In case you are similarly afflicted, someone sent me this recording of the best @radiohead.bsky.social gig (yes, better than Glasto'97), so now your weekend can start early too: archive.org/details/Radi...

"we cannot agree that false things are true" 🔥 #NetZero

what a paper - proper service to the relevant fields 👏

Is this an omen of some kind?

Paging @diovicen.bsky.social 🎸

Absolute scenes 👏

While this essay is centred on mathematics, the gist is the same for any human conceptual thought facing AI Intelligence is process, path-walking, culture, collective, accretive #neuroskyence davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)

Who would have thought... “If you let the superrich infiltrate your democracy they will demand special privileges, reject equality and distort the democratic government to their own ends.” James Truslow Adams, in 1931, as it turns out. Also, anyone who spent a minute considering the issue...

Rejoice!

One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Wrapping up #ReadEmo26 with a panel led by @carien.bsky.social, as it considers new directions for neuroimaging in pain research.

Awesome work @wiebkegandhi.bsky.social and @richharrison.bsky.social with this years (15th!!) edition. Stay tuned for the next #ReadEmo mtg; @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social , LinkedIn or follow us on www.facebook.com/share/1Bm3FK...

Day 2 of #ReadEmo26 started well with Jon Brooks highlighting intricacies of brain-periphery interactions in fibromyalgia

chilling

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Characteristically well-written piece by @simonmakin.bsky.social about an exciting new method for circuit editing (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Day 1 of #ReadEmo26 is coming to an end with a lively panel discussion led by Fiona Talkington of BBC Radio 3 fame and our own @richharrison.bsky.social . Stay tuned for a brain-heavy Day 2! @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social

3 amazing short talks on applied aspects of pain research: Susanne Cromme on hysteroscopy; @kirrraliseh.bsky.social on incorporating PPI in menstrual pain and autism research; Jenna Gillett on compassion flows in chronic pain #ReadEmo26

Sigrid Elsenbruch is our first keynote speaker at #ReadEmo26, presenting her work on extinction learning, interoception and gut-brain perspectives in pain

The fifteenth year of Reading Emotions now underway- all about pain!

#ReadEmo26 is go! Wiebke (@wiebkegandhi.bsky.social) and Rich opening this years event @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social

British PM: Vacant James Bond: Vacant Doctor Who: Vacant If the King disappears in the next couple of weeks I think we may sink into the ocean.

Another contender for thread of the year.

Come & hear about @histparl.bsky.social's Oral History of Parliament on 24 June @19:00. With clips from David Blunkett, Malcolm Rifkind, Gisela Stuart & others,the session explores who makes it to Westminster, how Parliament has changed & who challenged its ways www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/westminste...

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months, writes @briandepasquale.bsky.social. The field risks becoming prolific but shallow—generating models faster than we can generate insights. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

"I’ve now written [...] and, each time, [...] with a sense of low-level anxiety. A worry that I have misunderstood something fundamental... That I don’t know what I don’t know..." Thankfully, the rest of the piece and the book itself are both uplifting and wondrous.

A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org

Nobel laureate misunderstands the historicity of the concepts "lab", "technological progress", and "getting up to reasonable speed in a number of areas that aren’t your domain"...

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

"If we are constrained by others, then we are not free to be ourselves. But if we are altogether unconstrained then we don’t have to try." That's why games matter - because they don't matter. Both the book and Runciman's piece are superb.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Thank you @marcofacchin.bsky.social and Farid Zahnoun for a stimulating couple of days in Antwerp. www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...

Taking a brief pause from observing the abrupt slide of a democracy into fascism in order to ponder more uplifting subjects such as the role of AI in science.

"prediction and explanation need not be at odds, and... methodological precision [can] align naturally with biological insight" Wise advice in commentary by @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social apertureneuro.org/article/1575...

Kyle's unexamined AI stance has been a liability for this government.

“Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out for longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest ...

Further evidence the net zero economy is one of the few parts of the economy that is booming. Truly insane that now is the time politicians start attacking one of the only sources of growth for UK businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530440...

Millionaire investor misunderstands the concepts of University, peer-review, and human endeavour not in the service of profit... Universities ARE economic powerhouses. Their incalculable benefits materialise at different timescales. They are not business; this conception only holds them back.

After Gabriel missed the decisive penalty, Marquinhos went straight to console his Brazil teammate.

Paging @keithfrankish.com 😅

Evaporation experiment

If you are also dreaming of the Greek islands while negotiating the unfamiliar London heat (whether under a pile of marking or not), pause over this: www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/john...

“It’s like the Titanic went down and the Belfast shipyards are putting out press releases about how there are green shoots of recovery in the quality of their catering.” @robertsaunders.bsky.social made me LOL on the drive to work with his sharp political analysis of Tory electoral delusion.

Another contender for thread of the year.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

the crew behind VLC are legit heroes. they've been offered millions (tens of millions?) to sell VLC or incorporate advertising and every time they've said, nah, we like that our video player is free software for everyone on the planet

have no idea if these numbers are accurate but they seem plausible given the size of VLC's user base i guess young, idealistic french techies are a rare breed who are willing to turn down life changing money to stay true to their original vision

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