #abc #scienceweek #nativeplants #bloomscrolling www.abc.net.au/news/science...
These 10 Aussie wildflowers have superpowers. Pick your favourite
Move over waratahs and banksias! These 10 flowers from the unsung understorey are not just pretty faces, they have surprising tricks up their sleeves.
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Structural plasticity of the axon initial segment is important for the regulation of neuronal activity. Some recent thoughts on how AIS plasticity may shape learning and memory in neuronal circuits in health and disease: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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"The I-8 went to occupied Singapore and then Penang"
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d agoPenicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.
📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/
During a lecture in 1985, Erdős said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book." "The Book" was obviously AI 😁
Proofs from THE BOOK - Wikipedia
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José A. Alonso@jalonso.eurosky.social · 9h agoMathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them. ~ Kai Williams. www.understandingai.org/p/mathematic... #AI4Math
Fwiw my best go at a simple p-value explanation is, "If nothing interesting is going on, how likely are we to see these data or something more extreme?" Then you have to define interesting and more extreme, but that's problem-specific.
I’m afraid this flips the statistical conditional — “given these data, how likely just chance?” — when the logic is closer to “given just chance, how likely these data?” Now how bad that is probably depends on the context and the extent to which it’s taken seriously in the first place 😅
🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA
Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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“Weizman shows how Israel’s invasion of Gaza included an intentional, systematic plan of destroying the conditions for Palestinian life and rebuilding the land into something available for Israeli resettlement.” I review Eyal Weizman’s new book @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/g...
The Architecture of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
A new book describes the destruction of Palestinian life street by street.
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Pyramidal cells in the cortex send a long apical dendrite to layer 1. What is its role? What happens when it's gone? ✂️ A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex Out today with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net and @fedrossi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex
Cortical pyramidal neurons project a long apical dendrite to layer 1 (L1), to receive synaptic inputs that are thought to provide contextual and possibly suppressive modulation. In visual cortex, thes...
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Since this has been coming up again, just a reminder of what I actually said (in public, no less) back in early 2020. Here's just one example from: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sci....
They'll eventually come for the turtle pond 🐢
Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 19h agoThe University of Texas's endowment is bigger than most Ivy League schools (only exceeded by Harvard and Yale). It was one of the US's great universities--until Republicans started to limit what could be taught and studied there. www.investopedia.com/articles/mar...
Celebrating the Music of William Schuman! (8/4/1910 – 2/15/1992) American composer. His early “American Festival Overture” (1939) was one of the pieces that brought him into the spotlight of American composers: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
William Schuman : American Festival Overture Bernstein
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I recently read Quay's new book. Now he's reportedly been tapped to lead NIAID. Not only is his book full what are plainly lies, it also reflects a person who can't keep tabs on reality. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
The mascot of New College, in Florida, was the empty set. Technically the Null Set. But New College was considered "woke" - so a board of trustees dominated by conservatives appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis voted to replace the Null Set with a new mascot: a tree. www.nullsets.org/nullsethistory
Neurons don't just fire more for important sounds, their activity becomes more precisely timed and rhythmic Representations of spatial saliency in auditory cortex are selectively organized through temporal coordination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience
Representations of spatial saliency in auditory cortex are selectively organized through temporal coordination
Selective processing of behaviorally relevant sounds in complex environments requires dynamic modulation of auditory representations. Here, we show that behaviorally relevant sound locations selective...
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Letzte Folge unserer neuen Interview-Reihe aus Israel & Palästina: Siedlungsbau-Experte Dror Etkes bei Jung & Naiv über seine Lebensaufgabe, Besatzung und Apartheid, die Radikalisierung der israelischen Gesellschaft und eine Chance für Frieden youtu.be/TEUL6L0N24Y (65 min aus Jerusalem)
Siedlungsbau-Experte Dror Etkes über die israelische Gesellschaft - Jung & Naiv: Folge 843
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