This comment in this thread is what screams to me internal failure of current academic institutions. That one Rutgers neurosci prof said thought I was tone deaf and I think he was tone deaf as well so I didn’t even bother continuing the conversation. www.reddit.com/r/AskProfess...

Air quality index Apple uses got maxed out today.

Just from a social media angle, Lior Pachter is not getting the impact metrics he thinks he might get with this post. Sudhof unpacked vesicle release mechanics via brute force experimentation over decades so if you ding him on stats it won’t do much. Science is praxis and realpolitik.

This is how chunk of the public thinks about causality (Kevin Mitchell’s framework IMO). And it is permanent. Great talk. I really wish more computational neuroscientists took this sort of cognition seriously instead of shaming the public for “I do my own research”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9L...

Field coupling evades the neuronal time constant bc it doesn’t inject current but instead redistributes charges on the external/internal parts of the cell wall. Vigmond et al. 1997 (“Mechanisms of Electrical Coupling Between Pyramidal Cells”) journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... 22(annex 3)/n

You totally can. You can’t cheat thermodynamic demons.

I missed one instance of ephaptic coupling (capacitive). An older study had a wire diagram distinguishing ohmic and capacitive coupling of a cell Vm exposed to a Ve. “Ephaptically generated potentials in CA1 neurons of rat's hippocampus in situ” journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1... 3(annex)/n

Traveling waves lit has clues. Josh Jacob’s group had this blurb in ref to Anastassiou et al., Pinotsis & Miller. Note: Steinmetz group found spiral waves to be synaptic. “Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Them tornado sirens need to stay put. @annarborobserver.bsky.social

I don’t understand. Who is actually losing here? Some of us have been an underdog for years. Experiment and biophys modeling have always been and will always be safe bets. I stopped caring for blackboxes that have no biophys explanation. (I didn’t quote repost bc I don’t want to directly engage.)

NoKings 3.0 Schaumburg IL close to home. Missed the 1.0 in Manhattan and was too late to the 2.0 in Ann Arbor. Never late than ever. Now gotta work on my poster game.

Coincidentally last year ago a Bulgarian politics prof on TV had made the same astute observation about post-COVID in Bulgaria, in the US, and the world. These can be times because major flux like is the putative causal mechanism for democratization. 2/2 GIF source: eguvep.github.io/jpiv/introdu...

Automating science communication is wild. If you are going with the public isolating yourself isn’t helping.

A man with no country sandwiched between clusters. Checks about right =D

PS: Screenshots of the fourth case.

Hypothesis: If an explosion of LLM hallucination science papers on pre-print servers, AI benchmarks, and cold emails to experts the only way to cause a science reform then so be it. Some made the same argument about market bubbles. I’ve screenshotted 4 major (IMO) cases just in the last few weeks.

I frequent in Hacker News to get a vibe check on entrepreneur social media. The community is usually biased to be bullish but it has this genuine quality where they understand negative but important news (usually 2nd page or very short trending on 1st page). Today it’s top negative all around.

These comments on “it’s the graduates fault” are tone deaf because it’s the graduates that vote on and consume these tools after taking on students loans which is risk.

Sabine’s 👏 bottom 👏 line 👏 is 👏 populist 👏 science 👏 enterntainment. She’s LARPing hard and folks are still falling for it. Even if she belives her own stuff she gets the audience from a bottom-up take to get views. If Mamdani can do it in politics from the left, it can be done for science. 😩

I’ve noticed this bothers a particular group of ML/AI/math researchers. They just don’t like the mere hypothesis that natural phenomena can be black box that reveals itself over time and that an explicit model can’t be intuited from just theory. Empiricism bites back on a first principles level.

I can use perceptual control (my motor system) to intervene and new create meaning.

Conjecture: This Elias Bareinboim post is a clue on how to create a strategy to merge biophysical modeling to causal inference because the No Free Lunch theorem is conceptually tied to Landauer’s Principle via 2nd law of thermodynamics in non-equilibrium states [David Wolpert’s work].

Boss, I’m getting whiplash here.

Cool even r/singularity, one of the most accelerationist subreddits, is starting to ask key questions on the theoretical possibilities on the claims by Ray Kurzweil and AI authors. The post got ratio-ed but still has a size-able amount of upvotes.

2nd highest voted post on r/MachineLearning in the past week. Are the structural issues are general across sciences bc SfN has similar vibes? With microblogging and blogging (Medium/Substack/arXiv) the short to long form communication style is evolving and of course original papers are still king.

“Educational Purposes Only” sure… 👀

Chess evaluation bar over time. I didn’t resign just because I spaced out of tiredness and kept going. The game was lost but then bam. A winning blunder.

Can you interview someone like Chomba Bupe who is one few tech entrepreneurs who I spotted is critical and open about these definitions and concepts. He even disagreed with Gary Marcus on the plausibility of AGI (screenshot). There are other putative expert skeptics of AGI but not yet open about it.

At a quick glance, what makes this a seemingly breakthrough moment is efficiency of the NYC primary outcome based on direct or indirect campaign spending. Loose metaphors of this are Moneyball and DeepSeek. If the message/strategy resonates the price indicators are spectacular.