Tomás Ryan

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Neuroscientist @tcddublin

11 AM tomorrow, front square @tcddublin.

@RyanLabTCD postgraduate students will be joining the protest.

#PGRsDeserveBetter @TrinityGSU
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RT @PWO_TCD
We are marching from Front Square (TCD campus) to the Dáil tomorrow (23/03) at 11am to make it loud and clear to the government that #PGRsDeserveBetter

In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the highest paid PGRs in Ireland are only being paid 22% below the minimum wage (1/3) https://…
https://twitter.com/PWO_TCD/status/1638551559754711040

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RT @KHayhoe
Our choices matter and the faster we act, the better off we will all be - all of us who call this planet home.

RT @KHayhoe
Here are the big takeaways from the @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report released today.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

RT @DrYohanJohn
Adds an interesting spin to the phrase "reinventing the wheel"? 😉 https://twitter.com/neuralreckoning/status/1637916276952580098
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RT @RyanLabTCD
New Ryan Lab preprint on the adaptive properties of forgetting - featuring the PhD research of Livia Autore, with @jamesoleary & @Clrar.

Adaptive Expression of Engrams by Retroactive Interference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.17.533126v1

(also featuring @jamesoleary & @Clrar from @RyanLabTCD, #ScienceIsGlobal 🇮🇹🇦🇺🇪🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺)

Our new study on retroactive interference and its effect on memory engram expression, as a model of adaptive forgetting.

Representing the tireless PhD work of (twitterless) Livia Autore at @tcddublin, with a☘️DOI of 23.03.17

#LoveIrishResearch @scienceirel @ERC_Research
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RT @RyanLabTCD
New Ryan Lab preprint on the adaptive properties of forgetting - featuring the PhD research of Livia Autore, with @jamesoleary & @Clrar.

Adaptive…
https://twitter.com/RyanLabTCD/status/1637750500488540162

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RT @TCINeuroscience
Congrats to our awardees for Sustainability Leadership @TCINeuroscience and @tcddublin colleagues- Prof Clare Kelly for her sustainability research @IMMAlab and TCIN Green labs led by Camilla Roselli & the team- @SarahMcComish , Pauline, Oisin, Tallulah, Hugh & Janeen.

RT @SkyNews
"We are on the cusp of a cleaner, healthier, fairer world"

Mary Robinson, former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change says "we all need to make this crisis personal" ahead of the publication of the latest IPCC report

#KayBurley https://trib.al/Rx0iR33

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

RT @celestekidd
Even when people use the same words, they often don’t mean the same thing. New paper in Open Mind quantifies the variation, and may explain why communication is so hard in politics and science w/ @IAmARobot0101 @shengyiwu_ @spiantado https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00072/114924 [A THREAD]
Latent Diversity in Human Concepts

Abstract. Many social and legal conflicts hinge on semantic disagreements. Understanding the origins and implications of these disagreements necessitates novel methods for identifying and quantifying variation in semantic cognition between individuals. We collected conceptual similarity ratings and feature judgements from a variety of words in two domains. We analyzed this data using a non-parametric clustering scheme, as well as an ecological statistical estimator, in order to infer the number of different variants of common concepts that exist in the population. Our results show at least ten to thirty quantifiably different variants of word meanings exist for even common nouns. Further, people are unaware of this variation, and exhibit a strong bias to erroneously believe that other people share their semantics. This highlights conceptual factors that likely interfere with productive political and social discourse.

MIT Press