Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

@jerlich It's more that I think we need to reconceptualize sentience, as we reconceptualized life

Another great piece from @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go

And once again @djnavarro has made data beautiful https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-12-18_crayola-crayon-colours/index.html

So here's a random thing that I learnt yesterday. Compasses are region-specific and the needle will "stick" if a normal compass is used in the wrong region! Australia and New Zealand are in magnetic zone 5. If you want a #compass that works anywhere in the world, it needs to have a "global needle", which is built a bit differently to account for the problem of the magnet aiming directly through the earth to magnetic north and dragging the needle down with it.

I'm really going to miss #DarkSky when it goes. No other weather app has a fully adequate user interface, and I've tried a few. As for "use the iOS Weather app, it has all of Dark Sky's features!" - kindly jump in a lake. NO IT DOES NOT. It's horrible.

It works!!!!!!!! An API Endpoint to post statuses directly into lists so people can make their own #DIYAlgorithms . Now some cleanup and a bit of UX stuff but i can't believe i actually wrote code in #Ruby i am proud of myself. :)
#MastoDev

The Chronicle of Higher Education released an interesting tool that lets you look at who colleges/unis think their peers are, and which other schools think the same.

It's interesting to look at. Here are a couple of things I've observed...

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?

Honored that my paper

A Rubric for Human-like Agents & NeuroAI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04401

is published in an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society alongside amazing papers:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1869

Cog, neuro, & computer sciences increasingly reference human-like agents & neuroAI with no consensus on scope/use. Some import progress in 1 discipline to another & assume it automatically translates.
It does not.
I propose a rubric to orient the reader in this space.
1/n

@JustinDerrick you’re not alone! We just have to ramp up awareness of what’s happening. Ford is attacking so many things at the same time. I’ve decided to focus my efforts on protecting Ontario Place. See https://ontarioplaceforall.com for how you can join the resistance! https://ontarioplaceforall.com

The lab is growing and we are hiring! #postdoc #jobs #research #memory #neuralcircuits #fear #calciumimaging #electrophysiology #behavior https://twitter.com/StephenMaren/status/1601386142439329793?s=20&t=--bI-bUmrHnIQjEWLpQwxg

What do early-career researchers have to say about our new publishing model?

Members of our Early-Career Advisory Group share their reactions to our recent changes, outlining the challenges and risks as they see them and the bold steps needed to revolutionise research communication.

Read it here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/84816?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.

The Ideology 2.0 dataset (N > 280,000) is available. The data was collected on Project Implicit in the mid-2000s with a very diverse sample who were randomly assigned to complete semi-random subsets of individual difference, implicit, and explicit measures.
You can explore a small portion of the data to prepare Registered Reports. Upon acceptance, you will receive the confirmatory dataset.

The deadline for requesting the exploratory data is December 15, 2022.

Details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12jmUlXguhFWjqMx2lHGrF8sFANbrJdaWhINfO-2DjMc/edit?fbclid=IwAR2O1GiOQ2NeDQZPKONj3ph9bQNehp_gCBq4FOK3xOj5QLa7wMdGda6O39U

Big welcome to @turrigiano!

Gina is professor at Brandeis. Have you ever heard that the brain recalibrates to maintain its stability over time? Or the term "homeostatic plasticity" in particular? If so, that's probably Gina.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lAjsH-wAAAAJ&hl=en

Gina won't throw it in your face, but she has many more accolades than I have characters: MacArthur Genius, Pres of SFN, National Academy ...

And fascinating interests, like this:
https://recallthisbook.org/category/gina-turrigiano/

For more, follow @turrigiano.

@petersuber Thanks for this. The graphic of the difference is quite stunning.

In case you were discouraged from applying for the HHMI call (March 2023) because past winners all had Nature/Science/Cell papers, @leslievosshall says the times are a-changing and all outstanding scientists should apply this round!
https://twitter.com/leslievosshall/status/1598866750669393920?s=20&t=7nhFmKxlHe_duNiB2NlYgA