Santani Teng

Person presents her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a group of three people in a large room filled with other presenters during a poster session. The image is from a top-down angled view.

A gif of a person presenting her scientific poster on a kalman filter model of human echolocation to a few people. The gif contains two altering images of the person with different funny facial expressions as they explain their poster. The images are from behind the listeners, with the backs of their heads, with a direct view of the speaker.

Thank you #imrf2025 for providing the space to share ideas and to all the people who were interested in our Kalman Filter-based echolocators and provided valuable comments. The poster session was a blast!

And thanks @echodislocation.bsky.social for capturing only the best facial expressions!

YouTube video by UK Movie Locations Superman IV (1987) Location - Winter Gardens, Milton Keynes

Yes, you need bolt cutters for each hair.

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Black-and-white scientific illustration of the first EEG topoplot by Koiti Motokawa (1944). G = glabella P = protuberantia occipitalis externa, S = central sulcus

this figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗

(compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)

Author contribution snippet reading, "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smas Bros. Both YB and BZ contributed equally and have the right to list their name first in their CV."

There is precedent for claiming your first authorship without taking it away from your late colleague. For example
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

I'd like to make a list of PhD programs that (1) are in Europe (which does include the UK); (2) offer opportunities in systems neuroscience; and obviously (3) pay a stipend. Please share and/or respond to add your suggestions?

"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious."

"They are of no force and effect."

"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

Normal 2025 way of communicating

🦇✨ New paper out!

Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills
Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn?
We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception.
#Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness
lnkd.in/gVe4VWqu

#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.

Whoa...how about some *great* Friday night news instead???

The 14-day temporary restraining order blocks admin from:

🛑 Any further DOGE order to "cut programs or staff"

🛑 Executing existing RIFs

🛑 Issuing further RIFs

...in connection to EO, OMB memo, reorg plans.

See page 40 here:

Snippet of a printed page with a footnote citation, reading "1. This was once revealed to me in a dream."

Fair question. Lit review suggests it's another man's treasure

This is a terrible update to We Didn't Start the Fire

I really wish I could describe GenZ what it felt like growing up in a miracle. My grandfather on my mother's side was a dentist. He had a grand encyclopedia collection and it was just this incredible thing. You could pick up a random book and go to a random page and just be regaled with information

DOGE was never about efficiency gains. DOGE is an ideological attack on government, which would have been impossible to wage if done through the regular means of government funding--the legislature. Couching it as "efficiency" was a strategic play by the executive to consolidate power.

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Harvard says no to Trump.

Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov) https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im.. immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. No information is available for this page. Learn why

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.

The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

Entre invention de preuve, faux témoignage, et recherche falsifiée. Figure 1 from the preprint, showing the distribution of collection dates of the newly uncovered data and comparing it to the distribution of previous sequences collection dates; earliest new one is in early Jan. Caption: Figure 1. Temporal distribution of initial dataset and newly added sequences (samples collected between 24-Dec-2019 and 15-Feb-2020). Sequences in the initial dataset from market-linked samples and within a single familial cluster are colored green and purple, respectively. Other sequences in the initial dataset are colored orange. Newly added sequences are colored blue. The arrow indicates the earliest sequence in added data, which is market-linked.

There have been many lab leak articles in the media recently, but none had actual new data

In a new preprint, @zachhensel.bsky.social and I analyze early COVID-19 cases sequence data that have been overlooked so far.

These new data continue to point to a natural origin ▫️1/7
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.

Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.

F75: Auditory masking release indexes human click-based echolocation performance
F77: Modeling target search in blind echolocators using a Kalman Filter with realistic exploratory behavior simulations
F114: Time-resolved EEG decoding of neural text representations during naturalistic braille reading

If you're attending #CNS2025, check out our lab's posters in Tuesday morning's Session F! We're proud to represent @skeriresearch.bsky.social in Boston this year.

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.

If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.

We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

We encountered a closed web portal well before midnight UK time. Will IMRF consider the submissions we emailed instead?