Michelle Fitos 🧠
@unallamas.bsky.social
Cognitive/affective neuroscientist, American-Hungarian, thinks about things. EEG, autism, emotional flexibility, affective neuroscience in general
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oh my fucking god
Douglas Adams how did you know
Douglas Adams how did you know
"Sure, I can help you with that"
"I just want a cup of tea"
"I see..."
Arthur painstakingly crafted a prompt explaining the origins of tea, the fields of India and Pakistan, the history of international trade, war and colonialism, the art of brewing.:.
"I just want a cup of tea"
"I see..."
Arthur painstakingly crafted a prompt explaining the origins of tea, the fields of India and Pakistan, the history of international trade, war and colonialism, the art of brewing.:.
August 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
oh my fucking god
Douglas Adams how did you know
Douglas Adams how did you know
By the Baltic Sea
August 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
By the Baltic Sea
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"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."
August 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."
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YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.
DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE
You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.
DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE
August 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
YOU WANT TO KNOW ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA
You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.
DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE
You get to interact with humans you'd likely not have contact with IRL/meatspace because our worlds in meatspaces are limited by time/money/distance/access.
DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW HOW FUCKING COOL IT IS HOW MANY SCIENTISTS ARE ON HERE
We'll be in Sweden in an hour! Only 7 hours of train and 90 minutes of car after that 😅 What an intrepid little traveler.
August 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We'll be in Sweden in an hour! Only 7 hours of train and 90 minutes of car after that 😅 What an intrepid little traveler.
He doesn’t know that tonight we’re going to go to bed in Warsaw
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
He doesn’t know that tonight we’re going to go to bed in Warsaw
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🧠🧪💤 New preprint!
Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD
We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ADHD #Sleep #Neuro
Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD
We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ADHD #Sleep #Neuro
August 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🧠🧪💤 New preprint!
Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD
We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ADHD #Sleep #Neuro
Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD
We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ADHD #Sleep #Neuro
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BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
In 3 days, I'm leaving to take a 4 day train journey to Sweden with the dog, where we join the family and a bestie and her child on a tiny Swedish archipelago, with a terrace that looks at the Baltic sea. Can't wait :) 3 weeks of blissful nothing!
July 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
In 3 days, I'm leaving to take a 4 day train journey to Sweden with the dog, where we join the family and a bestie and her child on a tiny Swedish archipelago, with a terrace that looks at the Baltic sea. Can't wait :) 3 weeks of blissful nothing!
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i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots
Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
July 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots
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Thread; reminds me of this year's Budapest Pride being called "thousands" even in nominally left-wing English-language media, with multiple hundred thousand people present - as far as I could determine, possibly the biggest protest in Hungarian history ever. But, trans flags so it doesn't count?
The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
July 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Thread; reminds me of this year's Budapest Pride being called "thousands" even in nominally left-wing English-language media, with multiple hundred thousand people present - as far as I could determine, possibly the biggest protest in Hungarian history ever. But, trans flags so it doesn't count?
I just need to face the fact that the part of coding I am best at is accessing files and franken-file-ing them into a useful format. It's not sexy, it's not flashy, but so often in neuroscience you can't even start without it.
a meme that says hold on i got a meme for this is displayed
Alt: a meme that says hold on i got a meme for this is displayed
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July 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I just need to face the fact that the part of coding I am best at is accessing files and franken-file-ing them into a useful format. It's not sexy, it's not flashy, but so often in neuroscience you can't even start without it.
Today’s topic of Bayesian probability involves fishing scenarios. Praying for a Poisson distribution as well 🐠
July 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Today’s topic of Bayesian probability involves fishing scenarios. Praying for a Poisson distribution as well 🐠
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Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig
July 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig
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Goodnight, friends.
In memory of Andrea Gibson, here’s a portion of their poem “Instead of Depression” -
"Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring."
I love you.
In memory of Andrea Gibson, here’s a portion of their poem “Instead of Depression” -
"Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring."
I love you.
July 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Goodnight, friends.
In memory of Andrea Gibson, here’s a portion of their poem “Instead of Depression” -
"Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring."
I love you.
In memory of Andrea Gibson, here’s a portion of their poem “Instead of Depression” -
"Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring."
I love you.
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Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.
Hey gang I've had to learn recently that the whole "burning out" thing is real so if you find yourself being panicked every waking second that you're not working on something, despite those seconds being very rare, you should maybe listen to the signals and take an intentional break before you crash
July 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.
Day 4 of neuromatch, getting totally creamed by the nuts and bolts of PCA
a blue hair dryer with a yellow smiley face on it
Alt: A blow dryer that represents linear algebra melting a smiley face that represents me
media.tenor.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Day 4 of neuromatch, getting totally creamed by the nuts and bolts of PCA
Day 2 of Neuromatch. I feel like this cat.
July 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Day 2 of Neuromatch. I feel like this cat.
Today's timeline cleanse 🐚
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
July 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Today's timeline cleanse 🐚
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Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature:
"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.
The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."
"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.
The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."
July 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature:
"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.
The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."
"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.
The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."
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I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.
"Woke science" seems to be the new "Jewish physics".
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.
Timeline cleanse 🥰
A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
July 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Timeline cleanse 🥰