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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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
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Hi everyone,
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
Add scikit-learn · linuxfoundation insights · Discussion #1506
We'd like to request enrolling scikit-learn into LFX Insights. The GitHub org is https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn. Scikit-learn is the most used machine learning library: download numbe...
github.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hi everyone,
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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Trump destroyed a 200 year wonderful relationship with our best ally within ONE MONTH!
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December 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump destroyed a 200 year wonderful relationship with our best ally within ONE MONTH!
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Curious to hear from anyone who attended this workshop nenckiopenlab.org/why/
It explored questions like:
What motivates – and demotivates us – in our research?
How our overt motivations – ones that we speak about in public, in grant writing or science communication – relate to the real ones?
It explored questions like:
What motivates – and demotivates us – in our research?
How our overt motivations – ones that we speak about in public, in grant writing or science communication – relate to the real ones?
December 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Curious to hear from anyone who attended this workshop nenckiopenlab.org/why/
It explored questions like:
What motivates – and demotivates us – in our research?
How our overt motivations – ones that we speak about in public, in grant writing or science communication – relate to the real ones?
It explored questions like:
What motivates – and demotivates us – in our research?
How our overt motivations – ones that we speak about in public, in grant writing or science communication – relate to the real ones?
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“Leo, who has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his papacy, said…the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should [illustrate] that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Best wishes to all…
Best wishes to all…
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“Leo, who has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his papacy, said…the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should [illustrate] that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Best wishes to all…
Best wishes to all…
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We took a stab at how to infer both the dynamics and control parameters of partially-observable systems.
It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.
It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.
In a system subject to unobserved control, can you infer both the underlying dynamics and the control objective? 🤔
A year ago, I was presenting our work at IEEE CDC on solving this problem for stochastic LQR.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.15014
Short 🧵 on the results, and how I think about them a year later.
A year ago, I was presenting our work at IEEE CDC on solving this problem for stochastic LQR.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.15014
Short 🧵 on the results, and how I think about them a year later.
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We took a stab at how to infer both the dynamics and control parameters of partially-observable systems.
It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.
It’s a nasty problem, but @vgeadah.bsky.social made tremendous progress, ending up with some really elegant formalisms.
If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here:
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
Connected Minds Guide on Co-Creation - Connected Minds
Co-creation is a collaborative approach to research wherein researchers work directly with the people, communities, and sectors affected by an issue to jointly define problems, design and test ideas, ...
www.yorku.ca
December 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you're interested in research co-creation, I have helped developing a guide for co-creation with @connectedminds.bsky.social and you can find it here:
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
www.yorku.ca/research/con...
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Narrator: They did not learn any lessons from COVID. "Wash your hands" and "don't panic" is as far as they ever got with infection control.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Vaccinate, isolate, ventilate: will we finally learn the lessons from covid this flu season?
With flu surging again, Stephen Reicher and colleagues draw on the experience of covid-19 to argue that predictable winter pressures demand more than individual responsibility, they also require syste...
www.bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Narrator: They did not learn any lessons from COVID. "Wash your hands" and "don't panic" is as far as they ever got with infection control.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Another senior position, this one in social/affective psychology at Queen's:
www.queensu.ca/psychology/s...
www.queensu.ca/psychology/s...
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Another senior position, this one in social/affective psychology at Queen's:
www.queensu.ca/psychology/s...
www.queensu.ca/psychology/s...
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I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I am looking to hire a great postdoc to join our lab in sunny Eugene at the University of Oregon for fun behavioral/fMRI experiments on sensorimotor control in young and older adults. Please share/get in touch if interested! pages.uoregon.edu/mmar/
It's been a couple weeks, but I keep thinking back to this exchange. What a truly inspiring group! ❤️
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's been a couple weeks, but I keep thinking back to this exchange. What a truly inspiring group! ❤️
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www-nature-com.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/s41...
Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."
Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."
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www-nature-com.proxy.queensu.ca
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
www-nature-com.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/s41...
Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."
Dr. Greg van Anders Nature Communication paper on "Sufficient is better than optimal for training neural networks."
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🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside.
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside.
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
German newspaper Der Spiegel today's title story: "Two villains, one goal"
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
German newspaper Der Spiegel today's title story: "Two villains, one goal"
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hear, hear. Grace Lindsay puts it perfectly:
international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done".
diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.
international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done".
diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.
The best research happens when scientists from around the world can collaborate freely.
SfN's ECPA program gives you an opportunity to advocate for policies that support global scientific collaboration.
Applications close Tuesday, January 7.
Apply now: vist.ly/4h2hk
#neurosky
SfN's ECPA program gives you an opportunity to advocate for policies that support global scientific collaboration.
Applications close Tuesday, January 7.
Apply now: vist.ly/4h2hk
#neurosky
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
hear, hear. Grace Lindsay puts it perfectly:
international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done".
diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.
international science, drawing from people around the world, is "the only way to get the best work done".
diversity in background, perspective, culture is not just "nice" -- it's crucial to the breakthroughs that will change our world for the better.
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Canada is strengthening its NHP research! 👏👇
Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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universityaffairs.ca
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Canada is strengthening its NHP research! 👏👇
📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
Administrative Opportunities
healthsci.queensu.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
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When you get fascists, you will have to punch them in the face sooner or later. And sooner is always much better
"If the democratic state does not wish to give itself up, then it must resort to intolerance toward the enemy of the constitution."
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
Jürgen Habermas, 2004.
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
When you get fascists, you will have to punch them in the face sooner or later. And sooner is always much better