The man is straight up insane.

Another misplaced attack on the OBR. The government dictates fiscal policy, not the OBR. That includes the OBR's mandate and the fiscal rules. The fundamental problem is a weak fiscal position, which requires tough choices on tax and spend

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My prediction / hope for 2026: this will be the year we start seeing the theoretical neuroscience and #NeuroAI fields start embracing spiking as something beyond a poor man's ReLU. Spikes aren't just the brain's activation function but they are fundamentally different. 1/ 🧠🧪🤖

Five ants rented an apartment with five ants. Now they are tenants. Best of the day. Happy new year Bluesky friends ✨

What a pity @zackpolanski.bsky.social isn't offering the grown-up solutions we've got used to from SERIOUS parties, such a letting billionaires make up their own rules, pretending Belgium doesn't exist, or improving public services without raising taxes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Man who supported governments that cut public services for fourteen years complains about cuts to police, schools and healthcare.

High Altitude Cooking Instructions xkcd.com/3187/

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

This is disgraceful! Which idiot encouraged people to vote for the Brexit that made this inevitable?

Another end of year rec, this one a TTRPG. I never saw earlier editions of Blue Planet, though I was vaguely aware of it, but KS has just delivered the new Recontact edition and it is a remarkable thing. SF game about an ocean exoplanet that was colonised, lost contact owing to an

Hunting is completely impractical, causes immense damage to farming, benefits nobody and is very cruel indeed. No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

Using Claude Code has actually solidified my belief that PhD students should use these tools lightly for their core work. The main goal isn't to be productive, it's to transform yourself. At the end of building these apps I have next to know idea how they work

I'm late to the party, but this guy, and these lectures are *SUPERB!* They encapsulate the modern world extremely accurately Rutger Bregman, Reith Lectures 2025 youtu.be/fUJ-qEmQGhM

fascinating, i was under the impression that the only reason people would ever learn anything is to get a job and the only thing universities should do is ‘produce graduates’ (and maybe vaccines)… if only we could learn something from this story in the UK

This is profoundly un-American. No—that's not right. It's *anti*-American. It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions. The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Our paper on data constrained RNN that generalize to optogenetic perturbations now citable on eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

Good news today. The Employment Rights Bill passes. Govt will review foreign interference in politics, The UK'll rejoin the EUs 'Erasmus' student exchange scheme from 2027 + there's to be a look at removing political appointments from the BBC. A certain frog-faced politician is not having a bad day!

Why isn’t modern AI built around principles from cognitive science or neuroscience? Starting a substack (infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/why-isnt-m...) by writing down my thoughts on that question: as part of a first series of posts giving my current thoughts on the relation between these fields. 1/3

Guys I'm getting the impression Trump’s lawyers are struggling

Normal people say “my condolences.” Trump says “this is about me, actually.”

If the Daily Mail backs Reform UK at the next election, it will be the first time it hasn't supported the Conservative Party since it came out in favour of the British Union of Fascists

the americanisation of the british right wing is just pathetic, like you can’t even be your own kind of wanker any more war on christmas (lol), bathroom bans (we don’t call them bathrooms here), DEI (we didn’t used to put those letters that way round), even 15-minute cities (what the actual fuck)

Welcome back to 25 Days of Bond-Mas! Today's watch is Thunderball (1965)! I love it - bad guy with sharks, classic Bahamas location, the Junkanoo, and more scuba underwater shots than should really be in a movie. People may find this one slower, but I find it charming. Any other Thunderball fans?

This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.

it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

these kinds of videos always prompt a certain Pratchett quote in my brain, from Thief of Time

Reform UK councillor Andrew Harrison's business was fined £40,000 for hiring an "illegal immigrant." Almost like these people are shameless, two faced hypocrites isn't it www.bbc.com/news/article...

my one very sincere piece of business advice to universities: it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of

No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”

I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X. Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

"Neuroscientists need better training in computational methods." We got you. Join us in July: neuromatch.io/courses/ Our #ComputationalNeuroscience course is the perfect way to gain practical experience and build a strong foundation in this field.

Move over RPE, hello FoMO... such a great seminar today by visitor @lauragrima.bsky.social who told us about her joint experimental-computational work on mouse foraging behaviour in *naive learning* contexts using RL, feat. cool novel role for dopamine. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

when you have had it with these iconoclastic snakes on this consecrated plane

Hard to believe that this species once roamed the tundra, the desert and the jungle, felling mighty beasts with intelligence, teamwork and guile. Now it has to look at me like this in the desperate hope of some cheese. Mind you. She did get the cheese. #DogsOfBluesky

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.