@neuroai.bsky.social gets it: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... I challenge you to find wiser advice: "our abstractions, kept alive as plural choices, visible as conceptual tools rather than hegemonic truths, can undo the ontological reversal, renaturalizing brains in flux".

There is not going to be any single "cure for cancer", because what we call cancer is actually hundreds of different dysfunctions that all end up in the same place.

Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.

The UK betrays the promise of a university: that students will be mentored in scholarship by people who are actively engaged in it. Unlike a secondary school, in a university the frontier between what is known and what is not is moving, and students can see that movement and participate in it.

❗We are recruiting a Post-Doctoral Research Associate❗ The PDRA will be based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University and will investigate the #molecular and #cellular changes in #schizophrenia. Please see link 👇 tinyurl.com/32u753js

May?! 🧐

Want to work on a belief-updating Bayesian framework to understand how tests for consciousness can be applied to artificial systems? Do you want a stipend to go along with that work? And opportunities to meet like-minded peers and do all sorts of fun workshops? Yeah you do. Come join me 😀

I want to recruit 3 postdocs at Trinity College Dublin for the neuroscience arm of JUSTICE, a new @erc.europa.eu Synergy project. Focus: • fNIRS hyperscanning • deliberative groups under pressure • silence, dissent, conformity, status, and coercive drift /1

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

I gave a seminar yesterday. The machine thinks it was about 'cake' and 'things'.

"Is the story of the mind and its powers not merely a fiction, but a self-fulfilling fiction, joy of every true believer? Well, yes and no. There are somewhere at least *some* facts." Rorty, A. O. (1982). From Passions to Emotions and Sentiments. doi.org/10.1017/S003... h/t @jowolff.bsky.social

Buzsaki's uncalled for dunking on the basal ganglia in this makes me unhappy.

🤦 Know thyself (Heracletus, 500 BC). Also wirth considering that "building Walmart" may not be a universally admirable a human achievement, discussed as it is here in the context of the work of Freud... People who seek to make money and happen to succeed are not necessarily worth listening to.

Ironic; the people who will clean up their mess.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Thirty years after the legendary Help album, Warchild Records release another magnificent compilation. One day @warchilduk.bsky.social will be obsolete, a museum reminder of the horrors we once inflicted on children. That day seems as far away as ever. Support them. open.spotify.com/album/1Qh1lG...

The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, with important implications for provision in overstreched classrooms. But, as @utafrith.bsky.social points out: "We’re all neurodiverse"... www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

We are hiring! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Actual lede: OpenAI, Grok, & Google already comply!! ' #Anthropic – alongside #OpenAI, #Google and #Grok – was commissioned by the Pentagon … [War] Sec. Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum: Open its AI for use in a "classified setting", >>as the other companies have<< ' www.dw.com/en/ai-firm-a...

Can neuroscience and philosophy play together, or are they at their best when in tension? A characteristically thought-provoking and thoughtfully articulated paper and thread by @neuroai.bsky.social

Rome, June 2026: 1 day left to submit your abstract and award application to THE event of the year in cognitive, affective, social and embodied neuroscience! escan2026.eu check out the cool keynotes, preconferences, social and early career programme and our travel, carer and early career awards

Maybe LLMs in EdTech is like a reverse cognitive gadget that evolution has hacked to weed out the unthinking...

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge...” This quote from Darwin's Descent of Man, published #OnThisDay in 1871, pretty much sums up the challenges the world is facing now, a century & a half later.

🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

🧐 pattern matching is not 'smart'. If this person thinks 20 year olds are smarter than 5 year olds, he clearly does not understand humans. So, perhaps more importantly, why are all those people smirking and just nodding along at this absurd nonsense?

So, that's what it's like to be a... chick. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The strategy conflates application and development. These two things need different kinds of support. Hard to square this kind of stated ambition with the scaling down of disciplines that fuel AI innovation and talent.

Following an open letter on 1 February, our Chief Executive Professor Sir Ian Chapman has responded to feedback and provides an update on the changes to UKRI investment approach. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-ce...

Is consciousness "neuroscience's hardest problem" in the same way that ultraluminous X-rays are astronomy's hardest problem?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

"Diffusion tractography outside the brain: the road less travelled" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Tractography of ex vivo mouse heart at 35 μm resolution

Ils sont fous, ces météorologues! "KILOMETER-scale GLOBAL climate models" 🧐

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...

And human cognition is not that poorly understood. It is understood more than enough to not get that muddled if clarity and understanding were the objectives.

Another fascinating episode; highly recommend PPF. Weber starts his legendary essay, "Politics as a Vocation", originally presented as a lecture: "This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways." I quote him often. Him and @timminchin.bsky.social

What have YOU done with your spare time?!

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

MEG meets fMRI! Quantum Sensing MRI for Noninvasive Detection of Neuronal Electrical Activity in Human Brains arxiv.org/abs/2601.16423

I’m excited to announce that Bielefeld will soon (in 2026) be home to a research-dedicated 3-T MRI The scanner will be run as a central research core facility, and we’re seeking a scientific leader (TV-L E15, permanent) to help build and shape it. MR physicist ads to follow. tinyurl.com/mryhaxed

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

Andre Geim's comment is interesting: "RSoc should not expel anyone... because expulsion is theatre. The people you want to punish usually do not care” But surely punishment cannot be the objective; if anything, it is to clearly and consistently demonstrate what values give your org its authority.

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here: forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

True Love Waits by @radiohead.bsky.social It makes my very skin crawl.

My review with @caterinagratton.bsky.social is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

Poignantly illustrated with an image that evokes a thousand cuts...

New tour de force from @giuliaabaracc.bsky.social. Everything you ever wanted to know about brain signal variability! 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...