It is now well into November and I am still harvesting chard and peppers from my outdoor garden in Pittsburgh. Tell me again about how climate change is a lie?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Not impeaching and removing every official involved with this remains one of the biggest failures of constitutional governance ever, and there is a direct line from that to where we sit today.

My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Meritocracy is a joke. It’s just survivor bias for capitalism. Nothing more.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This just shocks the conscience: “Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Embodied Navigation: whole-body movement drives path integration in large-scale free-walking virtual reality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686699v1

The current state of America perfectly captured in one picture.

I love how universities with some of the best business & administration schools in the world still somehow decide to spend millions of dollars on outside professional consulting companies to provide business and administration advice.

Genuinely very funny for Sadiq Khan 2.0 to be in this list from a certain perspective, but also worth reminding that faced with the reality of a blandly competent centre left administrator like Khan the international right (including many in Britain!) still just plough ahead with these delusions.

I am not normally a skittish flier but this coming on the heals of that deadly UPS crash in Kentucky makes me a bit nervous to be traveling next week.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

This is pretty great

The NYC mayoral election map suggests that socioeconomic status was a big factor determining how people voted. Vote map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Income map: www.businessinsider.com/new-york-cit...

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

Nearly ready to go! Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025!

On my lab reading list— A neural state space for episodic memories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

mid-semester shout out to Andrew Shtulman's book "Learning to Imagine"; I'm teaching a seminar on imagination and pretense, and the book has fun and useful, and leads to interesting discussions

'I could smell the onions and the mustard'

'I could smell the onions and the mustard'

For no reason at all, a thought popped into my head: I wonder how Iraqis feel today?

Meanwhile, those with money and power will always push the idea that the real threat to your family's future is those other poor people who look or act just a little too different from you. Exploitation isn't just financial, but political too.

Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re being told to fend for ourselves while he builds gilded ballrooms, hosts lavish parties, and illegally reappropriates funds for his private army and corrupt ventures. There is no longer even a hint of ambiguity as to his motives or loyalty. The greatness of America was never his goal.

California Bluepeeps! I’ll have an afternoon to wonder around Pasadena next week. What’s good there?

Why worry about the content of your grant when you can putz around with Latex formatting for hours?

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1... Um…you can prove it’s not true, and more generally that AGI via learning is impossible. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social did.

“Preliminary data center”

Who could’ve guessed that the guy who acted this way in his confirmation hearing would also act this way on the bench? 🤷‍♂️

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

If you think your kids aren't old enough to hear about what's happening in this country, remember that there are millions of kids their same age who don't have that choice.

I started reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations because it comes up in the heterodox community so much, particularly Jordan Peterson’s rants. I must confess, I don’t get the hype. He just reads like a second century Tony Robbins that conflates luck and privilege with wisdom and insight.

The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways. n.pr/47B4pRT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero. Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist. Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.

We need more and more people (especially journalists) highlighting this contrastive dichotomy of Trump’s America. Drive it into people’s neocortex until they are unable to think about anything but it. youtu.be/q-Iu6qGz-1s?...

In 1963 the US govt spent 2.5% GDP on research in America. This was on top of what business spent on research, and was not conflated with business "spending" on research by bundling in expenses like advertising into their research budgets. That spike in 1963 has driven our economy for decades.

I see we’ve entered a new level of Hell. Fun times.