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Fleur Zeldenrust
@fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social
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Computational Neuroscientist • Associate prof @Donders Institute/Radboud University • Member De Jonge Akademie • founder Dutch Brain Olympiad and BrainHelpDesk • website: fleurzeldenrust.nl • ORCID: 0000-0002-9084-9520
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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neural-reckoning.org
Reminder this is happening this Wed/Thu. Free spiking neural network conference - registration required (see below).
neural-reckoning.org Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 19d
Spiking NN fans - the #SNUFA workshop (Nov 5-6) agenda is finalised and online now. Make sure to register (free) soon. (Note you can register for either day and come to both.)

Agenda: snufa.net/2025/
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-2025...

Thanks to all who voted on abstracts!

🤖🧠🧪
SNUFA 2025
Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators
snufa.net
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Antwoord door Marina Boon van het @radboudumc.bsky.social, redactie: Sjoerd Murris: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/how-do...

Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Answer by Marina Boon of the @radboudumc.bsky.social ; editing and translation by Sjoerd Murris (PhD):
brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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💡 Hoe kijken politieke partijen aan tegen onderzoek, onderwijs en internationalisering? In aanloop naar de TK verkiezingen van 2025 analyseerden we met De Jonge Akademie de verkiezingsprogramma’s van alle deelnemende partijen.
👉 Bekijk het Dashboard hier: dejongeakademie.nl/publicaties/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Save the date: October 31, Amsterdam. A fantastic event for those interested in neurotech and neuro-AI, with a twist on how international collaborations can boost these fields. Please spread the word and join us there if you can! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Cajal Encounters
Neuroscience meets NeuroAI. Join us in this event to highlight success stories and foster collaboration in Neuroscience between Spain and the Netherlands! Event Information Date: 31st October (afterno...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social
No I don't!

I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Dit weekend is het #Weekend van de #Wetenschap!
Wil je vragen stellen over de werking van het brein? Kom dan naar het @dondersinst.bsky.social Brein museum in de Latijnse school in #Nijmegen en stel je vraag!

weekendvandewetenschap.nl/activiteiten...
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise. (My solution, despite years of good evals, was to have other faculty observe my class and give me feedback, even when I was senior and tenured.)

by @rosehorowitch.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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They’re asking! And I KNOW you ECRs have thoughts. It’s worth taking the time to share them, I think! I know that individuals in positions to do things want to know what you need (so they can help).
thetransmitter.bsky.social The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Sep 12
Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

#neuroskyence
September 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Answer by Alida Chen and Lukas Lütje of the
@nin-knaw.bsky.social
editors: Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/waa...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the
@dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social
and we will come up with an #answer! #MS
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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brainhelpdesk.bsky.social
Antwoord door Alida Chen en Lukas Lütje van het
@nin-knaw.bsky.social , redactie: Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/waarom...

Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord! #MS
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social
The real question is: what should children and students learn? Math, spelling, reading, and especially reasoning! The goal of education isn't to spit out as much text as possible.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Antwoord door Alida Chen en Lukas Lütje van het @nin-knaw.bsky.social , redactie: Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/wannee...

Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!
September 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Answer by Alida Chen and Lukas Lütje of the @nin-knaw.bsky.social , editors: Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/wan...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
September 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Antwoord door @suryagayet.bsky.social, redactie @samdekater.bsky.social:
brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/how-is...

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@dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!
August 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Answer by @suryagayet.bsky.social, editor: @samdekater.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
August 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Antwoord door Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes, redactie door @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social en Sjoerd Murris: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/hoe-we...

Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!
July 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Answer by Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes, editors: @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social and Sjoerd Murris: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/hoe...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
July 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Answer by Fleur Zeldenrust, editors: Sjoerd Murris and Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/waa...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the
@dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Antwoord door Fleur Zeldenrust, redactie door Sjoerd Murris en Marina Boon: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/waarom...

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July 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Antwoord door Ines Ben Haj Kacem en Francesca Siclari van het @nin-knaw.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/kan-ik...

Heb jij ook een #brein #vraag? Stel hem bij de @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social en we komen met een #antwoord!
July 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Answer by Ines Ben Haj Kacem en Francesca Siclari of the @nin-knaw.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/vraag/kan-ik...

Do you also have a #brain #question? Ask it at the @dondersinst.bsky.social @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and we will come up with an #answer!
July 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social
Very important, as the well meant requirement that committees have at least an X number of female panel members, means that the pressure on the scarce women faculty actually increases. If you want a woman in many panels, you should actually reduce their workload in other aspects.
tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 8
Really important work.

Also important not to merely frame this as, 'hey, women faculty, don't forget to say no!' That places the burden in the wrong place.

Organisations need to look critically at how requests are made and how workload is acknowledged.

Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
amydiehl.bsky.social Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
July 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/publicati...

Big tech is threatening our autonomy and academic freedom, don't let it!
In Control A Manifesto for a Responsible Digital Future in Higher Education - De Jonge Akademie
Publications
www.dejongeakademie.nl
June 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM