Duncan MacGregor @blueapex

I came to model neurons, ride bikes, and chew gum. And I'm all out of gum. Computational Neurophysiologist @EdinburghUni Modelling brain-hormone-body systems bsky.app/profile/duncan… Edinburgh, UK Joined February 2009

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath

6 months ago

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim.

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Timothy O'Leary @Timothy0Leary

9 months ago

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

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BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS

9 months ago

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Cargo Bike Movement @cargobikemovmnt

11 months ago

Come work with us to increase our impact, outreach and get more people on cargo bikes! cargobikemovement.com/jobs

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Duncan MacGregor @blueapex

11 months ago

Lovely to see modelling and masterful joining of the dots rewarded.

The Gruber Lab @peptide_drugs

11 months ago

Lovely to see modelling and masterful joining of the dots rewarded.

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twitch.tv/Limmy @DaftLimmy

a year ago

HAHAHAHA

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

a year ago

Klangphonics is a three-piece techno band from Regensburg, Germany, incorporating the sound of a sewing machine

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts

a year ago

Whilst we're discussing auto-obesity, never overestimate the sheer stupidity and selfishness of vehicles like this within a city. 2.6 tonnes transporting 1 x 80kg person most of the time, then statistically remaining parked for the other 95% of its life. Tax them to oblivion

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Cllr Jule Bandel @julebandel

a year ago

Ahead of Transport and Environment Committee today, we've submitted an Emergency Motion to help @cargobikemovmnt who urgently need funding to keep operating after a cut by the Council. They do amazing work across the city and I hope parties can come together to support them!

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Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno

a year ago

Masterful piece by @chakrabortty on a political establishment with no answers to Britain's problems. As he points out, both Labour and the Tories are committed to austerity. Britain's social fabric can't afford that. Something has to give. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian

a year ago

I see this bad faith “won’t someone think of the [vulnerable] bulls*** all the time in transportation discourse. The three groups most frequently invoked to preserve automobile hegemony, children, the poor and the disabled, are exactly the groups most limited and harmed by it.

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World Bollard Association™ @WorldBollard

a year ago

You couldn’t make this up. Congratulations @Specsavers, this is absolutely magnificent. #WorldBollardAssociation 😂😂

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Big AL Art @bigal_art

2 years ago

@north0fnorth Here’s my painting of this iconic moment - it’s hung at a bar one street over from the scene of the crime! (Bar = Lang’s Lounge in Brisbane)

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ScotWays @ScotWays

2 years ago

The first edition of ScotWays’ guide Scottish Hill Tracks was published in 1947, in two pocket-sized volumes. The 6th edition is coming out shortly, but here’s a bit about the first edition of #ScottishHillTracks, released soon after the end of World War II. 🧵 [1/8]

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Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison

2 years ago

The problem is not that AI will become 'conscious' or 'sentient', but that it will remould society to its level of mechanistic stupidity. Such reduction of everything human to 'systems' suits authoritarian planners & totalising technocrats very well.

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Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty

2 years ago

Cells are fast and crowded places. Numbers help us make sense of them. Here are five of my favorite "bionumbers." 1. ATP synthase spins 134 times/second. That is much faster than the propeller on most piston airplanes, and about half the r.p.m. of a Boeing 737 jet engine.

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Toviah Moldwin @TMoldwin

2 years ago

The Dissertation.

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Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus

2 years ago

When I started working on AI four decades ago, it simply didn’t occur to me that one of the biggest use cases would be derivative mimicry, transferring value from artists and other creators to megacorporations, using massive amounts of energy. This is not the AI I dreamed of.