LunaCette illusion d'optique m'a retourné le cerveau 🤯
Professor in: Physics, Neurology, ECE at UCLA.
Research: Learning & memory, sleep, hippocampus, neural computation, quantum physics, AI. #Neuroscience
https://www.physics.ucla.edu/~mayank/
Prof. Mayank R Mehta, UCLA
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Director: Center for Physics of Life & Keck Center for Neurophysics.
Professor in: Physics, Neurology, ECE at UCLA.
Research: Learning & memory, sleep, hippocampus, neural computation, quantum physics, AI. #Neuroscience
https://www.physics.ucla.edu/~mayank/
Professor in: Physics, Neurology, ECE at UCLA.
Research: Learning & memory, sleep, hippocampus, neural computation, quantum physics, AI. #Neuroscience
https://www.physics.ucla.edu/~mayank/
Steve Herman“I visited the Port of Izmail today and was shocked to see the level of destruction left by the Russian strikes on grain storage facilities on 2 August. The thousands of tons of grains that were damaged would have been enough to feed approximately 66 million people for a day.” - #UN humanitarian coordinator for #Ukraine Denise Brown.
Paris MarxThe Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive
#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains
Brenda Milner did a lot more pioneering work than you'd guess (see article). Remarkably, most of it is still useful after 60+ years! She will be 105 on July 15. Award committees, now is your chance to recognize her pioneering work and send her a great birthday gift.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.786167/full
Brenda Milner: Pioneer of the Study of the Human Frontal Lobes
Although the behavioral effects of damage to the frontal lobes date back to at least the late 19th century even midway through the 20th century very little was known about human frontal lobe function and there was a general consensus that the frontal lobe did not play a key role in cognition. This all changed when Brenda Milner published a chapter in a 1964 volume entitled: The Frontal Granular Cortex and Behavior. Milner’s chapter, “Some effects of frontal lobectomy in man,” was the first systematic study of the effect of frontal lobe excisions on cognition in human patients. Milner had access to a unique population of frontal excision patients at the Montreal Neurological Institute that were being treated by Wilder Penfield and his associates for a wide range of neurological disorders, including intractable epilepsy. Milner and her colleagues engaged in a more than 50-year study that has had a formidable impact on our understanding of frontal lobe function. Paralleling studies of frontal lobe function in non-humans they influence on understanding the evolution and function of the prefrontal cortex of mammals. Thus, although Brenda Milner is best known for her studies of human memory, she has had an equally important contribution to our understanding of the frontal lobes.
Imagine a free, informal block party. Then, a bully walks in, injects himself in all conversations, spreads misinformation, fires people and asks for a monthly $8 fee. That's what M#$k did and gained a whopping 100million+ followers within a year.
Do you support this?
Speaking at conferences increases citations by 52%!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01604-x
But
-In person meeting requires airline travel, fuels greenhouse gases.
-Less wealthy can't afford to travel or get visas. Referees prefer papers from known/famous authors. In person conferences create a vicious cycle.
-"I invite you, you invite me" enables nepotism.
-A handful of famous voices dominate the airwaves.
-This stifles the young investigators and disruptive innovation.
What's the solution?
Get your shingles vaccine, it can also reduce your risk of dementia.
Terence TaoThe #NationalAcademies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a virtual workshop on the topic of "AI to assist mathematical reasoning": https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/06-12-2023/ai-to-assist-mathematical-reasoning-a-workshop , to be held June 12-14. (I am one of the members of the organising committee). Registration for the workshop is now open, and the schedule of speakers and panelists is now available. We plan to follow up on this workshop with an in person event later this year.
Eric's Risk AssessmentRisk of #LongCovid at 10% on first infection, rising to 20% on second.
There is nothing you do voluntarily that has this level of risk. Not flying, not skydiving, not driving.
US National Institutes of Health Study Finds Increased Risk of Long Covid After Reinfection
https://johnsnowproject.org/primers/nih-study-finds-increased-risk-of-long-covid-after-reinfection/
>Study shows risk of Long Covid is very common after Omicron reinfection, but is anyone listening?
Chris ChambersFollowing Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.
I am joining this action and have also resigned.
Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
