Houmam Araj, PhD
@houmam-araj.bsky.social
The truth is out there; just not well indexed.
Pinned
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The Question No One Asks: Investigating the Act of Conceptualizing Itself
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
The Next Frontier: What Is the Act of Conceptualizing?
We live trapped in a circle of our own making. We reason with concepts about objects and other concepts. We understand objects through concepts. We create new concepts by combining existing objects an...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Question No One Asks: Investigating the Act of Conceptualizing Itself
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
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Yes, Tim Snyder!
"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."
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"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
snyder.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yes, Tim Snyder!
"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?
Students on campuses.
And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs
Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.
n.pr
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.
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"Whether you're in the US or UK or Germany... democracies are tearing up their own civil liberties, their own constitutions, the First Amendment in the US!, for the sake of a foreign country: Israel. That is insane!"
My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today.
zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...
My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today.
zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"Whether you're in the US or UK or Germany... democracies are tearing up their own civil liberties, their own constitutions, the First Amendment in the US!, for the sake of a foreign country: Israel. That is insane!"
My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today.
zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...
My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today.
zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...
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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
October 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
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Proud to be among the ~1000 Jewish Professionals in health who signed the #SilenceIsComplicity letter. Too many of our institutions are silent while an entire population is being bombed, starved, displaced in Gaza.
Time to say #EndTheGenocide
Add your signature at www.JewishHealthcare.net
Time to say #EndTheGenocide
Add your signature at www.JewishHealthcare.net
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Proud to be among the ~1000 Jewish Professionals in health who signed the #SilenceIsComplicity letter. Too many of our institutions are silent while an entire population is being bombed, starved, displaced in Gaza.
Time to say #EndTheGenocide
Add your signature at www.JewishHealthcare.net
Time to say #EndTheGenocide
Add your signature at www.JewishHealthcare.net
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Rosh Hashana chicken soup
May the killing, starvation and detentions end, and all people allowed to live in peace, dignity, safety and freedom
#ShanaTova #GmarChatimaTovah
#EndTheGenocide
May the killing, starvation and detentions end, and all people allowed to live in peace, dignity, safety and freedom
#ShanaTova #GmarChatimaTovah
#EndTheGenocide
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Rosh Hashana chicken soup
May the killing, starvation and detentions end, and all people allowed to live in peace, dignity, safety and freedom
#ShanaTova #GmarChatimaTovah
#EndTheGenocide
May the killing, starvation and detentions end, and all people allowed to live in peace, dignity, safety and freedom
#ShanaTova #GmarChatimaTovah
#EndTheGenocide
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Can #ChatGPT help science writers?
In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6
In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6
Can ChatGPT help science writers?
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September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Can #ChatGPT help science writers?
In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6
In a new Editor's Blog post, Abigail Eisenstadt reports the results of a year-long analysis that explored whether a #LLM had the potential to help writers on our press team clearly and accurately convey information about upcoming research. https://scim.ag/46gVrd6
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The International Brain Laboratory presents in Nature a brain-wide electrophysiological map that represents a resource for understanding how computations distributed across and within brain areas drive behaviour. go.nature.com/4nnnmhg 🧪 🧠📈
September 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The International Brain Laboratory presents in Nature a brain-wide electrophysiological map that represents a resource for understanding how computations distributed across and within brain areas drive behaviour. go.nature.com/4nnnmhg 🧪 🧠📈
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New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️
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@andrewpountain.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@andrewpountain.bsky.social
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@andrewpountain.bsky.social
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The International Association of Genocide Scholars, just determined ISRAEL is committing GENOCIDE in GAZA.
They are the largest professional organization of scholars that study genocide
#DebateIsOver
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and there's more
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, just determined ISRAEL is committing GENOCIDE in GAZA.
They are the largest professional organization of scholars that study genocide
#DebateIsOver
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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and there's more
September 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The International Association of Genocide Scholars, just determined ISRAEL is committing GENOCIDE in GAZA.
They are the largest professional organization of scholars that study genocide
#DebateIsOver
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
🙏🏼 @genocidescholars.bsky.social
and there's more
The International Association of Genocide Scholars, just determined ISRAEL is committing GENOCIDE in GAZA.
They are the largest professional organization of scholars that study genocide
#DebateIsOver
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
🙏🏼 @genocidescholars.bsky.social
and there's more
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Genuinely unreal. Not only do your taxes fund bombing a hospital, and then waiting until more journalists and rescuers rush to the scene to bomb it again — they also fund the perpetrator telling you to your face that it was all just a “tragic mishap.”
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Genuinely unreal. Not only do your taxes fund bombing a hospital, and then waiting until more journalists and rescuers rush to the scene to bomb it again — they also fund the perpetrator telling you to your face that it was all just a “tragic mishap.”
One Day, When It’s Safe, When There’s No Personal Downside to Calling a Thing What It Is, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
-Omar el-Akkad
-Omar el-Akkad
The crisis in Gaza is now officially a famine, according to a well-respected global expert body on food insecurity.
But even before IPC released the two reports today, the Israeli military and other critics attacked the science underlying the assessments.
But even before IPC released the two reports today, the Israeli military and other critics attacked the science underlying the assessments.
International hunger watchdog faces political attacks over Gaza famine declaration
Israeli government tries to discredit science underlying the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
scim.ag
August 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One Day, When It’s Safe, When There’s No Personal Downside to Calling a Thing What It Is, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
-Omar el-Akkad
-Omar el-Akkad
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Check out our new preprint on a novel neuro-immune niche that underpins touch in the cornea
August 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Check out our new preprint on a novel neuro-immune niche that underpins touch in the cornea
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NIH issues new guidance limiting AI use in grant applications to ensure they reflect the applicant's original ideas. Read more in the Washington Update:
NIH Reiterates Appropriate Use of AI in Developing Grant Applications
NIH issues new guidance on “Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications" to ensure appropriate use of artificial intelligence in grant applications.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NIH issues new guidance limiting AI use in grant applications to ensure they reflect the applicant's original ideas. Read more in the Washington Update:
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"Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer" "[m]y inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer" "[m]y inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Proud to be among the authors of this statement:
We demand an end to the detention, targeting, and killing of healthcare workers in Gaza; a renewed commitment to medical neutrality; and, above all, an immediate end to this unjust war.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
🙏🏼BMJ🙏🏼
We demand an end to the detention, targeting, and killing of healthcare workers in Gaza; a renewed commitment to medical neutrality; and, above all, an immediate end to this unjust war.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
🙏🏼BMJ🙏🏼
July 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Proud to be among the authors of this statement:
We demand an end to the detention, targeting, and killing of healthcare workers in Gaza; a renewed commitment to medical neutrality; and, above all, an immediate end to this unjust war.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
🙏🏼BMJ🙏🏼
We demand an end to the detention, targeting, and killing of healthcare workers in Gaza; a renewed commitment to medical neutrality; and, above all, an immediate end to this unjust war.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
🙏🏼BMJ🙏🏼
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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.
June 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.