Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@social.cleverlibre.org

Honored that my paper

A Rubric for Human-like Agents & NeuroAI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04401

is published in an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society alongside amazing papers:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1869

Cog, neuro, & computer sciences increasingly reference human-like agents & neuroAI with no consensus on scope/use. Some import progress in 1 discipline to another & assume it automatically translates.
It does not.
I propose a rubric to orient the reader in this space.
1/n

@JustinDerrick you’re not alone! We just have to ramp up awareness of what’s happening. Ford is attacking so many things at the same time. I’ve decided to focus my efforts on protecting Ontario Place. See https://ontarioplaceforall.com for how you can join the resistance! https://ontarioplaceforall.com

The lab is growing and we are hiring! #postdoc #jobs #research #memory #neuralcircuits #fear #calciumimaging #electrophysiology #behavior https://twitter.com/StephenMaren/status/1601386142439329793?s=20&t=--bI-bUmrHnIQjEWLpQwxg

What do early-career researchers have to say about our new publishing model?

Members of our Early-Career Advisory Group share their reactions to our recent changes, outlining the challenges and risks as they see them and the bold steps needed to revolutionise research communication.

Read it here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/84816?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.

The Ideology 2.0 dataset (N > 280,000) is available. The data was collected on Project Implicit in the mid-2000s with a very diverse sample who were randomly assigned to complete semi-random subsets of individual difference, implicit, and explicit measures.
You can explore a small portion of the data to prepare Registered Reports. Upon acceptance, you will receive the confirmatory dataset.

The deadline for requesting the exploratory data is December 15, 2022.

Details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jmUlXguhFWjqMx2lHGrF8sFANbrJdaWhINfO-2DjMc/edit?fbclid=IwAR2O1GiOQ2NeDQZPKONj3ph9bQNehp_gCBq4FOK3xOj5QLa7wMdGda6O39U

Big welcome to @turrigiano!

Gina is professor at Brandeis. Have you ever heard that the brain recalibrates to maintain its stability over time? Or the term "homeostatic plasticity" in particular? If so, that's probably Gina.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lAjsH-wAAAAJ&hl=en

Gina won't throw it in your face, but she has many more accolades than I have characters: MacArthur Genius, Pres of SFN, National Academy ...

And fascinating interests, like this:
https://recallthisbook.org/category/gina-turrigiano/

For more, follow @turrigiano.

@petersuber Thanks for this. The graphic of the difference is quite stunning.

In case you were discouraged from applying for the HHMI call (March 2023) because past winners all had Nature/Science/Cell papers, @leslievosshall says the times are a-changing and all outstanding scientists should apply this round!
https://twitter.com/leslievosshall/status/1598866750669393920?s=20&t=7nhFmKxlHe_duNiB2NlYgA

@emenel
Hopefully there will be some results in lowering the trajectory...

http://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

https://twitter.com/copilotcase

Dear fellow scientists, I know it's been said many times before but please please make a Google Scholar page and make it public? It makes life so much easier when going through tens and tens of unknown names (like I'm doing right now to help select symposia for a conference): one can find your latest papers, your most cited papers, etc. And if you have some principled objection to Scholar or to their stock-market-style citation counter, I get it and that's fine, but at least do orcid.org?

#COSYNE2023 #registration is now open y'all!!!!

https://www.cosyne.org/registration

Please boost!

@jerlich

- Our next gen headstages have two channels of opto and active torque free commutator (https://open-ephys.org/next-gen-acquisition-system; https://open-ephys.github.io/onix-docs/)
- For the legacy system, there are a lot of people who successfully use cheap slip ring for the SPI cable with through bore. They then seat a fiber commutator in the bore.

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀?

Join the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon Dec 8, noon EST-US for discussion with Matthew Larkum's lab (paper below).

Join @diceyjennings and I moderating discussion!

Here's the paper:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001651

#neuroscience

And for more Philosophy & Neuroscience Salon discussions check here:

https://www.youtube.com/@neurosciencephilosophysalo5410

4 lectureships in #neuroscience in Bristol, UK. (2 junior, 2 senior).

Offers £39,745 - £68,823. (Not a typo, unfortunately.)

Not wanting to single out Bristol here, note all UK universities offer these ridiculously low salaries. The expectation, I can only guess, is that your partner with a higher salary subsidises the university via the institution of marriage, or you are independently wealthy, or choose not to have a family.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=297479

Someone posted this earlier, but I haven't been able to track down the original post – 

"Visualizing Science: How Color Determines What We See"

https://eos.org/features/visualizing-science-how-color-determines-what-we-see

I think it's _very_ interesting how these palettes change what's highlighted and emphasized. "Perceptually equalized colormaps" may not always be the best choice.

#DataVisualization #DataScience #Science #Color #Visualization

This is the state of our field, y'all. I'm glad Dr. Steven Roberts is shedding light on the reality of what scholars who study race, and scholars of color have to deal with every damn day. Just disgusting.

https://mastodon.social/@kimberlyquinn/109445447156889612