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Actually, there's a growing literature documenting exactly the OPPOSITE: people who experience climate shocks are more supportive of climate science, more interested in climate action, and more engaged in climate work! Read Saving Ourselves for a start... @climatenews.bsky.social

I bought a Max Roach 40+ years ago that I have never opened for the same reason.

The Pedo Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought by the United States in the early 21st century as a means to distract from the fact that their president was a pedo.

There was a genesis to this phenomenon I've never seen spoken about.

8-10 years ago I used to be in a lot of online hobby spaces. They had long had a 'optimisation culture' where a many folk didn't do stuff guided by enjoyment, but by following an 'optimal' path....

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

You could also poll boomer-era people on how often doctors have suggested they take a "Cognitive Exam." (Let alone, suggested it three times.)

I'll start: Zero.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

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Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models. The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

This is very good.

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Have you tried ARIADNE yet? ✨ It's a tool with curated research resources to help you out!

Yikes. Going through HS focus groups right now and one group of student's "one word to describe school" are back-to-back: Involved, Stressful, Invasive. 😩

"Stressful because you're measured in grades. And you always have to be here...then you're always thinking about being here."

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.

This German green card holder with no criminal record who has lived in the US since 2007 with American partner and 8-year-old daughter has been stripped naked, put in cold shower, and deprived of food & water at Logan airport, resulting in collapse. still in detention.
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"Those things are the receptors and neurons to which they are acting on. The main idea here is that areas and neurotransmitters are nothing without the networks and circuits they are involved in." She had a couple more lines. But, hopefully, you see why I am constantly amazed by my students.

"...in the brain that magically does everything. It is cool to think of them this way (and I am sure they appreciate being praised this much), but that is not the truth. It is not all about the neurotransmitter because it is nothing without the things it works with..."

"We can see this in the interaction of serotonin and dopamine in reward, and with glutamate and GABA with ketamine." This last sentence refers to two papers we read.

The second one, which uses a more conversational tone: "Often times we describe the neurotransmitters as the main character..."

"However, in this class, we learned that the real determinant of their action is is not the neurotransmitter alone, but the receptor and the cell it binds to. However, it goes even further than that. Neurotransmitters do just work individually, but instead work in a network..."

Example one, "When people look at neurotransmission, they often focus on the neurotransmitters themselves. Thinking broadly about them, for example, serotonin is the happy neurotransmitter, and dopamine is the reward neurotransmitter...

The goal was to explain the actions of neurotransmitters in terms of "not the neurotransmitter but the receptor and cell it is acting on." The idea is part of broader theme that I emphasis in all the upper level neuroscience classes, "Networks, not areas or neurotransmitters.

I have wonderful students. Undergraduates. Instead of giving standard tests, I ask them to write summary topic papers in which they have to use foundational information to support an argument related to a broader concept. I want to share two opening paragraphs with you.

Realize Im new here and have about two friends who even see my posts but if you haven’t heard of this guy @natogreen.bsky.social you must!

He’s brilliant

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

Cover of Why We Do What We Do by Edward Deci

"Stunningly, however, those who had learned expecting to be tested had forgotten much more. Their superior rote memorization was no longer in evidence a few days later. Evidently, they memorized the material for the test, and when the test was over, they pulled the plug and let it drain out."

The level of work -- in my experience -- is much higher.

The Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative is driven by a radically simple idea: Progress in neuroscience will flourish when the health of men and wom... "How Small is Small?"

This is an amazing video produced for our kickoff ceremony of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, led by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...

My athletes will be very disappointed by this hard truth!