Shruti Muralidhar
@polybiotique.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science funder, Amateur cellist, intrepid seamstress, fearless baker, downhill cyclist, Founder+Editor @ indscicomm @biaswatchindia.bsky.social (She/Her)
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Pic credit: @bwjones.bsky.social
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CFP 2026 Center for South Asian Studies @uhcsas.bsky.social Spring Symposium
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
CFP
Call for Papers! In collaboration with Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies we are pleased to announce the call for papers for our 2026 spring symposium. Indigenous Imaginaries of the Common…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
CFP 2026 Center for South Asian Studies @uhcsas.bsky.social Spring Symposium
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Indigenous Imaginaries of the Commons: Breaks and Continuities in the Historiographies of South Asia and Hawaiʻi
Same feeling as when I found out that Maud Menten was a woman.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Same feeling as when I found out that Maud Menten was a woman.
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Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Dr. Florence Sabin | Immunologist and educator, born #OTD in 1871.
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
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I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I think I’m a good traveller because when I’m on the road I (generally) have a low threshold for being delighted by novelty while at the same time having a high capacity for turning lemons into lemonade. If you need someone to tell you why a holiday disappointment is good, actually, I’m your man.
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Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
Granta 173: India
For our autumn edition, Granta goes to Modi’s India.
granta.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Granta’s India issue, issue 173, is out, and I am told (I checked, but not all the links) that the pretty darn good selection in it is out of the paywall this weekend only. granta.com/products/gra...
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As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
Listening to music on my morning commute and gonna try to make a list of albums I listen to without skipping songs. Without apologizing for my music taste, I want to see if periods in my life were defined by a particular genre/artist
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Listening to music on my morning commute and gonna try to make a list of albums I listen to without skipping songs. Without apologizing for my music taste, I want to see if periods in my life were defined by a particular genre/artist
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
KT Install - Eye to the Telescope
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis
www.cambridge.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Listen, this GIS-based approach to revising ideas about the Achaemenid Royal Road (550–330 BCE) is a great example of why digital humanities continues to be necessary and transformative within history. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Book launch day is here 🚀
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Book launch day is here 🚀
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
How to Change a Memory, in physical and audio form: www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...
and here's a preview of one of the book's central themes: memories change and, as a result, we change too🧠.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/a...
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This is phenomenal
Canada's NICE agent greeting Americans disembarking cruise ships is how we mock Trump's dystopianism while making you all feel welcome.
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is phenomenal
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Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
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Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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The first piece looks at six key demographic milestones – and their enormous significance:
*Largest population
*Fertility rate below replacement
*Declining child population
*Demographic window closing
*The 'epidemiological transition'
*Rising mortality
*Largest population
*Fertility rate below replacement
*Declining child population
*Demographic window closing
*The 'epidemiological transition'
*Rising mortality
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The first piece looks at six key demographic milestones – and their enormous significance:
*Largest population
*Fertility rate below replacement
*Declining child population
*Demographic window closing
*The 'epidemiological transition'
*Rising mortality
*Largest population
*Fertility rate below replacement
*Declining child population
*Demographic window closing
*The 'epidemiological transition'
*Rising mortality
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in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software
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Attention design teams! Help us turn this parking lot into a new urban park. The City of Toronto has launched an international design competition for a new park in Liberty Village. Details at tinyurl.com/5xzrwh6p
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Attention design teams! Help us turn this parking lot into a new urban park. The City of Toronto has launched an international design competition for a new park in Liberty Village. Details at tinyurl.com/5xzrwh6p
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These videos of a rat hunting and eating bats will haunt my dreams.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
These videos of a rat hunting and eating bats will haunt my dreams.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Fellows Positions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
CSHL Simons Fellow in NEUROSCIENCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is seeking to fill a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow position in the area of NEUROSCIENCE (experimental and/or computationa...
www.cshl.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Apply to become a CSHL-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience!
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
Run your own lab, pursue bold ideas, join a highly collaborative community!
All areas including experimental or computational neuro, including NeuroAI & systems
PhD required; ≤~1 yr postdoc
www.cshl.edu/about-us/car...
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my friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records.
this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️
this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
my friends, I am in a 10-person capacity record bar in Tokyo requesting songs and drinking Japanese whisky. the owners are a married couple chain smoking behind the bar, slinging cocktails, and spinning records.
this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️
this is heaven??? goodbye forever I have died ✌️
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Two murals I finished last week-- if I could just do murals in Toronto forever as my whole job I would be in heaven.
Featuring: some of the goofiest medieval animals I could find.
Featuring: some of the goofiest medieval animals I could find.
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Two murals I finished last week-- if I could just do murals in Toronto forever as my whole job I would be in heaven.
Featuring: some of the goofiest medieval animals I could find.
Featuring: some of the goofiest medieval animals I could find.
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Applications for our Early-Career Journalism Fellowship are now open! The fellowship, a joint undertaking with @thephilanthropist.ca, provides one Black and/or Indigenous journalist an opportunity to write about issues that matter to their community and civil society. thelocal.to/early-career...
Early-Career Journalism Fellowship
The fellowship provides one Black and/or Indigenous journalist an opportunity to write about issues that matter to their community and civil society.
thelocal.to
October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Applications for our Early-Career Journalism Fellowship are now open! The fellowship, a joint undertaking with @thephilanthropist.ca, provides one Black and/or Indigenous journalist an opportunity to write about issues that matter to their community and civil society. thelocal.to/early-career...
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My semi-annual “there used to be a golf course in Toronto’s downtown” post.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My semi-annual “there used to be a golf course in Toronto’s downtown” post.