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@marsniv.bsky.social

philosophy of science and neuroscience

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

23.04.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.04.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Activate climateโ€™s โ€˜silent majorityโ€™ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

The majority of people โ€”56% in the US!โ€”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 doโ€”and being invited to do itโ€”will.

Where to start? With a conversation today. ๐Ÿงต

22.04.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4005    ๐Ÿ” 1307    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 82    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63

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

22.04.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.04.2025 00:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2122    ๐Ÿ” 522    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

@noamchompers.bsky.social hey post doc

22.04.2025 01:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ?

17.04.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(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 ...

Does ecological psychology โค๏ธ 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

12.04.2025 05:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

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...

20.04.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow is No Kings Day, I'll be protesting in Falmouth.
See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19

19.04.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 didnโ€™t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???

18.04.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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.

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.

18.04.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1406    ๐Ÿ” 474    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

could this language of thought be shared by primates and birds who also can perform arithmetic and geometric reasoning?

18.04.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

take your pic from hip hop/rnb. take your pic from golden age of tv. i think these two mediums especially found greatness recently

18.04.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚)

Here is what I said ๐Ÿงต

18.04.2025 00:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 210    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International Students



NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 โ€“ More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the Universityโ€™s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administrationโ€™s attacks. Some faculty have moved their classes to in-person locations that have been declared sanctuary spaces, where international students are assured that building administrators will do everything in their power to refuse to cooperate with ICE agents. Other faculty have moved their classes online so that students can attend from a safe location of their choosing. 



The protest, which organizers are calling the โ€œSanctuary Picket,โ€ is a response to a call to NYU faculty issued by a coalition of student groups. It comes after NYU senior leaders failed to respond to two petitions delivered over the past few weeks demanding that the University take steps to protect noncitizen students from abductions and deportations. 



Gallatin Faculty member Vasuki Nesiah, a member of the NYU Sanctuary group that organized the protest, said: โ€œThe government has launched a war on higher education so the stakes are existential. University administrators at NYU and elsewhere have not demonstrated that they are ready and willing to fight back. On the other hand, students, staff, and faculty are invested in the integrity of our institutions, in the value of academic freedom, and in continuing the work of making our institutions more equitable and inclusiveโ€”thatโ€™s what this is about.โ€

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International Students NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 โ€“ More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the Universityโ€™s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administrationโ€™s attacks. Some faculty have moved their classes to in-person locations that have been declared sanctuary spaces, where international students are assured that building administrators will do everything in their power to refuse to cooperate with ICE agents. Other faculty have moved their classes online so that students can attend from a safe location of their choosing. The protest, which organizers are calling the โ€œSanctuary Picket,โ€ is a response to a call to NYU faculty issued by a coalition of student groups. It comes after NYU senior leaders failed to respond to two petitions delivered over the past few weeks demanding that the University take steps to protect noncitizen students from abductions and deportations. Gallatin Faculty member Vasuki Nesiah, a member of the NYU Sanctuary group that organized the protest, said: โ€œThe government has launched a war on higher education so the stakes are existential. University administrators at NYU and elsewhere have not demonstrated that they are ready and willing to fight back. On the other hand, students, staff, and faculty are invested in the integrity of our institutions, in the value of academic freedom, and in continuing the work of making our institutions more equitable and inclusiveโ€”thatโ€™s what this is about.โ€

INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the Universityโ€™s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump adminโ€™s attacks."

some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.

17.04.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 915    ๐Ÿ” 244    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

im 23 haha but i was doing an agnes callard bit

16.04.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

im too old for that shit

16.04.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i fundamentally disgree with 2 since only the philosophical life is worth living. with regards to 1 i enjoy finding graduate students to sleep with.

16.04.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

16.04.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LLMs are able to achieve Spinozaโ€™s second type of cognition but not his third type of cognition

15.04.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

"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.

15.04.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 131    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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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...

Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners!

The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyvรคskylรค)

The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)

15.04.2025 10:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

15.04.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukeleโ€™s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: โ€œWe want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.โ€

(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

14.04.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6781    ๐Ÿ” 3454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 394    ๐Ÿ“Œ 596
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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

Today El Salvadorโ€™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...

14.04.2025 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 580    ๐Ÿ” 215    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

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

14.04.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2898    ๐Ÿ” 767    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

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