Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees.
Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”:
doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI.
With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
🚨🚨New open resource for EEG researchers 🚨🚨
Want to work with neural synchrony and intersubject correlation of EEG?
We released ready-to-use correlated components spatial filters for the 64-channel 10–20 montage.
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Excellent and thought-provoking essay by Ted Chiang. [gift link]
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”
When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!
(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)
Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain?
Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics
Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
www.theatlantic.com
ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments
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What are the real problems to be solved in continual learning? In my latest post, I tackle this question — reviewing where I think the field went astray in the past, how language models changed things, and where the real challenges remain.
infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-are-t...
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEOwww.standupforscience.foundation
www.nature.com
Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...
