Steve Shea

El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

The family says they came to the wrong house on a "tip", demanded to see ID, shot the dog for whatever reason, and bolted, leaving the family as they struggled to save their dogs life. This is inexcusable, but their boss is a known dog murderer. A fish rots from the head.
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How about launching a meme coin to fund my lab fully with anonymous donors? Is that cool?

I wasn't sure what you meant until I got to this part:

This article is some of the worst "both sides" trash I
have ever seen. It's written to hide the ball from the reader - just have a look at this graph. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

C’mon bro. It’s not exactly subtle. It doesn’t even require a rudimentary grasp of irony, just 4th grade level reading comprehension.

Awesome! Congratulations Needhi!

YouTube video by Mr. Marshmello Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - Alpha Betas Takeover Dorm Scene (HD)

Apropos of nothing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1c-...

Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices

This is astonishingly disrespectful and a colossal waste of resources. This building was purpose built for NSF and completed only in 2016. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

@drugmonkey.bsky.social 14 equally contributing authors. This has to be a new record, right? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

No Kings NYC

No Kings NYC

Does anyone know anything about what is going on at NIDCD?Council met almost a month ago and I have a top scored grant just waiting to be funded. The whole institute has only issued 6 NOAs since then. I have no information about my grant.

I took the “no” position. I think they have become far more annoying and pretentious than they were 15-20 years ago, but she thinks they were always this insufferable.

Having an argument right now with @alisa-shea.bsky.social about whether Arcade Fire has “always been like this.”

1) is nihilism. How could we ever know anything? And 2) we have plenty of examples of manipulating representations in ways that seem as though they would satisfy your objection. This sounds strange to us, because these issues aren't really up for debate among neuroscientists.

1) the fact that there is inference in most biological data, so it is filtered through our instruments and we can never really observe most things and 2) your contention that you can’t manipulate a neural representation with external forces.

Please correct me if I am misreading, but it sounds like you are making a legalistic argument about whether you are ontologically committed to the existence of representations based on:

I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, because I hate the terminology, but you should really have a look at the hippocampal “engram” work by Steve Ramirez and others. Checks all of T & P’s criteria in one stroke. More thoughts after I finish reading your paper.

"Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying instruments?" Also, when the vanguard of your repertoire of scientific examples is somatotopy and delay period activity in working memory tasks, maybe try reading some neuroscience from the past 40 years.

If you call yourself a scientist but willingly admit to being unable to evaluate a preprint (something I teach my undergrads to do) then you need to stop calling yourself a scientist.

I totally agree, but all the PI's not fired trainees are now completely screwed and have to "explore reassignment options," acting as a force multiplier for the carnage.

Who are these people? This is unacceptable. “We’re the police” OK sure

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Bluesky Sciene Music League Source Material

Your wish is granted. open.spotify.com/playlist/7eF...

Yes we did watch that. It was really fun.

I know you know this @dattalab.bsky.social, but in case anyone doesn't recognize it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plP...

YouTube video by Vega Funk Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'

This is a legendary example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqO...

I think it helps to set some artificial limits for yourself e.g. "no hip hop," or "must be a widely recognizable sample." Some way to cut down the space of possibilities. An interesting alternative category would be songs that are best known as the sample source for a much more well known song.