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PhD student at University of Cambridge with @beckyneuro 🧑‍🎓
Computational psychiatry of anhedonia, apathy and anxiety 🧠
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[clg @CalumGuinea]

We (@ErdemPulcu, @OxfordPERL) did a science, looking across species to understand how ketamine may act on anhedonia and the brain, starting with the tiny habenula!
https://t.co/ZbmxirIqWX

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

I got my 6 year old ChatGPT for Christmas and she hates it. I find this fascinating. I told her this is the worst it will ever be and she didn’t seem to care at all. Utterly remarkable.

[dan nguyen 🐮 @dancow]

Uh, thats quite a bit off

[Sam Gershman @gershbrain]

Before you write a review of a paper in which you say "It's mostly meh" (a direct quote), stop to consider that you might be talking to a grad student who spent years on the project and is now internalizing the social norms of their profession.

[efe @franasmagoria]

la mayonesa es la reverb de los sándwiches

[Jackie Seidel, PhD @JackieSeidel1]

Devastating article. Anyone mentions AI at work today I'll hand them this.

"When the supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year."

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sheriff featured by Democrats last night is same sheriff we recently sued over taking cash from private equity-owned telecom companies to eliminate the ability of children to visit their parents in jail, on the theory that families would spend more money on monopoly calls.

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

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[Iris van Rooij 💭 @IrisVanRooij]

"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not reading articles ...." https://t.co/8G1GNBN03o

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Walthamstow tonight ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

This is what a mass movement against the far right looks like @wfsutr

#StandUpToRacism

[Ross Otto @arossotto]

Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" https://t.co/BNzFMKy959

[Adam Fleischmann @afleisch_anthro]

As a PhD social scientist, I gotta say that the whole Imane Khelif testosterone 'controversy' is based in misunderstandings of the actual science & is oblivious to the differences that create much larger advantages *within* men or women’s sports than even across the two 1/

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions

y = x

[Eiko Fried @EikoFried]

2023 World Psychiatry review I had somehow missed thus far:

"The lived experience of depression: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics"

Highly recommended.

https://t.co/N46JvpYLYf

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

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[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

This is it, what I've trained for

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

https://t.co/PRKpMibIqR

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Sunak: “First rule of Labour tax rises is that you don’t talk about tax rises. But we know that the policies Labour have already announced will require them to increase taxes on working households by £2,094.”

OBR figures show Tories plan £175bn tax rises. On the same basis, £3,000 per working household. https://t.co/p7wwWkCtgQ

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

Excellent!!