Link to previous preprint thread with more details on the results:
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Overall, our findings highlight dendrites as a potential substrate for the cognitive rigidity that characterizes autism spectrum disorders.

5/6

Maybe not the same river, but the same shit yes, time and time again. We collectively, and we as individuals. Hopelessly maladapted through millennia of evolution to the current setup. Except the 1% socio/psychopaths of us, who are having a field day.

Wednesday PM poster R16 by @norambr.bsky.social

Combined vestibular and visuo-motor mismatch modulates neuronal activity and serotonin levels in mouse visual cortex

Tuesday AM poster C5 by bskyless Hugh Takemoto

Serotonergic modulation of excitability in visual cortical pyramidal neurons across layers and areas

It’s genius. And should be miniaturisable (is that even a word)? Did you email them? (We use impedance measurement to stop when through the bone, but it’s a bit hot and miss)

Heaven sent, no more ordering at least 10 from Ali, waiting for 2 weeks and paying from my pocket, the figuring out it was the wrong one!

Fun facts: the FAQ is in French only and the deadline is "Appel au fil de l'eau".
But machine translation makes life really easy, even if you don't speak French (which I don't really).

But ignorance has real consequences: it underpins how we judge others, justify punishment, and assign moral blame. If we recognized that actions emerge from causes rather than character, our penal systems would shift from retribution to prevention, and politics from outrage to structural change.

Our belief in free will isn’t harmless—it shapes punishment, politics, and power.
If we stopped blaming individuals for what physics made inevitable, justice would shift from retribution to prevention, and politics from moral outrage to structural change.

Compatibilists like Dennett say free will is just “acting according to your reasons.” But that’s the same determinism with better PR. Quantum randomness doesn’t help either. Noise isn’t freedom or agency.

Experiments by Libet (1983) and Haggard (2008) show decades ago that neural activity predicting a decision precedes conscious awareness of choosing—suggesting that conscious will is a witness, not a cause.