Sebastian Seung
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@FlyWireNews https://t.co/ZUXm93WUll @eye_wire. Read https://t.co/meh9OZPrQk @WSJ Top 10 Nonfiction 2012. @PrincetonNeuro @PrincetonCS
Princeton, New Jersey
Joined March 2010
A historic milestone for neuroscience! It's been a fantastic journey for the #FlyWire Consortium. This special edition of Nature showcases the power of open science, with nine papers that not only describe the fly connectome, but also make discoveries using it.
Big news! The fly connectome is featured on the cover of a special edition of Nature. This is all possible thanks to the collaboration of 292 members of The FlyWire Consortium!.Check out the thread for an overview of the 9 #flywire papers published today
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Ancestry of PyTorch explained. I just looked for my old SN2 manual but couldn't find it. .
@kchonyc @LeonBottou True story. I used this particular Amiga 1000 to write SN (Léon had his own Amiga) using Emacs and gcc, and to write my PhD thesis with Emacs and LaTeX in 1987. SN, later evolved into SN2 and SN3, and was open sourced under the name Lush in 2001. SN3/Lush (tensor engine with Lisp.
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Grant cancellations have been arbitrary, not rational.
My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15.
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Yes the talent pipeline is the only way for the US to succeed in science and tech, because US population is smaller than EU, 4x smaller than China. We win by persuading the best and brightest to come to US. We lose if we drive them away.
@XirtamEsrevni @SebastianSeung @Harvard Give it some time - especially if researchers are not made to feel welcome here they’d soon go elsewhere.
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In my US professor vanity, I always assumed Chinese students came to US for its superior universities. My former student informed me that they come to get a high paying US job after graduation.
@SebastianSeung @Harvard Idk, still don't see Europeans & Americans clamoring to go to top Chinese universities. It's always the other way, so something is up.
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Editorial "MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm" "America will pay the price most of all".From The Economist.
economist.com
America will pay the price most of all
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Hats off to Germany too.
@SebastianSeung @Harvard This is the ranking with all institutions included (also CAS and Max Planck). Your point stays the same though. @maxplanckpress
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@NatureIndex But not for long. For many Chinese universities, research output is growing at double digit rates (rightmost column), whereas U.S. universities are flat.
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@NatureIndex Found another thread pointing out the same. Americans seem totally complacent and unaware.
The Nature Index is causing a lot of butthurt and denial. 1) Take it up with Nature people. They publish their methodology linked below. 2) The index has no input for reputation. If you think your favourite school has a better reputation than some of the top 20 universities,
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Universities ranked by research output. look closely. Now that @Harvard has been kneecapped, there will be no U.S. university left in the top ten. Hats off to China.
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RT @amyneurons: Spectacular video from @AllenInstitute by @quorumetrix showcasing stunning science from the microns papers! Look at those g….
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Don't miss Tyler's amazing visualizations of brain structure and function!.
Video thread containing the individual videos that accompanied the MICrONS paper package out last week. Not science explainer videos, more like "A trailer for a paper. Not intended to be a replacement for reading, but hopefully they make you want to:.
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Beautiful reconstructions of ganglion cells from a human retina!.
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RT @amyneurons: If you used your eyes to read this, cells like these lit up in your visual cortex. .
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RT @amyneurons: A quick not too serious thread of figures on my recent Nature paper Functional connectomics dataset spanning multiple areas….
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Thanks to @DavidAMarkowitz and @RJVogelstein for their visionary leadership of the now historic @IARPAnews MICrONS program!.
“The MICrONS advances published in this special issue of Nature are a watershed moment for neuroscience, comparable to the Human Genome Project in their transformative potential".
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