Isaac Barry

Reflections on a fab session at #CCN25 - how might gamification fit into #dementia research? 🎮

Would love to hear others' thoughts on this one 😊

#neuroskyence

Militarizing Marriage Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...

Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!

Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.

Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.

As a lifelong Oakland fan and a 90's M's convert, I usually lowkey live for that agony. But I am glad not to stress about it during this particular season

Could be worse, could be the A's

And now I'm thirsty for waterlemon

You were a little loud TBH...

bsky.app/profile/dash...

You had me at Sun Ra

Radio Free Europe

a screenshot of a TikTok follower list showing only one: Chicken Nekh

My TikTok account has one follower, and it's the best BBQ chicken joint in Dakar, Chicken Nekh

Why do I still have this Zune?

(after the bar has passed XRF testing, of course)

Happy Birthday!

I was gonna ask for the plot of Tannhaüser

"...shaped my thinking..."

drops list of authors, all white guys, remains mystified

Industrial game development used to be "Go big or go home!"

Now it's "Go big and go home!"

Fellow game designers, this is for you

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

We denounce Trump’s white supremacist policy to reinstate and expand the racist Muslim and African ban. This ban will force vulnerable people to abandon their right to seek safety – putting people in harmful and potentially deadly conditions.

A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons Nature - An algorithm called time–magnitude reinforcement learning (TMRL) extends distributional reinforcement learning to take account of reward time and magnitude, and behavioural and...

A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons rdcu.be/epxkE - temporal delay discounting and reward magnitude are simultaneously mapped in mouse dopamine neurons

Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...

New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !

we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features

The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex

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

Boxes of Carcassonne board game variants and expansions line some gift shop shelves

They sell Carcassonne in Carcassonne

Rozzy sighting! Hung out with her in Dakar a month ago. Small 🌍

Looking through a series of old stone archways, out to the distant water and Dakar Plateau

A view through the former Governor's Palace, Gorée Island, Senegal, 2025

A framed photographic print of a figure wearing a robe of hand-stitched red and black sequins, a black rigid conical shroud hides the face within, but a close inspection reveals a feline face inside.

Untitled. Ibrahima Thiam at Oh Gallerie, Dakar, 2024

Inside a cathedral, a large stone column dappled in colored light.

Kölner Dom

A man stands, Al Green, holding his cane aloft in protest to the lies of Donald Trump, while Maria Cantwell's thoughts and concerns are invisible

I was looking hard

A painting of the moment an explosion tosses a group of uniformed men over each other in a jumble.

“L'explosion 1871” painting by Edouard Manet, at Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany (Oct, 2023)

youtu.be/OupDwMcE-ws

New device could allow you to taste a cake in virtual reality Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste.  The interface, dubbed ‘e-Taste’, uses a combination of sensors and wir...

“The system… utilizes an actuator with two parts: an interface to the mouth and a small electromagnetic pump. This pump connects to a liquid channel of chemicals that vibrates when an electric charge passes through it, pushing the solution through a special gel layer into the mouth of the subject.”