Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc
Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)
We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
02.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 84 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 4
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
06.06.2025 22:36 — 👍 2376 🔁 1046 💬 33 📌 49
FlyVISTA, an integrated machine learning platform for deep phenotyping of sleep in Drosophila
A machine learning platform identifies and characterizes the dynamics of microbehaviors during fly sleep.
I am proud to share that our work of 4+ years has finally been published. We wondered if there are distinct behaviors that mark sleep in 🪰, where sleep has been defined as prolonged immobility.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
08.04.2025 17:12 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.
The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago.
The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
28.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 3955 🔁 1452 💬 85 📌 100
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
25.03.2025 12:36 — 👍 2744 🔁 1162 💬 94 📌 352
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species.
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14.03.2025 09:41 — 👍 38 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
Strike, or Else
As Trump tosses out the TSA union contract, everything is on the line.
What the Trump administration is doing to unions right now is worse than what Reagan did to PATCO, and if TSA workers allow their union contract to be tossed out without striking, public sector union power in America will soon be decimated.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
07.03.2025 21:51 — 👍 1095 🔁 415 💬 26 📌 35
Columbia’s mission is to teach, create, and advance knowledge. For over 270 years, that mission has been grounded in an enduring and essential commitment to freedom of expression, open inquiry, and generous, respectful debate.
Today, we were notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University. The federal agencies cite “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care.
But let me be very clear: Columbia is taking the government’s action very seriously. I want to assure the entire Columbia community that we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns. To that end, Columbia can, and will, continue to take serious action toward combatting antisemitism on our campus.
Email from Columbia President Armstrong makes clear that admin still has no idea what it’s dealing with. No amount of “serious action to combat antisemitism” (read: punish Palestine activists) will satisfy the Nazis. They see universities as an enemy institution to crush underfoot.
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