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Isaac Barry
@isaacbarry.com
· Oct 18
We now return you to the Magdeburger Hochzeit already in progress.
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Reflections on a fab session at #CCN25 - how might gamification fit into #dementia research? 🎮
Would love to hear others' thoughts on this one 😊
#neuroskyence
Would love to hear others' thoughts on this one 😊
#neuroskyence
What if dementia research felt more like playing a game than taking a test? 🎮
@beccasue99.bsky.social explores how gaming could make research more engaging and realistic — from Sea Hero Quest to futuristic lab simulations.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-gamifyi...
@beccasue99.bsky.social explores how gaming could make research more engaging and realistic — from Sea Hero Quest to futuristic lab simulations.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-gamifyi...
Rebecca Williams - Blog – Gamifying Dementia Research
Video games meet dementia research. Rebecca Williams explores how gamified task design could transform data quality, engagement, and ecological validity.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Reflections on a fab session at #CCN25 - how might gamification fit into #dementia research? 🎮
Would love to hear others' thoughts on this one 😊
#neuroskyence
Would love to hear others' thoughts on this one 😊
#neuroskyence
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Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Militarizing Marriage
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962...
www.ohioswallow.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Militarizing Marriage is now OpenAccess!
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Thanks to Ohio University Press (with the generous support of a Mini-Grant from RSP at WWU) for facilitating the process.
Now you can access tirailleurs sénégalais' conjugal relationships across French Empire at the speed of a download.
Radio Free Europe
September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Radio Free Europe
My TikTok account has one follower, and it's the best BBQ chicken joint in Dakar, Chicken Nekh
August 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
My TikTok account has one follower, and it's the best BBQ chicken joint in Dakar, Chicken Nekh
Why do I still have this Zune?
July 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Why do I still have this Zune?
Fellow game designers, this is for you
As a neurologist, I see the term "dopamine" everywhere: dopamine fasting, dopamine hits, dopamine culture. It's become a cultural shorthand for pleasure.
But the real story is far more complex and fascinating. Here’s a thread on what we actually know 🧠
But the real story is far more complex and fascinating. Here’s a thread on what we actually know 🧠
July 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fellow game designers, this is for you
Reposted by Isaac Barry
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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We denounce Trump’s white supremacist policy to reinstate and expand the racist Muslim and African ban. This ban will force vulnerable people to abandon their right to seek safety – putting people in harmful and potentially deadly conditions.
Trump is once again using national security as a pretext for villainizing Black and brown people
Washington, DC — In response to the Trump administration’s executive order reinstating the Muslim ban, Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director at Detention Watch Network issued the following statement: ...
www.detentionwatchnetwork.org
June 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We denounce Trump’s white supremacist policy to reinstate and expand the racist Muslim and African ban. This ban will force vulnerable people to abandon their right to seek safety – putting people in harmful and potentially deadly conditions.
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A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons rdcu.be/epxkE - temporal delay discounting and reward magnitude are simultaneously mapped in mouse dopamine neurons
A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons
Nature - An algorithm called time–magnitude reinforcement learning (TMRL) extends distributional reinforcement learning to take account of reward time and magnitude, and behavioural and...
rdcu.be
June 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A multidimensional distributional map of future reward in dopamine neurons rdcu.be/epxkE - temporal delay discounting and reward magnitude are simultaneously mapped in mouse dopamine neurons
Reposted by Isaac Barry
New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex
Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A view through the former Governor's Palace, Gorée Island, Senegal, 2025
March 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A view through the former Governor's Palace, Gorée Island, Senegal, 2025
Untitled. Ibrahima Thiam at Oh Gallerie, Dakar, 2024
March 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Untitled. Ibrahima Thiam at Oh Gallerie, Dakar, 2024
“L'explosion 1871” painting by Edouard Manet, at Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany (Oct, 2023)
March 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“L'explosion 1871” painting by Edouard Manet, at Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany (Oct, 2023)
“The system… utilizes an actuator with two parts: an interface to the mouth and a small electromagnetic pump. This pump connects to a liquid channel of chemicals that vibrates when an electric charge passes through it, pushing the solution through a special gel layer into the mouth of the subject.”
New device could allow you to taste a cake in virtual reality
Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste. The interface, dubbed ‘e-Taste’, uses a combination of sensors and wir...
news.osu.edu
March 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“The system… utilizes an actuator with two parts: an interface to the mouth and a small electromagnetic pump. This pump connects to a liquid channel of chemicals that vibrates when an electric charge passes through it, pushing the solution through a special gel layer into the mouth of the subject.”
It's not unusual for baseball games to end with teams still retaining their challenge. Those days are over.
I don't know about the new ball/strike challenge... that is... um... close.
Strike!
Strike!
February 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's not unusual for baseball games to end with teams still retaining their challenge. Those days are over.
"Liberties and markets are totally the best, except journalists and the marketplace of ideas which are totally the worst"
February 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Liberties and markets are totally the best, except journalists and the marketplace of ideas which are totally the worst"
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I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵
February 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵
Asus is gonna make Jade Eggs before they make ergo mice for left hands
SMH
SMH
ASUS Announces Fragrance Mouse
Discover the ASUS Fragrance Mouse, featuring ergonomic design, refillable fragrance vial, PTFE feet, adjustable DPI, and dual-mode connectivity for seamless control. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for th...
press.asus.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Asus is gonna make Jade Eggs before they make ergo mice for left hands
SMH
SMH
If Orwell had been born seventy years later, the Party would have had an IPO
February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If Orwell had been born seventy years later, the Party would have had an IPO
Just finished it today on a Switch play through of 1-X2, 12.
Can confirm, 2 is based
Can confirm, 2 is based
February 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Just finished it today on a Switch play through of 1-X2, 12.
Can confirm, 2 is based
Can confirm, 2 is based
Every attempt at discourse RN
February 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Every attempt at discourse RN
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This spacetime diagram morphing is a mathematical picture of viewing events in spacetime from different inertial frames of reference. Here we see how events that occur simultaneously in one inertial frame (on a line parallel to the x-axis) do not necessarily happen simultaneously in another 🧪
February 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This spacetime diagram morphing is a mathematical picture of viewing events in spacetime from different inertial frames of reference. Here we see how events that occur simultaneously in one inertial frame (on a line parallel to the x-axis) do not necessarily happen simultaneously in another 🧪
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if you make games or art with UE5 you might be interested in my Auto Material Instance Maker, which automagically makes instanced materials for you from a pile of textures (even if some of them are normals/roughness/whatever with your own weird naming scheme)
www.joewintergreen.com/auto-materia...
www.joewintergreen.com/auto-materia...
February 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
if you make games or art with UE5 you might be interested in my Auto Material Instance Maker, which automagically makes instanced materials for you from a pile of textures (even if some of them are normals/roughness/whatever with your own weird naming scheme)
www.joewintergreen.com/auto-materia...
www.joewintergreen.com/auto-materia...