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The Trump administration has agreed to pay TotalEnergies almost $1bn to pull out of offshore wind in the US and invest instead in oil and gas production. Tax payers’ money to ensure continued demand for oil and gas. Complete madness. www.ft.com/content/ae51...

How its going:

Keep thinking that it’s not just “longevity research”, it’s “controllable longevity for one specific person research” Because we could increase human longevity on average just by better healthcare access everywhere

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

A Georgia woman was charged with murder after going to the emergency room with severe pain she experienced after allegedly taking abortion pills at home. https://wapo.st/4lJ8pGv

Deserved congrats to @nytimes.com and the estimable @julianbarnes.bsky.social .

What a brilliantly-timed moment in world history for Gov. Hochul to argue that slowing down the green transition is necessary to keep energy prices low and stable... 🫠

Cosyne invited me to give a long tutorial (4 hours!) on methods to quantify differences high-d neural recordings across animals, brain regions, deep neural nets, etc. The recording is up on youtube. I hope it inspires more research on this fundamental topic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44x...

If you live in NYC you should pay attention to this (buffer zones would also exist around religious buildings). Seems like blatant anti-1A legislating.

It was 99 degrees even in northern Arizona today - a full 33 degrees above average. The plants are so confused and I am trying to not panic about actual summer.

Seeking power for data centers, Meta and other companies plan to use equipment that is expensive and polluting.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 FEMA to Relaunch Climate Resiliency Grants, Complying With Court Order www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/c...

Have you ever applied to an NSF grant? Then do this.

New Fellowship Alert: Our colleagues at The Open Notebook are partnering with Retraction Watch to offer up to six $7,500 fellowships + training to support reporting on local issues of scientific accountability. Learn more and register for the Mar 26 informational webinar:

AI is powerful but brings new risks. The government oversees safety of flights, food, and drugs. It should do the same for AI. I’m a scientist who uses responsible AI to help parents with autism diagnosis. In Congress I’ll make sure CPSC, OSHA, FTC and CFPB protect us. www.ft.com/content/7f63...

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

Looking forward to what promises to be an interesting week of discussions on explanation in neuroscience. Starting tomorrow!

🧠🌡️ New Comment in Nature Reviews Neuroscience: Neural adaptation to climate change: mechanisms, limits and opportunities (with Patrick Haggard, UCL). 🔗 [ rdcu.be/e8BEJ ]

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Even with all the things to be mad about now, I retain some anger for how our current reality has ruined any rewatch of Silicon Valley and Veep, as it will simply make you long for that tamer, satirical world.

Senate and Assembly Democrats are so far rejecting Governor Kathy Hochul’s push for a budget-season rollback of the state’s climate mandates. nysfocus.com/2026/03/10/c...

Another day, another MASSIVE #Petrotech project Microsoft's latest fossil-fuelled data centre project will increase the company's emissions by a whopping 40% www.distilled.earth/p/microsofts... + my write-up on MSFT's decision to fail on climate here: ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...

to take another London example, the Thames is a clean river! do you know how astonishing that would have seemed to our grandparents

Greg Bovino's core crew of lawless, violent, masked CBP-Gestapo agents have been identified: * Timothy Donahue * Georgy Simeon * Kristopher Hewson (C-29) * Michael Sveum (EZ-2) * Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17)

Data centers: 4-5% of U.S. electricity today. By 2030: 9-17%. Those projections vary wildly by state. We built a dashboard so you can see your state's numbers and download the data. Check out the full state-by-state picture here: powering-intelligence.epri.com/dashboard/

good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.

TFW you decide it's in the national interest to pay a company hundreds of millions of dollars to not generate energy during an energy crisis www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

Great thread!

Breaking news: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees, who have spent a full year on paid administrative leave, back to work.

Meta paid an effective fed tax rate of 3.5% on its latest tax bill — its lowest on record. Mark Zuckerberg's net worth just hit $222 billion. And Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Now it's reportedly planning to lay off 15,000 workers. Hello?

📄 2-page Extended Abstracts are open for submission until April 2nd (Anywhere on Earth, AOE)! Submission guidelines: cogcompneuro.github.io/docs We look forward to your #CCN2026 submissions!

Get your group together and submit!

Check out Jenna's profile for more threads on this important hearing

Here's the whitepaper:

On social media screening: "[If you are a foreign national on a visa] make sure your social media is clear of posts critical of the administration, which is a horrifying thing to have to recommend as an attorney."

NEW: @raders.bsky.social brings you six ways to keep the genie of AI-powered mass surveillance in the bottle. Get the details in our latest weekly briefing for our newsletter, If you can keep it. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/is-your-government-watching-you

So insane

Like many things about AI, this mainly reveals and amplifies an existing quirk of the system. Professors are supposed to both do the best research (and as much of it and as fast as possible) while also working nearly 100% with trainees, whose growth & interests need to be prioritized.

“No for-profit company could possibly withstand all the false leads required by that process,” he recalled telling them, “all the weird, random science that never panned out.” Super grateful for this piece highlighting the threats to this country’s biomedical research infrastructure

“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore”

Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...

The SAVE Act, an aggressive anti-voting bill, could come up for a vote in the Senate as early as next week. We’re fighting back to keep elections free and fair. Stay informed by subscribing to The Briefing, our free weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental? The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries. ➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Videos of talks from COSYNE (computational and systems neuroscience) are available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@cosynetalks

Please consider submitting feedback here: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote... You can use the template message or customize it. It takes less than 1 minute to submit. You can learn more from this recent NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...