The past is a strange beast that even I have trouble wrangling with from time-to-time.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I promise you, you'll never guess which "politics" they're referring to

My god. Have we just found the ethical use case for chatbots and LLMs? Amazing work

Episode #36 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex – with Sara Solla @sasolla.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn36 Manifold analysis has changed our thinking on how cortex works. One of the pioneers of this modelling approach explains.

He’s just so bad at this

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

We’ve inexplicably sunk billions into this. Please clap.

Damn good day at the comics fair today

Every word of this is spot on. Once ‘everyone should be able to go to university’ was morphed into ‘everyone must go to university’ this was inevitable

Hey #visionsky #perceptionsky I'm designing a perception lab on visuo-motor adaptation using my inversion goggles (upside down goggles). I've got a few ideas for stimuli where students could track their progress at perceptual adaptation. Anyone else done this? It would be non-majors, btw

I love this comic but I can’t say I’m thrilled that it’s relevant again

I mean, I and many others have been saying this for years now but I guess it’s good he’s on board

I’ll take this ✊✊

Rereading Invincible - it’s so much fun

It has been The Onion's best year since we broke Watergate and subsequently, personally had Richard Nixon removed from office. I'm going to share some personal favorite stories in this thread. Please add your own, and visit the Our Annual Year recap below. theonion.com/our-annual-y...

How time felt in 2025

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing Panes 1-3: How journals make us write about our findings Pane 4: sober reflection 15 years later

This is all amazing but I have two favourites

The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

I’m sorry but it makes no sense that tomorrow is 2026. Simply ridiculous number for a year I’m alive in

I like that we all agree that this was excellent and that under no circumstances should we allow anyone to fuck with it

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

My 2026 vibe

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

The main lesson I’ve learned from S2 is that torture works, except on Jack Bauer

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Jesus Christ stop writing things that are this stupid

I’m working my way through the original Claremont-era New Mutants, and damn this run is good. Some really dark shit, some great character work, some incredible art (ahem Bill Sienkiewicz). Just as good as the X-Men, but entirely its own thing

I think about this post a lot as I navigate the internet these days

RIP to an internet legend

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Ha, this is so stupid it kind of makes it blindingly obvious how desperate these weirdos are for us to love their stupid AI tech

First of a new book series just dropped?

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Wait. Wait WHAT. You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum. WHAT.

Vocalisations are coupled with movement of all limbs throughout infancy www.nature.com/articles/s41... "infants at 4, 6, 9 and 12 months of age. Limb movements were tightly coupled with vocalisation onsets at all time points across infancy"

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

We got rick rolled by Rian Johnson

When you’ve read lots of science fiction based on the idea that brains are just fast computers and you think if you make the computer fast enough it’ll be like a brain, you end up thinking this nonsense

Crabs Butter Money 🤔

The placebo effect was named after John Placebo, who loved effects

My dog got me a chewed stick for christmas. I appreciate the gesture but I wish there was a polite way to say "we don't need to get each other gifts any more." My cat got me a pipe bomb

Share a great female villain

Its been a night for to a classics - Blue Lines, Sunday 8pm, Dummy, Leftfield. Been a while

Neuroscience right now:

This is the third – or maybe fourth or maybe fifth – wave of methodological studies over the last two decades that have undermined confidence in fMRI. Remember the 2009 'Voodoo correlations' kerfuffle? Or the dead salmon? Or the 2016 revelation that up to 70% of responses were false positives?...

2025 vibes

I love the original Curious George books