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Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
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No Particular Dave
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Discontinued Foods!
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Quirst Lemonade (1978-1980): A clear, non-carbonated, lemonade-flavored soft drink marketed as a thirst-quenching beverage (hence the name). It was the flagship of the "Quirst" line from the then-independent 7-Up company. Sued by Squirt Soda for confusing consumers with a too-similar name
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Michel Nivard
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A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by
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This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Personality Genomics
Recent research advances have precipitated the era of personality genomics: the study of how variation in human DNA sequence predicts individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, fee...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-013125-042402
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Jason Thorne
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Ossington Avenue parkette by Forest and Field Landscape Architecture and art panel by Indigenous artist Philip Cote.
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Movies Silently
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Charlie Chaplin on the run in MAKING A LIVING (1914), his first released film appearance after signing on with Keystone
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Pierre Le Merre
3 days ago
Original thread:
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Pierre Le Merre
3 days ago
Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to
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who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience
The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02190-z
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depths of wikipedia
3 days ago
happy "netflix and chill" day to all who celebrate
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Gary Lupyan
4 days ago
For example. See paper for more. And no it's not just about whether something's in the pretraining ;) (but also, think about what it would mean for a system to match Jabberwocky text to pretraining data!
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432
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Gary Lupyan
4 days ago
..what LLMs have learned when they learn language, the inappropriateness of parrot metaphors, the (non)autonomy of syntax, and the sheer power of pattern matching (construction grammars had it right!) Pattern matching is not an alternative to “true” thinking, it is its key ingredient.
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Gary Lupyan
4 days ago
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432
I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2
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Yoïn van Spijk
4 days ago
Old English had two words for “knife”: ‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’. ‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words: - ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’; - a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’. German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates. Zoom in for more: 1/
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PessoaBrain
4 days ago
Earl's point of focusing on "how" (not "where") is the way to go. Neuroscience has been obsessed with where but is moving on. Biology is very descriptive so "where" dominates. But eg we've seen how mapping genome was "transformative" only to realize the action is elsewhere (regulatory networks, etc)
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Earl K. Miller
4 days ago
The point is that there is no module for long-term memory even though a lesion might lead you to believe so.
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Earl K. Miller
4 days ago
There are explanations for such phenomena that don’t require modularity. If I disconnect the hippocampus from the cortex, memory consolidation in the cortex stops. That’s not because long-term memory is a function of those connections, but because a critical network has been decoupled.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
6 months ago
The driver-less Ligne 14 subway in Paris. You can go to the top of the first car and look out the front window. They even printed a console of pretend controls, so kids can pretend to be the engineer!
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Pavel
5 days ago
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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PessoaBrain
6 days ago
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴? That I don't know but D Brooks discusses some ideas of my book, The Entangled Brain: '"neuronal ensembles distributed across multiple brain regions,” which, like a murmuration of starlings, “forms a single pattern from the collective behavior."'
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
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Academe
6 days ago
The UVA Faculty Senate has released a Resolution condemning the continuing UVA governance crisis: “The Board of Visitors has failed both to act in the University’s best interests and to protect the University from outside influences.”
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Resolution on the Continuing UVA Governance Crisis — Faculty Senate
Resolution on the Continuing UVA Governance Crisis
https://facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-on-the-continuing-uva-governance-crisis
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geoffrey
6 days ago
discovered a pretty critical coding error in The Human Body where sometimes the way to feel better when you feel too bad to work out is to work out. this is suboptimal for user experience of The Human Body
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
6 days ago
Günther Förg, Untitled, 1987
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135371
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Brad Postle
6 days ago
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
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steven t. piantadosi
6 days ago
you know, not constructed to specifically redress the grievances of billionaires
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steven t. piantadosi
6 days ago
Maybe the real "free inquiry" university was the one we had all along
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Michael Caley
7 days ago
this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688
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Alan Allport
7 days ago
I hate to break it to anyone but Nobel Peace Prize laureates doing really embarrassing things after they’ve received the award is not a new thing.
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Laurie
7 days ago
Welcome to Chicago, hope you like walking approximately a mile and a half through a progression of liminal spaces to get to the train
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Jerry Chen
about 1 year ago
81 likes 0 reposts says "cool. but no one else needs to see this"
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Movies Silently
7 days ago
IMPORTANT Arrowhead Desert Bloom seltzer tastes just like the honeysuckle page of the Strawberry Shortcake scratch n’ sniff book I had as a child. 10 out of 10
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Scott McGrath
8 days ago
AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems
techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/a...
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AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems | TechCrunch
Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/ai-models-are-starting-to-crack-high-level-math-problems/
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Jay Hennig
9 days ago
You'd get to live in an affordable city with delicious food (Houston), and work with the talented
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@benhayden.bsky.social
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Jay Hennig
9 days ago
Help! We want to understand multi-task neural representations, but all we have is 24/7 spiking data from human patients in hippocampus and cortex, along with video, audio, speech, heart rate, and so much more! If you can help, please apply to join the lab as a postdoc ☺️
jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoct...
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Postdoctoral Associate - Specialist- Computational Cognition
Postdoctoral Associate - Specialist- Computational Cognition
https://jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctoral-Associate-Specialist-Computational-Cognition/24113-en_US/
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good hyuck, babe!
10 days ago
I read all of the books, including the weird like management ones! why! why was I entranced by the idea of a professional world that was explicitly shitty???
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Good Trailcams
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jamelle
11 days ago
my wife is incredulous that people actually listened to this back in the day. i am people!
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Dael Norwood
11 days ago
UVA hired as president a guy who lists his committee chair as coauthor on his dissertation, and has no - literally zero - peer-reviewed journal articles in n his CV.
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jamelle
11 days ago
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal.
augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
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How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
https://augustafreepress.com/news/vanishing-act-how-uvas-presidential-search-missed-what-took-us-an-hour-to-find/
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Movies Silently
12 days ago
Underwater scenes had been popular in cinema since the beginning but were faked with sets, tints, and by placing a clear fishtank between the camera and the performers.
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Movies Silently
12 days ago
True underwater photography in the 1916 version of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
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Science Homecoming
12 days ago
Our collective efforts to save science are working. Gift article
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
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Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlA.NS_5.TU5U-BieElVv&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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12 days ago
This may lead to mathematicians becoming (even more) closed off than now about their half-baked ideas and insights - why share an observation on MathOverflow which solves 50% of a problem when a week later someone will ask GPT, which will fill in the other 50%, and give it 100% of the credit.
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12 days ago
This leads to people viewing proofs as more 'purely AI-generated' than they are. Often AI is capable of correcting this when prompted, and can dig up references/sources, but people sometimes don't dig deeper when they should.
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12 days ago
One of the big challenges now in using AI for mathematics is the credit/attribution problem. AI has a tendency to use observations/techniques without giving credit as to where it 'learnt' about them (mainly because it's forgotten itself).
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Jesse Locker
12 days ago
Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
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Elana Levin
12 days ago
The finest window into The Grateful Dead for rock lovers who never really got them is the
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episode about them. May not be what a mourning deadhead wants to listen to right now but if you don’t get it this WILL help. I was super into them in junior high & saw them 2x but
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Cassidy
YouTube video by Bob Weir - Topic
https://youtu.be/04S32986gVU?si=ryDxzKTjOuxxNp0K
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Acer
12 days ago
and yet… they can exceed some humans. My opinion is that if it can imitate reasoning well enough that it would be passed as human reasoning, then we should give it the benefit of the doubt and say it *is* reasoning à la Turing’s test.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
12 days ago
okay this is like the worst shit ever, what tf is wrong with new england
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15 days ago
Hi Zach! Owner/maintainer of
erdosproblems.com
here. Just wanted to say how exciting is for me personally to see one of my favourite comic artists/authors posting about Erdos problems. This is a great summary of the state of play for non-experts.
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Erdős Problems
https://erdosproblems.com
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