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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 2 images you can feel the millions of hours of quiet rage from a mile away
on Fri, 5AM
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manisha (@manisha@neuromatch.social)
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If you're looking for a simplified guide to turbo-charge people to move away from Twitter/X and join #Mastodon, this is a really good one from @steveroyle@biologists.social : https://quantixed.org/2024/08/14/exodus-moving-to-mastodon/
on Wed, 7PM
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El Duvelle (@elduvelle@neuromatch.social)
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online I haven't thought so much about it but let's see.. - It should rank the accounts that I follow according to how much I interact with them (boosts, answers or even likes) - It should prioritize posts that are most boosted or most commented, taking into account that...
on Tue, 4PM
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Nicole Rust (@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Personal announcement - (BIG!) With the support of the Simons Foundation , I am redirecting my research program to study how our brains support one of the biggest & most mysterious feelings: Mood. I have so much to say about the "Why?" and "How?" behind it! More on that...
on Sun, 7PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@chargrille@progressives.social oh totally, I am sure it was not a purely technical analysis. thinking about the stated reasons is more about ruling that out as a reason for a new "protocol." I also don't doubt the stated motivation you say from Jack, I need to hunt down some receipts for that...
on Sat, 5PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@irenes@mastodon.social @pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se so see: https://atproto.com/guides/faq the discussion of "why not AP" is exceedingly shallow, even incorrect. it is true existing implementations of AP make account portability hard, but in the AP spec an actor is identified by a URI, and can...
on Sat, 5PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@irenes@mastodon.social @pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se tbc I like the idea of being able to choose algorithms! many of them! mixing them even! I just don't necessarily think that them being operated by a third party with unknown motivations in such a way that I effectively can't control who...
on Sat, 5PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@irenes@mastodon.social @pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se the idea of a marketplace of algorithms where you shop for your experience, and are constantly consumed by data brokers, sort of screams neo/liberalism to me.
on Sat, 4PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@irenes@mastodon.social @pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se reading them at their word, they seem genuinely interested in making a federated social space, genuinely critical of centralized platforms, and write repeatedly about wanting to eventually take themselves out of the driver's seat. they seem...
on Sat, 4PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@jdp23@gotosocial.thenexus.today a lot of the network design only makes sense in the aggregate, if you assume that what people want to receive is amorphous "content" and people want to post to an interchangeable audience. as soon as you start needing to deal with the particularities of...
on Sat, 4PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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In case anyone reaches the end of this and reads it as me abjectly shitting on the protocol as being equivalently bad to eg. Twitter, threads, facebook, etc. Thats not what I meant at all. First priority: get people out of surveillance platform traps. BSky is not that YET, and is a sort of...
on Sat, 4PM
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image · Content warning: Really long, look I dont mean to be rude but idk how else to say this bluesky shit is a well-intentioned mirage
on Sat, 4PM
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Nicole Rust (@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social)
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Wow! The book we all need to read this weekend, for FREE (in the US). How generous, @RebeccaSolnit@spore.social “In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable.” https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/791-hope-in-the-dark
on Nov 9
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?
on Nov 8
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Content warning: uspol, techno-navalgazing, twitter/X
on Nov 6
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image · Content warning: uspol, result timeline comparison to 2020
on Nov 6
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Periodic reminder in light of the #nyt strike that #wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the nyt, and I packed it into a single html file that you can download and run offline or from any site, like this:...
on Nov 5
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Paul Gribble (@paulgribble@neuromatch.social)
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your new graduate student(s) are taking a grad course called scientific computing, and as their supervisor you are hoping they learn coding skills in: [ ] Python [ ] MATLAB [ ] R [ ] multiple languages [ ] show me the answer
on Nov 4
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image this is maybe the best disambiguation notice on wikipedia #monsterdon
on Nov 4
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Nicole Rust (@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social)
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Documenting a prediction: This will receive an Ig Nobel in 2025. Certainly is of the ilk of “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub
on Oct 31
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Fuck every doctor who ever thought it would be ok to put "AI" in between themselves and their patients https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/researchers-ai-powered-transcription-tool-hospitals-invents-things-115170291
on Oct 26
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Content warning: Really long, look I dont mean to be rude but idk how else to say this bluesky shit is a well-intentioned mirage
on Oct 25
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Content warning: long, bsky, atproto, on the impossibility of multiple relays
on Oct 25
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Bsky raises $15m from Blockchain Capital, the VC's press release hints at what they're interested in: https://www.blockchaincapital.com/blog/bluesky-13m-users-and-growing-our-investment-in-blueskys-re-imagined-social-network > Bluesky [is] designed to foster a new ecosystem of applications....
on Oct 24
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Susan L (@susanleemburg@neuromatch.social)
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Do any of you have a TagesAnzeiger Abo? I'd like to read this article, but also not pay for the paywall. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eth-hochschule-ist-schockiert-ueber-vorwuerfe-gegen-professor-849003779879
on Oct 24
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CosyneMeeting (@CosyneMeeting@neuromatch.social)
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Cosyne 2025 deadline reminders 🤗🧠🤗 Abstract submissions close on 23 October 2024, 11:59 p.m. PT: https://www.cosyne.org/abstracts-submission Workshops proposals close on 4 October 2024, 11:59 p.m. PT: https://www.cosyne.org/workshops-call As they say in Montreal, Bonne Chance!
on Oct 22
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Alicia Izquierdo (@alicia_izquierdo@neuromatch.social)
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📣 Excited to share that we’re recruiting a colleague in Behavioral Neuroscience at UCLA! The application deadline is Oct 31st #compneuro #neuroscience https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09740
on Oct 21
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Nvidia being worth 11% of the US GDP is not bubble behavior at all no sir
on Oct 18
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 2 images Hot off the press of #ExtremelyGoodIdeas : now presenting my newest package `no-more-imports` : https://git.jon-e.net/jonny/no-more-imports importing code is simply beneath you, you are a sacred energy being who does not need to be bothered with typing the word `import` at...
on Oct 17
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image OK how about this for a web site
on Oct 17
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Sam Levine (@SRLevine@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image So you all can appreciate the ridiculousness with me. It was a good price and I needed pasta so not a frivolous purchase, even if it's not a shape I prefer.
on Oct 5
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Tim Verstynen (@tdverstynen@neuromatch.social)
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Content warning: rant on why Nature journals suck
on Oct 4
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Spencer LaVere Smith (@sls@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image There’s a slack-like forum for two-photon imaging in neuroscience. #neuroscience #optics For access, message me or try this link https://2p.ece.ucsb.edu/landing#/signup_user_complete/?id=uqr31cgtf3d7bcrzm6949rcz4r&md=link&sbr=sa
on Oct 4
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@gsuberland@chaos.social Oh my fucking lord > Officer Kenneth Franco drew on his "twelve hours of narcotics training" and discovered the facility was using more electricity than nearby stores, the lawsuit said. > > "Officer Franco, therefore, concluded (the facility) was cultivating cannabis,...
on Sep 30
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Nicole Rust (@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social)
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Help me understand humanity. You’re running or walking laps around a square park. Which way do you go? [ ] Counterclockwise [ ] Clockwise [ ] Just see
on Sep 29
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 4 images The complaint against LAPD for raiding a medical imaging place bc they thought it was a grow op, getting their rifle stuck to the MRI, and quenching the magnet is jaw dropping even for regular cop...
on Sep 29
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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alright i got the men in black theme as an intrusive auditory apparition for like a week a month ago, and so i was forced to watch that movie again. and literally how is the sound design in this movie so good. every shot has an iconic sound moment
on Sep 28
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Jonathan Peelle (@jpeelle@neuromatch.social)
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Andrew Gelman provides a nice summary of the kerfuffle over a now-retracted paper in Nature Human Behavior ostensibly showing benefits of “open science” practices. What’s the story behind that paper by the Center for Open Science team that just got...
on Sep 28
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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@codeofamor@codeofamor.net Happens automatically when you expand a post, no external script needed. Uses activitypub collections, so can get posts from any AP instance instead of the 4 fedifetcher can do Can get complete contexts (that the servers will give you) instead of the 40 post cap with...
on Sep 25
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Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (@SWC_Neuro@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Congratulations to the SWC Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series 2024/25 winners!🎉 Laura Grima - HHMIJanelia Daniel Levenstein @dlevenstein - McGill University Chris Zimmerman - Princeton Neuroscience Institute Noel Federman - Institute of Biomedical Research Buenos...
on Sep 25
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Mikkel Roald-Arbøl (@roaldarboel@neuromatch.social)
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When academic societies keep their journals in the big publishing houses, what do they get in return? Cheap or free infrastructure? Or do they even still pay even for that? I’m trying to wrap my head around what it would take for societies to transition their journals elsewhere (or have their...
on Sep 24
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 4 images whoop whoop full provenance-preserving roundtrip serialization to JSON in #numpydantic 1.6.0. sure you *could* serialize a complex, nested data model with a ton of arrays in a precious high-performance data backend as a bunch of random JSON numbers and test the parsers of...
on Sep 24
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Ik im preaching to the choir on here, but I do genuinely get the pushback from cloudbrained ppl that "we don't need #p2p data infra because Amazon is giving it to us for free rn, and if they stop the NIH would step in because they dont want to lose all the data" Whelp, an...
on Sep 20
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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alright, after like a year of halfheartedly trying on and off, #FetchAllReplies is pretty much finished - the problem of not being able to see all replies to a post is one of the largest complaints that people have with mastodon in particular but also the fedi in general. It is an especially...
on Sep 19
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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LASD finally made it against the rules for cops to be in gangs https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-18/sheriffs-department-announces-long-await-policy-banning-deputy-gangs?utm_source=press.coop The rule is literally just "cops cant be in a gang," and while it mentions discipline and...
on Sep 19
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Jonathan Peelle (@jpeelle@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Have just written my favorite response to a reviewer comment ever
on Sep 17
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El Duvelle (@elduvelle@neuromatch.social)
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Since there doesn't seem to be #AltText I will do it (for the text only, maybe someone else can describe the images but the text is pretty self-explanatory; also, unfortunately the @ are probaby for twitter but I put them anyway): 1. Accidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a...
on Sep 16
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Carsen Stringer (she/her) (@computingnature@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 1 image Spike sorting with #Kilosort in #python w/ #pytorch + @pyqtgraph@fosstodon.org ! >>> pip install kilosort[gui] To learn more, check out the paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02232-7), the docs (https://kilosort.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ by Jacob Pennington),...
on Sep 14
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Tim Verstynen (@tdverstynen@neuromatch.social)
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It is really sad & scary that, when caught in an outright racist lie, rather than move on or change the subject, the Trump movement doubles down on the subject as if to will it into reality by brute force. Meanwhile, innocent people are caught in the middle, left to suffer the consequences of...
on Sep 14
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jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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Attached: 4 images Google's AI tooling for deciding unemployment cases is a RAG that hooks into a knowledge base that includes personal history and Nevada law: https://gizmodo.com/googles-ai-will-help-decide-whether-unemployed-workers-get-benefits-2000496215 This is exactly the kind of hybrid...
on Sep 11