@jessramos
PhD candidate on Infant Active Learning, Exploration and Curiosity @ Donders Institute for Cognition, Nijmegen Netherlands EEG / Eye tracking / Behavioral Studies BabyBRAIN Lab She/her | Mexican | Anti-racism activist
What does it mean for us being human when a massacre does not stop you in your tracks? In this essay I examine the various ways in which scholars have tried to imagine the undoing of the endless night of the Zong, the undoing of a world we cannot live within.
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Autism is not overdiagnosed.📜 Self-identifying vs diagnosed autistic adults tended to have similar autistic traits & understanding of autism but *higher* unmet needs, unemployment, & distress. They mostly wanted a diagnosis but barriers eg costs, lack of support.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Mark Rutte best illustrates what neoliberalism and extreme right authoritarianism have in common: a strong disdain for the rule of law, int. law and human rights; the deeply held conviction that, ultimately, might is right; and the presupposition that 'freedom' merely belongs to white, wealthy men.
[...] One may therefore begin to ask:“Do we want [assassination] to become a permanent capability available in principle to any of the 192 [now 195] sovereign states in the world that think of themselves as having particular persons as enemies?”
Whether the targets of recent assassinations “deserved” their fate is, however, less important than the implication of a shift from legality to morality for the international order. While legal arguments can be rebutted, moral claims about worthiness are less susceptible to meaningful contestation.
this!!!
Its fundamentally "American," isn't it, since red or brown people (depending on how one racializes our ancestors) were genocided to make way for a white Christian nation state?
My goodness, people, get another guiding story because this one is clearly a lie.
Terrifying times for our Latin American region. Once again terrorized, usurped and stolen. Our greatest misfortune is the absolute useless nation that neighbors us. Fuera Yankee ✊🏽
Coming up soon (9 am today) an opportunity to hear this classic episode of In Our Time on Bird Migration featuring Tim Guilford of @biology.ox.ac.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
In honor of the arrival of the White House to Bluesky. A dedication.
youtu.be/Rxiyfo29nFI?...
New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
How does the brain decide? 🧠
Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.
After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.
rdcu.be/eGUrv
R.I.P. Assata Shakur 🙏🏽❤️✊🏽
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
You probably missed it - the US govt just added FOUR new groups to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.
For decades, there have been about 2 new FTOs per year. This year, the Trump admin has added 18 (EIGHTEEN) new FTOs.
Can CT practitioners really pursue so many groups? Is this only talk?
Since you mentioned it in one of your blogs, I have tried to find a way to read that book. Finally found a relatively affordable used exemplar. Looking forward to reading it.
Cover of a book called 'Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism'
A good time to read this book again... And I never fail to just get absolutely enraged by every single paragraph. 🤬 Some things I am even left in absolute disbelief. Like how? How?!
I'm so excited to finally be able to share these animations!
Here's the @thrivingautistic.bsky.social page about them, along with the companion blogs (two of which I wrote myself).
Please share them widely, if you like them. 😊
www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...
NYT GUEST ESSAY Barnard President: Now Is the lime for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers
If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.
"The ongoing project Radical Climate Action Bird explores how communication between humans and animals can have political impact. At its core is the song of native songbirds."
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It is interesting to see the self-proclaimed 'Land of the free, the beacon of democracy' nation succumbing to authoritarianism with so little resistance from its citizens. It reveals its extremely faulty democratic structures and how little power/influence its normal citizens actually ever had.
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.
This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
