Rutvik Desai

Good luck for the surgery! Exemplary move to turn this into a rich study.

In addition to the 7 jobs in brain/language at University of South Carolina, we also have a philosophy job on issues related to AI
philjobs.org/job/show/29754

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Direct links to each position

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Seven faculty positions in language/brain health at University of South Carolina!
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He ran an excellent journal club in the evenings during my student days at IU. Fondly remember "how far you can go without representations" discussions and more. He will be missed.

If your work involves use of properties of English words, you are likely missing something if you are not using SCOPE.

New variables added in this version include gpt4o ratings, human motivation, iconicity, cognition, and spelling-sound transparency ratings.

New version of SCOPE is out! It is the largest metabase of psycholinguistic properties of words.
sc.edu/study/colleg...

IU has been a leader in cognitive science for a long time. Sad to see this elimination, and so many others, as an alum.

Happy anniversary to both !

brain2print AI powered web tool for creating 3D printable brain models - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - brain2print AI powered web tool for creating 3D printable brain models

3d printing your own brain has never been easier, thanks to this fantastic tool by my colleague Chris Rorden.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had an exciting day at the IMB conference on AI meets the Brain. With Jack Gallant, Leila Wehbe, Khalid Malik, and our local speakers.

Looking forward to our conference today with outstanding speakers Wehbe, Gallant, and Malik!

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Happy Holi!

Finally it's here, in the flesh!!!

Some of the best slogans include

Vaccines cause adults

Girls just want to have fun-ding for science

At the Stand Up For Science protests today

Happening today! For those in Columbia, SC, the event is 12-4 at the State Capitol. See you there.

A non-technical article about our recent work.

AIs flunk language test that takes grammar out of the equation Humans understand that ‘red ball’ makes sense but ‘ball red’ does not. Large language models? Not so much.

theconversation.com/ais-flunk-la...

Hanging in there. Hope you and Fernanda are great as well.

Wouldn't be bad to start from a mailing list of all the people on the consensus paper. Or whatever the new version of a mailing list/discussion group is.

Wow! This is great.

Posted by Sanjay Srivastava on another site

They are very literally turning off the lights on cancer research. They will also do serious damage to the economy. Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.50 in economic activity. It is in equal measure stupid and cruel. It needs to be stopped. Call your congress members and tell them. 4/4

Weaver made it a standard practice to add 46% to grants for overhead costs. It became the model for other foundations and the government. (Source: "Polio: An American Story" by David Oshinsky.)

This week, the new administration announced that it was cutting overhead costs at the NIH 3/4

In 1946, the director of research for the March of Dimes, Harry Weaver, wanted to give a Harvard professor a grant to study polio. Harvard wasn't going to accept it. So Weaver offered to add a percentage to make sure the research was fully paid for. Harvard accepted the grant, and 2/4

In the mid-20th century, it wasn't unusual for universities to turn down research grants. Grants would pay for equipment and supplies to do the research. But the university would be on the hook for providing physical facilities, utilities, support staff, etc. Taking a grant could be a net -ve. 1/4

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
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