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Grace Lindsay

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Assistant Professor, Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate (separately) | Author of "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain" tinyurl.com/h9dn4bw7

Grace Lindsay's avatar Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social
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I don't know if all the examples I've seen of twitter bots being told to "ignore previous instructions" are real, but if even just a fraction are it's still very hilarious

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Why are the funding cuts to the US BRAIN initiative so tragic? In this OpEd, Doris Tsao, Tony Zador and I unpack it.

Critical Brain Research Faces a Massive Funding Shortfall

dcjournal.com/critical-bra...

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Tom Quinn's avatar Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social
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Absolutely phenomenal what is happening in the battery sector. The learning rate solar was incredible, but this is something else all together. The price for battery cells in China has dropped 51% to $53 per kwh. The average global price of these batteries last year was $95/kWh.

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Kelly Hereid's avatar Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social
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Really interesting white paper out of Climate Impact Lab looking at public health impacts of heat.

Def click through link on this one, the interactive visuals that go with the report are incredible.

Timely, as Houston swelters through post-Beryl power outages.

lifesaved.impactlab.org

#DailyPaper

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀's avatar Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

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Kinda surprised at the number of academics who don't use a reference manager. In this day and age one should not be typing out references.

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Ken Schultz's avatar Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social
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When Google first appeared, there was a push to teach people to be informed users, sifting through the results with a skeptical eye toward the credibility of the source. Now Google has given us automated responses that lack skepticism and obscure the sources. Progress! 🙄

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Grace Lindsay's avatar Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social
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I switched to DuckDuckGo as my default search engine in large part because I hated knowing a genAI answer was being created everytime I tried to look something up in Google

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Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they are seeking a criminal investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over gifts of travel, a loan for a recreational vehicle and other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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One of the single most prominent barriers to climate action and purveyors of utterly ridiculous climate change denial of the past two decades

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Grace Lindsay's avatar Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social
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Gonna need to collect some...something...to answer that

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Grace Lindsay's avatar Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social
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As a computational neuroscientist trying to build models I find myself oscillating dramatically between believing: 1) We have too much data; we need to cool it with new experiments til we can figure out what's going on and 2) We exist in a data desert; what even happens in the brain? who knows!

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Paul Krugman's avatar Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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So, I said what I thought needed saying about Biden, hating every minute as I did. One thing I won’t do, however, is snipe at him if he chooses to stay in. Anyone who does that is in effect campaigning for Trump — and doing so out of sheer pettiness.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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BWJones's avatar BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social
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Why are we waiting to hear who will be Trump’s new candidate VP? Why do they not like the last guy? I mean it’s not like… Oh, wait…

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Grace Lindsay's avatar Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social
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Ah, speaking to my Chicagoian heart

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While the NYTimes has been making questionable decisions lately, I found this article interesting and heartening

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Richard Waite's avatar Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social
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40 years ago, the ozone hole was still a big problem 60 years ago, rivers were catching fire in the United States Progress is possible! (Hopefully in 2054 there will be a post like “30 years ago, GHG emissions were still at record highs but now they’re near zero”)

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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"The people who wrote Project 2025 and would more or less be in charge of Trump's administration want to end recreational sex" sure seems like a pretty good message to campaign on

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