The Viking (Gunnar Blohm)
@gunnarblohm.bsky.social
CoSMO, Neuromatch, Neuro4Pros co-founder.
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
Comp neuro at Queen's U 🇨🇦 studying sensorimotor control.
Vice-Director (Queen's) of Connected Minds.
Mentor, dad, brewing, gardener, artist, antifa.
Renaissance man. Believer in humanity!
http://compneurosci.com/
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Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.
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The US is an evil nation
"Like a bunch of gangsters": 100+ nations were set to approve a historic plan to slash pollution from cargo ships. Then the US stepped in. Diplomats were stunned by “nasty” and “very personal” threats, including blacklisting, financial penalties, tariffs, sanctions, and the revocation of US visas.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The US is an evil nation
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I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience.
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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AI and Neuroscience | IVADO
ivado.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience.
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
🧠🤖
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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I should probably know this... But are there any decent consumer grade eye trackers for <$1,000?. Ideally supporting LSL 👀🧠
Asking for a friend 😜
Asking for a friend 😜
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I should probably know this... But are there any decent consumer grade eye trackers for <$1,000?. Ideally supporting LSL 👀🧠
Asking for a friend 😜
Asking for a friend 😜
Today, this happened...
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Today, this happened...
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This isn't the easiest time to be Jewish in America. But now—and for a long time—it's been significantly harder to be Muslim.
Barring Jews from government was one of the Nazis' signature moves. Every American Jew has an obligation to speak out against the new Nazis trying to do the same to Muslims.
Barring Jews from government was one of the Nazis' signature moves. Every American Jew has an obligation to speak out against the new Nazis trying to do the same to Muslims.
Laura Loomer pitches banning Muslims from running for office to members of Congress
Far-right influencer Laura Loomer has had an unusual amount of power over staffing and foreign policy decisions in the current Trump administration. Now, she is promoting anti-Muslim bills and pressur...
www.mediamatters.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This isn't the easiest time to be Jewish in America. But now—and for a long time—it's been significantly harder to be Muslim.
Barring Jews from government was one of the Nazis' signature moves. Every American Jew has an obligation to speak out against the new Nazis trying to do the same to Muslims.
Barring Jews from government was one of the Nazis' signature moves. Every American Jew has an obligation to speak out against the new Nazis trying to do the same to Muslims.
TIL under reasonable assumptions you can always find a stable orientation for 4-legged chairs / tables on uneven ground... 🤯
people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teach...
people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teach...
Math 1a, Spring 2011, Functions and Calculus, Harvard College/GSAS: 8434
Harvard College Calculus Course
people.math.harvard.edu
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
TIL under reasonable assumptions you can always find a stable orientation for 4-legged chairs / tables on uneven ground... 🤯
people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teach...
people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teach...
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AI promises progress, but who gets left behind?
Dr. Christo El Morr has co-authored a timely new book that takes on this urgent question. AI and Disability Justice challenges the idea of AI as a neutral tool of progress.
📘 Learn more about the book: lnkd.in/gnq9Z7_S
Dr. Christo El Morr has co-authored a timely new book that takes on this urgent question. AI and Disability Justice challenges the idea of AI as a neutral tool of progress.
📘 Learn more about the book: lnkd.in/gnq9Z7_S
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
AI promises progress, but who gets left behind?
Dr. Christo El Morr has co-authored a timely new book that takes on this urgent question. AI and Disability Justice challenges the idea of AI as a neutral tool of progress.
📘 Learn more about the book: lnkd.in/gnq9Z7_S
Dr. Christo El Morr has co-authored a timely new book that takes on this urgent question. AI and Disability Justice challenges the idea of AI as a neutral tool of progress.
📘 Learn more about the book: lnkd.in/gnq9Z7_S
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Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime.
While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.
➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...
While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.
➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime.
While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.
➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...
While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.
➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...
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Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
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🤖 OMG this is hilarious (and scary)... Can this even be real???
arxiv.org/html/2510.21...
(Make sure you read appendix C!)
arxiv.org/html/2510.21...
(Make sure you read appendix C!)
Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence
arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🤖 OMG this is hilarious (and scary)... Can this even be real???
arxiv.org/html/2510.21...
(Make sure you read appendix C!)
arxiv.org/html/2510.21...
(Make sure you read appendix C!)
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Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Excited to share our new work with @engeltatiana.bsky.social!
RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Single-unit activations confer inductive biases for emergent circuit solutions to cognitive tasks - Nature Machine Intelligence
Recurrent neural networks are widely used to model brain dynamics. Tolmachev and Engel show that single-unit activation functions influence task solutions that emerge in trained networks, raising the ...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Excited to share our new work with @engeltatiana.bsky.social!
RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
RNNs are often used to explore how the brain may solve specific tasks. We show that, depending on the architecture, RNNs find distinct circuit solutions, behaving differently when exposed to novel stimuli.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
This is something that Canada should also be doing more!
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.
www.zdnet.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is something that Canada should also be doing more!
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
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Such a pleasure to discuss this with Lauren! Thank you Tev Naidu for the opportunity!
Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other | Lauren Ross & Megan Peters
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Such a pleasure to discuss this with Lauren! Thank you Tev Naidu for the opportunity!
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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
I don't like Doug Ford nor do I like Ronald Reagan's politics. But Reagan was right about tariffs and Ford did not cheat or fabricate anything in his message to Americans.
I'm glad that someone stands up to the bully. Because a bully can never be satisfied...
I'm glad that someone stands up to the bully. Because a bully can never be satisfied...
October 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I don't like Doug Ford nor do I like Ronald Reagan's politics. But Reagan was right about tariffs and Ford did not cheat or fabricate anything in his message to Americans.
I'm glad that someone stands up to the bully. Because a bully can never be satisfied...
I'm glad that someone stands up to the bully. Because a bully can never be satisfied...
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
Guest Essay: Unity is the only way out of Trump’s ‘compact’ - Washington Square News
Grace Lindsay is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Data Science at New York University. Nine universities received an Oct. 1 letter from the Trump administration with an offer: If you agree to a ...
nyunews.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Square News about the government's attempt to extort universities. nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
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Can’t pronounce an ingredient?
So what? A chemical name: ZERO to do with potential harm or safety.
Vitamin C, also called:
(5R)-[(1S)-1,2-Dihydroxyethyl]-3,4-dihydroxyfuran-2(5H)-one
Chemistry naming rules = info about structure & function. That’s it.
Watch:
youtu.be/xUGedWOUsjE?...
So what? A chemical name: ZERO to do with potential harm or safety.
Vitamin C, also called:
(5R)-[(1S)-1,2-Dihydroxyethyl]-3,4-dihydroxyfuran-2(5H)-one
Chemistry naming rules = info about structure & function. That’s it.
Watch:
youtu.be/xUGedWOUsjE?...
Can’t pronounce an ingredient name? Who cares!
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Can’t pronounce an ingredient?
So what? A chemical name: ZERO to do with potential harm or safety.
Vitamin C, also called:
(5R)-[(1S)-1,2-Dihydroxyethyl]-3,4-dihydroxyfuran-2(5H)-one
Chemistry naming rules = info about structure & function. That’s it.
Watch:
youtu.be/xUGedWOUsjE?...
So what? A chemical name: ZERO to do with potential harm or safety.
Vitamin C, also called:
(5R)-[(1S)-1,2-Dihydroxyethyl]-3,4-dihydroxyfuran-2(5H)-one
Chemistry naming rules = info about structure & function. That’s it.
Watch:
youtu.be/xUGedWOUsjE?...
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM