Andrew (Andy) Dykstra
〰️🔊👂🧠 @ University of Central Florida | opinions mine
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- Just one guy's inconsequential opinion, but one of the most effective collective actions I think we could take would be a Cesar Chavez-style boycott of Amazon.
- "We’re witnessing a murder. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThe number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraYour Iranian colleagues are cut off from family back home & are in a state of collective grief, which has many faces. We may appear more aloof or be more impatient, may self-isolate, have more typos, may freeze or overwork to numb the pain, or find fear, memory, or hope in unexpected moments.
- If you're simultaneously (a) freaking out, (b) mad AF, and (c) seeking moral clarity and leadership, you're not alone.
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What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe... - Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraA thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraI said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. gift link: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThe federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings
- *Every SENATOR, irrespective of party, must vote NO on DHS/ICE funding.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraNonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstra"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (Video: @dropsitenews.com )
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- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstrain case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraDemocrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants theonion.com/democrats-condemn-i…
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraTrump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
- "The fact remains, though, that peacefully filming interactions can be interpreted as aggressive or escalatory precisely because it is an accountability mechanism." 😳
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThank you to @aaas.org for the opportunity to lead a new editorial pod at Science Advances on Systems, Computational, Neuro-AI & Neurotechnology (SCANN). Top opportunity to highlight outstanding work at the intersection of neuroscience, computation, and emerging technologies. Send your papers now!
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- I find tinsel distracting.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstra1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraScience has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/493Tpgx
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstra🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n
- This is friggin’ cool.
- New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions. Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
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- If you're interested in hearing, speech, and voice, give our Center (Communication Technologies Research Center, or CTRC) @ctrcenter.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social a follow!
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- I guess on account of Thanksgiving last week, Jimmy Cliff's passing just registered. 😥 In his honor: youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstra🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de! Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThis is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.
- Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraCan confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
- NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say. Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration. Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
- There is no rock-bottom to the cruelty. www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraI rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025... I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
- To convince people you're not the same as the other guys, you have to be about something more than just winning the next election, which (ironically?) will help you win elections and (sarcasm loading) has the tangential benefit of actually improving the lives of those you serve.
- If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab. tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
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- Great write-up of an interesting article that traces its roots to "A modified concept of consciousness" (Sperry, 1969): psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
- The cruelty is the point.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraOne analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstragenerating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
- Very cool auditory no-report fMRI study!
- 👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) Dykstra👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
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- How to disable: - Log in to LinkedIn. - Click on your profile picture at upper right. - Select "Settings & Privacy" from the drop down menu - Select "Data privacy" from the left-side menu - Find "Data for Generative AI Improvement" - Toggle the switch to "off"
- ‘But Florida has made no such provision, telling SNAP recipients in an online message, “SNAP benefits for the month of November will not be issued until federal funding is restored.”’
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- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraScientific Modeling Cheatsheet: #MATLAB vs #Python vs #Julialang Side-by-side comparison for: • Differential equations • Optimization • Automatic differentiation • Symbolic computing • More! Highlights ecosystem differences & best practices. sciml.github.io/Scientific_M...
- If you want to take your M/EEG interpretations farther, I can recommend this tool!
- Pretty sure Minnesota might be the only place where you can look at high-field MRI images on a jumbotron.
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraWant to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraOur review on intracranial research on consciousness is now out as a preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736. I believe that intracranial recordings provide one of the most exciting avenues for research on consciousness right now! If you agree, I think you will find the review interesting 🤓
- Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG
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- This is the way. tinyurl.com/34768ed3
- This paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by Laura Doll and Alexander Gutschalk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was published last year, but I'm highlighting it again b/c I think it's really cool and has all the things: M/EEG, pupillometry, awareness ratings, SDT. #consci 🧠💻 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Bravo, @mit.edu ! links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraThe next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraGonna be in San Diego for #sfn25? Come join us for our first ever in-person event for @storiesofwin.bsky.social - registration is now OPEN!! 👇 gonna be a great time for getting inspired and building community (and stay tuned for an exciting lineup of 🤩speakers/panelists)! Help us spread the word!
- 🚨REGISTRATION IS OPEN!🚨 We're so excited to host our first-ever, in-person event! Join us for panel discussions, a keynote address, and the opportunity to meet many amazing women in Neuroscience💜 Please register to attend by November 1st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait!
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- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraNew paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’! Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves! Demos in thread👇 [1/6]
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... UT Austin is one of the 9 schools offered a deal: accede to White House demands and get funding priority
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraToday marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
- Reposted by Andrew (Andy) DykstraIf you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @darcywaller.bsky.social !
