Lourenço M. D. A. 🧠 🇪🇺

It's gotta be creamy... PB though must be chunky.

In het onderwijs mag een AI-verbod geen taboe zijn

In het onderwijs mag een AI-verbod geen taboe zijn — redactie @trouw.nl

www.trouw.nl/opinie/in-he...

YouTube video by Imotion Media The UCL Voyage to Aur

🚨 I set off today on research journey to the Marshall Islands! 🚨

UCL Voyage to Aur

Here is the 1st instalment in a set of videos covering the project. I explain the background to the project and introduce a Marshallese stick chart held in a museum in London:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3m...

‘We’d Call That Corruption’: How Trump Used The Presidency To Expand His Global Empire Donald Trump wasn’t making much from foreign deals. Then he regained power—and set aside the pretense that he cared about ethics.

Donald Trump wasn’t making much from foreign deals. Then he regained power—and set aside the pretense that he cared about ethics.

Brightly labelled pyramidal cells in the mouse retrosplenial cortex. Blood vessels are visible of various thicknesses in darker colours.

#neuroskyence folks: as my postdoc grant is running out soon, I am looking for new opportunities in systems neuroscience!

Keywords: patch clamp ephys, opto, mouse behavior, (in vivo) voltage imaging. Would love to return to the Basal Ganglia.

Sharing appreciated, and happy #FluorescenceFriday !

This morning: Anna Abraham speaks to the storied history of creativity theories and definitions in her keynote address. #SfNC2025

Jonathan Fineberg leads a discussion on rethinking what it means to get a PhD in creativity!!! An innovate pedagogy for teaching creativity

First talk of Empirical Advances in the
Neuroscience of Creativity: Alexandra Kelly talks on the cognitive and neural individual differences in design fixation

Looking forward to the start of the 10th #SfNC!
Yesterday's symposium on AI, Creativity and a Changing World was already

I had someone tell me today his lab "is trying to use ChatGPT to design and implement experiments". They literally are asking it "to come up with experiments, write a protocol and communicate with other machines to implement it". I am in hell. We are in hell.

Australia flag

Results

Congratulations Australia! The people have crushed the fascists. The Labor party’s PM Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in an election wipeout.

The push back against the Trump / Putin aligned global regressive movement continues strong.

Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and I are thrilled with the cover for our book, Somebody Should Do Something

The release date is 9/16, but you can do preorders now

mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

#CoverReveal #Bookstagram @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social tein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

A group of six people sits around a large wooden table working collaboratively with laptops, tablets, smartphones, and notebooks. The screens display a presentation slide titled “Discussion Outline.” The table also has coffee mugs, notebooks with handwritten notes, and small potted plants, suggesting a casual but focused team meeting or brainstorming session.

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Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs"
April 24 5-6pm CET
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Speakers:
- Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School
- Lucie Flek, University of Bonn
- Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Screenshot of the top of the article pdf (title and author names)

New article at EJP 🥁🥁🥁

Social #interactions with different types of interaction partners are systematically linked to #personality states in #adolescence, while the contribution of social interaction partners to personality development seems more complex.

Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ooo that's a super interesting question! Keen to see more of your research :)

CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸

(From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )

Computational and systems neuroscience needs development Embracing recent advances in developmental biology can drive a new wave of innovation.

Computational and systems neuroscience needs new ideas from other areas, in particular developmental biology, writes @bbscott.bsky.social @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

This is a really interesting read!! Thanks for the article

The Complex Systems Society Manifesto About the Publishing and Evaluation Systems
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Image of different stingray features from the paper

New stingray just dropped

🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈

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A.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir Hill Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 03/19/2025 · 1h

This AI company is using images of your face without your permission.

Check out the full Factually! episode with Kashmir Hill wherever you get podcasts.

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» Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3dE7...

» YouTube: youtu.be/XlFj7SFCOZU

IMO, the drug parallel is not so appropriate.
Are there dangerous negative effects at play here? Yes.

Is it realistic to keep kids away from screens? No.
Is it realistic to keep kids away from social media? No.

The next best thing is regulation and management - by parents, governments and kids.

God, that was hard to bear. Students told a physics town hall that grad schools have rescinded admission. NSF proposals are censored for words like “bias,” even when the meaning is technical. Physics curricula are being banned by school districts for encouraging girls. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

Science

Small and mighty: The hypothalamus

www.science.org/toc/science/...

Your regular reminder that t-Rump and Brexshit are the same thing...

#FuckTrump
#FBR

#Brexshit
#FBPE

This sounds so interesting, I wanna be friends haha. What lead you to research this?!

The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.