“UChicago’s national ranking for selectivity, currently No. 4, depends crucially on its rejecting so many women. Its selectivity of men alone would drop it out of the top 10. By contrast, Chicago’s selectivity for women alone would place it in the first position in the country.”
Seems bad. *Many* selective colleges have higher admit rates for men than for women. This difference seems anomalous, at least among research universities, no? Or no?
UChicago, like any other college, gets vastly more women applicants than men. And yet, its undergrad student body is disproportionately male.
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October 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“UChicago’s national ranking for selectivity, currently No. 4, depends crucially on its rejecting so many women. Its selectivity of men alone would drop it out of the top 10. By contrast, Chicago’s selectivity for women alone would place it in the first position in the country.”
𝕊𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕥𝕪
For my art trade with yuanxi ✦
For my art trade with yuanxi ✦
October 17, 2024 at 10:43 PM
𝕊𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕥𝕪
For my art trade with yuanxi ✦
For my art trade with yuanxi ✦
Finding a "face neuron" in an ANN doesn't mean it encodes faces like we do. 🧵
In my first project with @apurvaratan.bsky.social, we show that category selectivity in ANNs ≠ category selectivity in brains. Details in thread + preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Feedback or questions welcome!
In my first project with @apurvaratan.bsky.social, we show that category selectivity in ANNs ≠ category selectivity in brains. Details in thread + preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Feedback or questions welcome!
October 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Finding a "face neuron" in an ANN doesn't mean it encodes faces like we do. 🧵
In my first project with @apurvaratan.bsky.social, we show that category selectivity in ANNs ≠ category selectivity in brains. Details in thread + preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Feedback or questions welcome!
In my first project with @apurvaratan.bsky.social, we show that category selectivity in ANNs ≠ category selectivity in brains. Details in thread + preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Feedback or questions welcome!
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons - Nature
A temporally asymmetric synaptic plasticity kernel results from bidirectional modifications of synaptic weights around the induction of a place field.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Delighted to highlight our new paper in
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social entitled 'Synaptic basis of feature selectivity in hippocampal neurons' (thread below 👇): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How can we study target engagement and selectivity of covalent inhibitors? Which electrophilic probes are best suited to study a certain amino acid?
Our study on "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles" is published in Nature Chemistry.(1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our study on "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles" is published in Nature Chemistry.(1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles - Nature Chemistry
Covalent inhibitors are powerful entities in drug discovery. Now the amino acid selectivity and reactivity of a diverse electrophile library have been assessed proteome-wide using an unbiased workflow...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
How can we study target engagement and selectivity of covalent inhibitors? Which electrophilic probes are best suited to study a certain amino acid?
Our study on "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles" is published in Nature Chemistry.(1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our study on "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles" is published in Nature Chemistry.(1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not for nothing, but it’s admissions season. And you know what colleges hate? A low yield on admissions offers, which lowers their selectivity and hence their prestige. Just an FYI
This story reports that, according to one pro-Israel activist, members of Colombia's board had reported Khalil to federal officials.
How did Mahmoud Khalil become the first student targeted for deportation by the Trump administration?
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
He showed up at a protest last week without a mask.
"The guy was making it too easy for us," a pro-Israel activist who has been compiling a protester database told me.
forward.com/news/703018/...
March 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Not for nothing, but it’s admissions season. And you know what colleges hate? A low yield on admissions offers, which lowers their selectivity and hence their prestige. Just an FYI
Because while we're on the subject of "unfair," I feel like there's a huge selectivity in which aspect of unfairness is recognized in the development of children.
May 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Because while we're on the subject of "unfair," I feel like there's a huge selectivity in which aspect of unfairness is recognized in the development of children.
Yeah GOP has a history of selectivity (NRA, Reagan) regarding gun rights when folks they dislike have access.
September 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Yeah GOP has a history of selectivity (NRA, Reagan) regarding gun rights when folks they dislike have access.
To be clear: point wasn’t I think these guys are dangerous on this flight. They’re knuckleheads at the very least, but that’s irrelevant. Point was selectivity of the paranoid surveillance state.
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
To be clear: point wasn’t I think these guys are dangerous on this flight. They’re knuckleheads at the very least, but that’s irrelevant. Point was selectivity of the paranoid surveillance state.
If only there were a word to describe this kind of selectivity
February 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
If only there were a word to describe this kind of selectivity
I remember when we used to think that all neurons were specialized.
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
In this Journal Club, Fanny Cazettes highlights a 2013 paper that demonstrated the importance of mixed selectivity for cortical computations.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I remember when we used to think that all neurons were specialized.
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Mixed selectivity: when neurons stopped looking like specialists
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
The correct response to this is, "So why don't you instruct the FBI to release ALL the emails to remove the selectivity bias?"
WHITE HOUSE SAYS EPSTEIN EMAILS SELECTIVELY RELEASED BY DEMOCRATS TO SMEAR TRUMP.
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The correct response to this is, "So why don't you instruct the FBI to release ALL the emails to remove the selectivity bias?"
I’m sorry if this is your experience. I agree you have to use some level of selectivity in deciding where to turn.
October 12, 2023 at 2:41 PM
I’m sorry if this is your experience. I agree you have to use some level of selectivity in deciding where to turn.
We believe this selectivity was a deliberate decision to avoid escalations by targeting key elements of Russia’s nuclear triad, while still degrading assets actively involved in missile strikes. While this operation is unlikely to quickly diminish the frequency of missile strikes against Ukraine…
June 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We believe this selectivity was a deliberate decision to avoid escalations by targeting key elements of Russia’s nuclear triad, while still degrading assets actively involved in missile strikes. While this operation is unlikely to quickly diminish the frequency of missile strikes against Ukraine…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A selectivity filter in Tim17 mediates intramitochondrial protein sorting
A selectivity filter in Tim17 mediates intramitochondrial protein sorting
www.nature.com
October 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A selectivity filter in Tim17 mediates intramitochondrial protein sorting
A selectivity filter in Tim17 mediates intramitochondrial protein sorting
I think it's just a shifting of the game theory equilibrium. Bad matches decreased their selectivity to increase their odds, requiring even good matches to decrease their selectivity, leading to a feedback loop to where we are now.
August 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I think it's just a shifting of the game theory equilibrium. Bad matches decreased their selectivity to increase their odds, requiring even good matches to decrease their selectivity, leading to a feedback loop to where we are now.
Even before the advent of LLMs humans already produced more information at a rapid pace than any one person can ever consume the tiniest percent of it, meaning selectivity by personal value is the only important quality. Swamping the demand side is stupid, just the dumbest understanding of value
These tech bros forget that reading a book requires a hefty time investment from the reader as well.
Why should I, as a reader, invest time in a book when the “writer” clearly hasn’t?
Why should I, as a reader, invest time in a book when the “writer” clearly hasn’t?
April 4, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Even before the advent of LLMs humans already produced more information at a rapid pace than any one person can ever consume the tiniest percent of it, meaning selectivity by personal value is the only important quality. Swamping the demand side is stupid, just the dumbest understanding of value
Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?
Nope.
"There is evidence for publication selectivity in favor of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, We cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth."
Nope.
"There is evidence for publication selectivity in favor of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, We cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth."
May 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?
Nope.
"There is evidence for publication selectivity in favor of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, We cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth."
Nope.
"There is evidence for publication selectivity in favor of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, We cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth."
in for 2026:
dyke fellowship
unlikely artistic collaboration
trust as the medium of sex
lifting
vibe selectivity
asking for things
total freedom around identity anchors
out:
false stealth
polite unmentioning
obligate domme
terror
doubling down on misfit connection
hypervulnerability
unanimity
dyke fellowship
unlikely artistic collaboration
trust as the medium of sex
lifting
vibe selectivity
asking for things
total freedom around identity anchors
out:
false stealth
polite unmentioning
obligate domme
terror
doubling down on misfit connection
hypervulnerability
unanimity
December 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
in for 2026:
dyke fellowship
unlikely artistic collaboration
trust as the medium of sex
lifting
vibe selectivity
asking for things
total freedom around identity anchors
out:
false stealth
polite unmentioning
obligate domme
terror
doubling down on misfit connection
hypervulnerability
unanimity
dyke fellowship
unlikely artistic collaboration
trust as the medium of sex
lifting
vibe selectivity
asking for things
total freedom around identity anchors
out:
false stealth
polite unmentioning
obligate domme
terror
doubling down on misfit connection
hypervulnerability
unanimity
Going to physical archives helps us realize
-the illusion that 'everything' is online
-how much of historical record has already been lost
-the inadequacy of the written
-the selectivity of digitization projects
Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor!
-the illusion that 'everything' is online
-how much of historical record has already been lost
-the inadequacy of the written
-the selectivity of digitization projects
Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor!
to share with your friends and colleagues if necessary
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Going to physical archives helps us realize
-the illusion that 'everything' is online
-how much of historical record has already been lost
-the inadequacy of the written
-the selectivity of digitization projects
Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor!
-the illusion that 'everything' is online
-how much of historical record has already been lost
-the inadequacy of the written
-the selectivity of digitization projects
Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor!
We tend to exonerate ourselves by selectivity: I don't eat horrible feedlot beef! But the land use and greenhouse gas emissions from the nice-looking, grass-fed model are massively worse. We should stop looking at the pictures and start looking at the numbers.
July 29, 2026 at 7:31 AM
We tend to exonerate ourselves by selectivity: I don't eat horrible feedlot beef! But the land use and greenhouse gas emissions from the nice-looking, grass-fed model are massively worse. We should stop looking at the pictures and start looking at the numbers.
Nature research paper: Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry
go.nature.com/42W7Wsr
go.nature.com/42W7Wsr
Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry - Nature
De novo design of Ca2+ channels with ion selectivity that can assemble appropriately and mediate Ca2+ conductance when expressed in cells is described.
go.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nature research paper: Bottom-up design of Ca2+ channels from defined selectivity filter geometry
go.nature.com/42W7Wsr
go.nature.com/42W7Wsr
I'll say it again: the strength and security of our rapid response networks comes out of their vast scale and wide public participation, NOT from their selectivity or anonymity. Press and feds WILL find their way in. Accept it. It doesn't matter. Nothing illegal is happening here.
February 6, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I'll say it again: the strength and security of our rapid response networks comes out of their vast scale and wide public participation, NOT from their selectivity or anonymity. Press and feds WILL find their way in. Accept it. It doesn't matter. Nothing illegal is happening here.
Saupe Lab updates are moving to BlueSky - consider following if you're interested in biogeography, macroecology, maceoevolution, extinction selectivity, and species' responses to climate change!
November 15, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Saupe Lab updates are moving to BlueSky - consider following if you're interested in biogeography, macroecology, maceoevolution, extinction selectivity, and species' responses to climate change!
The superior colliculus is more complex than we thought.
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and
motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus.
This transformation reorganizes t...
www.cell.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The superior colliculus is more complex than we thought.
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience