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Janel Le Belle
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UCLA Associate Professor, PhD Researcher of brains 🧠 (development, stem cells, neuroinflammation, autism, sensory processing, brain injury & repair)
Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophilosophy (consciousness, cognitive science), & Stem Cell Biology
I would also be very interested in reading this!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Janel Le Belle
Andrew, who is a contemporary of mine in the theoretical-cosmologist game, has a new book out, The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Random Universe
An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos   All o...
yalebooks.yale.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
So I should intentionally have car crashes on a regular basis or else l I’m “wasting” all of the money that I’m spending on my auto insurance?!
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is absolutely clueless and spineless. Voters just told you to keep fighting. Unbelievable.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This seems like it should be a huge news story but no one seems to be batting an eyelid. We’re just going to quietly accept that the dangerous corruption is baked into the cake now?
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
good or better than non-aphantasics). No inner monologue seems to me likely to be related to aphantasia & the inner voices extreme to hyperphantasia. So aphantasia and anauralia could both be a high unconscious processing phenotype. I find it a fascinating idea.
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Part of the aphantasia/hyperphantasia spectrum perhaps? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Some evidence suggests that aphantasia (lack of visual imagery) is really representative of a spectrum of how much conscious vs unconscious processing a person does—people with aphantasia should be bad at mental rotation tasks but they’re as
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
UCLA just announced a partnership and launch of ChatGPT EDU & encouraged us to integrate it into our classroom and research. There was no mention of any concerns or safeguards around mental health with its use at all. It also isn't being offered to us free-we get some kind of unspecified discount
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks, I needed this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM