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@dhasemusic.bsky.social

phd candidate in Biyu He's Lab at NYU, investigating visual perception and brain dynamics (traveling waves). Former deep learning engineer (Twitter Cortex, & x-ray Dx company)

609 Followers  |  408 Following  |  102 Posts  |  Joined: 29.06.2023  |  1.7564

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An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea OpenClaw is a breakthrough AI assistant. Moltbook, its new social network for agents, is a security catastrophe waiting to happen. Here's why you should avoid it.

Somebody created an Reddit clone exclusively populated by personal digital agents and let them interact with each other. It’s bonkers, fascinating and terrifying in equal measure.

www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

31.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 37    🔁 16    💬 6    📌 12

Unless this idea is understood and acted upon, market economies in their present form will only continue to reinforce social injustice described by log-normal distribution."
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28.01.2026 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Found some relevant wisdom in buzsaki's brain from inside out: "We need a societal version of the homeostatic compensatory mechanism of non-rem sleep to combat the intrinsic drive of technological development and global economy towards widening the gap between the two tails [of wealth]. [...

28.01.2026 02:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

28.01.2026 01:44 — 👍 7357    🔁 1867    💬 519    📌 683
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This page aggregates a number of community groups that are involved www.standwithminnesota.com

25.01.2026 01:38 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

25.01.2026 03:09 — 👍 5415    🔁 1540    💬 39    📌 49

Great piece! The "reverse centaur" is a proper metaphor for describing the hidden goal of large AI, where they promise and sell centaurs.
So many of my software engineering are becoming exhausted and disenchanted of "coding" after having to vibe code to keep up with their workload.

18.01.2026 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention - Nature Neuroscience Using intracranial electroencephalography from patients with epilepsy during spatial attention tasks, this study shows that high-frequency bursts facilitate fast communications in brain networks and s...

High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroscience

17.01.2026 13:13 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

02.01.2026 02:26 — 👍 11747    🔁 5199    💬 275    📌 363
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2025: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience Enlightening the brain

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike.

The 10th of these, would you believe?

This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more

Enjoy!

medium.com/the-spike/20...

30.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 144    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 11
A Genius Solution to Stop Forest Destruction
YouTube video by Planet Wild A Genius Solution to Stop Forest Destruction

Join planet wild missions. This is my favorite one of this year
If you join, use my referral code: 9GTMDK

#planetwild

youtu.be/rYVGalSJz0k?...

28.12.2025 20:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 This was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks. The tech industry overpromised and underdelivered.

Now that I got newyorker for the sacks piece, there's other cool stuff to read

Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025 www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

28.12.2025 04:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What We Misunderstand About Robots Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science

Adrian Tchaikovsky is pushing the envelope of sci fi. He explores evolution, other minds, sentience, and complexity science. My favorite is "children of time" on a civilisation of jumping spiders, but I see he has way more books to explore

nautil.us/what-we-misu...

24.12.2025 19:42 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult
YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

“How comedy was destroyed by an anti-reality doomsday cult”
It’s super insightful into Joe Rogan’s cult of comedy and his role in MAGA .

Fun little Christmas documentary

youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

20.12.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

12.12.2025 22:33 — 👍 139    🔁 49    💬 7    📌 11

Where can I find this book? 😮

12.12.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same!

Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

10.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 379    🔁 118    💬 7    📌 13
YouTube recap showing top interests "exploring brain science", top channel as Hank Green, and the personality type as Curious mind

YouTube recap showing top interests "exploring brain science", top channel as Hank Green, and the personality type as Curious mind

The 2025 recap that matters

06.12.2025 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who is the fictional neuroscientist John who thinks waves are epiphenomenal?

06.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why AlexNet Died in AI but Lingers in Neuroscience — Through the Lens of Popper and Kuhn When I talk to any of my machine learning researcher colleagues in 2025, they tell me that a model from 2023 is prehistoric. In AI, a year…

“Why AlexNet Died in AI but Lingers in Neuroscience — Through the Lens of Popper and Kuhn” - by K Kar

AlexNet “is not the champion; it is the instrument.”

medium.com/@kohitij_716...

04.12.2025 23:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

25.11.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Something Strange is Happening to Your Favorite YouTube Channels
YouTube video by Neu Something Strange is Happening to Your Favorite YouTube Channels

YouTube channels are being bought en masse by private equity firms. Over time, this will diminish the quality and deter indie producers. Be aware of which channels you are paying attention to.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwB...

25.11.2025 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! I unfortunately missed the talk; does this cover the same overall message?

22.11.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

19.11.2025 14:22 — 👍 2261    🔁 462    💬 14    📌 48

It is actually an incredibly frustrating time to be a theoretical neuroscientist right now imo, for this reason

17.11.2025 01:23 — 👍 135    🔁 24    💬 9    📌 1

“If I could substitute one word for cognition, it would be flexibility …. Flexibility is what cognition is all about”

16.11.2025 02:01 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

Mattias Kranz actually trained an octopus to play the piano -- the video is hilarious
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

13.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Going to SfN? Check out our lab's presentations! We have a talk on Sat afternoon (1:15 pm, SDCC Rm 11, NANO004.02) by @dhasemusic.bsky.social and two posters on Wed afternoon (PSTR469.20 / OO3 and PSTR469.21 / OO4) by @ayakahach.bsky.social and Jonathan Shor.

12.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply

06.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 21496    🔁 5918    💬 463    📌 417

New discovery: A brain wave sweeps across the cortex like radar, scanning a mental image in working memory to read it out. #neuroscience

20.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

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