Andrew Tan
@andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social
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I can't believe the holidays are already around the corner 😱
So I must inform you that I have the most stellar #JWST designs for all your gifting needs 😉
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
Sharing is appreciated 🙏
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So I must inform you that I have the most stellar #JWST designs for all your gifting needs 😉
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
Sharing is appreciated 🙏
🧪🐡🔭🎨
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I can't believe the holidays are already around the corner 😱
So I must inform you that I have the most stellar #JWST designs for all your gifting needs 😉
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
Sharing is appreciated 🙏
🧪🐡🔭🎨
So I must inform you that I have the most stellar #JWST designs for all your gifting needs 😉
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
Sharing is appreciated 🙏
🧪🐡🔭🎨
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I had SO much fun talking to Paul for almost 2 hours about my new book on Schrödinger & molecular biology. Easily one of the most enjoyable podcasts I've ever done. Check it out!
P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for 2 more weeks. Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for 2 more weeks. Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
What Is Life? A misleading title for Schrödinger's book.
What is Life? Revisited. A spot-on title for Dan's @djnicholson.bsky.social book, which happens to be a gem.
After reading it and discussing with Dan, I can only picture Schrödinger as a cartoon villain now.
braininspired.co/podcast/224/
What is Life? Revisited. A spot-on title for Dan's @djnicholson.bsky.social book, which happens to be a gem.
After reading it and discussing with Dan, I can only picture Schrödinger as a cartoon villain now.
braininspired.co/podcast/224/
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I had SO much fun talking to Paul for almost 2 hours about my new book on Schrödinger & molecular biology. Easily one of the most enjoyable podcasts I've ever done. Check it out!
P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for 2 more weeks. Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
P.S. CUP has made the PDF of my book free to download for 2 more weeks. Get it here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Salieri, anyone?
The landscape for Salieri, with John Andrews
YouTube video by Baroquestock
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Salieri, anyone?
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French Apple Pie - David Lebovitz www.davidlebovitz.com/french-apple...
French Apple Pie
It's always nice to meet your heroes and many years ago, I was fortunate to meet one of mine. But I can't claim Nick Malgieri as 'mine,' as he's been a guiding influence for bakers everywhere, publish...
www.davidlebovitz.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
French Apple Pie - David Lebovitz www.davidlebovitz.com/french-apple...
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I entirely agree.
Research in rodents has enabled remarkable technical advances and deepened our understanding of brainstem circuits and general brain physiology.
However, only NHPs possess cognitive, visual, and motor faculties necessary to advance human-relevant systems neuroscience.
Research in rodents has enabled remarkable technical advances and deepened our understanding of brainstem circuits and general brain physiology.
However, only NHPs possess cognitive, visual, and motor faculties necessary to advance human-relevant systems neuroscience.
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I entirely agree.
Research in rodents has enabled remarkable technical advances and deepened our understanding of brainstem circuits and general brain physiology.
However, only NHPs possess cognitive, visual, and motor faculties necessary to advance human-relevant systems neuroscience.
Research in rodents has enabled remarkable technical advances and deepened our understanding of brainstem circuits and general brain physiology.
However, only NHPs possess cognitive, visual, and motor faculties necessary to advance human-relevant systems neuroscience.
Jason Stanley was thrown out of a synagogue in Frankfurt.
"His father ... a German-Jewish intellectual, had always regarded a state that preferred a religion with skepticism and something in the treatment of the Palestinians as second-class citizens reminded him of his own family history."
"His father ... a German-Jewish intellectual, had always regarded a state that preferred a religion with skepticism and something in the treatment of the Palestinians as second-class citizens reminded him of his own family history."
Faschismus-Experte Jason Stanley aus Synagoge in Frankfurt geworfen: Zum Schweigen gebracht
Nach kritischen Äußerungen zu Israel und Diskursklima wurde Jason Stanley am 9. November von der jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt ausgeschlossen.
www.fr.de
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Jason Stanley was thrown out of a synagogue in Frankfurt.
"His father ... a German-Jewish intellectual, had always regarded a state that preferred a religion with skepticism and something in the treatment of the Palestinians as second-class citizens reminded him of his own family history."
"His father ... a German-Jewish intellectual, had always regarded a state that preferred a religion with skepticism and something in the treatment of the Palestinians as second-class citizens reminded him of his own family history."
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Nice preprint by David Earn and Todd Parsons (H/T @jmccaw.bsky.social) showing how the SIR model can be related to a more general class of renewal process models that don't assume exponentially distributed infectious period.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01939
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01939
Epidemic Momentum
Infectious disease outbreaks have precipitated a profusion of mathematical models. We introduce a unifying concept of "epidemic momentum" -- prevalence weighted by the capacity to infect in the future...
arxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nice preprint by David Earn and Todd Parsons (H/T @jmccaw.bsky.social) showing how the SIR model can be related to a more general class of renewal process models that don't assume exponentially distributed infectious period.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01939
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01939
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Was es festzuhalten gilt:
Drosten: Frühes Eingreifen rettete Zehntausenden das Leben
Im Corona-Untersuchungsausschuss rechnet Virologe Drosten vor, welche Konsequenzen es gehabt hätte, wenn Deutschland so lange mit Maßnahmen gezögert hätte wie Großbritannien. Er berichtet außerdem, wa...
www.n-tv.de
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Was es festzuhalten gilt:
Cum Sancto Spiritu 😛 SCNR
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Cum Sancto Spiritu 😛 SCNR
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Please share! Going to #SfN and looking for a postdoc in human neuroscience? We're hiring! If you have a background in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or related areas, come talk to us about joining our lab at Georgia Tech (siplab.gatech.edu). #neuroscience #PsychSciSky
SIPLab
siplab.gatech.edu
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Please share! Going to #SfN and looking for a postdoc in human neuroscience? We're hiring! If you have a background in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or related areas, come talk to us about joining our lab at Georgia Tech (siplab.gatech.edu). #neuroscience #PsychSciSky
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Opening to my sci-fi novella “Fractal Karma”:
You can read it for free here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_10_...
You can read it for free here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_10_...
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Opening to my sci-fi novella “Fractal Karma”:
You can read it for free here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_10_...
You can read it for free here:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_10_...
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SfN 2025 Art of Neuroscience
Full list of Exhibitors
artologica.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors
go.nature.com/4p28R39
go.nature.com/4p28R39
The computers that run on human brain cells
Move over silicon: scientists want to use neurons to make powerful computers with minuscule energy needs.
go.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
In a handful of academic laboratories and companies, researchers are growing human neurons and trying to turn them into functional systems equivalent to biological transistors
go.nature.com/4p28R39
go.nature.com/4p28R39
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In fact, I suspect that this phenomenon is so general that I propose a general law:
If person A suggests replacing people doing B with an AI chatbot, person A is almost certainly a stronger candidate for replacement with an AI chatbot than people doing B.
If person A suggests replacing people doing B with an AI chatbot, person A is almost certainly a stronger candidate for replacement with an AI chatbot than people doing B.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In fact, I suspect that this phenomenon is so general that I propose a general law:
If person A suggests replacing people doing B with an AI chatbot, person A is almost certainly a stronger candidate for replacement with an AI chatbot than people doing B.
If person A suggests replacing people doing B with an AI chatbot, person A is almost certainly a stronger candidate for replacement with an AI chatbot than people doing B.
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"SARS-CoV-2 is too well-adapted to humans [hence, insert your favorite conspiracy theory]".
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"SARS-CoV-2 is too well-adapted to humans [hence, insert your favorite conspiracy theory]".
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
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The winner of OneNeuro's October #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest is "Purkinje cell complex spikes & simple spikes," submitted by Chenhao Bao in the Cullen lab at JHU Biomedical Engineering. @thecullenlab.bsky.social @chenhaobao.bsky.social
Complete gallery: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
Complete gallery: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The winner of OneNeuro's October #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest is "Purkinje cell complex spikes & simple spikes," submitted by Chenhao Bao in the Cullen lab at JHU Biomedical Engineering. @thecullenlab.bsky.social @chenhaobao.bsky.social
Complete gallery: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
Complete gallery: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/
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@okaysteve.bsky.social sat down with @franciscorr25.bsky.social to discuss the inspiration behind the book, why he decided to write it partly as a memoir, and what he wants readers to take away from reading it.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@okaysteve.bsky.social sat down with @franciscorr25.bsky.social to discuss the inspiration behind the book, why he decided to write it partly as a memoir, and what he wants readers to take away from reading it.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/how-t...
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Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/47MXYLH
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More on the destruction of HEPAP:
“The elimination of the advisory committees spreads the expertise so thinly as to increase the likelihood of political pressure on decisions.”
🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/is-donald-...
“The elimination of the advisory committees spreads the expertise so thinly as to increase the likelihood of political pressure on decisions.”
🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/is-donald-...
Is Donald Trump conducting a 'blitzkrieg' on science? – Physics World
The US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has been dissolved for reasons of politics, not efficiency, says Robert P Crease
physicsworld.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
More on the destruction of HEPAP:
“The elimination of the advisory committees spreads the expertise so thinly as to increase the likelihood of political pressure on decisions.”
🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/is-donald-...
“The elimination of the advisory committees spreads the expertise so thinly as to increase the likelihood of political pressure on decisions.”
🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/is-donald-...
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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What some fun excessive trumpetry pieces out there? I love Janáček's sinfonietta with 14 trumpets. I have no idea if I even like the sheer madness of Khachaturian's 3rd symphony with its 15 trumpets but it's fun on occasion? I know I don't like the current US with one very loud orange Trumpet.
Leoš Janáček - Sinfonietta
YouTube video by olla-vogala
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
What some fun excessive trumpetry pieces out there? I love Janáček's sinfonietta with 14 trumpets. I have no idea if I even like the sheer madness of Khachaturian's 3rd symphony with its 15 trumpets but it's fun on occasion? I know I don't like the current US with one very loud orange Trumpet.
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🔔 When Trump posted a video of budget director Russell Vought as the grim reaper, public health workers recognized a kernel of truth.
My latest piece @kffhealthnews.org couldn't be more important. Art by the incredible @oonazenda.bsky.social
🧵
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
My latest piece @kffhealthnews.org couldn't be more important. Art by the incredible @oonazenda.bsky.social
🧵
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News
Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.
kffhealthnews.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🔔 When Trump posted a video of budget director Russell Vought as the grim reaper, public health workers recognized a kernel of truth.
My latest piece @kffhealthnews.org couldn't be more important. Art by the incredible @oonazenda.bsky.social
🧵
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
My latest piece @kffhealthnews.org couldn't be more important. Art by the incredible @oonazenda.bsky.social
🧵
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Others have said it better, but can we remember that the BBC is a lot more than the News teams and, if it falls, a huge amount of our cultural fabric will be collateral damage.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Others have said it better, but can we remember that the BBC is a lot more than the News teams and, if it falls, a huge amount of our cultural fabric will be collateral damage.
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Andrew, who is a contemporary of mine in the theoretical-cosmologist game, has a new book out, The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Random Universe
An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos All o...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Andrew, who is a contemporary of mine in the theoretical-cosmologist game, has a new book out, The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Mindscape 335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Mindscape 335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...