Mayank Mehta

A democratic socialist, and a muslim, son of Indian parents, but born in Uganda, is the NYC Mayor!

Oh my god, the sky is falling... on the Orange Bafoon.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

In a chaotic world, some inspiration from human greatness.
In even more chaotic times, on October 28 1893, Pyotr Tchaikovsky premiered his masterpiece, Symphony #6, aka "Pathetique".

Nine days later he died.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVA1...

Thank you. I learned a lot from this visit.

YouTube video by roger bridgland MOZART Symphony No 40 in G minor KV550 LEONARD BERNSTEIN

In a chaotic world, some inspiration from human greatness.
In even more chaotic times, Mozart, just 32, created his 39th symphony!
Then he finished the 40th the next month!
Then the 41st in just 2 weeks!
Timeless creations, untouched by the the chaos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8bZ...

UCLA agrees to $6.5m settlement with Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests Lawsuit alleges protesters made antisemitic threats with the ‘knowledge and acquiescence’ of university officials

The same darkness that descended on Harvard and other East Coast Universities has now come to UCLA.
First this
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Then this
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Of course, no borders. It would be great to collaborate with you.

🧠🧠Announcing: Neural computations without borders 🧠🧠
So many students and postdocs are stuck due to visa, or other hurdles. To help in a small way, I will mentor about ten students/postdocs in neural computation, or neuro-AI projects, leading to publication/s.

Beauty in art lifts the mind and awakens higher thought Contemplating artistic beauty in museums can enhance abstract thinking and help people mentally step back from daily concerns.

www.earth.com/news/beauty-...

Awake replay: off the clock but on the job Hippocampal replay is widely thought to support two key cognitive functions: online decision-making and offline memory consolidation. In this review, we take a closer look at the hypothesized link bet...

New opinion paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social with Dan Bendor, where we argue that rodent studies provide only marginal support for the idea that replay supports real-time decisions (e.g. planning). Fictive learning and memory tagging are more consistent w/evidence. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

This was a wonderful meeting.

Make Russia Great again:
-Zero tariffs on Russia
-Highest tariffs on the biggest trading partners of Russia: China, European Union, especially Germany, India.
-Higher tariffs from USA will make them trade with Russia at a lower cost. Everyone else will bear the burden.

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

The real qustion is: Why would Musk want to know about war plans with china?
ucla.zoom.us/j/9669404201...
All of Musk's money is in Tesla Cars. Chinese car maker BYD (and others) has made much better EV cars for 70% less price than Tesla.
www.cnbc.com/2025/03/18/b...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

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Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX

“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...

A US submarine emerges from the ocean, highlighted by a clear blue sky and calm waters, symbolizing a recent fuel supply dispute.

Norwegian firm Haltbakk Bunkers announced it will stop providing fuel to all US forces in Norway: "No Fuel to Americans! We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA" #3E #StandWithUkraine

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

An admin throwing away all its leverage. "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter." therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

Clearly, Musk & Trump never thought this would happen.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Indeed terrifyingly accurate. Our only hope is to quit Musk in every way. Signature campaigns will have zero effects. Mass protests on the streets will be effective but too costly, they will use the military against us.

This is a good move. Sadly, I doubt Musk+Maga madness will care. What they will definitely notice is if we quit everything Musk, from Twitter to Tesla cars and stocks. Europe has already done that, we are far behind. Give them a doGe of their own medicine.

All 22 states are Blue states. Practically none of the Red states. You know where this is going.

I like the undergrad textbook by Bear, Connors & Paradiso from Brown University.

Early Career Researchers: If you have a job offer in the US, get everything in writing*immediately*.

Universities will have no choice but to rescind offers. Hiring freezes are unavoidable.

#AcademicSky

Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space - Nature A study in rats proposes a mechanism for how the brain maps the surrounding environment, including places it has never seen, by alternating left and right forward sweeps in successive theta cycles.

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social
#KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com
@kavlifoundation.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

​Quitting twitter is a solid way to protest Mu$k+Maga madness. But, we can do better. Use X solely to criticize Musk+Maga. Many are still enamoured with him. They need to hear us. If we change just 1% of votes, we change the election result. Let's do mass protests on X against Mu$k+maga.

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:

Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."

And just stand there.

This is how many of you are coming across.

Opinion | The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research Fraud in research needs to end.

Why is Alzheimer's note cured?
When sleuths examined papers from the topmost 46 scientists, they found a staggering 600 papers (cited 80,000 times) that had ostensibly fraudulant content. How do we fix this mess?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...