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Jesseba Fernando

@jesseba.bsky.social

PhD Student @nunetsi.bsky.social Put me in the middle of nowhere with coffee and I'm happy jesseba.github.io

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Grigori Guitchounts@guitchounts.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote an essay for @noemamag.com about AI consciousness, animal research, and the limits of what we can know about another mind. My argument: the lessons neuroscientists learned hunting for neural markers of consciousness in animals are exactly the ones we'll need as we start asking...

Noema Magazine@noemamag.com · last mo.

“The science of consciousness & the ethics of moral consideration — what we have learned from rats & monkeys & humans — will have to guide us as we meet artificial minds,” @guitchounts.bsky.social writes. #ai #aiethics #consciousness

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 9mo ago

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 9mo ago

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last yr.

- did not measure people's creativity performance by any reputable creativity task or measure, just measured the ESSAY content (after giving people different instructions) - did not measure people's overall MEMORY ABILITY - false on "brain activity," DIFFERENT activity is not "weaker"

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Ida Momennejad@neuroai.bsky.social · last yr.

Hot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last yr.

How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Rachel Essner@rachelessner.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brainstem sensing of multiple body signals during food consumption

Studies of body-to-brain communication often examine one stimulus or organ at a time, yet the brain must integrate many body signals during behavior. For example, food consumption generates diverse or...

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

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Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · last yr.

We are rallying at noon at Cambridge Common for the leadership of the Harvard Corporation to stand up and stand with us as we defend higher education and democracy in the United States from an unprecedented attack.

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Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · last yr.

Over 800 faculty have urged Harvard's leadership to "legally contest ... unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance." The Cambridge City Council has called on it to "stand up in defense of the values that are fundamental to both the University and our democracy."

Cambridge City Council Calls on Harvard, President Garber to Resist Trump’s Threats | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Cambridge City Council voted unanimously on Monday to call on the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — to refuse the Trump administration’s demands as $9 billion in gove...

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L.A. Kauffman@lakauffman.bsky.social · last yr.

For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.

MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place. A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr.

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

Hands Off!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

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Nancy Kanwisher@nancykanwisher.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

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March 20, 2025 Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education: You are on the frontlines ...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Jesseba Fernando@jesseba.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ How do AI models actually work? 🤷‍♂️ AI models are complex, nonlinear systems, and their inner workings remain largely mysterious. Enter Mechanistic Interpretability. But MechInterp has struggled to explain a lot of the observed phenomena…