So, the deadline for the IBRO SIMONS #imbizo is approaching quickly. It's quite possibly the best computational neuroscience summer school south of the equator, so do apply at imbizo.africa @SCglobalbrain Computational Neuroscience Imbizo @ibroSecretariat Adrienne Fairhall Joseph Raimondo AdA🐀

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We're raising additional money to create opportunities for future African AI leaders to attend the Deep Learning Indaba! Please help spread the word! (Nando de Freitas Karim Beguir Kyunghyun Cho Sara Hooker)

Our first TReND in Africa course in "Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning" in Accra, Ghana just started!!! 🥳🥳 Two weeks of intensive training for our participants!

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This is the last reminder: Applications close tonight for the 2024 #Imbizo: Come join us, learn what neuroscience is all about, & all about in Africa! Make friends, get to know African food & beaches, too! Simons Foundation IBRO - International Brain Research Organization TReND in Africa UCT Neuroscience Institute Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit ISTAustria Harvard University

🧵: Every student of mathematics knows the famous story of Ramanujan and Hardy – but it seems that Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman MP, and the Home Office have missed its crucial message. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa… 1/10

Does there ever come a day when you don't have to google how to grep?

Many criticisms of changes here under Elon Musk but very few acknowledgements of the user-based fact checking, which is great!

3 days left! 📢 We’re still accepting applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First program. Apply today: g.co/acceleratorafr… #AcceleratedbyGoogle #AIFirstAfrica

📢 Applications for our 2024 PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning are now open! Fully funded regardless of nationality. ℹ️ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-a… ⏰ Deadline: 13 November 2023

Had the pleasure of writing about some of my ideas of how the African ML community can move from being consumers to creators of ML technology for the Deep Learning Indaba - deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2024/03/f…. 🌍

Assembling and testing what will be Ghana's first patch clamp rig with Tom Tagoe as part of Wellcome and IBRO - International Brain Research Organization Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health scheme. Exited to ship and start using it in Accra soon.

Most people are good, and kind... But then you have the worst type... 😡 Dunne’s Farm Pastured Eggs have been robbed again. A disgusting thing to happen at their egg honesty box which is so valued by most locals. 😢 Make this guy famous guys🙏🏻 #Kildare #IrishFood

You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished? This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone. Why? /1

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!!

We hit a frontier in medicine this year. This has been a concept since CRISPR was described. Today it's a reality. You are probably living in the greatest age of human discovery.