30 seconds of pianist Alexandra Dariescu performing Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra, from tonight's concert at the Ulster Hall, conducted by Olari Elts, which was part of the Belfast International Arts Festival and Sound of Belfast Festival.

Despite claims a few years ago that physicists have made progress on showing we could be living in the matrix, this latest update from David Tong reports disappointment on efforts to verify those results 😞 🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LN...

With Nicolas Brunel! On balanced neural networks!

good morning BlueSky

Operator algebra is beautiful, as argued here. Somehow I feel about the statement [d/dx, x] = 1 the way many feel about Euler's identify. bristoliver.substack.com/p/ai-symmetr...

Laila Shawa, Palestinian artist whose work has been described as a personal reflection concerning her heritage #WomensArt

The Sosa Lab is going to #SfN25 and actively recruiting ✨postdocs✨ with systems neuroscience experience! We study both fundamental memory processes and how memory changes during pregnancy and postpartum. If you are interested in meeting at SfN, please email me! www.sosaneurolab.com/join/postdoc...

Halftime amazement.

Just out! A paper that Orna Ben Naftali, Anna Christina Schmidl and I co-authored in which we search for specks of light in the current darkness. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Did you know? In 2025, the U.S. quarter features Vera Rubin, honoring her landmark discovery of the existence of dark matter — a tribute that perfectly coincides with the first light of the Rubin Observatory(@vrubinobs.bsky.social), celebrating her enduring legacy in unveiling the unseen universe.

How did I not know this?!

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's hard to convey my disgust & moral outrage at Trump & Rubio for killing hundreds of thousands My team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the pros & cons of health aid, which has undoubtedly saved millions of live but has down sides. We have a policy paper out soon on the topic. 1/n

It's quite different, but I'm reminded of Richard Strauss, who drove to the Terezín concentration camp to get his Jewish daughter-in-law's family members released. He failed. Metamorphosen, written by Strauss in 1944/1945, is marked "Im Memoriam!" when Beethoven's funeral march is quoted.

Saffron time Yesterday I'll share a post about it next week.

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Another title for this article could be: “Superman Outshines Scary Barbie” www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/s...

Epistemic dignity I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kids blowing bubbles in Gaza

This is my son’s soccer teammate. This is heartbreaking to watch, no kid should go through this. I know his parents, they are good people. No family should endure this. The cruelty and evil actions of the trump administration and ICE are tearing families and communities apart.

I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984

auditory tau-rhythm with a cool waveform, oscillating at 10 Hz, recorded with intracranial electrodes. 🧠〰️🙂

Not a time to stand idly by: Third States' duty to respond to systemic violations and repression in the Israeli-Palestinian Context Eitan Diamond

"Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families in Gaza face winter rains and cold without adequate protection, as Israeli restrictions continue to block the entry of lifesaving shelter materials"

Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime. While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open. ➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...

Thrilled to be among this fantastic cohort of AI2050 Fellows. This is a great recognition of the transformative potential of #NeuroAI and our lab’s work in this space 🧪🧠🤖. Many thanks to @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for the support!

Chopin Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat major, Op. 61 Piano Concerto in F minor, Op 21 David Khrikuli, piano Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Andrzej Boreyko, conductor

"the organized American Jewish community ... have treated Israel’s system of Jewish legal supremacy as nonnegotiable." - Peter Beinart "One day, Jewish-Israeli society will recognize that this 'Jewish and democratic' thing gradually tightened the noose around it" - Assaf David

“Jessica Tisch got her start at the NYPD in the Kelly-era Intelligence Bureau building dossiers on Muslim extremism.” @awinston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/welcom...

A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

“The experience of a deaf person is often imagined in binaries, beginning with the seemingly definitional division between people who hear and those who do not.”

Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Very cool finding by SJSU prof @cassandrapaul.bsky.social & @djphysicswebb.bsky.social that higher stakes exams can explain the gender gap in physics. More evidence for changing the course structure instead of blaming student prep. 🧪

A tad late (announcements coming) but very happy to share the latest developments in my previous preprint! Previously, we show that neural representations for control of movement are largely distinct following supervised or reinforcement learning. The latter most closely matches NHP recordings.

Another excellent position at UT Dallas, this time in the Biological Science Dept: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30702 Our Neuroscience and Biological Sciences faculty are closely intertwined and collaborative creating a great place to launch your independent lab!

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

My Lab @unlv.edu is recruiting motivated students interested in human memory and brain research! Learn #EEG, #fMRI, and data analysis while exploring how we remember 🧠 📧 DM me or check out #PhD program www.unlv.edu/degree/phd-n... & www.unlv.edu/psychology/g... Plus, Vegas is a fun place to live!🤟

1/7 I could be Katharina Rubi. So, why am I still Katharina Schmack-(suppressed giggles)-can-you-spell-that for me? Here’s a story about a dopamine-degrading enzyme that fell out of fashion. 🧵

"The dress was made and styled by Risa Kostis, Embroidery by L.W. Pearl Atelier &Tailoring by Kaitlyn De La Cruz. Shout out to them and the kiddos who made the art! 🥹🥰"

go click on this story and let @teenvogue.com they made a huge mistake in letting these amazing journalists go......

I love quantum computing (& quantum information science, even more), don't get me wrong -- but we have to acknowledge how much of the so-called "ecosystem" this captures:

The laws of physics are always the first to go.

Dhoom Machale Song

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

Deepavali may be over, but the lights on Serangoon Road are still lighting up the night. Catch them before they’re switched off on 17 November. #serangoonroad #littleindia #singapore #streetsofsingapore #thisissg #visitsingapore #seemycity #neonlights #colourfulstreet #citybynight #nightphotography

It is not often that a new flow cytometry protocol makes the newspaper! I also got a kick out of seeing our science tagged as "quirky"! www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/fairy-l...

Do we need a Barthesian research revolution? #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #Barthes

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