Gidon Levakov

PhD student at The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, BGU. Interested in Brain Connectivity, Deep Learning, Visual Perception & Interoception.

[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

1/5 Excited to share our new paper, accepted to eLife, suggests that successful weight loss following lifestyle intervention may positively impact the trajectory of brain aging.
https://t.co/s8YnnIvKSO

[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

@yoavgo But isn't this (256^3)^(1024^2)? (Which is larger)

[Ori Miller | אורי מילר @orielishamiller]

An excellent video by @asafzamir.

Watch and learn:

Why was there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza? Who uses this crisis?

How do the leaders of Hamas take money from you, and use it for terrorism and to get rich?

And - about the citizens of Gaza who hate Hamas.

Share.

[כאן @kann]

"אל תתנו לחמאס להגיע אליכם"
"ما تخلّيوش حماس يغويوكوم"

השחקנית והיוצרת חנה אזולאי-הספרי מספרת על הטבח הנורא בשפה המרוקאית
#HamasisISIS

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

This is wild. I didn't know this either

PIJ misfires and hits a hospital *PARKING LOT* and the whole world is up in arms raging with NYT headlines

An Israeli hospital *IS ACTUALLY HIT* and nobody reports on it

The biggest difference? Israel evacuates its frontline hospitals

[Daniel Rubenstein @paulrubens]

Here's a story for you about how the news industry works.

Earlier tonight, the group that invaded Israel, massacred 1000+ people, burned families to death in their homes, took hostages back to Gaza, and recorded it all with GoPros – this group announced that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds.

Then, instead of waiting for more information from the Israeli side, the editors of the world's most important media outlets said to themselves: "This is enough for us. Let's run with it."

Headlines screamed that Israel bombed a hospital. Push notifications were sent to MILLIONS of people.

CNN push: "Hundreds of people may have been killed in an Israeli strike on a Gaza City hospital, according to the Palestinian health ministry"

BBC push: "Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say"

NYT push: "At least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said"

Do you see what they did there?

They put the dramatic news in the beginning of the sentence and then they cited the source at the end so that the assertion is technically true. The Palestinian Health Ministry DID say that.

The thing is, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza is a Hamas institution.

What do you call people who amplify Hamas propaganda not just as news, but as the top news story in the world?

There is no way that a professional military such as the Israel Defense Forces can give an instant answer about a catastrophe in enemy territory during a war. It took around two or three hours for the IDF to share the results of its initial investigation – that the explosion at the hospital was a due to a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad that malfunctioned and crashed back into Gaza. More evidence is coming out as I write this.

The sad fact is that it appears that hundreds of Palestinians are dead at a hospital because terrorists in Gaza tried to fire rockets at Israelis and ended up hitting their own people. It's unbearably stupid and tragic.

None of this is new, unfortunately. Journalists in the Middle East know – they absolutely know – that a significant percentage of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s rockets misfire and crash into residential areas of Gaza.

I've attached a famous example. This video is from May 2022. It shows a live broadcast of a rocket being launched from a residential area of Gaza. The rocket malfunctions, turns sideways, and crashes into the city. The overexcited broadcaster tries to pretend that nothing unusual happened and asks the camera man to turn away. The video went viral at the time. There are other known instances where this happened.

These rockets are designed to kill people. Don't act surprised when they do.

I say all of this to remind you to treat breaking news from Gaza with caution, even if it's unpopular to do so.

[כאן חדשות @kann_news]

Hamas combat protocol document reveals: they were instructed to kill Israeli civilians | Our reporter @eliorlevy with all the details
@kaisos1987 | #KanIsraelstory

[Yoav Kessler @yoav_kessler]

In these terrible times, I urge professional societies in psychology to speak up clearly for Israel and to condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas. Your voices matter. Silence is not an option. #StandWithIsrael #HamasisISIS
@APA @PsychScience @Psychonomic_Soc @ESCoP_news

[Reshef Shay @Rereshef]

The day the music died.

#HamasisISIS

[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

@erezfreud1 @YorkUPsyc @YorkUniversity Congratulations!!

[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

Special thanks to @BrainAndStomach and Prof. Catherine Tallon-Baudry for their invaluable advice. Also, thanks to @choeas & @jimpekar for sharing their data.

[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

1/6 We are excited to share our new study published in HBM on the "Reliability and Validity of Brain-Gastric Phase Synchronization." @WileyNeuro🧠🔬https://t.co/rzHCNKIf4o
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[Gidon Levakov @gid_lev]

6/6 We hope our work will support the methodological scaffolding for future research into brain–stomach interactions. #neuroscience #gastroenterology @AvidanGalia Shira Ganor

[OHBM @OHBM]

Olaf Sporns - Mentor Award

[Jenya Chumin @NeuroJenya]

Warms my heart to see @spornslab recognized for his mentorship at #OHBM2023. From a cold email 4yrs ago, he took me into his lab, and it has been a blast learning about/working with networks!
The time and effort that he dedicates to his students and postdocs in unparalleled.🎉🎉