Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.

Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.

@drjasberry.bsky.social

Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾 UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰

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Sam Gershman
@gershbrain.bsky.social

I've been writing a textbook on computational cognitive neuroscience, which has prompted me to assess the evidence supporting various theoretical ideas. It's striking to me how some ideas have an extraordinary shelf life despite weak evidence.

Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.
@drjasberry.bsky.social

Love this design 🧬🧬

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

I'm so happy people are so into these shirts! Pre-orders will be open until the end of the month. They were designed by @franzanth.bsky.social & will be printed here in Philly on 100% cotton Next Level Tees. Pink is *only* available until 5/31 Get 'em here: Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖
@drcaberry.bsky.social

are you ready to learn robotics?! #BlackInRobotics got you! Everyone welcome! #AI #Drones #Robotics #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepLearning @blackinrobotics.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial...

eventbrite.comArtificial Intelligence and Machine LearningGet ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), where we'll explore cutting-edge technologies.

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Jacob Robinson
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social

What is or isn't a "BCI"? We argue in Nature BME today that if the tech stimulates or records brain activity AND does computation, it's a BCI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... But we still need a way to discuss different types of BCI separately... 🧵 #BCI #BrainComputerInterface

nature.comAn application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces - Nature Biomedical EngineeringNaming brain–computer interfaces according to their intended application will assist stakeholders in the evaluation of the benefits and risks of neurotechnologies.
Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.
@drjasberry.bsky.social

This book explores the argument (through NDEs and OBEs) that the brain itself doesn’t produce consciousness. Instead, the brain acts as a reducing valve to shift our nonphysical consciousness into a limited capacity that is useful to help the material human body survive #MorningReads #BookSky

Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.
@drjasberry.bsky.social

Essentially the author’s argument states that if we perceived too much of the nonphysical world, then navigating life on earth would be too great of a challenge, and therefore the brain blocks out access to knowledge to other (higher) dimensions. #Consciousness #Neuroscience

Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.
@drjasberry.bsky.social

As of yet, there is no unified “theory of everything” that can combine the laws of quantum mechanics with those of relativity theory in a way that begins to incorporate consciousness. -E. Alexander, MD #NeuroSky #Neuroscience #Brains

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Black in Robotics
@blackinrobotics.bsky.social

IEEE Humanoids Study Group - HRI Survey The IEEE Humanoids Study Group (www.ieee-ras.org/industry-gov...) is in the process of putting together a report to help standards groups across the world determine which existing standards can and should be applied to humanoid robots

ieee-ras.orgStudy Group - Humanoid Robots - IEEE Robotics and Automation SocietyFocus is on both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems; whereas automation includes the use of automated metho...

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

I really think many if not most of the LLM fail cases are people trying to use it as a search engine. It is the opposite of a search engine.

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Bluesky
@bsky.app

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Altmetric@altmetric.com

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

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Tim Behrens
@behrenstimb.bsky.social

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

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Gary Marcus
@garymarcus.bsky.social

Continuing struggles in GenAI and logic and relations. Nothing that I worried about 20 years ago in The Algebraic Mind has been genuinely solved.

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social

Imagine a snail. Imagine 5 snails. Imagine a snail on a sail. Imagine something that isn’t a snail. now read a new pre-print: "Relations, Negations, & Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models" (by Conwell, Tawiah-Quashie, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17066

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peterkonig.bsky.social
@peterkonig.bsky.social

Viviane Clay, Director of Thousand Brains Project a Project (and, disclosure, incidentally a CogSci Osnabrück alumni) presents www.meetup.com/de-DE/thousa...

meetup.comThousand Brains Project Launch Symposium, Mi., 4. Dez. 2024, 09:00 | MeetupJoin **Jeff Hawkins** and the Thousand Brains Project Team as we present the origin, vision, and execution of our new open-source initiative, the Thousand Brains Project. �

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Jonny Smallwood
@themindwanders.bsky.social

Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689

elifesciences.orgMacro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traitsInteractions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.

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Sheffield Robotics
@shefrobotics.bsky.social

"Understanding the Sense of Self Through Robotics" Authors: Prof T Prescott, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Sheffield Robotics/School of Computer Science Prof K Vogeley, University Hospital Cologne Prof A Wykowska, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgUnderstanding the sense of self through roboticsRobots can be used to study and understand the sense of self as a fundamental phenomenon of human nature.
Jasmine Berry, Ph.D.
@drjasberry.bsky.social

We’re seeing some incredible growth in #NeuroSky “Daily neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky have risen to an average of 179 in the past 7 days, compared with an avg of -35 in the month of October -28 in September -15 in August” #blackinneuro #neuroscience www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

thetransmitter.org‘Huge influx’ of neuroscientists migrates to BlueskyDaily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.

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Thomas Andrillon
@thomasandrillon.bsky.social

I think it was missing to I created a Consciousness Science Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/T8z9NP4 I can still add ~90 people so if you want to jump in, let me know! And if you don't want to be there, let me know as well of course. The boundaries of consciousness research can be hard to determine!