A single plot shows computational neuroscience doesn't really know where it is heading:
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A single plot shows computational neuroscience doesn't really know where it is heading:
Whether the hippocampus is involved in unrewarded learning has been a controversial question. A new preprint finds that it may be critical for passively learning information.
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Never, ever, write chapters in edited volumes. No one can read them, they are trees that fall in a forest when there is no one around to see it. Do yourself a favor, and post a preprint, or start a blog. It will likely have 1000 time more impact.
![To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM
Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew;
she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that
is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap;
also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in
order to be smart; they all do
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote:
> It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank โข t
> wrote:
ยป intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
>> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor
ยป caricature)
>> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
>> others are thinking and feeling about her
>>
>> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
>> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreiebtsn4ebmqdnzjdj273ic4y7upjcgdjeqti43xna6qtr2bxe4kxm)
To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank โข t > wrote: ยป intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor ยป caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do."
This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.
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An analysis of nearly 3 million people in Sweden reveals that the sex disparity in children with autism decreases with age. Researchers continue to explore why women are often diagnosed later, given the value of early diagnosis.
By @helenak.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/sex...
"Nobody knows how to stop the deluge of AI slop papers in science!"
Sure we do. At least, we know how to slow it down.
1. Stop counting publications for career assessment, university rankings, and so on.
2. Get human editors and peer reviewers to do their jobs.
The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isnโt data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative.
Itโs fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community๐
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I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
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The moment to celebrate a paper is when itโs shared with the world, not when it passes the arbitrary hurdle of โacceptanceโ
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while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!
Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that Iโve graduated ๐ค This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)!
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
When reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. ๐ง
People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)
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Cool analysis! Has any one an idea why papers with corresponding authors could be consistently longer under review than first author papers irrespective of gender?
Trump follows some notable leaders in being re-gifted a Nobel Prize, as a sort of participation trophy.
Joseph Goebbels was given one by an author in 1943.
www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-... #history #Trump #Goebbels #Nazis
LLMs are statistical averages that inevitably focus on the densest part of the distribution. They capture popularity. Which makes them problematic in applications that require novelty, like science.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
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you guys, i was just invited to actually write this. what is happening???
Maybe it was a joke but i can see how it could become method... I'd be curious to track how many papers get actually written that way in the next five years or so... In terms of expected citations it probably turns out as a win for author and journal if the LMM converges on it reliably enough
Crazy!
Did Trends in Neuroscience invite you? o.O