@rainfern @PhiloNeuroScie Wow, indeed...
I increasingly think that “freedom” is the most important word to take back from the fascists.
In rightwing hands, freedom often means
“no rules to allow billionaires to accumulate all the profits and power” or “privatize and destroy societal services” — schools to healthcare.
Real freedom is freedom from want, freedom to pursue happiness without worry about healthcare bankruptcy and with good schools for all.
@JessTheUnstill Well said! I totally agree!
5 reasons why including ChatGPT in your list of authors is a bad idea
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scientists-please-dont-let-your-chatbots
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How do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake really unique? Why is some snow light and fluffy or heavy? The amazing science of snow https://theconversation.com/how-do-snowflakes-form-is-each-snowflake-really-unique-why-is-some-snow-light-and-fluffy-or-heavy-the-amazing-science-of-snow-196269 #Ice #Snow #Winter #Atmosphere #Science
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationCA/status/1613608258702565376?s=20
Multimodal monitoring of human #cortical #organoids implanted in #mice reveal functional connection with visual #cortex
#neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35536-3
Yet another AI reproducibility / reliability / generalizability crisis, this time in medicine
Chronic Ca2+ imaging of cortical neurons with long-term expression of GCaMP-X. https://elifesciences.org/articles/76691?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
The vOICe for Android version 2.65 is now at 99.21% crash-free users, and it looks like this percentage is still going up; crashes are annoying but harmless: you just restart the app; will brain implants for vision have 99.21% seizure-free users?
A role for the claustrum in cognitive control
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00223-6
A pretty inspiring article about the life of Hale Zukas in The Guardian. "Disability is not a tragedy"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/08/disability-rights-warrior-hale-zukas-life
Physics didn’t take away your free will, and quantum mechanics didn’t give it back. I won't try to convince you of one point of view or another about free will in general. I’m a physicist, and what I'll explain why, no matter which viewpoint you choose, the cold, impersonal laws of physics didn’t take away your free will – nor did quantum mechanics give it back by changing our ideas about randomness.
https://bcrowell.github.io/free_will/
#physics #FreeWill #philosophy #neuroscience
There’s a difference between underlying (latent) truth and syntax, even if the syntax is very high quality.
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“got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that #ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together.” @bibliotecaria
Academia’s lost luster prompts exodus of health researchers to industry | @NatureMedicine #Industry [Image in article]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02088-4
Professor of Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Research interests: cortical plasticity, cross-modal plasticity, synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, vision loss, visual cortex, auditory cortex
ORCID: 0000-0002-5554-983X