would it be more prudent to get a masters in applied math or computer science

well i won't be violating any actual laws so... but seriously what in the absolute *expletive* is this nonsense? you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro. #iwillnotcomplyinadvance

Jamie Hanson@jamielarsh.bsky.social · 2y ago

New NIH notice grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... "By accepting the grant award [...] They do not, and will not [...] operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws"

The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated. Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will. Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

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hey @ucirvine.bsky.social why isn't our chancellor among the signatories here?

Ken Miller@kenmiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

A good step. Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, MIT among the 150+ signatories. But Columbia, Northwestern, Hopkins, Stanford, Caltech, UC except for Riverside, among those who fail to sign.

reminder that the scaffolding for this already exists with mental health and addiction courts and drug treatment facilities that are glorified prison labor

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also worth noting that RFK Jr previously expressed a desire to send people with ADHD to labor camps

Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?

Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social

(PDF) Multiscale dynamics might be essential to ecological psychology: Promises, challenges, and real possibilities

PDF | Ecological psychology emphasizes the nesting of organisms within contexts to explain perception and action, contrasting with non-ecological... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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This is cool. Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID. Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation. idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...

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Tomorrow is No Kings Day, I'll be protesting in Falmouth. See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19

It has been weeks since he was detained, and there are still no specific accusations about why they revoked his visa and detained him. He didn’t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???

Kathy W@jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 2y ago

Alireza Doroudi, A University of Alabama doctoral student from Iran, was taken by ICE at his apartment in Tuscaloosa AL on March 25 and faces possible deportation. First jailed in Pickens County, AL, he is currently at the Jena, LA detention facility & was denied bond. www.al.com/news/2025/04...

1. In 2025, over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been filed across the United States - the most in US history. Most bills target transgender people. The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History

2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.

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Today I gave my first-ever political speech at a walk-out organized by @aaup.bsky.social (I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂) Here is what I said 🧵

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks." some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

The language of "Science", "objective reality", and "biological fact" is being mobilised towards the oppression of trans people in the UK and elsewhere—just as it has been mobilised towards the oppression of women, queers, disabled people, black people, and the colonised the world over

LLMs are able to achieve Spinoza’s second type of cognition but not his third type of cognition

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I would say that something on the order of 75% of current uses of LLMs are illegitimate and patently mistake the function of the underlying technology. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptional uses of the technology; uses which extend human ability in unprecedented ways.

"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.

Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview - Daily Nous

Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when he was taken by Immigration a...

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Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners! The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä) The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)

British Society for the History of Philosophy Announces Recent Prizewinners - Daily Nous

The British Society for the History of Philosophy and its journal, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, have announced the latest winners of its prizes. The British Journal for the Histo...

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issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Harvard. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners

Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 2y ago

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Rutgers started some excellent trouble. Yesterday, UMass Amherst Faculty Senate passed a Mutual Academic Defense Compact resolution, calling on the 250 Public and Land Grant institutions to come to each others' aid if the fascists infringe on freedom of inquiry, or speech. #academicsky

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com · 2y ago

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

Therapists at Kaiser went on a hunger strike in Los Angeles to protest "factory" like working conditions and the automation of healthcare. I went down to the picket line on the last day to talk to the workers, some of whom hadn't eaten for 100 hours. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists...

Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare

Kaiser mental health workers have been striking for more time with patients, better pay, and to fight algorithmic triage— healthcare automation that puts patients at risk.

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𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Or is there more to optogenetics to understand the brain?? Discussion with Kevin Mitchell (@wiringthebrain.bsky.social), Henry Potter and Peter Tse who joined us. Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon now online! youtu.be/sVyFttbuOLQ