Pooja Viswanathan

i forgot i made this back in 2022 (someone just posted it on linkedin). startling to realise it still holds now in 2025

(kindly ignore the typo)

GPSJAM GPS/GNSS Interference Map Map showing possible GPS interference around 30.036, 38.076 on 2025-02-09.

Practically the only essential digital service properly made resilient through multiple providers is GPS, and even that's getting blocked by Russia and (?) Israel gpsjam.org?lat=30.03610...

Universities should be able to teach without Internet, and governments to provide services. #AIActionSummit

The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks The White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran.

Even dependency on consultancies rather than in-house expertise are significant exposure for governments or any organisation, particularly for daily operations. Realise you may lose electricity, internet, access to Google, Microsoft for weeks! #AIActionSummit 2/3
www.wired.com/story/white-...

I love when she's asked whether her title was prescient, Marietje answers "no, it was already happening."

Let me emphasise: this is NOT just about genAI / "AGI". Influence of recommenders (on social media, but also search), dependency on live cloud infrastructure, 1/2 #AIActionSummit

Sequential neuronal processing of number values, abstract decision, and action in the primate prefrontal cortex Decision-making needs evaluation of options, deliberation and action-planning. This study shows that neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex sequentially delineate these processes to separable compon...

Out now in PLOS Biology: Sequential neuronal processing of number values, abstract decision, and action in the primate prefrontal cortex.

Very excited that @yorkpsychology.bsky.social is recruiting a Chair in Mental Health!

Come to York! It's a lovely place to be and we have great neuroimaging facilities (if that is your bag). Please RT!

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

Pro tip for giving a talk: If you are given a certain amount of time for your talk, *do not exceed that amount of time*. True always, but especially if you are part of a lineup with other speakers.

Representing context and priority in working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563608v1 The ability to prioritize among contents in working memory (WM) is critical for successful control o

Representing context and priority in working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563608v1

Multi-attribute decision-making in macaques relies on direct attribute comparisons bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Happy to see this paper come together! The study has a really cool task design that helped us understand the processes involved in multi-attribute decisions. Excellent work led by senior PhD student Aster Perkins!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

<3 Eve!

Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...

For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways

In our new pre-print, we found that "fear profiles" can be decoded from the ventral visual stream whether participants report being afraid of the stimuli or not. It is the interaction between the prefrontal and visual cortices that seemed to support subjective fear
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inside MSNBC’s Middle East conflict Three of the most prominent Muslim broadcasters on MSNBC have, for various reasons, been moved out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel.

“MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday…” 📰

'Researchers who signed up in the past year or so tell Science they committed between $3000 and $6000—plus interest payments on any loans Cheeky Scientist helped them apply for.'