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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.

And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

spotted in Brussels; not sure yet of the intent

real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?

1976/81; hard to find but looking forward to reading it. And that gorgeous cover! Anyone knows the font?

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 years in the making, great to see this important new study (actually many studies) now preprinted. 👏🏼👏🏼 @peterlush.bsky.social

Thank you for all the energy and passion you have invested in launching the Association - I am almost jealous that this will now benefit the council, but convinced that your presence there will help us all!

Six new members of the ERC Scientific Council and three new Vice Presidents Today, six new members of the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC), the Scientific Council, have been appointed by the European Commission. The term of one current member has also bee...

It is a great honor to join the Scientific Council of the @erc.europa.eu. The ERC is precisely the kind of organisation I am proud to champion. Science is what binds Europe together and sustains its resilience

if christmas could be captured in one single photo...

#CIFAR -- winter school on the neuroscience of consciousness, by the Brain Mind Consciousness program (with generous support from @templetonworld.bsky.social -- thank you!!)

apply to come next year!

Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program - Astera The Astera Institute is excited to launch a major new neuroscience research effort led by Dr. Doris Tsao, who will be joining as Chief Scientist for Astera Neuro. We seek to understand one of the deep...

$600 million dollar bet by Astera Foundation to solve consciousness via reading and writing of neural activity led by Doris Tsao.

astera.org/neuroscienti...

Edward O. Wilson in 2009: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” (thank you @kottke.org)

Indeed, terrific beginning

It's a real honour to be chairing next year's @mesec-community.bsky.social winter school on consciousness science, March 22-28👇🏽

« The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. »

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Great memories there 😃

thank you Surya for being such a good jury member !

Both of you can be very proud of this accomplishment Axel & Pietro (and especially Pietro of course). Sorry for asking whether your decision making model was conscious, you should have just thrown your laptop at me. Thanks for letting me be a part of this & I hope you enjoy the rest of the eve :-)

Unconscious categorization of sub-millisecond complex images Can people categorize complex visual scenes unconsciously? The possibility of unconscious perception remains controversial. Here, we addressed this question using psychophysical methods applied to unm...

We built one 😃

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microseconds, just to whet your appetite 😃

DM him here !

Super proud of @pietroamerio.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis on « vision at very short durations » today. Congrats!

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Interested in whether EEG frequency-tagging can be used to measure conscious perception (visibility and confidence)? Check out our new preprint with @axc.bsky.social and Adélaïde de Heering!
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Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below

The value of consciousness: experiences worth having | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organi...

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself.

👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

⬇️ Summary below:

Can an A.I. experience an orgasm? Until they can, no A.I. is conscious.

Over 1 million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, new OpenAI data reveals An estimated 1.2 million users reportedly talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly, according to a newly released report from the A.I. giant. This latest revelation comes as the company races to strength...

abc7news.com/post/openai-... Jesus Fucking Christ.