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Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 years

Talking with @gallantlab today about the difficulties of getting papers done once people have left lab. Brilliant idea popped -- what we need is The Journal of Abandoned Papers. Half-done, incoherent, abruptly ending -- all fine. A lot of us would have a number of submissions.

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@spiantado @OpenAI @Abebab @sama I don't see this thread so much as an indictment of @open_ai , although surely they have a lot of work to do to overcome this, but more as a shocking demonstration of what emerge as representative opinions after digesting the entire Internet.

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7 months

@eLife The Onion article was a bitter joke about the mass killings of Palestinians being of so little import; so even those dying should only be condemning Hamas and not the attacks killing them. It's nuts to twist this into not condemning Hamas' massacres.

Michael Eisen

@mbeisen

7 months

Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again. All the more so as a Jew with Israeli family. But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come.

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@mbeisen @eLife @TheOnion This is McCarthyism, witch-hunting. Do we really want to return to those days of communists-or now, those sympathetic to the lives of Palestinians- under the bed? Are the bounds of allowable speech really so narrow? Please sign to support academic freedom:

Open letter to HHMI and eLife, in defense of free expression

(NOTE: To our wonderful community of academics who have signed this petition, we are in awe of you. There are almost 2000 people who have signed this petition, including academics from all over the...

docs.google.com

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@eLife If you have other reasons to fire Eisen, you should have fired him *strictly* for those other reasons. Stating his political views should have had *nothing* to do with it, let alone being the precipitating event. You are sending the message that some views cannot be stated. 1/

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@ColumbiaSpec As @columbia faculty, I request the Univ. (1) specify exactly what policy violations led to the suspension and (2) attest that no other groups have had similar violations without suspensions. This has the appearance of political suppression. We need the information to assess this

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Ken Miller

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5 months

@BillAckman @NeriOxman You said Gay's errors were so grievous that she should resign not only the presidency but her tenured faculty position. For your wife, they're errors that she should own and apologize for, end of story. Why didn't that standard apply to Gay? Why the double standard?

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2 months

@karlbykarlsmith @RedTailTabby @SpencrGreenberg History is made out of lots of people interacting. Astronomy is not made out of lots of biological things interacting. Also neither astronomy nor history is in any sense simple. This is a ridiculous Q, any answer requires specious reasoning.

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Ken Miller

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6 years

@CoreyRobin hits the nail on the head as to why Bernie remains the best, most compelling left politician, and the contortions people go through to avoid this straightforward fact. He is commenting on this oped by Bernie on what the Dem House should do:

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Ken Miller

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5 years

Thanks @NeuroStats for posting this great statement on the nature of interdisciplinary science: Sean Eddy responding to NIH call for "interdisciplinary teams". Some excerpts attached.

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Ken Miller

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7 years

An amazing year for neuro theory recruiting! Columbia, UC Davis, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Stanford, UCSF, Austin, U Wash, and probably more, most with multiple positions. Some dam has broken! Neurosci's realizing they need not only a theorist, but a group of theorists.

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Ken Miller

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6 months

This video, cherry-picked and shocking and utterly misleading, is going viral. It shows 8 or 9 people supporting Hamas from the left. This meeting went nearly 4 hours. With 1 minute/speaker, >=300 speakers. The resolution, here , was written by a 1/

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

6 months

Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…

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Ken Miller

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Paul Kalanithi was an MD, worked in Krishna Shenoy's lab. He died of cancer, & wrote the beautiful book When Breath Becomes Air about his life before, & facing death. Here he describes Krishna ("V"), ending as Krishna turns to him for advice about his own just-discovered cancer.

Emma J Chory

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1 year

I think about this often. He will be sorely missed.

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@BrankoMilan What is really unethical is universities that don't give substantial promotions, salary increases and perks unless someone has an offer from somewhere else, rather than doing so based on internal criteria completely unrelated to external offers.

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Ken Miller

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7 months

Scientists in life/neuro sciences: defend academic freedom. Sign our petition to eLife/HHMI saying Michael Eisen should not be censured for expressing his political opinions. Can be anonymous.

Open letter to HHMI and eLife, in defense of free expression

(NOTE: To our wonderful community of academics who have signed this petition, we are in awe of you. There are almost 2000 people who have signed this petition, including academics from all over the...

docs.google.com

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

3 years

Our review article on "What is the dynamical regime of cerebral cortex", with @yasharadian , is out today: . This is a revised version of a preprint that was posted on arXiv. The abstract, attached, gives a good summary. 1/

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Ken Miller

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@garsay10 @matloff @kareem_carr Norm this is a hypocrisy test. Ackman said Gay's was so grievious that she should resign not only the presidency but also her tenured faculty position. Will Ackman apply consistent standards to his own wife? Not about attacking her, about consistency of those who attacked Gay.

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Ken Miller

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4 months

@LHSummers @mehdirhasan "inappropriate" and "ad personam", but you won't say you were *wrong* and that he's not anti-semitic (& more generally, crit of IL and support of PAL is not anti-semitic). You're only "apologizing" for being impolite, not for saying false things about him. No apology at all.

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Ken Miller

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2 years

@JGreenblattADL @RepRashida As a Jew, I resent & condemn yr abuse of "anti-semitism" to dismiss rather than engage legitimate criticisms of Israel. Amnesty, HRW, & other human rights orgs are not anti-semitic & say "apartheid". False accusations of "a-s" only delegitimize it for when it's really needed.

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Ken Miller

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5 years

New preprint from Yashar Ahmadian & myself, "What is the dynamical regime of cerebral cortex", . We review theory and exptl data on excitatory/inhibitory balance, arguing that balance is "loose", not "tight" - factors that cancel comparable in size to, 1/

What is the dynamical regime of cerebral cortex?

Many studies have shown that the excitation and inhibition received by cortical neurons remain roughly balanced across many conditions. A key question for understanding the dynamical regime of...

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

2 years

US scientists, consider signing: open letter on math K-12 education, expressing alarm at efforts to water down K-12 math in the name of equality or diversity. Already signed by large # of scientists including many very prominent ones. (Just needs you)

k12mathmatters

We write to express our alarm over recent trends in K-12 mathematics education in the United States. All of us have first-hand experience of the role that clear mathematical thinking has played in...

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

3 years

@gregggonsalves My mother's cousin, an Orthodox Jew, joined the army in WW II to stop Hitler. My mother asked him "but what will you eat?" "Whatever they serve me", he said. Kosher laws were completely dispensable to stop Hitler.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

2 years

Anyone in science should read this. The section starting at point 41, and the section starting at point 106. Appalling and unbelievable that NYU is thinking of inflicting this on the women scientists there.

Dr. Liana Lareau

@lianafaye

2 years

I would like everyone in science to read the painful, poignant description of what, exactly, Sabatini did to women under his mentorship. It should make you sick to your stomach. I don't think I could still be in science if I'd faced any of this.

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6 months

@TaliaRinger Einstein also understood how Israel could go tragically wrong:

Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 months

Einstein had earlier made similar comments, as to where the dangers lay for the Israel experiment. Right, from a speech April 17 1938, in Ideas & Opinions.

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2 years

@ilya_poet Does a Nobel acceptance speech count as literature? Faulkner

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Ken Miller

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2 years

@KordingLab What do you call a low-dimensional curved "surface" (surface in quotes because it's the high-d analogue of a 2D surface)? The mathematical name for it (with some simple technical conditions) is a manifold. Do you want to invent a new neuroscience name for it?

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

11 months

The new NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI) seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellows, starting Summer or Fall 2023. Fellows will be based at Columbia U, NYC, but can work with ARNI researchers at multiple institutions. More info:

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Ken Miller

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7 months

@Meng2Fu @eLife This is what was published on May 15, 2018, the day he posted that tweet: Report of Israel using live fire to kill 60 protesters and wound >1200 on the day of the peak of the protests at the Gaza border wall. It was a political statement about a 1/

Uneasy Calm Falls Over Gaza After Israel Kills Scores at Protests (Published 2018)

As a relative quiet descended at the border fence, there was uncertainty about whether the demonstrations would grow, fade, or give way to an outright armed conflict.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

8 months

The barbarous massacre by Hamas was an atrocity and massive war crime. Now another atrocity and massive war crime is unfolding. Blockade of all food, water, medicine, electricity, gas. Don't let one blind you to the other. In either direction.

Dr. Omar Suleiman

@omarsuleiman504

8 months

Gaza is now out of fuel. Whatever is left of their hospital system is about to collapse entirely. With over a 1000 dead (hundreds being children), the wounded now have no treatment and aid has been shut off from all directions. Without electricity, the few voices from the

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Ken Miller

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4 years

Bernie Sanders teaches Demagoguery and Fascism 101 to a very skeptical NY Times editorial board. How could racism manifesting itself possibly have any relationship to economic conditions? The looks of disdain as Bernie simply and lucidly explains are priceless.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 months

@fawfulfan Except, of course, she didn't say anything about it being good. Those are your words, not hers.

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@kendmil

5 years

"“CNN debate summarized: ... Why are you taking health care from hard working Americans? Why are you for open borders? Imagine CNN ... in a Republican debate: ‘Democrats want to ensure health care for all Americans. You want to kill people. Care to respond?’”"

Margaret Sullivan

@Sulliview

5 years

With frustratingly tiny and rigidly enforced response time, outsize attention to fringe candidates, and divisive questions — some of which could have been framed by the RNC — last night's debate was a lost opportunity to serve the public. My column:

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@itslaylas This doesn't define what a "delegate" is. This looks phony - cooked up so people on one side can say "we're delegates give us your ID". If this was legit it would define what a delegate is and how you know if someone is acting as a delegate.

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@kendmil

1 year

Important tweet for tonight

Emo Philips

@EmoPhilips

2 years

no one on twitter has the right to complain about losing an hour

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@AmandaMarcotte "Compared with Sanders supporters, voters [favorable to] Clinton are much less likely to view politics as a rigged game, much more likely to express pride in America, and much less likely to express the view that “people like me” are in decline." That says charismatic white guy?

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7 months

@eLife I hope the result of your 'investigation' is a forceful rejection and condemnation of witch-hunting. Equating the Onion article, gallows humor about the lack of value accorded to Palestinian lives, w/ supporting Hamas/massacres is lunacy, like when communists were under every bed

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 years

I posted a thread about the deepmind grid cell paper not recognizing the Cueva/Wei grid cell paper. It may be obscure because it's a reply to a few people. So thought I would link to it here. If you agree please add your support, as a comment or a like. Or add your own POV.

Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 years

@AndreaBanino @RaiaHadsell @VenkRamaswamy @hugospiers @NobelPrize At risk of beating dead horse, to say a bit more: I think there's no rule of scientific conduct or ethics that you've violated, but I think you have violated a norm. Tho theirs wasn't out when you submitted, I imagine you knew of it at the time you did your revisions, 1/

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

1 year

It's fitting that this newest breakthrough work from Krishna Shenoy and (many) colleagues was just posted yesterday.

Frank Willett

@WillettNeuro

1 year

Our new pre-print is out today! We demonstrate a brain-computer interface that turns speech-related neural activity into text, enabling a person with paralysis to communicate at 62 words per minute - 3.4 times faster than prior work.

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4 years

Surprise surprise. "Bernie Bros", which has been wielded with great success to attack Bernie, is a myth. His supporters behave no differently on Twitter than anyone else's. There's just more of them. Very effective attack tho, particularly when it's repeated incessantly. 1/

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

8 months

So proud of you Agos! There's no one more deserving. There's going to be a big hole in my lab when you go. @APalmigiano

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

@GatsbyUCL

8 months

We are delighted to announce that Dr Agostina Palmigiano ( @APalmigiano ) will join the Gatsby Unit as Lecturer in January, developing data-driven theoretical approaches to uncover neural mechanisms underlying cognitive functions. Learn more at

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1 year

@Sara_Sawyer_ @eLife I agree with other comments, what is supposed to be the advantage of having one editor make decisions rather than two or three reviewers with domain expertise? Serious question.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

5 years

@thinkprogress Brilliant. The guy who has very consistently, all his life, railed against system in which policy is set by and for m-aires & b-aires, is a complete hypocrite if he earns $1M while never wavering on policy. While you cry foul if finger-in-the-wind corporate Dems are criticized.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

4 years

@SenBlumenthal Read it, or tell it, from the Senate floor. You have the power. If this is really such a big threat to our democracy, you should use the power you have to fight it.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 years

@neal_katyal @TheNLJ He and Gorsuch, not Garland, are nominated only because they, not Garland, have the right-wing ideology to gut women's rights, voting rts, health laws, environmental/labor regulation. To ignore this because "nice member of our club" is breathtakingly wrongheaded. @amychua

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@kendmil

6 years

@ebruenig Look up our previous agreements with N Korea (the last one of which was broken by GW Bush, not NK). There is absolutely nothing new here. Trump got his master media coverage as the great diplomat, while gaining nothing substantive. It's a TV show.

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@kendmil

4 years

Trever Noah explaining to white America the view from black America. Because he cares to take the time, and has the rare ability, to carefully explain, to bridge the divide. Listen.

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

4 years

(2/2) Trevor on George Floyd and the Minneapolis protests: “If you felt unease watching that Target being looted, try to imagine how it must feel for black Americans when they watch themselves being looted every single day. Police in America are looting black bodies.”

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@SamWangPhD Hey Sam, Congress has the power to regulate partisan gerrymandering, Roberts specifically refers to Congress' constitutional power to legislate how cong elections operate. Is someone preparing legislation in case Dems manage to take pres, house & Senate?

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Ken Miller

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2 years

@zeynep @NateSilver538 Every pundit shld be talking nonstop about independent state legislature doctrine. If court's composition or powers aren't changed, it *will* enshrine ISL next yr & state leg's *will* use to overrule voters and install Rep pres in 2024. Anyone w/ mic should be screaming nonstop.

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8 months

This is going viral, and for good reasons. A long "take" that is the only take on the current Israel/Palestine situation I've seen that I think most people can mostly agree with, which is pretty near impossible. But if you think I'm missing something, (politely) tell me.

Isaac Saul

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8 months

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It

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Oh no! A huge loss for the field, and a huge personal loss for so many. Krishna Shenoy was not only a huge leader in the field but as kind, generous, and gentle a soul as you could hope to meet.

Chethan Pandarinath

@chethan

1 year

A brief note to remember a brilliant scientist, mentor, and cherished friend. Krishna made deep connections with everyone he interacted with. It's hard to overstate this loss. @shenoystanford we will miss you profoundly. More in time. To all - please reach out if I can help.

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It's great when the good guys win! They already won, this is just the recognition. A fairy tale story: helping invent the nn field, 20 yrs in the wilderness further developing nn's which ML/AI otherwise abandoned, then incredible triumph! Congrats @ylecun , @geoffreyhinton ,Yoshua!

Yann LeCun

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5 years

Official citation from the Association for Computing Machinery for the 2018 Turing Award.

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6 years

Very happy this is out: "The Dynamical Regime of Sensory Cortex: Stable Dynamics around a Single Stimulus-Tuned Attractor Account for Patterns of Noise Variability" w/ G. Hennequin, Y. Ahmadian, D. Rubin, M. Lengyel. A wonderful collaboration. 1/

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

6 months

THIS VIDEO IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANYTHING. It is cherry-picked. It is a distortion. Don't get shocked and virally pass it on with comments about how far gone the left is. The one who is far gone is whoever cherry-picked this video.

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

2 years

@sahilkapur @BarackObama 'repeal the ACA' has become a political negative. But 'dismantle the ACA while saying we're making it more efficient, saving $$, and giving you more freedom (i.e. to buy worthless insurance instead of strong requirements on what insurance must cover)' will always be the agenda.

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@lisamboaz @AdamBlickstein I wish that was right. But it was her/Bill's Dem Party that didn't do jackshit for 30 yrs to build any kind of national infrastructure, that abandoned state politics, that pushed out progressives & grassroots organizers. While the Republicans built up at every level to win power.

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@ProfRobHoward There is a deep problem with your question: "functional" diagnoses (FD) too often result not from positive indications of FD, but from lack of positive indications of any other known physical problem. This excludes a third possibility: a physical problem that we don't yet 1/

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Again, this passion, to acknowledge our responsibility for mass murder and starvation & to do all in our power to stop it, is the beautiful moral clarity that motivates the protests, & utterly transcends worries over whether the exact protest forms and rhetoric are appropriate.

missymarxist ☭

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This guy, with absolutely spot on answers. Genuinely surprised this even aired.

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7 months

This is McCarthyism, witch-hunting. Do we really want to return to those days of communists-or now, those sympathetic to the lives of Palestinians- under the bed? Are the bounds of allowable speech really so narrow? Please sign to support academic freedom:

Open letter to HHMI and eLife, in defense of free expression

(NOTE: To our wonderful community of academics who have signed this petition, we are in awe of you. There are almost 2000 people who have signed this petition, including academics from all over the...

docs.google.com

Michael Eisen

@mbeisen

7 months

I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

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@ggreenwald @maddow @TwitterSafety He said hospitals in a part of Oklahoma, didn't name particular hospitals. Now there's a PR statement by one hospital system - with hospitals in that region? - saying it's not true of their system This doesn't prove the doc's story is false. Why don't you investigate?

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@eLife This is abhorrent in a society that values freedom of expression and abhorrent in science, where people of many different and opposing views and backgrounds come together in a common enterprise to discover truths about nature. You have sent the general message that scientists 2/

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Fundraiser for An Wu's parents, who must travel from China to San Diego and Montreal and stay several months to join search, and make arrangements if worst turns out to be true. Fundraiser has been verified as being for them ()

tomorrow is a good day

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@CosyneMeeting

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@demishassabis Really nice work. But you really should have noted the contemporaneous work of Cueva and Wei, which came out long after your work submitted but a month or two before it was accepted It is not too late to publish a correction of some sort.

Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural...

To our knowledge, this is the first study to show how neural representations of space, including grid-like cells and border cells as observed in the brain, could emerge from training a recurrent...

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Capitol police opening the barricades to let the mob in. In other videos, taking selfies with them. 0 arrests as they illegally overrun the police, enter the capitol and trash the place. If they were black there would be 100s or 1000s arrested & beaten & likely 10's shot.

Grant Stern 

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Going to be HELL TO PAY at the Capitol Police for opening these gates and letting Trump's treason mob of Republicans onto the steps of the building. Incredible reporting @marcusdipaola .

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@esglaude @shaunking Almost by definition right radicalism upholds and benefits the wealthy and powerful, left radicalism challenges and is a threat to them. What "society" tolerates is actually what the wealthy and powerful and the media and institutions they control tolerate. Very straightforward.

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7 years

@joshtpm Remember: some campaigns really were clusterfucks. HRC's was, and would have been whether she narrowly won or lost.

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A pet peeve: Mainen & Sejnowski 1995 is constantly quoted as saying spike generation is reliable, not a source of variability. It did not show that at all. It showed reliability for very large voltage fluctuations - which might mean driving well above threshold (wasn't clear) 1/

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@TonyZador Mainen & Sejnowski showed spiking was reliable as long as input was time-varying *w sufficient peak-to-peak amplitude*. Here 100 on x-axis is ~25mV p2p; reliability is % of spikes occurring in stereotyped "events". As p2p drops from 25 to 12.5 to 6.25mV & below, reliability drops

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@JStein_Vox @IndivisibleTeam @MoveOn @ezralevin @indivisible F**king s**t!! Russia sanctions/investigation more important than health insurance for 24M people?? And they wonder why they lose elections.

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4 years

Thanks @BernieSanders for transforming our politics. MFA, $15 min wage, Green New Deal - transformative programs for ordinary pple were completely outside acceptable neolib discourse, but now are central parts of political discussion, & that genie can't be put back in the bottle

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7 months

Somebody please explain to me how this is carefully targeted at Hamas while trying to minimize civilian casualties. CNN publishes before-and-after pictures from Gaza

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Ken Miller

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5 years

@Pinboard There's also this: Google advertising on Laura Ingraham's show, breaking the boycott of her:

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7 months

@eLife can be canceled and punished by the major institutions of science for stating political views that are perfectly within the spectrum of political discourse, as well as the specific message that those who criticize Israel's policies can expect such cancellation. And scientists 3/

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Ken Miller

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To be clear, 0.6 children killed/day is 0.6 too many. But when people say 'why the focus on Israel and not on other humanitarian disasters'-no, it's not anti-semitism. This crisis, as Oxfam & many others said, is the worst humanitarian orgs have ever seen.

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3 years

Astonishing. 1 million neurons at 2Hz, 200,000 at 5 Hz.

Alex Naka

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3 years

Volumetric Calcium Imaging of 1 Million Neurons Across Cortical Regions at Cellular Resolution Using Light Beads Microscopy

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@markos Who started the main positions advocated by progressive candidates now -- don't take corporate PAC $$, medicare for all, free college, ..? Who pushed today's Yemen resolution? Which politicans campaigned tirelessly across the country against ACA repeal among many prog issues?

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@schoppik @KordingLab @neuroecology @gordonberman @debivort @tyrell_turing @bradleyvoytek @shrewshrew @mnitabach @MHendr1cks @CousinAmygdala @andpru @aexbrown @stochastician @PresNCM @SuryaGanguli @jpillowtime @alonamarie @gallantlab I actually posted responses on a couple of other forks of this thread, see pics. Basically I think scientists need to use technical terms 1/

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This is such BS. Hospital has incubators but they don't work w/o elec or oxygen, + no food, H2O, med supplies, all due to blockade. But arrive with boxes labeled *in English*-not Arabic or Hebrew-'medical supplies' & brag of delivering incubators & food. Propaganda for US eyes.

Israel Defense Forces

@IDF

6 months

The IDF’s precise and targeted operation against Hamas in the Shifa Hospital is still ongoing. We can now confirm that incubators, baby food and medical supplies, provided by the IDF, have successfully reached the hospital. Our medical team and Arabic speaking soldiers are on

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@rtraister

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@kendmil

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I'm going to get roasted for posting this, 1M people telling me how unrealistic it is, but: read this thread. He's right that, one way or another, the only path to Israeli security is something like what he describes, & the current path only digs the hole deeper as he describes.

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

7 months

"What would you do if you were in Israel's shoes & your people were attacked?" My genuine thoughts🧵 I would turn the table on Hamas right this moment: Offer a REAL Palestinian state in return for dismantling militant groups; neither as a prerequisite, but a simultaneous process

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@cenkuygur He didn't actually vote against torture, he just pretended to while making sure torture could continue, and then voted against Feinstein's Bill which actually would have stopped torture.

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@kendmil

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I just wrote to my congressperson and both Senators with the attached message (go to their web sites, they have a link to take comments). Please consider doing the same.

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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This is unbelievable. How can a country that cares about the future begrudge $300 million to unlock the secrets of the mind and cure the most devastating ailments of the soul? This is 0.0035% of the federal budget. If you make 100k a year, this works out to $3.50. A coffee to

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@AndreaBanino @RaiaHadsell @VenkRamaswamy @hugospiers @NobelPrize take away from what you've done. Tomonaga, Feynmann and Schwinger all got the Nobel Prize for independently developing the same theory; none of them were diminished at all by recognition of the work of the others. End of sermon.

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@kendmil

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@weijima01 What took you so long?

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

2 years

Very interesting thread on work on cerebellar learning, but here I'm highlighting this one post in the thread: just expressing ChR2 in cells can change their firing, sufficiently in this case to abolish normal learning! Scary, and something we all need to be aware of.

Megan Carey

@meganinlisbon

2 years

To find out why, we turned to electrophysiology. Amazingly, ChR2 expression alone was associated with altered climbing fiber signaling – subtle reductions in spontaneous rate and more profound decreases in evoked responses – that abolished learning 🤯

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@kendmil

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@grnpointer @Bronicorn2000 @garsay10 @matloff @kareem_carr Ackman says of his wife's errors "she makes mistakes, owns them, and apologizes when appropriate". Of Gay's errors, he said she should not only resign as president, but commit academic suicide by resigning her tenured professorship. Do you not see a double standard here?

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@kendmil

4 years

@shefalil @paulkrugman Maybe should say that Politfact cherry picked 5 "experts" that questioned study assumptions. On the other hand the authors and probably 3 reviewers - >4 experts - thought it was sound. Calling it 'mostly false' because some 'experts' support and some question is crazy.

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@kendmil

6 years

I have my own abandoned papers too. People leaving lab are not the only culprits.

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@kendmil

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The Israeli gov't declaring policy of one apartheid state: Jews have sovereignty over all lands of both Palestine and Israel, in which Palestinians are more than 1/2 the population. Two-state solution, officially US policy, impossible. US should end support, but won't. 1/

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@kendmil

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coalition of Jewish and Muslim leaders. It is balanced, noting and condeming the loss of Israeli lives and of Palestinian lives, calling for an immediate ceasefire and release of all hostages. It does name one side as being fundamentally to blame. An amendment was proposed 2/

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@kendmil

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In 1967, shortly after Israel took over the occupied territories, these 57 words were written down, predicting what would happen if Israel held on to the territories. It could not have been more accurate.

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are trying to unite a broad community, of Muslims and Jews and many others, a community that is divided as to who they see fundamentally at fault, an amendment placing the blame on one side will fracture your coalition. That is why it was rejected. And some nuts - I would 4/

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@kendmil

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13 West Bank Palestinian communities forcibly evicted and 7 Palestinians murdered by settlers since Oct 7, w IDF often present or even participating in settler actions & support from govt ministers. No settlers arrested, detained, or investigated. An ongoing pogrom.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

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30 Israeli human rights and civil society groups "call on the international community to act urgently to stop the state-backed wave of settler violence which has led, and is leading to, the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities in the West Bank."

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@ZuckermanBrain @Columbia @lundbeckfonden @HSompolinsky @sejnowski @cu_neurotheory @HebrewU @Harvard @salkinstitute "While feeling greatly honored, I think that all 3 of us acknowledge that this is really a prize for the entire field of theoretical neuroscience. I want to say to everyone in the field that this prize honors the collective efforts of us all"-Larry Abbott )

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@kendmil

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to explicitly condemn Hamas and to state that "people on both sides of the conflict are victims of Hamas" -- to say one side, Hamas, is fundamentally to blame. Others in the community may condemn Hamas but feel Zionism is fundamentally to blame. If you 3/

Oakland City Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution Demanding Gaza Cease-fire | KQED

The Oakland City Council resolution calls on Congress to demand a cease-fire in Gaza, the release of all hostages and unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

www.kqed.org

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@kendmil

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Responsible for the deaths of millions through war crimes in Cambodia, Vietnam, E Timor, Chile, Argentina, Bangladesh, South Africa ... The surest sign that there is no god is Henry Kissinger living to 100, in comfort and wealth.

Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100

“Few people ... have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.”

theintercept.com

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@kendmil

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@PotatoOfReason @alexolshevsky1 @paulg @ikirigin From that notoriously radical publication, the Economist:

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Ken Miller

@kendmil

4 years

This is leadership. Very worth listening to. Lays out the very real threat to American democracy and what we must do about it. (Where are the rest of the Democrats?) (speech starts around 12 minutes in)

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@kendmil

3 years

Beautiful thread explaining in detail this new paper, in which we collaborated on (one aspect of) "what makes us human," ie anatomical, functional, and behavioral consequences of expressing a human-specific cortical gene in mouse.

Franck Polleux

@fpolleux

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Our paper entitled ‘A human-specific modifier of cortical circuit connectivity and circuit function’ just came out in Nature today This represents about >6 years of work by incredibly talented post-doc @ereschmidt

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@kendmil

4 years

They're not just crippling the post office. They're crippling it with surgical precision in the places that vote Democratic.

Xydexx Unicorn ➡ xydexxunicorn.bsky.social

@XydexxUnicorn

4 years

@FlossdnParadise @jbouie @babystew @jacobbogage @_cingraham A map that overlays the places where mail sorting machines are being removed with places where Clinton had a lead in the 2016 election:

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This doesn't involve killing or beating or torturing anyone, yet it somehow even better captures the essence of Israeli dehumanization of Palestinians and the corruption of absolute power over them. The casual cruelty, humiliation just because you can ...

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

2 months

Watch | Israeli occupation soldiers strip a Palestinian child of his shirt and assault him, terrorizing him and his family while shopping in the city of Hebron, occupied West Bank.

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@kendmil

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@anne_churchland @alfairhall @edyong209 There's another fundamental problem, how ignorant we are of the details. Eve Marder had s shown in a "simple" circuit that a given neural behavior can occur on a nonlinear slice through a multiparameter space, that homeostasis can maintain the behavior, but that setting each 1/

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