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hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social

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hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social

@hakwanlau

Co-Director, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea disillusioned student of philosophy, occasional protester

Japan (near Tokyo)

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Joined December 2012

hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Apr 22, 2021
turns out, i was not joking. today i put in my resignation. not only will i be leaving UCLA, i'll be leaving California, the US, & universities in general... but i'm not leaving science. i'm going to start a new lab at the Riken Institute near Tokyo (Center for Brain Science)
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Oct 24, 2021
2022 is gonna be exciting (for me, selfishly)
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Sep 16, 2023
in light of the spread of some misinformation on public media (including news articles in Nature & Science), a group of 124 researchers weigh in & consider it necessary to label the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness as pseudoscience psyarxiv.com/zsr78/
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hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Mar 28, 2024
i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) - docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw… my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. RIKEN has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. 1/2
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neuroscience job openings (at all levels) in Korea
hi friends, i (hakwan lau) plan to move to Korea this coming Sept (2024), to co-direct this center, which hosts some of the best neuroimaging facilities in the world (7T MRI for humans & NHPs, 15.2T...
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hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Apr 8, 2022
don't buy this book! save your money! it is available for free if you click the open access link~ global.oup.com/academic/produ…
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Apr 22, 2021
... this means i'll be hiring~ multiple postdoc openings available for ppl broadly interested in perception / working memory / imagery / metacognition / attention, using fMRI / TMS / FUS. we'll have 7T MRI. collaboration w/ folks working on animal models is also a possibility ...
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Jun 18, 2021
in less than 2 weeks i won't be a psychology professor anymore. i'm glad to say, i have never consulted the APA style manual and probably never will
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Jun 30, 2021
today is my last day as a professor. besides some tech consulting side gigs, all my adult life i've been at universities. looking back, i've really done so many things so wrong. & i start to worry for the future of tertiary education. but let me say something constructive: ...
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Sep 6, 2022
does anyone w/ a strong computational background (can code well in e.g. python & understand data science / signal processing concepts) want to visit us at Riken near Tokyo, for a paid internship (ending before April 2023), to do a project involving analysis of fMRI data?
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Apr 12, 2020
i want them to learn how not to be bullied by people who know more math than they do... ideally through learning more math themselves, but better still if they can detect total BS hidden behind walls of equations, like the works of ...[tweet cut off due to character count limits]
Kording Lab 🦖
@KordingLab
Apr 12, 2020
Please, if you do experiments, what would you like your students to learn at a computational neuroscience summer school? I am worried our results so far may be biased towards the more twitter active ML folks.
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Dec 31, 2020
happy new year~ i just found out that @smfleming 's much anticipated book is available for pre-oder. now that's something to look forward to in 2021 - amazon.co.uk/Know-Thyself-S…
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Aug 31, 2020
"Can humans be trained to make strategic use of latent representations in their own brains?" @aure_cor 's paper is out - nature.com/articles/s4146…
hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
May 6, 2024
i will give a talk titled "The End of Consciousness" in about 3 weeks Abstract: Once ridiculed, the science of consciousness has grown substantially over the past 35 years. However, a central conceptual confusion remains: We systematically conflate ... 1/
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hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social
@hakwanlau
Feb 23, 2021
"do you read fiction?" "yeah i read theories of consciousness now and then."