Ben Hayden

You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)

We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?

In short, yes!

westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984

westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984

Duke chapel interior

Hosted a meeting today; took my visitors to see Duke Chapel

Julian Abele designed it—one of over 30 Duke buildings he designed from 1924-1950 (when he died)

The school wasn’t desegregated until 1962 (🤬) & Abele was a Black architect

Posthumously, Duke renamed the central quad for him in tribute

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

ANXIETY Same symptoms as a heart attack, but no need to worry!!!

don't worry

light snow, starting to stick on lawn and cars. can still see the grass

time to start documenting this storm

4:15pm

If you could automatically acquire any language, living or dead, spoken or signed, and then were provided with enough funding to teach it at the University level, which language would you choose and why?

For my World War 1 friends, what are your three favorite books on the First World War? Any region, any topic, just favorites? @vandawilcox.bsky.social, suggestions?

does the Girl Scouts website ask you to accept all cookies

Amik in the Snow
Mishiikenhkwe ~ ANishinaabe
c. 2026

discrete = separate

discreet = unobtrusive

The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'

I love going to Georgetown bc you can be like wow I wonder if any of the founding fathers ever hung out in this sweetgreen

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊

Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.

Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Close-up of Jo-Jo, Clown Prince of Crime, in full makeup: red nose, red-bordered white over the eyes and mouth, wisps of red hair at sides. He gestures with an index finger as he rants, "Then... along came the theater... the movies... and television... and before long, circuses became scarce, and clowns were no longer in demand! I swore vengeance!" BLACKHAWK #155, 1960. Writer unknown. Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff, art.

roses are red
violets are blue
lilacs are neither red nor blue, but if they had to answer a follow-up question picking whether they leaned more toward red, more toward blue or did not lean toward either
that would be terrible for this poem's scansion

roses are red
violet are magnificent
a change of 1 point's not
statistically significant

What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward.
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
#neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

The Tramp Steamer, 1922 #edwardhopper #americanart

It’s become fashionable to talk of Anglicanism as a kind of ‘English Shinto’, but is there also a sense in which Anglicanism is an ‘English Vodou’ - a religious creole in which elements of both Catholicism and Protestantism are seamlessly blended?

In case anyone has been wondering what I have been doing for the past 40 years, it is summed up in this slide.
#neuroscience

Blonde on Blonde (1966) The final part of Dylan’s classic mid-60’s trilogy, rock’s first double album is a monumental pop record. The story of its recording in Nashville is one of inspired cross-genre co…

Blonde on Blonde revisited

dylanrevisited.com/2026/02/13/b...

In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week).

1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops).

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2. Paper figure by Carhart-Harris and Friston (oops).
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I'm going to have to check if every scientist I ever interview for the rest of forever was in the Epstein files before interviewing them, aren't I? 😵‍💫

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

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thats the end of my knowledge on this topic

Looking at the paper suggests the story is not "cerebellum has language" but instead a careful subregionalization and functional differentiation of the subregions, as well as a functional comparison w cortex. So it might be the way it was covered, not the paper itself.

This is a photograph of a barn in Valldal, Norway, known for its unique spiral stone ramp. Completed in 1885, the farmer, Lars Petter Olsen Valldal, spent the next seven years constructing the grassy spiral ramp. The ramp allowed access to both floors of the barn, providing quick storage access to the hay loft.

Barn with Spiral Ramp

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