neuroscience paper in 2045: "we recorded 5 million neurons in V1 with Neuropixels 9.0 probes while head-fixed mice watched Gabor flickers..."

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” Leadership. theguardian.com/cities/2023/de…

First author and yet Rosalind Lee doesn't deserve to be named on the Prize? 🤔 Rosalind & the two winners were the only three authors on the paper that Nobel cited! Once again, #WomenInScience ignored.

Why is Boroondarra Council covering up what has happened at Kew Pool? Why have ratepayers been kept in the dark for 2 years, while the site languishes? What's your theory? Read on. The most damning bit is at the end. /1

University Commas xkcd.com/2995

Our latest work on Tool Learning and Agent 🚀 ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation Integrating tool knowledge directly into LLMs by representing tools as unique tokens, enabling seamless tool invocation and language generation. 🔧🤖 💡 ToolGen achieves

John Hopfield has a nice article in the annual reviews of condensed matter physics. It starts off with a discussion of what physics is, which I think is totally on point.

🎉 My paper on land use change modeling with the Ising model is featured as a Research Highlight in NatRevPhysics 🎉 Physics meets geography to understand landscape evolution! Highlight: buff.ly/3TMzTOE Paper: buff.ly/40wlf06 #LandUse #ComplexSystems #rstats

Exactly 12 years ago today, a Taliban gunman pointed his gun at my head and shot me for daring to speak up for girls’ right to go to school. I want to thank every person for your solidarity and support, from praying for my recovery to helping me in my work for girls’ access to

Success!!! First methane and CO2 plumes detected from Tanager-1's hyperspectral sensor! These are from Texas, Pakistan, and South Africa. With this data, we aim to enhance accountability and enable climate action. Thanks to our fantastic public-private partnership with

Hot fudge, strawberry or sprinkles? Gary Ruvkun isn't only a Nobel Prize laureate, he also helps out his local ice cream truck on occasion. Ruvkun visits the 'Frosty Truck' so often the owners consider him extended family. The newly awarded medicine laureate celebrated his prize

For the fourth time in as many days, we remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times.

Breaching and entering a UN position is a further flagrant violation of international law and Security Council resolution 1701 (2006). Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and resolution 1701.

Last week, AI grabbed several Nobel prizes. Yet, there is one scholar who helped define the field but many people still don't know. This is the story of Frank Rosenblatt. Today, Frank Rosenblatt is not a household name, at least not as much as other key contributors to AI. But

🛰️ I just started publishing a blog post series on comparing spatial patterns in raster data.🛰️ Part one is about the motivation and the inventory of such methods. URL: buff.ly/3NnmIQX #spatialpatterns #gischat #geospatial

🔴 The Office of the Chancellor (Julie Bishop) has 2 staff. Julie Bishop and Partners (private consultancy) has 3 staff. 2 of the staff are the same people! All based in Perth. 🤔 🔴 Julie Bishop's Perth office has a $15,500/month lease.