Nicholas Bustos

I like brains, veggies, and rhythm. All activity is intended towards forming a more perfect union / RT=👀

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Even bees experience affect contagion!

Two individually marked bumble bees are shown in a tunnel used for affective contagion experiments. Bees that briefly interacted with conspecifics in a positive affective state in this tunnel later showed more optimistic responses to ambiguous flowers. The discovery shows that even insects can share affective states, tracing the roots of affect and social cognition deep into evolution.

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

@00aleph00 Why triangles ? Do more sophisticated shapes come later on ?

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

@hamptonism Is there a version that overlays gradients for which problems each is most useful (ie - feature type /size /n)

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

@ImagingNeurosci Whats the relevance for ACC ? seems like all fmri points there, is it just bc this region is vasculature hub ? i guess bc of former it has big role in all actions...

[Andy Keller @t_andy_keller]

Traveling waves are indicative of conserved quantities. In the brain, there is undeniable evidence for traveling waves of neural activity -- but what is the brain trying to conserve?

In our ICLR paper with @wellingmax, @_mullerlab, & @sejnowski, we ask: could it be memory?

🌊/9

[Aaron Boes @boeslab]

We see some strange and sometimes paradoxical effects of lesions to the default mode network.

A thread of some of the curious observations….

[Saffron Huang @saffronhuang]

our @deepmind paper is out in PNAS!

we use john rawls' veil of ignorance as a method of choosing principles to align AI 👰‍♀️🤖

participants behind the veil are more likely to choose principles that prioritize the worst off, driven by fairness concerns

https://t.co/fObELrlegW

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

@neuronanc2 @Columbia Thanks for stopping by Dr. Mack our pleasure ! Keep up the good work

[Ian Shih @ShihYYI]

Out today @NatureComms! Very excited to share another paper with those who are interested in insular and DMN. Here we manipulated anterior insula with optogenetics and monitor downstream activity changes using fMRI. Digest from the lab will follow. https://t.co/lE2kpdcISx

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Here's a time lapse video of the LEGO version of the James Webb Space Telescope.

[Visit: https://t.co/W6obHY1PKK]

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Humans are pattern-finding machines & some patterns call to us more.

This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because the perceptual systems of humans are all drawn to the same types of patterns. https://t.co/qOZ6VErFwp

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

It was de Chirico's Song of Love (1914) that so revolutionised Magritte's understanding of art.

It allegedly brought him to tears. And - crucially - he said that he had seen, for the first time, *thought* expressed in art.

It was art's intellectual capacity that interested him.

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

It’s like the McGurk effect but synergistic instead of interfering.

Like his impressions are improved by the deep fakes and the deep fakes are improved by his impressions.

Wild.

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

Io:

[ScottieFox @ScottieFoxTTV]

Stable Diffusion VR
Real-time immersive latent space. 🔥
Small clips are sent from the engine to be diffused. Once ready, they're queued back into the projection.
Tools used:
https://t.co/UrbdGfvdRd
https://t.co/DnWVFZdppT
#aiart #vr #stablediffusionart #touchdesigner #deforum

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

There is a point to this “stewardship” framing, and i do think it is our 21stcent. civic duty to be engaged with our online/digital communities where next gens will develop from

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

Io! Io!

[Hayoung Song @HayoungSong5]

2/ These brain states tile the canonical gradients of functional brain organization, which operates as a shared latent manifold of large-scale neural dynamics.

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

Io!

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Exclamation Mark

Possibly comes from the Latin phrase "io", which was an expression of joy. 14th century Medieval writers placed this at the end of sentences for emphasis. Eventually the I was placed above the O and it became an !

Got its current name in 1839.

[Nicholas Bustos @BalokNB]

@PessoaBrain @micahgallen in #falloftwitter (just as in #fallofdemocracy) 1 can work inside or outside of system 4 the same shared ideals/goals. We R on same team. & need to stick 2gether, do good, & uphold those a4mentned values

[Bratislav Misic @misicbata]

Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex | https://t.co/CLp1wYHP35

Led by @JustineYHansen out now in @NatureNeuro!

TLDR: we curate an atlas of neurotransmitter receptors and relate it to brain organization 🧩🧠🌎⤵️