Bród! (Fógra i Hong Cong)

Highly improbable and unexpected.

Cloigeann. #gaeilge

14 years the British Labour party spent dreaming of power! Was this their dream, to pour bile on migrants and trans folk and mimic the monsters they replaced. Is it for this activists walked door to door, filled envelopes, sat in stuffy council chambers instead of enjoying the evening light.

It turned out the UK Labour Party has asshole views on migrations as well as on gender identity.

I hope the response to all this will be to get rid of single gender toilets.

Adding "Equalities" Minister Bridget Phillipson to my shit list.

At least the pope is in an open coffin; I was shocked to learn the English were making such a massive fuss about walking past a closed box.

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.

I see the discovery of chemical correlates of life on another planet has slipped below Monty fucking Don's dog on the BBC news.

It is so disturbing to see these pictures of people outside the court happy and pompously pleased with themselves for doing something that makes no material improvement to anyone's lives and makes the lives of some so so much worse.

An emotion exquisite since so faint and pure is the regret that you'll never meet the person, doubtless now dead, whose choice of books, name and date inside the cover and now on sale in Oxfam, suggest they were once a kindred soul.

I am sorry for all our troubles today, those we share and those particular to our selves or our locations. In the case of those making the news, the common thread is institutions empowered to harm individuals will eventually do so. This seems like a significant problem now and later.

The remaining two years of Trump's presidency will be awful.

It is with great regret that I add the UK Supreme Court to my shit list.

In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Man, our institutions need to form an "alert circle"

I was born the same week the British Embassy was burned in Dublin, grew up with the Troubles and the Cold War always there, always in the background.

new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author 🧠📈

Great news for people supporting safer, healthier streets across the country. Quick roll out of safe mobility infrastructure is essential for enabling active travel networks across towns & cities for all ages and abilities. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

I'm interested in evolution and social behaviours and decided to test @stephenwolfram.bsky.social suggestion that the 3-state cellular automaton is a good arena for testing ideas about evolution. I give a quick description here: conorhoughton.github.io/posts/2025-0...

The stock market ruins people, the bond market slays kings. Will China stop buying US bonds?

At least it's sunny; it's so much sadder when the world ends in winter.

Na crainn ar an oileán - mura bhfuil siad flúirseach tá siad teanntásach!

It's not the ceremony of innocence, as such, but it is certainly drowning.

Nikkei down 8%!

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

Yesterday's carnage on the stock markets I sort of expected, but today's: fucking hell.

In the future we'll laugh at the stupidity of all this, while bartering street dentistry for rat meat.

I struggle to believe this but it nonetheless appears to be true.

Beneath the noise of the Consciousness Debate, we built a model which reproduces striking experimental results by @pieterroelfsema.bsky.social & @clairesergent.bsky.social , and led us to unexpected predictions. All credit to amazing PhD @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social (now on the postdoc market)

📢 Participants needed for Continuous EEG to narratives study by George Sains @sainsy2303.bsky.social and Conor Houghton @conjh.bsky.social Participants will receive a £40 LoveBristol voucher for participation. If you are interested, please fill out this form: tinyurl.com/6bzpaknr

The alphabet, arranged symmetrically designed by Scott Kim. This is unimaginably pleasing.

The right way to sparsify transformers! conorhoughton.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

#OTD 204 years ago, August Schleicher (1821-1868) was born 🥳 He was an expert on the history of Indo-European languages, renowned for introducing tree diagrams to illustrate relationships within language families, as well as for composing fables about sheep and horses. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Weirdly, nearly all >2000 types of microRNAs rely on a single protein called Dicer for maturation. So do microRNAs compete for Dicer? Sofia Raak (co-supervised by Jon Hanley) studied this using computational modelling, and confirmed the predictions in data: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

—Consider the Silk Worm— 🐛 See how a person all life long is tormented by something they keep working on — just like a silk worm weaving away to die in agony amidst all that he's made. —Abū l-Fatḥ al-Bustī (Lashkargah, d. 1010 CE)

Roses are red The far north has white nights If you were the people of Greenland I'd respect your sovereign rights #brokenValentines

Our flag was red Now it's their color too They've taken our world But I've still got you #brokenvalentines

Roses are red Justice should be true But even if you were Eric Adams I'd drop my case against you #brokenValentines

I'm so glad the monumentally unsafe Letby conviction continues to receive scrutiny!

Review: Cognitive Science: Houghton (2025): SUMMARY Cedric Boeckx’s monograph Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism can be read as a useful reminder of the need for more diversity in our approach to linguistic research. However, its central thesis is more ambitious and…

I wrote a review of @cedricboeckx.bsky.social 's fun and interesting monograph _Reflections on language evolution_ for Linguist LIST; in fact I wrote a review which was too long so I put it on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... with a shorter version at LINGUIST List 32.3531

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social