Following recommendations on here I'm listening to More Everything Forever and it is INSANE. So many things in there but I have to ask- can philosophers just put numbers at the end of their sentences now? Supposedly it makes their claims more believable because they came up with special numbers?

New work w/ Zach Kelso and @madeleinecsnyder.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our negative results on classical conditioning in planarian flatworms. This was surprising, given the long history of work (including sensational findings of memory transfer and retention through decapitation).

עוד מוקדם לומר אם ביבי עשה טעות היסטורית כשביקש מטראמפ לא להתערב בזמן ההפגנות באיראן ולהמר על "שאגת הארי" כדרך להסיר את האיום הקיומי ממדינת ישראל. אבל חייבים כבר להתחיל לדבר על איום קיומי אחר. איום קיומי שיש לו צנטריפוגות של שנאה ותאוות נקם וכורים של ייאוש.

Howard Eichenbaum was a master at writing the closing statements of his papers. He just goes for it and that's so helpful.

Tulving wrote in 2002: "It seems that humans are the only animals that travel mentally in time." He never gives any justifications for this claim, or at least I haven't come across any. It's quite hard to show that animals do this, but around 2002 I don't think anyone was trying that hard either.

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Hot take: the hippocampus isn't actually "evolutionarily ancient" and its not helpful to think of it as such. The full argument for this take is right here (but you need to scroll down to sections 5-6): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Imagination is insane- we have a movie theater in our head and we use it basically for everything. But how did it evolve? Honestly, I have no idea, but I would like to find out. This is a first step in this direction. Would love to get thoughts from people here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

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My god. I think this is the best thing I’ve ever read on the art of trying to get life down on paper. From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...