Anthony Ramnauth

US bombing killed 57 kids in an Iranian elementary school

I'm avoiding the news but this came by and sums up the horror of what Trump has done to once again distract us from rape of children and the evil of ICE

People INSIDE the Trump administration placed bets on a war they knew was coming, and profited.

Aside from the complete moral corruption of betting upon war, this is so unethical that it boggles the mind.

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well. Not sure who’s keeping track of all this?

Everyday, one can write a book about that days events.

YouTube video by The Royal Institution Decoding quantum reality - with Vlatko Vedral

Deciding quantum reality - Valtko Vedral
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Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.

Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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Organism-wide cellular dynamics and epigenomic remodeling in mammalian aging To investigate organism-wide cellular alterations and epigenomic dynamics during aging, we constructed a single-cell chromatin accessibility atlas spanning 21 mouse tissues across three age groups and...

Organism-wide #cellular dynamics and #epigenomic remodeling in mammalian #aging | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex - Nature Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.

"We first built a highly predictive DNN model of neural responses... We then compressed this large, black-box DNN model... to identify compact models with 5,000 times fewer parameters yet comparable accuracy."😮

Compact deep #neuralnetwork models of the visual #cortex
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

#Orbitofrontal #cortex drives #predictive filtering of #sensory responses

Interesting work, but I didn't know SST interneurons have presynaptic terminals onto VIP interneurons.

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NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true.

Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time.

-91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.

Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Mapping of neurogenesis in human hippocampi across ages and different cognitive abilities using multiomic single-cell sequencing reveals distinct signatures between cognitive preservation and decline.

This is one of those papers where if I was a peer reviewer I would have been much more critical...
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Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.

"Here we used a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task... We trained mice to rotate a visual grating towards a target orientation while we recorded GCaMP activity..."🤯

Vectorized instructive signals in #cortical #dendrites
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US justice department accused of withholding Trump-related Epstein files The top Democrat on the congressional panel investigating Epstein has called on the attorney general to publish the material.

US justice department is withholding files containing allegations of sexual abuse of a minor made against Trump. Garcia, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said he had personally viewed documents containing the allegation.
#Epstein
#Pinks

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Breaking: IPost has obtained CCTV footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday.

Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday.

www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

Anthropic rejects Pentagon terms for lethal use of its chatbot Claude Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said the company could not permit its technology to be applied to domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Breaking news: Anthropic said that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s terms for full access to its AI tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance.

Dopamine Supports Reward Prediction to Shape Reward-Pursuit Strategy Reward predictions not only promote reward pursuit, they also shape how reward is pursed. Such predictions are supported by environmental cues that signal reward availability and probability. Such cue...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper 📃🚨

Out today, Melissa Malvaez, Nick Griffin, Andrea Suarez & team discovered that dopamine can enable reward predictions to shape how we pursue reward.

Surprisingly, we find that dopamine can constrain instrumental reward seeking.

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8...

🧵👇🏻

But they got money to buy warehouses for concentration camps... villains, all of them.

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an agg...

This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA.

States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.

Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein

Breaking:

Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

a man with long hair is sitting in front of a sign that says `` i got a three-point plan to fix everything . `` ALT: a man with long hair is sitting in front of a sign that says `` i got a three-point plan to fix everything . ``

SOTU...

ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all

ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Jim O'Neill, former hedge fund and venture capital firm manager, is expected to be nominated as the next Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Would be the first NSF Director without a background as a scientist or engineer or formal research credentials.

UCSD, facing federal cuts, will no longer guarantee funding for incoming grad students The school warns admitted first-year students that their support packages are contingent on state and federal funding.

It’s PhD admission season in the US and elsewhere. Is anyone collecting and sharing info about what admissions letters are saying this year, especially in the neuro/psych/bio space? Last year there were some (unfortunate) changes at some Unis, eg
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/08/u....

Forecast: 13-17 inches of snow

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Lieber Institute For Brain Development - Postdoctoral Fellow – Molecular Neurogenetics A little about us:The Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) was established in 2010 to plot a new course in biomedical research that would change the lives of individuals affected with develop...

Job ad and instructions for applying here:

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Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am so proud to share @forrestdrogers.bsky.social’s postdoctoral magnum opus, now out in @nature.com! Forrest discovered a novel role for Agouti in the MPOA of the hypothalamus to integrate socio-environmental information to flexibly tune paternal behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thread! 👇🏻

Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline Damage was minimal but police are investigating.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

WHAT? what sense does this make? it's not entirely clear he can handle the job of directing the NIH and now he's got another major remit?