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Announcing the already-open applications for the 2026

Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience

http://parisneuro.ovh

Dates 11-23 May 2026

Application deadline 2 Feb.

Please boost, with apologies for duplicates.

Plane spotters.

@gb0n Cool! I wonder what the next stop is. Midway? Majuro?

@gb0n I appreciate the engineers and engineering that make these launches work. It still captures my imagination and inspires awe, even as routine as it has become. And I appreciate all of your photos of them.

"I don’t even focus on people. I am at war with certain ideologies and ideas, and I want them expunged. I want to turn them into phrenology. That’s what I want. But I don’t want the people out."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates

@mark_histed Wow! Interesting. Are both in the same neighborhood? Have there been many (non-cosmetic) modifications or updates over the years?

I miss Zoom based talks hosted in Europe a lot because I'm usually a night owl and they're often too early for me, but I just realized I can attend ones in Japan. Thinking about checking out this one with Shun-Ichi Amari happening at 4:30pm JST on Wednesday, which would be 11:30pm Tuesday PST

https://ircn.jp/en/events/20251119_commemorative_talk_shun-ichi_amari

@mark_histed wish granted

@neuralreckoning @albertcardona Here’s a US study that has it at $2.56 for every $1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/nih-funding-delivers-exponential-economic-returns/ These analyses are hard to compare, though. Maybe it suffices to say that they both have positive returns.

I like the artist income project, and basic income programs in general seem to have a good track record. At least as far as I’ve read.

@carol Amen. Microscope software is like this too. There is so much room for improvement— refining the user experience making an “easy” mode.

"The world is full of media servers normal people can’t set up. Free audio editing software that requires hours of learning to be useful for simple tasks. All because there’s only one UI, and it’s designed to do *everything*."

I couldn't agree more with this (and my job is to build free software):
https://danieldelaney.net/normal/

#freesoftware

@ai6yr They deorbit, like most modern satellites https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/starlink-satellites-falling-more-than-ever/ so hopefully the debris risk is low.

@regehr I hadn’t thought about it until just now, but it seems feasible to unify a lot of his films into a single universe, with Ice Cube playing the same person in the films, but under different names. Boyz in the Hood, Friday, and Barbershop are the early years, and then he gets into law enforcement: Ride Along and then Jumpstreet. And then progresses to covert ops in XXX. Plausible.

I can kind of understand the value of grad student TAs. Every year, this material gets more and more reflexive to me, and I get further and further from where the students are at. Me: "One slide is enough for the Helmholtz decomposition. They probably already know it from high school." #iteachphysics

@jaztrophysicist Yes. Well said. Accountability matters. https://labrigger.com/blog/2025/09/22/accountability-is-a-way-to-determine-truth/

You can probably guess what the color code is.

I was trying to recall some movie from the 1980s that was some sort of dystopian sci fi with heavily modded junkyard vehicles in a desert landscape that wasn't Mad Max. I used 2025 technology to search for it, and it turns out there are a metric ton of movies that fit that description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalizer_2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletruck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacehunter:_Adventures_in_the_Forbidden_Zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Gone_Wild

(btw, none of these are what I was looking for... still searching)

@steveroyle At least one is. Thanks for sharing this.

@j_bertolotti I agree that the first two, kana, aren’t hard to learn.

But that third one, kanji, takes some work. Thousands of characters to learn and 2-6 pronunciations for each (or more, like 生). (By contrast, Mandarin characters often have a single pronunciation.) Still, you pick it up as you go. It’s fun to learn.