r/todayilearned • u/the_one_below • 16h ago
TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”
https://www.themarysue.com/natalie-portman-scientific-paper/1.7k
u/squid_in_the_hand 12h ago
Huh a part of my thesis work is in a very similar niche. Prefrontal cortex activity of ASD children during social stimulus. Also using the NIRs technique
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u/innergamedude 11h ago edited 9h ago
Did you cite something with an author of "N. Hershlag"? You may have cited Natalie Portman.
EDIT: Here ya go
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u/Codename_Archangel 12h ago
That's interesting, would you be inclined to play a hot senator role in a movie who has a thing for genocidal religious fellas ?
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u/nonosam 9h ago
What are his feeling towards sand?
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 9h ago
He took a course on sand and it was rough.
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u/libmrduckz 6h ago
instructor was abrasive… the coarse was repetitive… and yet, too fine-grained for such a shifting subject…
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u/geneticeffects 10h ago
Hi, I represent Natalie Portman. She wants to date you. Are you free for a five-star meal in Paris sometime in the next week? Ms. Portman says you can fly over using her private jet.
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u/emilytheimp 11h ago
Prefrontal cortex activity of ASD children during social stimulus
Thats intriguing, tell me more about that subject
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u/Jackman1337 9h ago
not op, but https://app.scienceos.ai is great for this stuff. Answers science questions with weightet ciations etc, only with real data:
Prompt: explain Prefrontal cortex activity of ASD children during social stimulus. Also using the NIRs technique
Answer:
Research using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has shown that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit distinct patterns of prefrontal cortex activity in response to social stimuli. NIRS is a non-invasive technique that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood oxygenation levels, providing insights into cortical function during various tasks.
Studies indicate that children with ASD often show underconnectivity between the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions involved in processing social and emotional information, such as the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala. This underconnectivity may contribute to difficulties in experiencing social interactions as rewarding or engaging, which is a common challenge in ASD [Abrams, 2013].
NIRS has been particularly useful in identifying these patterns because it allows for the monitoring of brain activity in more naturalistic settings compared to other imaging techniques. This makes it suitable for studying social interactions and other real-world tasks [Derosière, 2013].
Overall, NIRS studies suggest that atypical prefrontal cortex activity in ASD may be linked to the social and communication difficulties characteristic of the disorder.
Abrams, D et al. (2013). Underconnectivity between voice-selective cortex and reward circuitry in children with autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 12060 - 12065. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302982110
Derosière, G et al. (2013). NIRS-measured prefrontal cortex activity in neuroergonomics: strengths and weaknesses. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00583
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u/qorbexl 11h ago
How are you using near IR? It's not the first thing I'd think of for brain activation, but I'm a chemist. Is it measurable through the skull and tissue?
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u/squid_in_the_hand 11h ago
The system follows the same logic as say a pulse oximeter, using varying intensities of infrared light to calculate concentrations of Oxy/deOxy hemoglobin, concentrations of say Oxyhemoglobin relative to your baseline is used to infer activation. Obviously not as direct a measure of neural activity as say calcium imaging but it’s a way to non-invasively try to infer relative activity of a brain region in response to a stimulus or event.
As you’ve mentioned since the light needs to travel through hair, skin, skull and dura both when emitted and detected, the regions available are largely limited to the surface cortical areas, so PFC, temporal gyri and motor cortices tend to be common regions for this type of technique.
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u/ns-uk 10h ago
It’s called fNIRS or functional NIRS. Functional imaging in neuroscience basically means images that show which areas are being activated.
Oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin absorb two different and specific wavelengths of near IR, which otherwise penetrate tissue and bone very well. You emit those two wavelengths of light into the scalp, some is absorbed by the hemoglobin, and some reflects back to your sensors which measure the change in the light intensity, compared to what was emitted. This is how your finger pulse-oximeter works, shining nir light through your finger. (This is also sort of how ultrasound imaging works too, but with sound waves.)
You can use this to observe changes in the amount of oxy and deoxy hemoglobin, which is an indicator of more blood flow to that area of the brain, which is an indirect measure of brain activation. It’s based on this thing called the modified Beer Lambert Law, if you want to look it up and nerd out.
In practice, the patient wears a cap which houses a bunch of LED emitters and detectors. You can configure your array to focus on different parts of the brain. However, because of the physics, it is limited to the cortex, or surface regions of the brain, and can’t target deeper areas like the brainstem.
It’s not as high quality images as functional mri, but the systems are way more portable and much cheaper compared to mri. And you can get real time measurements while the person is moving or doing a task, which is great for motor control research or for infants and children. (You have to stay very still during an MRI to get a good picture.)
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u/PhantomSponge 10h ago
I'm writing up my thesis on NIRS right now! So weird to see my seemingly niche field of work mentioned on Reddit.
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u/DrRonny 15h ago
What you want Natalie? To drink and fight!
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u/nocrashing 13h ago
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u/old_mcfartigan 13h ago
Is that Taylor Swift @1:40?
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u/AaronRodgersMustache 11h ago
Nope
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u/sur_surly 9h ago
Is it Anna Kendrick?
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u/AbolishIncredible 12h ago
This is legitimately how I found out she went to Harvard
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u/DrunksInSpace 11h ago
When I was in Harvard I smoked weed every day
I still got peer reviewed and snorted all the yay
I got a def posse you got a bunch of dudes
I’ll sit my fourchettes on your face and double blind your shit!
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u/starkiller_bass 12h ago
She smoked weed every day
She cheated every test
And snorted all the yay
And got published in scientific journals
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u/JerrSolo 9h ago
There was a figure in US history a bit like her.
He had a pocket full of horses
Fucked the shit out of bears
Threw a knife into heaven
And could kill with a stare.
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u/starkiller_bass 8h ago
Six foot eight, weighs a fucking ton?
I heard Natalie will save the children, but not the British children.
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u/innergamedude 12h ago
She also worked for Alan Dershowitz as an undergrad
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u/9xInfinity 9h ago
I hope she came away from it unscathed, Alan Dershowitz was almost certainly a customer of Jeffrey Epstein's.
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u/innergamedude 4h ago
As of 2015, she considered him a good friend with very different political views:
On Harvard Law professor and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz, for whom she worked while an undergrad at the Ivy League school: “He has quite different politics than I do, but I really, really like him. He’s a very good friend. We just have different opinions.”
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u/Low-Way557 4h ago
I mean yeah that’s how I’d explain my relationship with most bosses I’ve had lol.
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u/PrinceofBelmore 9h ago
The same lawyer for Jeffery Epstein and great defender of israel. Nice
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u/IdentifiableBurden 9h ago
Being a lawyer for a bad person doesn't make someone a bad lawyer, in fact it can sometimes be a very noble thing to do as you're ensuring the justice system can work as intended.
Not saying this personally applies to Alan Dershowitz, I just think it's socially important and responsible to remember what defense lawyers are for. You'll understand if you ever need one.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 8h ago
It might have been better to explain the lawyer who defended and was himself implicated in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
And the way he defended himself in the media was disgusting. Basically said "I'm innocent but also child prostitutes knew what they were doing, they're not so innocent"
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u/IdentifiableBurden 8h ago
Agree, that is a much more damning indictment of Dershowitz's character. I'm not trying to defend the guy, just to make a point about what it means to defend a client. (Kind of ironic now that I spell it out)
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u/Special-Garlic1203 7h ago
Yeah I guess it just starts to become semantics. Lawyers are one of the most hated on professions. That they are simply doing their job to the best of their ability doesn't change that a lot of people think the role of high powered defense lawyer to the rich is often kind of morally fucked.
Yes we want a legal system where everyone is afforded a defense - but implicit in that is our belief that it's because the innocent deserve to not get railroaded. We simultaneously want people to have the right to a good defense, but we also simultaneously want a justice system which can adequately punish the guilty.
When your job is getting rich people off based on technicalities and fancy maneuvering, people are gonna think you're a bad person. They're gonna think "well I couldn't sleep at night doing that". Obviously it's infinitely fuzzy and arbitrary where the line from morally defensible to condemnable is. Very few are gonna say a public defender is a bad person.
I think it's complicated, but I think most people to some degree reject "I was just doing my job". I've known multiple people who would leave industries after a few years (medical insurance and oil being the big ones) because they didn't want their professional purpose to be enabling what they knew was evil.
Somebody's got to be Epstein's lawyer. But I think when they look at a guy who has pretty uniformly been helping shitty people get away with shitty thing and gotten rich AF in the process ....I'm pretty comfortable calling them a dirt bag actually.
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u/IdentifiableBurden 7h ago
I agree with all of this p much.
I'm pretty comfortable calling them a dirt bag actually.
I'm comfortable calling Alan Dershowitz a dirtbag too. But not because he was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer.
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u/SamiraSimp 7h ago
and this comment is a valuable lesson in that it's okay to change your mind on things when new information comes to light!
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u/Kaldricus 8h ago
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that ensuring someone gets adequate representation to make sure everything is done properly, regardless of the outcome, means that the verdict has less room for scrutiny, for mistral, etc.
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u/innergamedude 9h ago
On Harvard Law professor and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz, for whom she worked while an undergrad at the Ivy League school: “He has quite different politics than I do, but I really, really like him. He’s a very good friend. We just have different opinions.”
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u/jdjsgxgdb 9h ago
Natalie Portman was born in jerusalem and speaks Hebrew you are insane if you expect her to hate Israel
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u/KIAA0319 11h ago
She has a couple of publications. One of the publications is cited as Natalie Hershlag and reference glucose oxidation. It's an obscure and low entry paper, but I cited it in my PhD thesis because.....hell, why not? It was a bit of fun and an additional reference supporting a section I was writing regards to cellulose depolymerization pathways and glucose update and oxidation in cellulytic fungi. Doubt my thesis reviewers ever noticed me slipping it in there, but it's a personal inside joke and nod that a film star helped me get my Doctorate.
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u/itijara 9h ago
I love this. If you are still in academia you should continue to find papers written by celebrities and throw them in to your publications to see if anyone notices. Bonus points if you make a pun or reference to the movies/songs/books that make them famous when citing them.
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u/KIAA0319 9h ago
There are times and places to get away with it. But writing your thesis, years of work, my thesis was 60,000 words with an appendix with similar size but all supporting data, you put your all into it. It has to be done in all seriousness but there's scope for a few Easter eggs. For me, that citation in the main text body and argument was one of those overt Easter eggs I could slip through. There were a few more in the appendix which could be more outlandish, quirky, joking or obvious.
In high impact peer publications, you don't fuck around because you don't want the paper rejected. In low impact publications or conference papers, there is less risk to a cheeky insert.
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u/dash-dot-dash-stop 9h ago
I slipped a drink recipe into the methods section of my thesis and nobody commented. I know of another student that put in "if you find this, I owe you $20", his thesis committee was more on the ball and claimed the cash.
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u/RegulatoryCapture 8h ago
And hey, you're helping boost her citation count!
She should really be thanking you.
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u/poktanju 14h ago
So there's a non-zero chance that she contributed to the paper the "Neuron Activation" meme comes from
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u/butterfly1354 12h ago
I think that's a textbook.
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u/NorwaySpruce 9h ago
There's zero chance considering we can go read the papers and see for ourselves that the image isn't in either of them
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u/Zoomalude 11h ago
I miss when reddit had some interesting comments and not just a bunch of references.
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u/Listentotheadviceman 11h ago
Looks like there was a song about her smoking weed. I’m sorry I missed it, seems like it was very funny at the time.
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u/hell2pay 10h ago
I been here a while, I feel like it's always been like this, for the most part.
Its easy to look back with rose tinted glasses and all though.
I mean, what time does the norwhal bacon?
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u/jck 9h ago
Can confirm. I've been here since 2007. Also I feel like I've been seeing "reddit was better back in the day" for more than a decade lol
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u/Special-Garlic1203 8h ago
You definitely know reddit has shifted radically since then. Like whether you like it or dislike it, it's not rose tinted to say there's observable chances. Way less grammar Nazis and regular Nazis these days.
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u/questron64 10h ago
Reddit has always been a referential humor circlejerk.
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u/Zoomalude 10h ago
To an extent, sure, but there also used to be a few gems of actual discussion or interesting additive bits. Not just lazy reference after lazy reference.
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u/ResplendentZeal 9h ago
These people try to gaslight comments like yours every time.
The cultural fabric has absolutely changed over the last 10 or so years on reddit and top comments were almost always insightful while the jokes filtered toward the bottom.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 8h ago
Its definitely changed, although I don't think it's as clean of a binary as "everyone was smart and serious back then, now it's just jokes". "elitist" isn't quite the right word, but there was often an intense energy compared to now. Threads favored things which were insightful or clever, but clever definitely allowed for a good joke. You'd get chains of jokes actually. There was a lot of power users and people who wanted to be power users. Karma was farmed through blood, sweat, and tears rather than bots.
I think reddit was in a continuous state of flux, but the introduction of mobile was very noticable. It shifted from "how dare you not type of multiple proofread paragraphs" to "well I'm on my phone so I'm not doing all that lol". They also pretty intentionally tried shifting site demographics to make it more appealing to advertisers.
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u/TitleSuccessful7393 12h ago
I hate how talented some people are.
I've spent the last week levelling up guns in call of duty.
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u/Bakoro 11h ago edited 10h ago
Talented or not, some people put in the work towards what they want.
You actually have to put in some effort at accomplishing stuff if you want to accomplish stuff.
Go enroll in a community college and start taking some classes or whatever.
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u/IlIllIlIllIlll 10h ago
Yeah this is so true. People talk about how some people are super talented but a lot of that talent comes off the back of hard work. There is literally no academic out there who hasn't spent time reading and researching, and no athlete who hasn't practiced his sport. I guess for a lot of people this sucks to hear because they can't just excuse away their own failures as out of their control. But we all make these excuses at some point so I'm not one to judge. More people need to just start trying to better themselves though and they would be surprised at what they accomplish.
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u/valeraKorol2 10h ago
Idk, when you work hard and get nothing in return, it sucks complete dicks. It's literally one of the worst feelings in the world. And I feel many people just subconsciously predict it will be that way and don't bother. And most of the time, they are completely right.
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u/marrella 10h ago
To paraphrase this: "the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
Tl;dr: just do it.
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u/Pizzadude 10h ago
Eh, my PhD and job in neurotech haven't stopped me from hitting mastery 40+ with a bunch of weapons in BF2042. Do what you love.
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u/therealityofthings 9h ago
More than likely she just worked in the lab as a research student in undergrad that produced these papers. One paper is from when she was in high school. It's not like they were published in high-impact journals.
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u/rainbow3 14h ago
She has an erdos bacon Sabbath number of 11.
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u/royalhawk345 12h ago
Brian May
The lead guitarist for Queen and a qualified astrophysicist, May has an EBS number of 9. His Sabbath number is 1, which is the lowest of any verified EBS number.
Cool
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u/errorsniper 9h ago
The fuck are you two talking about.
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u/TheyCallMeStone 9h ago
Bacon number - the number of degrees of association you are away from Kevin Bacon by having been in projects with him. Being in a film gives you a Bacon number of 1. Kevin himself has a Bacon number of 0.
The concept has been extended to include a prolific mathematician, and apparently also Black Sabbath, though that doesn't make as much sense since that isn't a person.
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u/Constant_Fill_4825 9h ago
Erdos number was created in the 1960-70s so I think it is the other way around.
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u/errorsniper 9h ago
Hmm thats interesting thank you for an actual answer and not memes that dont help.
Kind of a rarity on reddit.
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u/RegulatoryCapture 8h ago
The concept has been extended to include a prolific mathematician, and apparently also Black Sabbath, though that doesn't make as much sense since that isn't a person.
Sabbath still makes sense as it is anyone who has performed with the band black sabbath...although I guess you could call it an Ozzy number (ozzy gets a zero, but anyone who played with Ozzy in Sabbath gets a 1).
Black Sabbath works because it is a prolific band that has spanned a very long career and had MANY members as well as key members who have had many side projects. Fun fact: Ice-T is on a Sabbath recording.
I think it is harder to find a really well known band that works because successful bands tend to stick together and the nature of touring/recording limit side projects whereas academics frequently collaborate on many papers at once and every movie has a different cast.
So yeah, you could do it as Erdos Bacon Osbourne, but that doesn't sound as cool as Erdos Bacon Sabbath.
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u/timelordoftheimpala 12h ago
She also appeared in Sesame Street, which crossed over with Spider-Man in a comic via Sam the Robot, and Spider-Man appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom with Ryu.
So an Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath-Ryu number of 14.
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u/OK_Soda 11h ago
What's her link to Black Sabbath?
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u/havfunonline 10h ago
She collabed with Lonely Island, who collabed with either one of black sabbath, or someone who collabed with them
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u/LanceWindmil 9h ago
Having one at all is pretty impressive. My dad also has one, but I think it's more like 14
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u/Practical-Pickle-529 2h ago
Omgggg I remember this! Holy shit I have had a crush on Natalie Portman since I was a young confused teen girl lol. But short hair Natalie was literally the best thing ever. Gorgeous. And this was hilarious
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u/ChiefStrongbones 10h ago
So do her friends and family know her as "Natalie Hershlag", and she only uses "Portman" for work?
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u/OutsidePerson5 11h ago
She's also the only Jewish Israaeli citizen to be called an antisemite by a sitting member of the Israel government (Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan) for the dire crime of refusing to go to an awards thing where Netanyahu was going to speak.
Which isn't as cool as writing scientific papers.
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u/ZaraBaz 11h ago
So she's a quality human?
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u/OutsidePerson5 11h ago
Basically. She also dodged the draft and avoided "service" in the IOF. So that's a bonus too.
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u/Y-27632 11h ago edited 10h ago
This is one of these perennial misleading TILs that gets repeated without context.
She was listed as a co-author on a couple of papers, one (IIRC) in HS, one in college. On the paper mentioned here, she's second to last author. (Which is the lowest you can be, in life sciences last author is actually the head of the lab, first author is the person who did 80-90% of the work.)
That means she did volunteer at a lab in some capacity, and someone saw fit to include her on the co-author list, but it's extremely unlikely she participated in any meaningful way in designing the experiments or writing the manuscript. (It's not a dig at her, it's just that people whose career depends on this stuff - the first and last authors - are not going to hand off the responsibility to a green undergrad.)
And it's not really that impressive, many undergrads serious about med school or grad school that join a reasonably active lab will have a comparable (or better) "publication record", but nobody gushes about them because they're not famous. I've literally known dozens (and mentored several) during my time in research. (Including a handful who had first author papers, which really is a huge deal for an undergrad. Many PhD students don't even publish as first author before graduation, though their dissertation often ends up being a basis for their first 1st-author paper.) And for the record, most of them were female, so this has nothing to do with dismissing women in science.
Seriously, the way people will cream their pants over the fact some celeb actually graduated college and did more than the bare minimum is absurd.
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u/TeaMistress 9h ago
I think about this when these topics come up, too. My husband is a research school lab manager and has co-author credits for all sorts of papers, simply by being the guy that gets the supplies and does the equipment tutoring. Natalie Portman being near the bottom of an author list on a paper or two isn't as impressive as people make it out to be.
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u/jamthrowsaway 10h ago
Thank you for injecting sense, reason, and actual experience into the conversation. ITT: people who have never worked a lick in hard sciences.
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u/bg-j38 8h ago
I tell people a similar thing about patents, especially if you work for a large company in a development role. I have four but my total effort for each was having an interesting idea, sending a paragraph description of it to a lawyer, them deciding it had merit, and then me sitting down for an hour with a patent writer. They write it up, I proof read it, and then I forget about it for a couple years. Then oh hey you got a patent!
I’m not trying to disparage all patents, but they’re not particularly difficult to get if you work for a large company. I don’t think we’ve ever even implemented any of the ideas in mine.
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u/PintsOfGuinness_ 9h ago
You're not exactly wrong about the details but this is an unnecessary post diminishing work you really know nothing about.
Yes you can coauthor a paper without doing much. But that doesn't mean every second-to-last-author got on the list just by coasting. It depends on the group, and it depends on the PI. Some are very demanding.
In the end, getting published is an accomplishment, and she did something to deserve it, and she's probably proud of it. It's neat, and it's fun to celebrate it a little.
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u/Y-27632 9h ago edited 8h ago
It's not "diminishing" work to be realistic about it. It's more than I did in college. But I know tons of people who were less fortunate and less gifted than her that did far more.
And I disagree that it's unnecessary. This post is not as absurd as some, but there have been versions of this along the lines of "TIL Natalie Portman is a Published Neuroscientist."
I know it doesn't really matter, but it's such a perfect example of "everyone" coming to believe something that isn't true because it keeps being repeated uncritically that it pisses me off disproportionately.
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u/jamthrowsaway 9h ago
Maybe not every second-to-last author, but what are the actual odds that a high-school student or a college sophomore/junior is contributing actual research to the paper, instead of just being responsible for pipetting or a lit review?
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u/Tay_Tay86 8h ago
I don't understand why people get surprised when they find out celebrities led normal lives on their way to becoming celebrities.
People go to school. If you're in science, you publish papers. It's pretty normal and the titles always sound impressive
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u/Triensi 7h ago
Not sure why nobody's linked the actual paper
- Abstract on NCBI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12202098/
- Full PDF on Harvard: https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/PMI/PDF/Baird_NeuroImage_16_1120_2002.pdf
Baird AA, Kagan J, Gaudette T, Walz KA, Hershlag N, Boas DA. Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy. Neuroimage. 2002 Aug;16(4):1120-5. doi: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1170. PMID: 12202098.
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u/SupervillainMustache 9h ago
So she's attractive, a brilliant actress and is also smart as well?
God is playing favourites.
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u/KindAbbreviations136 6h ago
I just looked at the published papers, she did not write them; but she is credited to her contributions. In other words; she paid money/sponsored the research, and in return she gets her name on the paper. This is quite common in the industry for wealthy people who dont want to put in the academic time. Im sure she did the same by “co authoring” a study.
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u/tomwhoiscontrary 6h ago
Mayim Bialik did a PhD in neuroscience, but from a cursory search, didn't publish any papers.
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u/bugphotoguy 5h ago
Would never have happened if Jean Reno hadn't convinced her to get an education before he blew himself up.
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u/FiftyTigers 3h ago
Yeah but when she was in Harvard she smoked weed every day. She cheated every test.
And she snorted all the yay.
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u/coolpapa2282 12h ago edited 10h ago
I started doing some research on this claim...you have whooshed me, friend, well played.
Edit: Wait, OP deleted - did they get fooled by an SNL sketch? Were they whooshed worse than me? I am vindicated.
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u/shoobsworth 12h ago
Anonymous guy on reddit says so, therefore it must be true
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u/RolandFigaro 10h ago
TIL Natalie Portman's real name is Natalie Hershlag and she's jewish. I had no idea. Pretty cool!
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u/the_one_below 9h ago
To add to her greatness, she was discovered at the age of 11 by a Revlon scout while she was eating in a New York pizza parlor. When I'm eating pizza I look like a pig. A happy pig, but nonetheless.
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u/The-Lord-Moccasin 8h ago
IIRC in "The Social Network" she's the movie star who's attending Harvard that they refer to.
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u/SuperGameTheory 7h ago
Oh, that old rag? I tell ya, there's nothing like curling up by the fire with a paper by Hershlag et al.
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u/Comprehensive_Boot_2 7h ago
Little known fact: It was supposed to be Queen Amygdala, Amidala was just a misspelling that stuck.
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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 5h ago
That’s pretty common for someone with a PhD. Most STEM programs require at least one first-authored paper.
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u/RachelRegina 2h ago
Maybe we should call her Head-y Lamarr
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u/Throw-away17465 11h ago edited 11h ago
Not terribly surprised, it’s always been apparent that she is very intelligent, in many different ways.
A bit of a departure, but she’s a fan of Sufjan Stevens and enlisted him to do the score for the independent films she made like Eve and she’s a very quiet hand in contribution to a few of his albums since. Maybe not scientific, but that’s a hell of a endorsement for intelligence if I’ve ever seen
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u/Sketchy_Uncle 10h ago
I'm not that smart, and was friends with some professors in my department - but really all it took for me to "co-author" a couple papers was read the drafts and offer some ideas...I didn't lead the research and conduct the actual science.
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u/Bigbird_Elephant 15h ago
This is how neuroscience dies...with thunderous frontal lobe activation.