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• CFA for Workshop “Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” at the Annual DPG Meeting,...

  The Working Group “Philosophy of Physics” (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG) invites submissions for its annual workshop. Read more

  The 19 december 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Sculpting New Visual Categories into the Human Brain.

  Fascinating work from Iordan et al. (open source) I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what they are... Read more

  The 18 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Analysis of the Dumbing Down of Language on Social Media Over Time

  Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Usenet, Gab, and... Read more

  The 16 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - How to Deal with Farting Cows...

  I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and plant sourced food. After ... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Neurons in the Amygdala Jointly Encode the Status of Interacting Individuals

  From Lee et al.:Highlights-Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions -During fixations, neural populations signal the... Read more

  The 10 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFA Summer School: The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory (Lugano,...

  The Summer School The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory will take place at USI, Lugano (Switzerland) from 23 to 27 June 2025 and will be taught by Chris... Read more

  The 09 december 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• An AI Framework for Neural–behavioral Modeling

  Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary:Neural dynamics are complex and... Read more

  The 09 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Battle of the Bots - AI Gets Creative with Brain Hacks

  This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity, Gemini+ advanced, and Anthropic (which does not offer links to its... Read more

  The 07 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Workshop: Quantum Gravity and the Laws of Nature

  Geneva, 12-13 December 2024The objective of this workshop is to bring experts working on the nature of spacetime and quantum gravity to examine the fate of... Read more

  The 07 december 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Magnetic Soft Microrobots for Erectile Dysfunction Therapy!

  I can't resist passing on these abstracts describing work reported by a large number of researchers at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou... Read more

  The 06 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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