Nicholas Foley

Neuroscientist: expectations, attention and reward; dynamics and network function; statistics and dimensional reduction; circadian rhythms. Generally optimistic

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@duxfeminafacti9 For what it’s worth, my favorite history seminar as an undergrad was “Race and Empire in Victorian England” with @DamonSalesa and he hand picked all the reading

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@lathropa There are two main generators of fertility obsession: nationalism (ie. France and Germany in the 19th cthose policies btw is why France has such great child care) and social Darwinism and white natality in the 20th c (ie. Ford and Hitler).. SV seems motivated by the latter

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With regret due to the amazing articles I’ve enjoyed subscribing to the Washington Post over the years, failure to oppose fascism is a dealbreaker

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@ArpitaBKulkarni My anecdotal neuroscience experience is this is mostly a cell/mol thing.. only time I’ve had to help rush a paper.. systems/computational I’ve never thought about it.. also, cell/mol often asks that trainees self fund far earlier than systems, which raises the stakes immensely

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@MetalClassicist Get a sandwich from Zingerman’s before you leave, dunno how much they cost these days but the sticker shock does not survive the first bite

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@jordanschneider One book that deals with many wars: Queen Victoria’s Little Wars by Byron Farwell addresses a bunch of 19th century colonial conflicts that don’t tend to come up in major military histories (also see David Saul’s similar work)

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@vferrera How badly draft horses were fed and treated in 18th century Scotland?

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@NicoleCRust @VFascianelli @StefanoFusi2 https://t.co/EGdoBcQJ8g

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@lathropa I know someone who worked for a while on training AIs to pre-screen user uploads, he quit due to all the ghastly stuff he was being exposed to in QC, which was wrecking his mental health.. legal issues aside

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@kendmil Saying Nasrallah was a moderating influence on Hezbollah is akin to saying Netanyahu is a moderating influence on the current Israeli government.. perhaps technically true from a certain perspective, but that presupposes the current government could form without Netanyahu

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@sutekh69 Sounds like it hasn’t even started.. the most important questions are: what is the shortest path to Giolitti at any given moment? And, are you going to be a partisan for Sant’Eustachio or Tazza d’Oro (the former is the correct decision)

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@TilFolkvang Like bone-wood glue? That is awesome

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@Doctors__TARDIS @KnowingBetterYT The question was for a single photo though, so the cost question is given everything else these expeditions achieved what was the marginal cost to get that final photo

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This piece on Grothendieck from ⁦@guardian ⁩is really good. I am sure the account will appeal to people who care about a deeper connection between excellence and kindness in academia, which has been mentioned in recent posts [H/T @RdeHeide]
https://t.co/x17QVnUXOn

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@lathropa Probably having a worse time than you 😋

https://t.co/JJd15MtOr7

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@ProgressiveTex Bedknobs and Broomsticks for a guy who didn’t enlist at the end

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@KordingLab Doubt it.. probes take space, and ephys has strong priors.. not to mention that many of the subcortical areas of interest are really hard to sample due to the blood vessels

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@patrickmineault If you’ve never read Grossberg’s 1983 BBS target article, I’d do so to understand where the field was, how vicious the argument about framing perception was going: https://t.co/91eLHbM3qV

(The Palmer textbook on vision also has a well described example, IIRC)

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@camjpatrick Compress with simple password