bendfulcher.bsky.social
I lead the Dynamics and Neural Systems Group at the School of Physics, the University of Sydney. We develop time series tools & physical models to understand the dynamics of complex (usually neural) systems. Also: @bendfulcher@fediscience.org
👤 Joined on 28 September 2023
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@bendfulcher.bsky.socialOur paper is out in Nature, congrats to Qiyu, An et al! By stimulating ~20 motor cortex neurons carefully selected based on their activity, we could induce learned population activity and, sometimes, the movement itself, depending on the brain's state. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Show PostIndeed, years before Genealogy of Morals, Darwin had argued that our moral principles had evolved from social instincts. I wrote about that here (paywall): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #psychsky #evobio 🧪
Show Postah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Show PostRIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Show PostHamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.
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