Martin
@marsniv.bsky.social
philosophy of science and neuroscience
would it be more prudent to get a masters in applied math or computer science
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
would it be more prudent to get a masters in applied math or computer science
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well i won't be violating any actual laws so...
but seriously what in the absolute *expletive* is this nonsense?
you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro.
#iwillnotcomplyinadvance
but seriously what in the absolute *expletive* is this nonsense?
you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro.
#iwillnotcomplyinadvance
New NIH notice grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
"By accepting the grant award [...] They do not, and will not [...] operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws"
"By accepting the grant award [...] They do not, and will not [...] operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws"
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
grants.nih.gov
April 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
well i won't be violating any actual laws so...
but seriously what in the absolute *expletive* is this nonsense?
you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro.
#iwillnotcomplyinadvance
but seriously what in the absolute *expletive* is this nonsense?
you wanna fight, fascists? let's go. outside, right now. come at me bro.
#iwillnotcomplyinadvance
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The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated.
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated.
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will.
Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
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hey @ucirvine.bsky.social why isn't our chancellor among the signatories here?
A good step. Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, MIT among the 150+ signatories. But Columbia, Northwestern, Hopkins, Stanford, Caltech, UC except for Riverside, among those who fail to sign.
“We must reject the coercive use of public research funding.” Over 150 college & university leaders from big and small institutions have signed a joint statement defending the right to speak “without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation.” 🇺🇸
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
April 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
hey @ucirvine.bsky.social why isn't our chancellor among the signatories here?
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reminder that the scaffolding for this already exists with mental health and addiction courts and drug treatment facilities that are glorified prison labor
Also worth noting that RFK Jr previously expressed a desire to send people with ADHD to labor camps
RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food.
futurism.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
reminder that the scaffolding for this already exists with mental health and addiction courts and drug treatment facilities that are glorified prison labor
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Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?
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Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social
(PDF) Multiscale dynamics might be essential to ecological psychology: Promises, challenges, and real possibilities
PDF | Ecological psychology emphasizes the nesting of organisms within contexts to explain perception and action, contrasting with non-ecological... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
April 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social
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This is cool.
Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID.
Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation.
idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID.
Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation.
idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...
idp.nature.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is cool.
Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID.
Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation.
idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
Also makes me bang the multifractal gong again: all these processes modulate each other. If so lots of the processes we measure are not IID.
Multifractality lets you characterize that multiscale variation.
idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
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Tomorrow is No Kings Day, I'll be protesting in Falmouth.
See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19
See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Tomorrow is No Kings Day, I'll be protesting in Falmouth.
See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19
See also www.mass50501.com/events/april19
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It has been weeks since he was detained, and there are still no specific accusations about why they revoked his visa and detained him. He didn’t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???
Alireza Doroudi, A University of Alabama doctoral student from Iran, was taken by ICE at his apartment in Tuscaloosa AL on March 25 and faces possible deportation.
First jailed in Pickens County, AL, he is currently at the Jena, LA detention facility & was denied bond. www.al.com/news/2025/04...
First jailed in Pickens County, AL, he is currently at the Jena, LA detention facility & was denied bond. www.al.com/news/2025/04...
Alireza Doroudi denied bond: Alabama doctoral student faces possible deportation to Iran
The UA doctoral student born in Iran was taken by ICE agents from his Tuscaloosa apartment around 3 a.m. on March 25.
www.al.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It has been weeks since he was detained, and there are still no specific accusations about why they revoked his visa and detained him. He didn’t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???
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1. In 2025, over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been filed across the United States - the most in US history.
Most bills target transgender people.
The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more.
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Most bills target transgender people.
The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Over 850 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Filed In 2025; Most In History
2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
1. In 2025, over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been filed across the United States - the most in US history.
Most bills target transgender people.
The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Most bills target transgender people.
The bills have also grown more extreme, reverting drivers licenses, arresting trans people in bathrooms, and more.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Today I gave my first-ever political speech at a walk-out organized by @aaup.bsky.social
(I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂)
Here is what I said 🧵
(I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂)
Here is what I said 🧵
April 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Today I gave my first-ever political speech at a walk-out organized by @aaup.bsky.social
(I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂)
Here is what I said 🧵
(I spoke after the magnificent @ruha9.bsky.social, which, it can only get easier from here 😂)
Here is what I said 🧵
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INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks."
some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.
some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.
April 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
INBOX: over 50 NYU professors are taking their classes off-campus for the next week in a "Solidarity Picket" to protest "the University’s lack of commitment to protect international students in the face of the Trump admin’s attacks."
some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.
some profs moved to in-person "sanctuary spaces," others online.
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The language of "Science", "objective reality", and "biological fact" is being mobilised towards the oppression of trans people in the UK and elsewhere—just as it has been mobilised towards the oppression of women, queers, disabled people, black people, and the colonised the world over
April 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The language of "Science", "objective reality", and "biological fact" is being mobilised towards the oppression of trans people in the UK and elsewhere—just as it has been mobilised towards the oppression of women, queers, disabled people, black people, and the colonised the world over
LLMs are able to achieve Spinoza’s second type of cognition but not his third type of cognition
I would say that something on the order of 75% of current uses of LLMs are illegitimate and patently mistake the function of the underlying technology. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptional uses of the technology; uses which extend human ability in unprecedented ways.
April 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
LLMs are able to achieve Spinoza’s second type of cognition but not his third type of cognition
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"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.
Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview - Daily Nous
Mohsen Mahdawi, a philosophy major at Columbia University who is due to graduate later this semester, was attending a US citizenship application interview in Vermont when he was taken by Immigration a...
dailynous.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The fight for the freedom of Palestine, and the fight against anti-Semitism, go hand in hand, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- philosophy student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was abducted by ICE Monday during a citizenship interview.
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Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners!
The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)
The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)
British Society for the History of Philosophy Announces Recent Prizewinners - Daily Nous
The British Society for the History of Philosophy and its journal, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, have announced the latest winners of its prizes. The British Journal for the Histo...
dailynous.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Warmest congratulations to this year's BSHP/BJHP prize-winners!
The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)
The Rogers Prize has been awarded to Jari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)
The Beaney Prize has been awarded to Aminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Harvard. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
April 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Harvard. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
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Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens.
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens.
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO!
202-224-3121
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
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Rutgers started some excellent trouble. Yesterday, UMass Amherst Faculty Senate passed a Mutual Academic Defense Compact resolution, calling on the 250 Public and Land Grant institutions to come to each others' aid if the fascists infringe on freedom of inquiry, or speech. #academicsky
April 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Rutgers started some excellent trouble. Yesterday, UMass Amherst Faculty Senate passed a Mutual Academic Defense Compact resolution, calling on the 250 Public and Land Grant institutions to come to each others' aid if the fascists infringe on freedom of inquiry, or speech. #academicsky