Andrew Tan
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apeyrache.bsky.social
🚨new paper: the head-direction circuit as a model of primary thalamocortical system. Check this out 👇

kudos to @adrian-du.bsky.social for the huge amount of work put into this opinion piece, starting with the beautiful figures comparing the different thalamocortical systems 🤩
adrian-du.bsky.social
Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)
The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex
The organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive…
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adrian-du.bsky.social
Really excited to share this Opinion piece we've been working on with fellow head-direction cell geeks @apeyrache.bsky.social @desdemonafricker.bsky.social and (bsky-less?) Andrea Burgalossi! While head-direction cells pop up in many cortical regions, we think that one of them is quite unique (1/8)
The postsubiculum as a head-direction cortex
The organisation of thalamocortical networks follows a conserved structure. Traditionally, these are divided into primary sensory systems that receive…
www.sciencedirect.com
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jbenmenachem.com
In light of the fact that students protested the university's participation in genocide, Cole argues that the university should reinstate disciplined students, ask NYC to drop criminal charges, and reopen campus gates to the public. All very reasonable points.
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
"Lorde is famous for the maxim “Your silence will not protect you,” but in this case, Lorde’s initial silence on Palestine did protect her career and her flourishing afterlife as a patron saint of the oppressed."
Moving Towards Life | Los Angeles Review of Books
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
lareviewofbooks.org
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
Sons of Santos cover Ben Sollee's cover of Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come
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ibaldwin.bsky.social
Thought-provoking as always. My main question mirrors the post-script.

Is there anything we can do with nosology or language in ASD that would *guarantee* benefit for autistic people and maintain an honest recognition of the complex truths scientists know (and don’t) about the autism spectrum?
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aquilanebula.bsky.social
Gerald Finley presenting this year's Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award to Sir Thomas Allen.
#GramoAwards
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aquilanebula.bsky.social
Alexandre Kantorow receiving the Gramophone Piano Award for his album of Brahms and Schubert.
#GramoAwards
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aquilanebula.bsky.social
The Gramophone Magazine Contemporary Award being presented to Sir George Benjamin for his opera Picture a Day Like This
#GramoAwards
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benlorber8.bsky.social
For @convergencemag.com I wrote a two-part guide for progressives on how to understand antisemitism and its weaponization, and how to fight it with solidarity

Part 1 breaks down how antisemitism is used as a tool by the 1% and a fuel for White Christian supremacy -- yesterday and today
What Antisemitism Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters: Part 1
Antisemitism has always been deeply interwoven with other types of social domination. It is both a form of bigotry and scapegoating against Jews, and a conspiracy theory that today is stitched into…
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cate-cholamine.bsky.social
Congratulations to Rebekah Rashford and team, it’s finally out! We tagged early life stress-activated neurons in VTA and found that chromatin those cells was much more open, even into adulthood, and that open CREs predicted greater gene expression in response to stress later in life
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Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
Scientific Reports - Persistent open chromatin state in early-life stress-activated cells of the VTA
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andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
Because particle physics requires big projects to advance, it is advantageous for the field to unite on funding priorities. US physicists do this via the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), which is appointed by HEPAP, which has been dismantled!
chanda.blacksky.app
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
Astrocytes get less attention than their neuronal neighbors, partly because they’re harder to study. But the glial cells could help explain how memories take a more stable form after recall.

By @lauren-schneider.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/engra...
Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify memories
Disrupting the astrocyte-neuronal dynamic in mice destabilizes their memory of fear conditioning.
www.thetransmitter.org
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andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
She had nerves of steel 🫡
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lisarostlund.bsky.social
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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jeremyjenkins.net
Nemesias (or tiny Cthulhus) in the rain this morning. 🌱
A grape of small purple flowers with two yellow spots. Looking like tiny Cthulhu
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jacob-lab.bsky.social
A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.
www.tum.de
andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
Interestingly, the report has an essay by Amy Spitalnick who leads the JCPA, an organization that advocates for the IHRA antisemitism definition and has supported the pro-genocide ADL that was ok with Nazi salutes, as well as an essay by Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona arguing against the IHRA definition.
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lihiyona.bsky.social
A crucial, timely report on the weaponization of antisemitism. @itamann.bsky.social and I contributed an essay exploring its legal dimensions, reflecting on Jewish plurality and the knotty relationship between Jewish and Israeli identities. Grateful for @emilyctamkin.bsky.social brilliant guidance.
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johncarlosbaez.bsky.social
250 documents with a keyword followed by gibberish, injected into the training of a large language model, can "poison" it - according to Anthropic.

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
www.anthropic.com