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Sam Webster

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neurobiology of nopes; eukaryotic/eukaryote

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I and twenty-two other Nobel economists signed a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for President. We believe Harris's policies will result in a stronger economic performance, with economic growth that is more robust, more sustainable, and more equitable. cnn.com/2024/10/23/pol…


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Nature Neuroscience The hippocampal CA2 region discriminates social threat from social safety nature.com/articles/s4159…


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Incredible footage of a "Tornado" on Sun. The height of this "tornado" is about 30 thousand kilometers.🌪


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Ketamine reverses chronic stress-induced behavioral changes via the expression of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors in mice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


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Lecture + Q&A: "The Physics of Sentience" Host: @_DigitalFUTURES youtube.com/watch?v=GsRVcV…


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"It is possible that SSRI use during childhood interrupts the normal development of sexual reward systems, which may be a risk factor for sexual desire dysfunction in adult women." Antidepressant Use During Development May Impair Women's Sexual Desire... academic.oup.com/jsm/article-ab…


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𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 "not all dynamics can be captured by network structure alone" Really enjoyed Dehghani's paper especially in context of fly connectome. frontiersin.org/journals/compu…

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Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells Opinion by William A. Phillips, Talis Bachmann, Michael W. Spratling, Lars Muckli (@LarsMuckli), Lucy S. Petro, & Timothy Zolnik tinyurl.com/29htph6j

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There is nothing better than working with smart and genuinely kind people! We found that intellectual humility in science communication boosts trust in science. Preprint here and now in press at Nature Human Behaviour! osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵


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LLMs Can In-context Learn Multiple Tasks in Superposition We explore a bizarre LLM superpower that allows them to solve multiple ICL tasks in parallel. This is related to the view of them as simulators in superposition [cref:@repligate] arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05603 1/n

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Our latest work got published nature.com/articles/s4158…. We found that behavioral time scale plasticity (BTSP), which is relevant for place cell induction, is synapse specific in proximal apical dendrite. Although it follows properties similar to Hebbian plasticity, (1/4)


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New theory preprint out today! w @hohwy, @anilkseth, Karl Friston, Thomas Parr, Rosalyn Moran, @RyanSmith_LIBR, @JonnyRobinson6, @mr_corcorana arxiv.org/abs/2410.06633 🧵 below 1/10


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Article: "Possible principles for aligned structure learning agents" Coauthors on X: @lancelotdacosta @davidkhyland @MandanaSamiei @CristianManta7 @adeelrazi arxiv.org/abs/2410.00258


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This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an…

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Article: "A cortical field theory – dynamics and symmetries" Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray link.springer.com/article/10.100…


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Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains How social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the norms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Via…

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Patients find ChatGPT's answers more empathetic than actual physicians'. Sounds like a headline from The Onion but no, real stuff... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37115527/

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BRAIN Inside out: the neural basis of spontaneous and creative thinking academic.oup.com/brain/article/…


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Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!! By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex. nature.com/articles/s4156…


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Layer 6 corticothalamic neurons induce high gamma oscillations through cortico-cortical and cortico-thalamo-cortical pathways biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci


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