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I’m Mad and I’m living in Kraków and partially that’s why I’m Mad.
pinned post!
Well, I even did „countertenorish” stuff on the chorus. All tracks recorded by me, music and lyrics obviously too. It’s ok to do a little show off sometimes.
#bedroomrecording
#originalsong
#singersongwriter
#heavymetal
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@strajkkobiet.bsky.social
i
@aborcyjnydream.bsky.social
i róbcie ruch w temacie! Potrzebna jest alternatywa dla Facebooka i X i pewność, że profile nie zostaną zablokowane!!!
#aborcja
#piekłokobiet
#fucktechbros
!!!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
5 days ago
excellent sub-thread on academia and why it's full of bullies tbh
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Mike Levin
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What is life? Final version is out
@blaiseaguera.bsky.social
Reed Bender, Karina Kofman
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological Theory
The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-026-00544-9
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Earl K. Miller
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Human neuronal firing varies with the frequency of local field potential oscillations
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#neuroscience
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Human neuronal firing varies with the frequency of local field potential oscillations
Neural oscillations play a critical role in shaping neuronal firing patterns, but little is known about whether neurons show preferential firing at specific oscillatory frequencies. This study uses re...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003818
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
22 days ago
Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in
#NLP
and
#ComputationalLinguistics
is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call:
www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...
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Earl K. Miller
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New results! A new method that analyzes brain waves and spike timing together. This lets us pinpoint exactly which rhythms neurons are locking to. BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE MODEL FOR JOINT INFERENCE OF OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS AND POINT-PROCESS COUPLING
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#neuroscience
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BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE MODEL FOR JOINT INFERENCE OF OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS AND POINT-PROCESS COUPLING
Under a range of behavioral and physiological conditions, spike times and local field potential (LFP) oscillations exhibit phase coupling within specific frequency bands. Classical measures such as sp...
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.15.732402
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about 1 month ago
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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Angela Radulescu
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In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
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Kceniya Holmes
10 months ago
Just got reminded of the fabulous work of Alfred Korzybski at the Emergence Workshop
@sussex.ac.uk
hosted by the Centre of Cognitive Science (COGS). Thanks to Inês Hipólito, Michael Silberstein, Anna van Oosterzee and Lionel Barnett for some great presentations.
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Earl K. Miller
about 2 months ago
A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
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A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Context-dependent behavior selects actions according to task demands. Using direct brain recordings in humans, Binish et al. uncover how coordinated population activity efficiently channels informatio...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02290-4
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Earl K. Miller
about 2 months ago
Fluctuating internal states mediate neural–behavioral covariations in V1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
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Fluctuating internal states mediate neural–behavioral covariations in V1 - Nature Neuroscience
The authors report surprising covariations between subthreshold activity of single V1 neurons and behavior, demonstrating that interactions between external sensory inputs and internal states are impl...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02296-y
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Earl K. Miller
about 2 months ago
Prefrontal modulation of striatal engagement: a hierarchical framework for goal-directed behavior
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience
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Prefrontal modulation of striatal engagement: a hierarchical framework for goal-directed behavior - Communications Biology
Goal-directed behavior requires selecting and committing to goals, strategies, and actions. This review explores how three hierarchical prefronto-striatal loops can achieve this: striatal matrix ensem...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10047-9
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas
3 months ago
Read the full paper in
@science.org
(
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
) or the arXiv (
arxiv.org/abs/2603.20639
). Photo: cover illustration by Alex Schomburg of Ray Cummings’ “The Exile of Time”
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Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon po...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg1895
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Marcin Miłkowski
3 months ago
Ukazał się mój zgryźliwy tekst na temat uprzywilejowania niektórych humanistów (tych równiejszych) w obecnej ewaluacji:
academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-z...
A poza tym jest to coś, co jest niepotrzebnym kosztem i błędnym środkiem prowadzenia polityki naukowej.
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Panoptykon zamiast polityki naukowej - Academia PAN
Ocena parametryczna jednostek naukowych w jej obecnym kształcie przypomina Panoptykon – krytykowane przez Michela Foucaulta w Nadzorować i karać „więzienie idealne”, w którym więźniowie są stale obser...
https://academia.pan.pl/panoptykon-zamiast-polityki-naukowej/
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Mel Andrews
3 months ago
Decades of activism fought to make American cities handicap-accessible by installing curb cuts and tactile pavement. Delivery robots default to stopping in those curb cuts, effectively eliminating access to public walkways for those using mobility aids.
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Somewhere in Poland
#photography
#architecture
#photosky
#hello
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Marcin Miłkowski
4 months ago
Czarna skrzynka nawet po otwarciu nie da się pojąć. Ot i problem.
youtu.be/lu8jur1cVDk
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Problem czarnej skrzynki: co wiemy o tym, czego nie rozumiemy, Marcin Miłkowski
YouTube video by Copernicus
https://youtu.be/lu8jur1cVDk
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜
4 months ago
FOLKLORIC SUBS OPEN 🦌
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Tamas Spisak
about 1 year ago
As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI! First in a series - stay tuned!
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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle
Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
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Jakob Hohwy
5 months ago
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with
@mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to
@anilseth.bsky.social
and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
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The Self-Evidencing Agent
What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553896/the-self-evidencing-agent/
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Marcin Miłkowski
6 months ago
Here's my new little app for searching through your parallel corpora and translation memories:
github.com/milekpl/corp...
(MIT License)
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GitHub - milekpl/corpus-lucene-service
Contribute to milekpl/corpus-lucene-service development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/milekpl/corpus-lucene-service
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Mike Levin
8 months ago
new paper with
@robertchisciure.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era" 🧪
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Cognition all the way down 2.0: neuroscience beyond neurons in the diverse intelligence era - Synthese
This paper formalizes biological intelligence as search efficiency in multi-scale problem spaces, aiming to resolve epistemic deadlocks in the basal “cognition wars” unfolding in the Diverse Intellige...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05319-6
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#architecture
#cracow
#kraków
#poland
#jagiellonianuniversity
#photography
#streetphoto
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Anytime someone is bitching about libgen I know I’m dealing with a psychopath
#science
#accesibility
#academicsky
#wtf
#fuckinscience
#openscience
#libgen
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The Toxic Avenger
10 months ago
The only way to get EVERYTHING back? Show the f*ck up for THE TOXIC AVENGER – in theaters now!
#ImWithToxie
#ShowTheFckUp
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NakedPastor
10 months ago
Yesterday, 2 schoolchildren were shot and the shooter died. Kids suffer so much violence. And it's dismissed by the adults who could change that.
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Karl Friston in
#mlst
Philosophy done right! So many references, obviously
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
mentioned
#academicsky
#philosophy
#neuroscience
#strangeloop
youtu.be/PNYWi996Beg
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Why Intelligence Can't Get Too Large (Karl Friston)
YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk
https://youtu.be/PNYWi996Beg
10 months ago
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it’s me, aslynn
10 months ago
reasonable work & school accommodations are suicide prevention
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Mark Rubin
10 months ago
"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By
@maddipow.bsky.social
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Research integrity needs a kindness agenda or we will lose ECRs
Responding to early-career researchers’ honest questions with accusations of misconduct is a travesty of open science, says Madeleine Pownall
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/research-integrity-needs-kindness-agenda-or-we-will-lose-ecrs
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Lara Witt
10 months ago
Here are some of the things
@prismreports.org
does to verify whether a pitch or piece is AI-generated (I hope this is helpful for others): 1. AI pieces and pitches all kind of look the same, and they're structured the same: - intro - Subhead and body of text repeated 4 or 5 times
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The Toxic Avenger
10 months ago
It's time to go in HARD for THE TOXIC AVENGER – only in theaters NOW! Show the f*ck up and get tickets NOW.
#ImWithToxie
#TheToxicAvenger
#ShowTheFckUp
#TheHeroWeNeedNow
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Grace Lindsay
11 months ago
The only legitimate reason to still be on Twitter/X is if you are doing research on misinformation and extremism.
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Nick Covington
11 months ago
The kicker, of course, being that every teacher teaches in a "neurodiverse classroom".
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Kristina Šekrst
11 months ago
It's a shame it took me almost a month to find out Margaret Boden died. And it's a shame it took most media a month to write about one of the greatest philosophers of the last century.
#philosophy
#philsci
#ai
#cogsci
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
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Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/margaret-boden-dead.html
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The Ramsey Lab
11 months ago
New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until August 26! Ingo Brigandt explores how to scientifically represent & explain human cognitive diversity, set against the assumption of a shared human nature 👇🧠
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#HPBio
#philsky
#neuroskyence
#HPS
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Richard P Phelps
11 months ago
Top Researchers May Suppress More Information Than They Provide: Surveying NBER Dismissive Literature Reviews
#AcademicSky
nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Artic...
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NPR
11 months ago
A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.
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Chimpanzees pick up communication styles from their moms, not their dads
A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.
https://n.pr/45llIGM
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Comics Bodega
11 months ago
A New Partner - Acid Chimp! in
@ahoycomicmags.bsky.social
's TOXIE TEAM-UP #3 by
@bryceingman.bsky.social
,
@sandyjarrell.com
&
@robsteen.bsky.social
+
@baheds.bsky.social
w/
@thecarollay.bsky.social
+
@kekw-writer.bsky.social
w/
@steveconley.bsky.social
#ExpectMore
comicsbodega.com/preview-toxi...
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A New Partner – Acid Chimp! in TOXIE TEAM-UP #3
Acid Chimp—AHOY's most cheerful character, who lives to splash corrosive acid on people—hits the Tromaville concert scene!
https://comicsbodega.com/preview-toxie-team-up-3/
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Strajk Kobiet
about 1 year ago
@martalempart.bsky.social
wygrała z @OrdoIuris o słynne zdanie, którego nie mogła przez lata wypowiadać. To znaczy, że nie musicie się bać mowić, że Ordo Iuris to finansowani przez Kreml fundamentaliści.
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AHOY Comics
11 months ago
THE TOXIC AVENGER COMICS #2 by
@mattbors.bsky.social
and
@sobreiro.bsky.social
lands next week—but you can read the first 5 pages of the hard-boiled crime issue today, courtesy of
@flickeringmyth.bsky.social
. (Bonus: that
@deadredfred.bsky.social
A cover!)
www.flickeringmyth.com/exclusive-pr...
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Mike Levin
about 1 year ago
New paper:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Universal multilayer network embedding reveals a causal link between GABA neurotransmitter and cancer - BMC Bioinformatics
Background The volume and complexity of biological data have significantly increased in recent years, often represented as network models continue to increase at a rapid pace. However, drug discovery ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-025-06158-5
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Mike Levin
about 1 year ago
Final version of this paper with Alexis Pietak (
allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/ale...
,
www.researchgate.net/profile/Alex...
) is now out:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Harnessing the analog computing power of regulatory networks with the Regulatory Network Machine"
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Harnessing the analog computing power of regulatory networks with the Regulatory Network Machine
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are critically important for efforts in biomedicine and biotechnology. Here, we introduce the Regulatory Network Machi…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225007977
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Voting done.
#bazarek
100% korali w koralach.
#polishpresidentialelections
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#bazarek
Pamiętajcie, że Palade podał w pierwszej turze inne cyferki niż to się później okazało. Poza tym to *isior jest. A jak wiemy—***** ***. 🌈🪸(rafa koralowa bo nie mam emoji korali)
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it’s me, aslynn
about 1 year ago
“Our results are consistent with the notion that individuals with ASD may have… 🌟 baseline retinal overactivity 🌟 to repetitive single light flashes and that the GABAergic system modulates this retinal response differently in autistic and nonautistic individuals.” …cool cool cool.
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Theresa Desrochers, Ph.D.
about 1 year ago
The sound of cells in the brain just doesn’t get old! It’s how I fell in love with
#neuroscience
🧠🧪👩🏻🔬 Celebrating small victories - first
#neuropixels
recordings in the lab. Congrats to the team that made it happen!
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R Crumb Warehouse
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Neuroskeptic
over 1 year ago
Can a single brain cell be surprised?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes, but nothing shocks married neurons.
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Mike Levin
about 1 year ago
New paper with
@bhartl.bsky.social
and
@andreaszoettl.bsky.social
Neuroevolution of decentralized decision-making in N-bead swimmers leads to scalable and robust collective locomotion
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02101-5.epdf?sharing_token=Mrr1q_YX7y-ixcBHQyFfyNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OA9M47JkVBTKeeBaoN8Vh6yDD_edf781p_SbZUWwyR9qLKwcmMSm4WXYj8NfpeZAqlbPRTk7JbSOJde7WoqwdxZI...
https://t.co/UOaCSE9B9d
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