Ben Hayden
@benhayden.bsky.social
Professor of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
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Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Treasure Planet was released 23 years ago today... and literally takes us off in this magnificent shot. ✨
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A fan favorite Thanksgiving story from the Library: In 1926, Mississippi supporters of President Coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill & serve for Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidges adopted her, instead.👇
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A fan favorite Thanksgiving story from the Library: In 1926, Mississippi supporters of President Coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill & serve for Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidges adopted her, instead.👇
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/when-rebecca-the-raccoon-ruled-the-white-house/?loclr=blsky
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Happy Thanksgiving! In 1972—just a year after its founding—Amtrak served travelers a full holiday feast, from Tom Turkey to Pumpkin Pie Chantilly. A tasty start to a new era of passenger rail. NUTL Menu Collection, Thomas F. Seaman donation. www.instagram.com/p/DRkOFgykW8_/
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! In 1972—just a year after its founding—Amtrak served travelers a full holiday feast, from Tom Turkey to Pumpkin Pie Chantilly. A tasty start to a new era of passenger rail. NUTL Menu Collection, Thomas F. Seaman donation. www.instagram.com/p/DRkOFgykW8_/
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances?
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances?
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
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In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
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‘Tulip’ comes from the Turkish word ‘tülbent’ which means "turban."
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
‘Tulip’ comes from the Turkish word ‘tülbent’ which means "turban."
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
The flower got its name from the resemblance of its overlapping petals to the folds of fabric in a turban.
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Godzilla, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot stomp on, courage to shoot them with atomic breath, and wisdom to do a big roar afterwards
January 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Godzilla, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot stomp on, courage to shoot them with atomic breath, and wisdom to do a big roar afterwards
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with @robmok.bsky.social and Xiaoliang "Ken" Luo
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
with @robmok.bsky.social and Xiaoliang "Ken" Luo
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Intuitive cell types don't necessarily play the ascribed functional role in the overall computation. This is not a message the field wants to hear as it suggests better baselines, controls, and some reflection. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 2/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Intuitive cell types don't necessarily play the ascribed functional role in the overall computation. This is not a message the field wants to hear as it suggests better baselines, controls, and some reflection. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 2/2
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"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
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I do not need to “save space” for dessert because I am not a child and I can just make myself sick by eating too much pie
i only have one true pie take: 99% of the time i'd rather eat more dinner than save space for dessert because i am not a child
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I do not need to “save space” for dessert because I am not a child and I can just make myself sick by eating too much pie
Haven't watched this yet but, a new @defunctland.bsky.social is always a big deal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise
YouTube video by Defunctland
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Haven't watched this yet but, a new @defunctland.bsky.social is always a big deal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIg...
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I got a new lens I was itching to use, so I stopped on my bike ride to work to snap a few sunrise shots of Hotel Marcel, formerly the Pirelli Tire building. r/brutalism
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I got a new lens I was itching to use, so I stopped on my bike ride to work to snap a few sunrise shots of Hotel Marcel, formerly the Pirelli Tire building. r/brutalism
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In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Hardee’s Slimer Sundae (1989-1989): Vanilla soft-serve topped with a green, bubblegum-flavored sauce. This sundae was released as part of a massive promotion for "Ghostbusters II", and the sauce was meant to evoke the thick, viscous ectoplasm from the film
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Hardee’s Slimer Sundae (1989-1989): Vanilla soft-serve topped with a green, bubblegum-flavored sauce. This sundae was released as part of a massive promotion for "Ghostbusters II", and the sauce was meant to evoke the thick, viscous ectoplasm from the film
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if I was president my plan to inspire national unity would be to make the lore from National Treasure real. our country would be a much less divisive place if everyone thought there was a secret treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
if I was president my plan to inspire national unity would be to make the lore from National Treasure real. our country would be a much less divisive place if everyone thought there was a secret treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence
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A history of the cigarette. Touches on mass production, marketing, media, addiction, and public health.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A history of the cigarette. Touches on mass production, marketing, media, addiction, and public health.
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The Civil Rights Movement.
EYES ON THE PRIZE is solid, but over forty years old. There's been a lot of great work on the movement since then. And while EYES leaned heavily on interviews with participants, a new series could make use of that scholarship to get beyond the Montgomery-to-Memphis arc.
EYES ON THE PRIZE is solid, but over forty years old. There's been a lot of great work on the movement since then. And while EYES leaned heavily on interviews with participants, a new series could make use of that scholarship to get beyond the Montgomery-to-Memphis arc.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Civil Rights Movement.
EYES ON THE PRIZE is solid, but over forty years old. There's been a lot of great work on the movement since then. And while EYES leaned heavily on interviews with participants, a new series could make use of that scholarship to get beyond the Montgomery-to-Memphis arc.
EYES ON THE PRIZE is solid, but over forty years old. There's been a lot of great work on the movement since then. And while EYES leaned heavily on interviews with participants, a new series could make use of that scholarship to get beyond the Montgomery-to-Memphis arc.
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In case it makes you feel better, here is an excerpt from my recent breakfast conversation: "Mom, don't say that! This is so 2023!"
In case it makes you feel better, here is an excerpt from my recent breakfast conversation: "Mom, don't say that! This is so 2023!"
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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In case it makes you feel better, here is an excerpt from my recent breakfast conversation: "Mom, don't say that! This is so 2023!"
In case it makes you feel better, here is an excerpt from my recent breakfast conversation: "Mom, don't say that! This is so 2023!"
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My kid explaining over breakfast that I probably don't get 6-7 because Gen-X is not one, not two, but actually three generations removed. How's your Monday?
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My kid explaining over breakfast that I probably don't get 6-7 because Gen-X is not one, not two, but actually three generations removed. How's your Monday?
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I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
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Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
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bring back graphs like this
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
bring back graphs like this