SATURDAY GO MAN CITY ZZZZZZZ

"The answer in the long run is going to have to be, if we’re going to undo the concentration camp society, it has to be that nobody gets that end-run treatment, that nobody gets that performative cruelty on the streets, or that illicit detention in which they are outside the protection of the law."

Undeniably true Inequality Will Make the Next Pandemic Worse @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

Dudes rock

They knew *exactly* what they were doing with this bobsleigh track #WinterOlympics

This is just wrong. These objects should not be used to create further profit from the enslavement of millions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Totally insane she didn't get the nobel for this and others did

In this talk Jocelyn Bell says the reason she discovered pulsars is that anything she doesn't understand sticks in her head and annoys her forever; the mystery signal was present only 10 times per million readings but she still cared about it: "That's how sick I was." lmao youtu.be/ot1Ggv6YZyQ

📢We're thrilled to announce the first-ever #IRCA Conference on #Aphantasia! Call for abstracts is open, deadline: 17 April 2026 sites.google.com/view/irca-co... This 3-day interdisciplinary conference aims to consolidate current knowledge and draw a future plan for aphantasia research.

Because nothing screams “book your vacation now” quite like “Yes, please come and stay at one of our concentration camps.” "11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America's Continuing Tourism Slump" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...

New ep of The Pitt may be the first med show I’ve ever seen that spent more time on a sexual assault evaluation than just mentioning it and cutting to another scene 👍👍👍

Face and body representations converge along the visual hierarchy in models and cortex Preprint from Leonard E. van Dyck & @kathadobs.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dancegrading to Parquet Courts Normalization in the classroom early this morning

FYI, "Urgh! A Music War" (1980) is free on youtube and it's even better than I remembered. Lot of new wave and punk heavy hitters and Gary Numan driving around on stage in a little car. youtu.be/SgBhZPBp-WI?...

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that being the first President ever to fail the peaceful transfer of power might have been worse

and all these babies and small children have been so sick and hospitalized with measles FOR NO REASON. and the parents don't even regret it. because they believe it. because they've been conned. its hard not to keep my fists clenched so tight.

Must be nice to have a normal government doing normal government things

New lab paper in #ScienceAdvances: we identify a modality-common selective-attention signal in noncholinergic #BasalForebrain (BF) “bursting” neurons, distinct from the modality-specific attention signals typically described in corticothalamic circuits. 1/n www.science.org/doi/full/10....

This is the precise mirror image of the equally lazy and infuriating idea that anything lots of people like must therefore be shallow and bad.

everyone is saying it but I'd like not to be cold anymore.

Scratching my head over whether this is a worse understanding of the Supreme Court or of the Declaration of Independence

Was handing back exams to Psych of Gender at the beginning of class today and said "your professor's cultural education continues...last night Dr. Wright and I watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry." Half the class cheered so loudly I was shocked.

Good news: after 390 years of manels, single-gender events are officially forbidden at Harvard. Oh. Never mind. Single-gender events are fine as long as all participants are men and occur "accidentally".

The Supreme Court, like every time they've bucked Trump before, will quickly fall back in line with a massive decision in his favor. Anyone writing a take this naive must not have mastered object permanence.

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

Eradicating child stunting was a central feature of the modern health transition. A new paper reviews 923 child growth studies in 122 countries 1814-2016 to show massive decline in child stunting in the 20th century even in hi income countries & surprising heterogeneity in the regional trajectories.

#FacePerception #VisionScience #ComputationalNeuroscience #Psychophysics

Wow. Definitely going to be bringing this up in my sociology of gender class on Monday. Coincidentally we are covering institutions and structures.

Pretty wild to claim that extractivism is punk rock.

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#MorningReads Police contact is linked to lower self-rated health for all—but LGBTQ people face more police contact and larger health declines. Gender minorities experience the greatest harms. #LGBTQHealth #policing

Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate? New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens. We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often. www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

You may have heard it before, but let me repeat: repetition of statements makes people more likely to rate them as true (even if they are false, and even if you knew they were false initially). Thanks for the talk, @lkfazio.bsky.social !

This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For what it is worth regarding panel companies, I've used Testable for smaller projects (their whole group may number only 400+ people, I really don't know) for five years with seemingly no issues.

Researchers: are you reassured by Prolific's efforts to tamp down bot activity? Have you seen changes in data quality? We've gone from rejecting about 10% of the sample for headphone checks to more like 40%. Not confident the rest are real.

Why is it so difficult to nail down emotions in the brain? Are they continuous or compartmentalized? Join me with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social) , author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the challenges in modern brain science. eagleman.com/podcast/141

This might be what saves the country

What is the opposite of the word charismatic?

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

*How do you know your brain doesn't work like an LLM?* lol have you listened to me?

Exactly. The burden of proof doesn’t lie with those who think human cognition is more than next-token prediction to prove it, but with AI boosters to show that LLMs are genuinely cognitive systems. If their justification for that is purely behavioural, then they are on very shaky ground…

literal zone of pinterest jfc

wonder how many schools will happily reinstate their DEI initiatives.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

Image Recreation Methods Enable Quantitative Characterization of Geometric Visual Hallucinations: https://osf.io/2gtsy

Heinous but ordinary. Because SA and CSA are extraordinarily common because the priest, the coach, the doctor, the mayor, the uncle, the son are treated as above.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.