"give me a phone with a battery that lasts longer than 12 hours" Apple:

I keep these on my desk so that visitors wonder about my secret lab activities

"It is time to demand that our courts open the black boxes of algorithmic decision-making. We need to shift the burden of proof to the party that actually has access to the algorithm, and design procedural rules for effective systematic redress." #AIEthics #AIAct #AILaw #digitalGovernance #RuleOfLaw

Fortunately some other countries are picking up the slack, but not the ones cutting humanities. MIT has great humanities. You need that for great engineering.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, start

this is giving big "fuck it we're doing five photons" energy

Normal, Binomial, Multinomial, Poisson, Gamma, Laplace

See, you can’t convince me that an a real life 80yo that enjoys your suffering isn’t the better coaching option. ht @markremy.bsky.social dumbrunner.com/training-new...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

The Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Encodes the Motivation to Pursue Ethanol https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724330v1

Tinbergen is very useful for not confusing function and mechanism like this.

Out today! A truly team effort and one of my favorite lab projects The findings connect NMDA/Grin2A malfunction to dopamine dynamics and related behaviors, and provide a futuristic model to develop and test "course altering" treatments for schizophrenia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My unvarnished thoughts on AI and drug discovery open.substack.com/pub/zendudes...

Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

This is dangerous, expensive, and unlikely to benefit anyone. For an alternative viewpoint see: www.levernews.com/the-campaign...

Few Smartphone Owners Care About Foldables or AI, Survey Suggests

Dems truly need to take a lesson from this There must be a countering vision to the GOP who always campaigns on the terrifying power of the state coming to take everything from you Mamdani is saying the power of the state should only be used to serve you because we're in this together

You don’t collaborate with a calculator or the weight machine

In a critique: "NIH Project Narrative: This was not provided. We refer to this as the 'Uncle Bob on a tractor' section. Your target audience is not your peer reviewers; instead it is the general public, DOGE, and the language models used to screen your proposal." So what should you do? 🧵

Slightly increase a band Fine Middle-Aged Cannibals

Slightly increase a bad The Mountain Ibexes (sorry @themountaingoats.bsky.social)

Are AI companies and digital platforms etc new utilities? (Why, yes!) joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/05/are-... Why should I write stuff like this for others and not share it with you? Also, you get to see more of my photography...

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

TFW you remember why you had someone muted

Kash lab at UNC is hiring a new technician (our current two are off to grad school!!) posting will go live soon, email me CV and names of references if interested.

This is probably a better paper than the one I linked. But I’m wine-drunk in the afternoon arxiv.org/abs/1910.06386

quipu

just saw a woman absolutely lose her shit trying to order shredded cheese to go at the mexican place

We have made students reliant on a lecture recording system that fails regularly. Guess who has to deal with the student complaints and gets blowback for suggesting that maybe university students should attend classes.

I felt a strange burning sensation over my entire body when I entered this building

Out in Science. Years ago I recall another paper that said how fields make bigger leaps in the few years after one of the "greats" retires. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

"We recruit faculty to start their labs and expect them to recruit students & postdocs to join them, and then we penalize their fellowship applications"

Hey! You there--yes, you! 🫵

These scams are even impersonating authors, too! Remember: - agents & publishers should not ask for $ to read your ms - agents should not ask for $ to represent you (they get a cut IF they sell your book) - you NEVER pay the publisher to publish your book!! - authors are unlikely to solicit you

You know, I tried this on an arxiv paper a few weeks back. Just on a whim. It was the type of thing that would be at an AI conference. It made a great review. Unfortunately it missed that almost all of the key claims were full of technical errors. It was too busy being polite.

Yes, no one has done more to devalue higher education than higher education leaders who have adopted this false framing of what education is, what it does, and what it is for.

probably had too much coffee this morning since I started reading a paper published recently in nature neuroscience and had to stop before I put an axe through my computer screen

Jewish researchers were 70% more likely to have their grants terminated as part of the administration's project of institutional blackmail dressed up as an anti-antisemitism campaign. 🧪 www.thelancet.com/journals/TLR...

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

SEPA R25, to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in (STEM) is published. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Still seeking investors and an editorial board for "The Journal of Ambiguus Studies"

May the 4th be with you

New Preprint! Have you ever wondered if there's a relationship between the prestige of an author's institution and the sample size of their fMRI study? We did, so we did a systematic review of the memory fMRI literature and found the opposite of what we predicted www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

so we're just not doing subject-verb agreement any more huh

featuring the NHANES dataset