Kameron Decker Harris
@kamdh.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist and computer science professor
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
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Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The rain has briefly stopped
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The rain has briefly stopped
Great post! It is just a job!!! Sometimes it's fun and awesome, sometimes it's a drag. For me it's been a good job overall, but I could have ended up happy in other jobs.
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge
I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What ideas would you add? 💡
#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge
I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What ideas would you add? 💡
#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Great post! It is just a job!!! Sometimes it's fun and awesome, sometimes it's a drag. For me it's been a good job overall, but I could have ended up happy in other jobs.
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Returning from #EurIPS via a long-distance night bus rather than airplane for carbon footprint reason.
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
December 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Returning from #EurIPS via a long-distance night bus rather than airplane for carbon footprint reason.
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
I think it is important that even senior researchers change our behavior: practices of the elite pull consumption up, asxour reaction to opportunities set norms.
PS: I do find it painful 😄
Are there any good journals for short machine learning papers that could otherwise end up at workshops? The conference cycle & its impermanence doesn't seem to work that well for a lot of my students' work. #AI #ML #academicsky
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Are there any good journals for short machine learning papers that could otherwise end up at workshops? The conference cycle & its impermanence doesn't seem to work that well for a lot of my students' work. #AI #ML #academicsky
This article ends with some remarks about student getting IEPs in K-12. However, the requirements for an IEP are so much more stringent than accommodations at the college level, which probably explains the lower rates in K-12 than higher ed.
When I was in undergrad, a lot of the smartest and most successful kids also had extra time on all their tests. Always felt like a scam
Now 40% of Stanford students have a disability? Might as well just give everyone all the time they need www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Now 40% of Stanford students have a disability? Might as well just give everyone all the time they need www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This article ends with some remarks about student getting IEPs in K-12. However, the requirements for an IEP are so much more stringent than accommodations at the college level, which probably explains the lower rates in K-12 than higher ed.
Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Volcanic vistas from yesterday. A low snow start to winter around here but grateful to be healthy and outside
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Straight from the horse's mouth:
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
Good thread about dimensionality here
Y’all are reading this paper in the wrong way.
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
We love to trash dominant hypothesis, but we need to look for evidence against the manifold hypothesis elsewhere:
This elegant work doesn't show neural dynamics are high D, nor that we should stop using PCA
It’s quite the opposite!
(thread)
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Good thread about dimensionality here
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📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Looking forward to sharing our work at #NeurIPS2025 next week!
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Session 6 on Fri 12/5 at 4:30-7:30pm, Poster 2001 ("a space odyssey")
Details on this thread by the brilliant lead author @annhuang42.bsky.social below:
Messing around with number theory. Learning a lot, the problems feel very hard.
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Messing around with number theory. Learning a lot, the problems feel very hard.
We are wasting our lives
What are we doing when we publish 5, 10, 20 scientific papers/year
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
a 🧵 1/n
Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We are wasting our lives
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I looked up who originated the term “throwing shade”, assuming it was like, rupaul, but
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I looked up who originated the term “throwing shade”, assuming it was like, rupaul, but
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Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks
Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...
arxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
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Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
I'm celebrating lobbing another proposal in the direction of the NSF. Hopeful that this one is positively reviewed. I am pretty excited about a collaborative project with my colleague Josh Kaplan in neuroscience!
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm celebrating lobbing another proposal in the direction of the NSF. Hopeful that this one is positively reviewed. I am pretty excited about a collaborative project with my colleague Josh Kaplan in neuroscience!
Herzog talks skateboarding
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
YouTube video by jenkemmag
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Herzog talks skateboarding
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
I don't have that access, so I really am thankful!
I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don't have that access, so I really am thankful!
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Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
bib.experiments.kordinglab.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
TSP
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
TSP
Feliz día de los muertos, chiquillos
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Feliz día de los muertos, chiquillos
Mechanical Turk-botics
Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch
Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Mechanical Turk-botics