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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

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

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. 🧵

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

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

@noamchompers.bsky.social hey post doc

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 ?

(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 ❤️ 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

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...

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???

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.

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

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

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 🧵

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NYU Faculty Take Classes Off Campus to Protest Lack of Protections for International Students NEW YORK, April 17, 2025 – More than fifty NYU faculty members have taken their classes off campus starting today, and continuing for the next week, to protest the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump administration’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 “Sanctuary Picket,” 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: “The 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 inclusive—that’s what this is about.”

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.

im 23 haha but i was doing an agnes callard bit

im too old for that shit

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.

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

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.

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 Jyväskylä)

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

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)

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 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

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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