Ankur Sinha
sanjay-ankur.bsky.social
Ankur Sinha
@sanjay-ankur.bsky.social
#ComputationalNeuroscience Research Fellow at SilverLab/University College London; Free/Open Source Software volunteer @fedora; core member of the #OpenSourceBrain, #NeuroML, #NeuroFedora development teams; He/Him/His.

https://ankursinha.in
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It's an #RSS feed aggregator that collects feeds from several sources.

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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Fedora Linux 42 is released, and we have a ton of updates to share with you!

Announcement: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/

NEW Fedora KDE Desktop Edition: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-for-fedora-kde-plasma-desktop-42/

Fedora Workstation 42 […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Made a few updates and released a new version of #calliope , a #bash script based utility to write a journal using #LaTeX.
Check it out on #GitHub : github.com/sanjayankur3...

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GitHub - sanjayankur31/calliope: Simple script for journal writing using LaTeX
Simple script for journal writing using LaTeX. Contribute to sanjayankur31/calliope development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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INCF has been accepted as a mentoring organization in #GSoC for the 15th time!
Learn more:
GSoC discussions on Neurostars: neurostars.org/c/gsoc/5
Project ideas list, timeline, etc: bit.ly/INCFGSoC2025
#GSoC2025 #neuroscience #neuroinformagical
GSoC
This is the workspace for the INCF Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ) as well as Google Season of Docs projects.
neurostars.org
March 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Job alert!
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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four SF/F/H books by women writers that I've recently read and enjoyed.
March 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I just found out the proper name for doggo zoomies is Frenetic Random Activity Periods, or FRAPS.

I don’t know how to live with this knowledge.
March 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Such an important message right now in the face of actual tyranny and unlawful executive orders demanding compliance. 💪🏽
DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature.

Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Please spread the word, especially to students interested in modelling. We will help them learn the NeuroML ecosystem so they can use its standardised pipeline in their work.

docs.neuroml.org/NeuroMLOrg/O...

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Outreach and training — NeuroML Documentation
docs.neuroml.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#NeuroML is participating in #GSoC2025 again this year under @incforg.bsky.social . We're looking for people with some experience of #ComputationalNeuroscience to work on developing #standardised biophysically detailed computational models using #NeuroML #PyNN and #OpenSourceBrain. 1/2
Outreach and training — NeuroML Documentation
docs.neuroml.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Very interesting piece on social media and scientists on the LSE blog: "Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did"

The author, Mark Carrigan, is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Independently of your position on this, I think it is worth reading
Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did
Commercial platforms and social media companies are designed to maximise switching costs in order to retain users. Reflecting on the rise of Bluesky, Mark Carrigan warns the same market dynamics co…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Please join us in Sacramento on Friday, March 7 from 12-4 PM to Stand Up For Science!
March 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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🚀 Congratulations Dr. Subhasis Ray (@subharay.bsky.social) on being elected as a member of the NeuroML editorial board for 2025-2027! 🎉
On behalf of the MOOSE team, we wish him great success in advancing NeuroML and continuing his trailblazing work. 👏 #ComputationalNeuroscience #NeuroML
January 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Facing an uncertain financial future, many U.S. neuroscience Ph.D. programs are admitting fewer students. The Transmitter spoke with 20 programs about how the recent changes are affecting their admissions processes.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social

bit.ly/41ptnk1
Neuro Ph.D. programs adjust admissions over funding unease
Some neuroscience departments plan to shrink class size by 25 to 40 percent; others may inadvertently take more students than they can afford.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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We are very happy to provide a consolidated update on the #NeuroML ecosystem in our eLife paper, “The NeuroML ecosystem for standardized multi-scale modeling in neuroscience” : doi.org/10.7554/eLif... . 1/x
January 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM