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Kameron Decker Harris
@kamdh.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist and computer science professor
Western Washington University
Applied mathematics PhD
Fan of Nature
https://glomerul.us
I'm celebrating lobbing another proposal in the direction of the NSF. Hopeful that this one is positively reviewed. I am pretty excited about a collaborative project with my colleague Josh Kaplan in neuroscience!
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Herzog talks skateboarding
youtu.be/EQLInlnfWUc?...
Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
YouTube video by jenkemmag
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I don't have that access, so I really am thankful!
I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Very proud to have launched our manifesto and report to make Dutch academia more sustainable - a moment to celebrate after two years of hard work with the Green Young Academy, DJA and many inspiring colleagues

dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148...
November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
bib.experiments.kordinglab.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
TSP
A travelling salesman. What's he selling?
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Feliz día de los muertos, chiquillos
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Mechanical Turk-botics
Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch
Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing."

@michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
"Mann Replies on Wildfires and Climate Change" | My debunking of Bjorn Lomborg as it appears in today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal:
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We had a nice CS & Behavioral Neurosci student workshop yesterday given by @alleninstitute.org scientists and @wwu.edu alums! Thanks to @sejdevries.bsky.social and Su-Yee and Feng for organizing
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ummm... I don't see how bifurcations are underexplored! Like look into *most* comp neuron papers and you'll find them
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
👁️👁️
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?

We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵
October 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
what Piali said! Looking to recruit a new assistant professor to our fabulous neuroscience group and department at Brandeis. Please circulate far and wide and alert anyone you know who is on the job market!
#neuroscience
TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
Brandeis University, Biology Department
Job #AJO30961, Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
No kings allowed!
October 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Theory/Computational post-doc position at the Allen Institute. This is a unique opportunity to do theory in a community deeply embedded in data.

alleninstitute.submittable.com/submit/33511...
Allen Institute - Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience 2025-2026
Thank you for applying for the Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience. Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort will close at 11:59pm PT on December 1st, 2025. Important...
alleninstitute.submittable.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?
October 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Without sleep, we die. 🧵
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Silas sighting!
Turns All Year is an elite group of skiers and snowboarders who seek out any patch of snow they can find to ensure they ride at least one day every month.
Turns all year: The backcountry skiers, snowboarders who ride year-round | Cascadia Daily News
Founder Silas Wild, 77, currently has 336 consecutive months skiing
www.cascadiadaily.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Dystopia today
"Armed federal agents in military fatigues ... pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked... Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours."

www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
www.wbez.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"Armed federal agents in military fatigues ... pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked... Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours."

www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
www.wbez.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Great thread here!
Normative framework of bigger tech

(aka, me trolling the tech audience)
Come to my lightning talk
At @pydataparis.bsky.social in a few minutes
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
September 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Kameron Decker Harris
Cylindrocopturus munitus
September 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
New year, new office, same books, same dead plants! (I've gotta get some nice fake plants.)
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University.

We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.

Applications are open until October 20th.

For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Networks | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Network? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM