The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)
@gunnarblohm.bsky.social
CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder. Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control. Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds. Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa. Renaissance man. Believer in humanity! http://compneurosci.com/
GitHub - harrisonritz/DynamicsTutorial_CCN2026: Putting Dynamics First: State-Space Modelling for Human Neuroscience
Putting Dynamics First: State-Space Modelling for Human Neuroscience - harrisonritz/DynamicsTutorial_CCN2026
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Harrison Ritz@hritz.bsky.social · 4d agoccn tutorial coming together just in time. nilearn through julia PyCall in colab. Shouldn't be possible.
The case before the Hawaii Supreme Court did not warrant such an impassioned condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court. But Associate Justice Todd Eddins and his colleagues wanted to send a message to the country. Read it.
A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
ccn tutorial coming together just in time. nilearn through julia PyCall in colab. Shouldn't be possible.
RFK Jr says kids might be “better off” if they aren’t given the flu vaccine He is wrong A new study in Pediatrics finds that overall vaccine effectiveness against death from flu was 80% from Aug 2016 to July 2025 (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...) RFK Jr’s vile anti-vaxx crusade is costing lives
Twelve quick tips for AI-assisted coding in science journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... - our latest by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social with @thisisadax.bsky.social , Zijiao Chen, Zhicheng Lin, @hritz.bsky.social and @joachim.cidlab.com
Twelve quick tips for AI-assisted coding in science
While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
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New preprint from the lab asking what minimal parts of whole body posture/motion allow for rapid movement recognition arxiv.org/abs/2607.13216
Classifying daily activities needs posture, reconstructing them needs motion
Humans recognize movements effortlessly, even from noisy and complex visual input. But what information in the stimulus allows humans to rapidly classify movements? No framework has systematically com...
arxiv.org
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.
21 years ago today, Canada became the 4th country in the world, and 1st outside of Europe, to legalize same-sex marriage. The sky didn’t fall. Hell didn’t break loose. Only Canada’s capacity for love and acceptance increased. Now over 30+ countries have followed Canada’s lead.
I only got 8/12 correct... 😱 www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-quiz...
Can you spot an AI image? Quiz shows how difficult identifying deepfakes has become.
An AI expert said the telltale signs people once relied on, such as distorted fingers, unnatural eyes, or other obvious visual flaws, have largely disappeared as technology has improved.
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out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · last mo.You press ‘send’ on a high-stakes email but hesitate when lifting your finger. You make a chess move but linger on the piece before letting go. Familiar? In @pnas.org, Hanbei Zhou @ruizhegoh.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social & I show that response *duration* tracks confidence! shorturl.at/A9NVe
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
“It should surprise no one that MAGA Republicans are continuing to invent new and embarrassingly absurd ways to avoid addressing the climate crisis”... US citizens literally voted for what they're now getting! 🤦
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Trump is now threatening to punish Canada for wildfire smoke blowing into the U.S., as a GOP senator intros a bill to sanction Canadian officials “responsible” for the fires driven by climate change. “Insane," says one leading Canadian enviro group. www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie...
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
theguardian.com
#JNeurosci: Findings from Fooken et al. reveal how the brain integrates knowledge of sensorimotor demands with predictions about environmental events to flexibly manage competition for gaze between action and monitoring tasks. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2157-25.2026
If you ever wanted to know the difference between a MSc and a PhD... www.upworthy.com/professor-ex...
Professor breaks down how a PhD differs from a master's degree in layman's terms
It's not just more classes.
upworthy.com
Can AI police itself? Dr. Zhu's team RedDebate framework lets LLMs debate each other to find unsafe behaviors without human intervention. Novel approach, but the question is: What safety risks do machines still miss when humans aren't watching? #QueensuResearch Read more: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11083
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Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.
Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience
This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...
nature.com
Giving nature rights empowers citizens to represent and protect ecosystems! ♥️ This is a super important step. (Remember, every company has such rights, but somehow nature does not? This needs changing!)
Oliver@oliver48.bsky.social · 4w ago".. the small Quebec town ... has become the first municipality in Canada to officially recognize trees as living beings with inherent rights ... declaring that trees deserve protection, including the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration" www.facebook.com/groups/29053...
Indicators -- especially theory-derived ones -- of consciousness simply aren't enough. Signatures aren't enough either. We need a whole new evidential and inferential framework. My group is building one. Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · last mo.The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...
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