Our #Researcher of the week is Maynooth University Maynooth University Hamilton Institute #PhD student Jonathan Giordano. Jonathan's work is on "Sleep and Memory Consolidation". Check out Jonathan's video. vimeo.com/724388292 @scienceirel Barak A. Pearlmutter

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Applications open now for the 5th intake of PhD students in the foundational areas of data science. Please RT!

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The warnings on the splash page of OpenAI's ChatGPT don't seem to include this sort of horror:

Bing Chat dispensing incorrect medical information. (Ibuprofin is in fact a commonly used muscle relaxant.)

We're desperate, get used to it We're desperate, get used to it We're desperate, get used to it —X (the rock band? the window system? the company? you decide.)

If we can't even get simple stuff like this right, how can anyone be less than petrified about our ability to get actually important AI safety stuff right?

A second fantastic project from St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule, this one on the ‘Math Behind the Dobble’ 🟰

Congratulations to Socha (9B) on winning 1st place in Intermediate Individual category in Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences at this year’s @BTYSTE with her project ‘The Math Behind Dobble’. All at St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule are very proud! Amazing achievement! 🤩🙌

Post-Doctoral Researcher (Formalising Specifications for Software Verification) (Temporary Contract to 31.1.26) Department of Computer Science / Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland universityvacancies.com/maynooth-unive…

Time to throw in the towel, DougJBalloon, satire cannot hold a candle to this sort of self-parody.

Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive: - Sign the Petition! chng.it/CKVJCCkXTM via Change.org

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

I never thought I'd see Geoff Hinton being respectful to nobility. What a time to be alive!

According to the US Constitution, tariffs are up to Congress. Choosing to delegate this to someone else, Joe Blow in Poughkeepsie or some guy in the White House or whatever, does not absolve them of sole responsibility. People should be furious at their congressmen.

THE REPEATED-STIMULUS CONFOUND IN EEG (Jack Kilgallon, Jeff Siskind, Barak Pearlmutter) We identify 16 affected publications. Decoding accuracies were overestimated by 4.46-7.42%. arxiv.org/abs/2508.00531