Atanas Stankov
@neuronasko.bsky.social
CUNY neuroscience PhD candidate. Interested in comp neuroscience, comp social science, causality, and philosophy of science. Previously at UMich[as visiting student]/Stanford/ETH Zurich & UZH/UIUC. Opinions are my own.
How are OpenAI and Nvidea NOT committing sophisticated accounting fraud? The Enron comparison is becoming more apt each day.
December 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
How are OpenAI and Nvidea NOT committing sophisticated accounting fraud? The Enron comparison is becoming more apt each day.
Ephaptic coupling in the context of motor control: saccades (1-3) and gait/swimming (4,5). 🧪
(1) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37420330/
(2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37408217/
(5) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
(1) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37420330/
(2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37408217/
(5) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Basket to Purkinje Cell Inhibitory Ephaptic Coupling Is Abolished in Episodic Ataxia Type 1 - PubMed
Dominantly inherited missense mutations of the <i>KCNA1</i> gene, which encodes the K<sub>V</sub>1.1 potassium channel subunit, cause Episodic Ataxia type 1 (EA1). Although the cerebellar incoordination is thought to arise from abnormal Purkinje cell output, the underlying functional deficit remains …
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December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Ephaptic coupling in the context of motor control: saccades (1-3) and gait/swimming (4,5). 🧪
(1) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37420330/
(2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37408217/
(5) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
(1) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37420330/
(2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
(4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37408217/
(5) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Cortical field coupling (aka volume conduction) lamina-to-lamina (1) and column-to-column (2).
(1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3...
(2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3...
(2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Cortical field coupling (aka volume conduction) lamina-to-lamina (1) and column-to-column (2).
(1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3...
(2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3...
(2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Social media influencers will have more and more to say about science discourse. Diseases and disabilities are personal and people want control by understanding processes and making decisions. This makes knowledge gatekeepers and standard bearers uneasy.
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Social media influencers will have more and more to say about science discourse. Diseases and disabilities are personal and people want control by understanding processes and making decisions. This makes knowledge gatekeepers and standard bearers uneasy.
HBO’s Chernobyl character, Dyatlov, best summarizes the vibes given off by a lot of American institutions right now.
a man in a chef 's hat says " he 's delusional get him out "
ALT: a man in a chef 's hat says " he 's delusional get him out "
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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
HBO’s Chernobyl character, Dyatlov, best summarizes the vibes given off by a lot of American institutions right now.
AI psychosis has evolved to the grant level. It’s not even psychosis, it’s people getting the positive reinforcement they were denied, for one reason or another, all their lives and now the are giddy. They won’t listen to stick, because AI industry is giving them infinite carrot.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
AI psychosis has evolved to the grant level. It’s not even psychosis, it’s people getting the positive reinforcement they were denied, for one reason or another, all their lives and now the are giddy. They won’t listen to stick, because AI industry is giving them infinite carrot.
On doing meditation: I got bored of working on breath control so now I’m focusing on learning voluntary pupillary dilation and constriction (via mental imagery).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Direct voluntary control of pupil constriction and dilation: Exploratory evidence from pupillometry, optometry, skin conductance, perception, and functional MRI
We present a single case who can change pupil size on command with dilation of pupil diameter of around 0.8 mm, and constriction of around 2.4 mm. Usi…
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December 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
On doing meditation: I got bored of working on breath control so now I’m focusing on learning voluntary pupillary dilation and constriction (via mental imagery).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This is cool. Hopefully more stuff like comes out from other fields.
I’ve been curious to see if the Busy Beaver Challenge applies to neural comp but have no clue how to even relate these ideas.
These was an op-ed earlier this year suggesting an abandonment of “Newtonian” causality in neuro.
I’ve been curious to see if the Busy Beaver Challenge applies to neural comp but have no clue how to even relate these ideas.
These was an op-ed earlier this year suggesting an abandonment of “Newtonian” causality in neuro.
Classical billiards can compute.
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is cool. Hopefully more stuff like comes out from other fields.
I’ve been curious to see if the Busy Beaver Challenge applies to neural comp but have no clue how to even relate these ideas.
These was an op-ed earlier this year suggesting an abandonment of “Newtonian” causality in neuro.
I’ve been curious to see if the Busy Beaver Challenge applies to neural comp but have no clue how to even relate these ideas.
These was an op-ed earlier this year suggesting an abandonment of “Newtonian” causality in neuro.
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It do be like that sometimes.
I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It do be like that sometimes.
What a preprint:
Jitter analysis of sub-millisecond timing driven by mono-synapses, ephaptic coupling and gap junctions in the cerebellum. Basically a whole local circuit.
"Coordination of spike timing among the neurons of the cerebellum"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Jitter analysis of sub-millisecond timing driven by mono-synapses, ephaptic coupling and gap junctions in the cerebellum. Basically a whole local circuit.
"Coordination of spike timing among the neurons of the cerebellum"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What a preprint:
Jitter analysis of sub-millisecond timing driven by mono-synapses, ephaptic coupling and gap junctions in the cerebellum. Basically a whole local circuit.
"Coordination of spike timing among the neurons of the cerebellum"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Jitter analysis of sub-millisecond timing driven by mono-synapses, ephaptic coupling and gap junctions in the cerebellum. Basically a whole local circuit.
"Coordination of spike timing among the neurons of the cerebellum"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
These comments on “it’s the graduates fault” are tone deaf because it’s the graduates that vote on and consume these tools after taking on students loans which is risk.
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
These comments on “it’s the graduates fault” are tone deaf because it’s the graduates that vote on and consume these tools after taking on students loans which is risk.
In case your local village or city installs those dystopian Flock cameras you can see when they have a scheduled board of trustees meeting or where the cameras are located. Not only red but blue areas are installing these.
alpr.watch
alpr.watch
ALPR Watch – Track Surveillance Tech in Local Government
Track ALPR, Flock Safety cameras, and surveillance tech discussions in your local government meetings. Get alerts and take action.
alpr.watch
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In case your local village or city installs those dystopian Flock cameras you can see when they have a scheduled board of trustees meeting or where the cameras are located. Not only red but blue areas are installing these.
alpr.watch
alpr.watch
Do people behave like this bc of self-determination? How does this relate to the biophysical basis of control systems? Is the purpose to reset power structures?
“Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms”
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“Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms”
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Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms - Jeremy J. J. Rappel, David D. Vachon, Eric Hehman, 2025
Extremist groups frequently leverage online spaces in recruitment and organization efforts. This research assessed how basic psychological need expression among...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Do people behave like this bc of self-determination? How does this relate to the biophysical basis of control systems? Is the purpose to reset power structures?
“Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why did Steven Pinker get so butthurt by the Oliver Sacks revelations? I don’t buy his virtue signaling. There’s a deeper issue of how ideas evolve/diffuse and how some phenotypes innately know this. Like Oliver Sacks’ behavior is data and not for policing archaic standards.
x.com/sapinker/sta...
x.com/sapinker/sta...
Steven Pinker on X: "Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime" / X
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime
x.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Why did Steven Pinker get so butthurt by the Oliver Sacks revelations? I don’t buy his virtue signaling. There’s a deeper issue of how ideas evolve/diffuse and how some phenotypes innately know this. Like Oliver Sacks’ behavior is data and not for policing archaic standards.
x.com/sapinker/sta...
x.com/sapinker/sta...
Did Black Mirror cover this?
The direct link of credit to gambling breaks things in an unimaginable way. The CEO of Kalshi said he wants to make every possible human decision tradable so they can make money selling options contracts.
This is Looney Tunes level.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The direct link of credit to gambling breaks things in an unimaginable way. The CEO of Kalshi said he wants to make every possible human decision tradable so they can make money selling options contracts.
This is Looney Tunes level.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
America’s Betting Craze Has Spread to Its News Networks
CNN and CNBC have partnered with Kalshi, a prediction market, encouraging their viewers to wager on current events in real time.
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Did Black Mirror cover this?
The direct link of credit to gambling breaks things in an unimaginable way. The CEO of Kalshi said he wants to make every possible human decision tradable so they can make money selling options contracts.
This is Looney Tunes level.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The direct link of credit to gambling breaks things in an unimaginable way. The CEO of Kalshi said he wants to make every possible human decision tradable so they can make money selling options contracts.
This is Looney Tunes level.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
More moderation to fix AI spam from paper mills. Catch-22 is that this also makes science more insular and subjects it to more cuts… no one wins from this.
The AI spam continues.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The AI spam continues.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
More moderation to fix AI spam from paper mills. Catch-22 is that this also makes science more insular and subjects it to more cuts… no one wins from this.
The AI spam continues.
www.science.org/content/arti...
The AI spam continues.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use...
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Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
December 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use...
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This also happened and there was crazy findings from exoplanet research on interesting spectroscopy absorption …
Anyhow I think a takeaway is to put things down, explore and cohere to social patterns that might provide a bit more “entropy”.
Anyhow I think a takeaway is to put things down, explore and cohere to social patterns that might provide a bit more “entropy”.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found possible evidence of ancient microbial life in Martian rock. Can we test the discovery without the now-suspended Mars Sample Return Mission? Why we’re Mad About Mars on this week’s @bipisci.bsky.social. 🧪 🔭
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/mad...
Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/mad...
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This also happened and there was crazy findings from exoplanet research on interesting spectroscopy absorption …
Anyhow I think a takeaway is to put things down, explore and cohere to social patterns that might provide a bit more “entropy”.
Anyhow I think a takeaway is to put things down, explore and cohere to social patterns that might provide a bit more “entropy”.
Reminder that this happened. 🧲🧭🕊️
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology.
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
In Science, researchers used whole brain activity mapping, tissue clearing, and light sheet microscopy to identify neuronal populations activated by magnetic stimuli in the pigeon. https://scim.ag/48szWXT
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Reminder that this happened. 🧲🧭🕊️
This platform is more open journaling than discourse. Actual discourse is super serendipitous.
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This platform is more open journaling than discourse. Actual discourse is super serendipitous.
The AI bar is getting so low that any human interaction is going to be currency for actual change for the future.
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From the bayarea community on Reddit: AI slop exhibit at SFO Museum
Explore this post and more from the bayarea community
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December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The AI bar is getting so low that any human interaction is going to be currency for actual change for the future.
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Being an artisanal pencil sharpener is not just a job but a passion and a privilege.
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David Rees and Blackwing Pencils: Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
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December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Being an artisanal pencil sharpener is not just a job but a passion and a privilege.
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