Andrew Tan

Joel Swanson, a scholar of modern Jewish intellectual history at Sarah Lawrence College, assesss Zohran Mamdani's statement positively.

Interestingly, Israel's Foreign Ministry says the statement is a sign that Mamdani is a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda.

I started invoking Archbishop Romero early in this administration and I fear that may unfortunately prove prescient the way things are developing.

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Congratulations to my wonderful colleague John Clarke! And to Berkeley, and to UC. And to everyone who still believes that foundational research is worth investing in

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

YouTube video by Simons Foundation Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

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

My deepest sympathies 🌺

2025 Physics Nobel: Macroscopic quantum tunneling As announced this morning, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke , Michel Devoret , and John Martinis , for a ser...

🧪⚛️ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - a brief writeup about what is meant here by macroscopic quantum tunneling. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

Criminal.

The right wing radicals are targeting Mark Bray and putting his family at risk because he...wrote a book.

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!

Asst or Assoc.

We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)

faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣

The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network

Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results

Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?

Thread 🧵 ⬇️

Trump “is giving instructions to shoot and kill people,” Kenrick Modie, a fisherman in in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, said about recent U.S. military strikes targeting suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean. “What could we do? We’re just a little dot.”

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Two years since 7.10🎗️

Rachmaninov – Prelude in B minor Op. 32/10, inspired by Böcklin’s painting “Die Heimkehr” – the homecoming or the return.

What do you mean by 'unrequited'?

"We need to talk about what needs to be done now to shape the future. Right now, the acute issues are: stopping the genocide and ending apartheid."

A cover image of From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx. It depicts two leaves in orange and pink colors, the tips are split into two rows of pointed shapes and one diamond shape.

"Samih
this soil is sacred
like water
My land is holy
too
and
from it
I cannot be severed."

- 'From Turtle Island to Gaza' (2019), a poetry book by Anishinaabe/Ojibwe-French Canadian poet David Groulx. #Booksky

#WATCH | “The level of the dehumanization of the Palestinian...is reaching the levels of Rwanda in 1994.”

Israeli activist Maoz Inon, whose parents were killed on Oct. 7, and Zahiro Shahar Mor, whose uncle was captured that day, spoke with Medhir Hassan about the need to sanction Israel.

Happy day of Quantum, and congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, & John Martinis!

There's no stopping it now!

#NobelPrize #SuperconductingQubits #QuantumTunneling

nobelprize.org/prizes/physics…www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025...df

Gary McQuiggin on X: "Nkosi Mandela shares a video saying that all the remaining flotilla activists are now on their way home. I'm pretty sure that's @davidrkadler pacing around in the background. https://t.co/9KsxCHHI89" / X Nkosi Mandela shares a video saying that all the remaining flotilla activists are now on their way home. I'm pretty sure that's @davidrkadler pacing around in the background. https://t.co/9KsxCHHI89

David Adler seems to be in the background of this video shared by Nkosi Mandela saying they are on their way home.

Progressive International on X: "BREAKING: David Adler (@davidrkadler), Co-General Coordinator of the @ProgIntl, is being released from Israeli detention and is on his way home. https://t.co/IMlOXoiynf" / X BREAKING: David Adler (@davidrkadler), Co-General Coordinator of the @ProgIntl, is being released from Israeli detention and is on his way home. https://t.co/IMlOXoiynf

Progressive International reports David Adler has been released and is on his way home.

here's what the bbc is showing in singapore ... could be worse ... quantum neural networks 🤪

disappointing after last year they could have gone for quantum neural networks 🤪

YouTube video by Liederiadi & more B. Britten WAR REQUIEM duet Ten Bar "So Abraham rose.."

Abram 😱

When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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📘 Submitted my PhD last week! Over 3 years, I explored what makes us good at spatial navigation using behaviour, brain imaging & VR.

Grateful to my supervisors @hugospiers.bsky.social and @antoniahamilton.bsky.social, collaborators, friends & family! ♥️

Excited for what’s next! 🚀

#PhDCompleted

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling, is a perfect example of emergent phenomena in action. It’s also one of the key reasons we wrote our book www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...
— because no other popular science book talks about this.