🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
TK (Takashi DY) Kozai
"A coalition of ~40 organizations representing hard-science disciplines...recently told Congress...that losing the SBE division could lead to 'long-lasting, potentially permanent' damage to national research... The stickiest barriers to progress in... AI, biotechnology—are 'fundamentally human'"
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.
I forgot to link the paper! 🤦♂️ I'm blaming my new four-month old.
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In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
