Jiajuan Liu
@sequoia1024.bsky.social
I stare at things
Until they start to make sense
Until they start to make sense
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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Hi all! We are still looking for scientists who’ve been terminated from federal positions or who’ve had grants terminated to tell their stories for illustrated portraits at www.silencedsciencestories.com. Scientists will be able to approve any materials before we publish! Please spread the word.
Silenced Science Stories
Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.
www.silencedsciencestories.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Hi all! We are still looking for scientists who’ve been terminated from federal positions or who’ve had grants terminated to tell their stories for illustrated portraits at www.silencedsciencestories.com. Scientists will be able to approve any materials before we publish! Please spread the word.
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Who’s working on DOGE related trackers? So far I'm aware of:
- cancelled contracts: app.g2xchange.com/doge-tracker
- data rescue project: www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
- federal cuts tracker map: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- layoff tracker: layoffs.fyi
- cancelled contracts: app.g2xchange.com/doge-tracker
- data rescue project: www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
- federal cuts tracker map: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- layoff tracker: layoffs.fyi
G2X | DOGE-Terminated Contracts Tracker
DOGE Terminated Contracts Dashboard - Live list tracking the federal contract terminations under DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).
app.g2xchange.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Who’s working on DOGE related trackers? So far I'm aware of:
- cancelled contracts: app.g2xchange.com/doge-tracker
- data rescue project: www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
- federal cuts tracker map: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- layoff tracker: layoffs.fyi
- cancelled contracts: app.g2xchange.com/doge-tracker
- data rescue project: www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
- federal cuts tracker map: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- layoff tracker: layoffs.fyi
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Every Democrat who wants to be taken seriously at the national level should be doing this. Time to find out what future candidates are made of.
NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...
www.cnn.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Every Democrat who wants to be taken seriously at the national level should be doing this. Time to find out what future candidates are made of.
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On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone.
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
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Attended the Union of Concerned Scientist's webinar about protecting scientists engaged in advocacy and I think the most important message was: The more people who do it, the safer we all are.
See the list of resources they shared below. Carry your weight and let others carry you!
See the list of resources they shared below. Carry your weight and let others carry you!
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February 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Attended the Union of Concerned Scientist's webinar about protecting scientists engaged in advocacy and I think the most important message was: The more people who do it, the safer we all are.
See the list of resources they shared below. Carry your weight and let others carry you!
See the list of resources they shared below. Carry your weight and let others carry you!
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🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
February 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
🚨 WANT TO HELP US STAND UP FOR SCIENCE? 🚨
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
Here's a little update on where we're currently at with the planning process!
Is your state red or grey & you want to see an event happen? Fill out our volunteer form or share with a friend! airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#standupforscience2025
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I wanted to highlight this incredible science advocacy resource on the @sfn.org website. There's info on how to contact your legislatures, prep for meetings, and make your voice heard. Thank you to SfN for not backing down from the fight and supporting scientists! 🧠🧪 www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...
Advocacy Best Practices
www.sfn.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I wanted to highlight this incredible science advocacy resource on the @sfn.org website. There's info on how to contact your legislatures, prep for meetings, and make your voice heard. Thank you to SfN for not backing down from the fight and supporting scientists! 🧠🧪 www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...
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Wanted to say: I cannot recommend @jesscraven101.bsky.social's substack Chop Wood, Carry Water enough. It gives specific direct actions you can take daily, summarizes good news, and sets the groundwork for greater action. Subscribe! chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com
Chop Wood, Carry Water | Jessica Craven | Substack
This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants. Click to read Chop Wood, Carry Water, by J...
chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wanted to say: I cannot recommend @jesscraven101.bsky.social's substack Chop Wood, Carry Water enough. It gives specific direct actions you can take daily, summarizes good news, and sets the groundwork for greater action. Subscribe! chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com
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I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
2025: Agency gained and lost
If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases a…
gracewlindsay.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
My coping strategy is: I'll read this book (and the sequel)
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My coping strategy is: I'll read this book (and the sequel)
Just two chapters in -- I am hooked! ❤️
I'm so happy to share that my debut book, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, comes out August 6th, 2024 from @riverheadbooks! Read more about it here: bit.ly/3QN0Nop
January 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Just two chapters in -- I am hooked! ❤️
This is by far the most animated VSS session I've been to (in a good way). Attention definitely IS a mysterious asset or energy 😄 @neurograce.bsky.social
May 17, 2024 at 8:48 PM
This is by far the most animated VSS session I've been to (in a good way). Attention definitely IS a mysterious asset or energy 😄 @neurograce.bsky.social
Listened to this one over the weekend, quite interesting! Perception vs cognition -- why some "top-down effects on perception" may have alternative explanations, and how causal-effect could be a quick perception. And silence perception (not the lack of auditory perception) is interesting as well.
New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @chazfirestone.bsky.social about perception and cognition.
There are good reasons to think that perceiving and thinking are separate activities of the mind. But where is the boundary between them? And can it be crossed?
Listen: disi.org/the-borderla...
A conversation w/ @chazfirestone.bsky.social about perception and cognition.
There are good reasons to think that perceiving and thinking are separate activities of the mind. But where is the boundary between them? And can it be crossed?
Listen: disi.org/the-borderla...
April 15, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Listened to this one over the weekend, quite interesting! Perception vs cognition -- why some "top-down effects on perception" may have alternative explanations, and how causal-effect could be a quick perception. And silence perception (not the lack of auditory perception) is interesting as well.
One (positive) side effect of looking for a job is that I realize there are so many interesting careers out there. It reminded me that many years ago I had this naive idea, that if only learning to do all kinds of jobs in the world itself could be a job 😄
April 6, 2024 at 7:27 PM
One (positive) side effect of looking for a job is that I realize there are so many interesting careers out there. It reminded me that many years ago I had this naive idea, that if only learning to do all kinds of jobs in the world itself could be a job 😄
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i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.
#neuroscience
March 28, 2024 at 1:31 AM
i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it.
#neuroscience
Wild flowers season in SoCal, me and my best friend (since college!).
March 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Wild flowers season in SoCal, me and my best friend (since college!).
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Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪
www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Still waiting on Libby for the book ("determined"), might as well watch this first?
Great debate with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and Robert Sapolsky.
Even though Robert was my thesis advisor, I have to go with Professor Mitchell on this one!
Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will | Philosophi... youtu.be/V9Y1Q8vhX5Y?... via
@YouTube
Even though Robert was my thesis advisor, I have to go with Professor Mitchell on this one!
Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will | Philosophi... youtu.be/V9Y1Q8vhX5Y?... via
@YouTube
Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will | Philosophical Trials #15
Professor Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Surgery at Stanford University. He is the author of multiple books, including A Primate’s...
https://youtu.be/V9Y1Q8vhX5Y?si=NgZfVJaYLI7vdqFz…
January 12, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Still waiting on Libby for the book ("determined"), might as well watch this first?
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🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...
Computational complexity for cognitive scientists
Here, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, tha...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
December 27, 2023 at 10:41 PM
🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...
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What a year for Neuroscience! Annual fabulous and clever Review by Mark Humphries.
Big year for dopamine and cell types.
medium.com/the-spike/20...
Big year for dopamine and cell types.
medium.com/the-spike/20...
2023: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Dopamine is not the only fruit
medium.com
December 30, 2023 at 12:29 PM
What a year for Neuroscience! Annual fabulous and clever Review by Mark Humphries.
Big year for dopamine and cell types.
medium.com/the-spike/20...
Big year for dopamine and cell types.
medium.com/the-spike/20...
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I just finished a galley of THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoe Schlanger, and I cannot say enough good things about it.
If you liked AN IMMENSE WORLD and thought, "But what about plants??", then Zoe has written the book for you. I see it as a sister publication to mine.
Out next May. Pre-order now!
If you liked AN IMMENSE WORLD and thought, "But what about plants??", then Zoe has written the book for you. I see it as a sister publication to mine.
Out next May. Pre-order now!
The Light Eaters
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabiliti...
www.harpercollins.com
November 28, 2023 at 12:20 AM
I just finished a galley of THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoe Schlanger, and I cannot say enough good things about it.
If you liked AN IMMENSE WORLD and thought, "But what about plants??", then Zoe has written the book for you. I see it as a sister publication to mine.
Out next May. Pre-order now!
If you liked AN IMMENSE WORLD and thought, "But what about plants??", then Zoe has written the book for you. I see it as a sister publication to mine.
Out next May. Pre-order now!
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Let's make this happen, #PsychSciSky! Please repost for maximum reach :)
SIPS Pop-Up Event: Peer Community In Psychology
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
November 8, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Let's make this happen, #PsychSciSky! Please repost for maximum reach :)
Such a great summary of everything I look for in journalism. ❤️
And I want to double down on my journalistic values: not only describing what is happening but helping people actually make sense of it; bearing witness to suffering; speaking truth to power; revealing wonder in the obscure; and pushing for a more just and equitable world. 6/
July 28, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Such a great summary of everything I look for in journalism. ❤️