Like the human brain, LLMs use separate sets of units for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, and intuitive physical reasoning. A modular organization of cognition may be a fundamental principle of intelligence!

The human brain is strikingly modular: distinct networks for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, physical reasoning. Is this fundamental to intelligent systems, or an accident of evolution? In our new preprint, we find the same modular organization emerges in LLMs.

Hidden prompts to detect #AI use in #PeerReview. That's what @neuripsconf.bsky.social organisers embedded in papers submitted to their conference. My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/s...

Cardinal Radcliffe and two bishops preside at 50th anniversary Mass for gay couple in England. www.newwaysministry.org/2026/07/01/g...

A Palestinian girl was looking forward to attending her aunt’s wedding. However, Israeli strikes hit tents in a displacement camp in Khan Younis this week, killing her cousin in the attack. The tents burned, and the camp was left in ruins, turning the celebration into mourning.

At Cosyne, Chris Olah from Anthropic told us that neuroscientists had “3-4 years left to make a contribution” Why was not clear. Perhaps he was hinting at the below graph accompanying today’s Claude Science launch. Apparently we’ll all be obsolete soon.

Read this. “Believing a patient is not the same as agreeing with what she has been told. The cruelest thing I could do is nod along with a wrong diagnosis because it is the kind thing to say, and let her spend the next several years, and her health, chasing a cure for a disease she does not have.”

Lyme is real. It’s also one of the most over-diagnosed conditions I see, often on misleading tests, and the wrong label can send patients down years of the wrong road. My new @cidrap.bsky.social piece on why the new federal plan makes that worse: www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

As of today, I'm officially an Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis! I'm so excited to be joining the Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain, and I'm looking forward to getting settled into the new lab and embarking on a lot of fun new research this year

I was excommunicated. Dozens of times in fact. By a senior cleric. Who turned out to be Satan. But only in a play. An award-winning one. (Roland Gift presented the awards to us as it happened...) Being cursed by the Trinity, Michael & all the archangels, & the angels & saints was quite an experience

genuinely hats off to them, shame about their pickles tho

The divestment drive that could shake Israel’s economic foundations To fund perpetual war, Israel has grown ever more reliant on issuing bonds. Relinquishing these holdings, which are often invested passively, disrupts that equation. www.972mag.com/israel-bonds...

German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born #onthisday in 1646. @jwyg looks at how Leibniz's early vision of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence: publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #OTD

One of the megalithic statues in Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, is called Palindo Lara, "the one who comforts/makes you smile" in Bada dialect, because of its expression. The ridge on its head mimics a bark headband, a part of Lore people's traditional tree bark fashion. #WyrdWednesday

A where's Waldo to celebrate freedom 250 😂👇

There's just a week left to apply for the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund, closing Tuesday 7 July at 11am. Supporting composers and performers dedicated to contemporary music, the Thea Musgrave Fund offers grants of around £5,000 to £10,000. Find out more: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rp...

I turn 30 today! If you’re feeling generous, you can support my next play. This team includes 12 actors, 4 designers, a stage manager, a director, an assistant director, and an incredible general manager! That’s a lot of people you can help for a few bucks.

Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. Forensic Architecture has worked to produce evidence for the International Court of Justice’s genocide case against Israel. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463141...

In anticipation of the publication of his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, the brothers host a livestream with the author, Eyal Weizman, founder and director of Forensic Architecture and professor of spatial and visual culture, Goldsmith www.youtube.com/live/U3T4Vhv...

I talked to Paul Middlebrooks of #braininspired about cyborgs, functionalism, and agency. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/uzK0xcFYZW0 The brain is not a machine, not a computer, but metabolizes experiences into your personality.

Wandering past Thian Hock Keng Temple, one of Singapore’s oldest and most beautiful Hokkien temples. #singapore #visitsingapore #templephotography #cityvibes #beautifuldestinations

I didn’t realize that Jackson used the phrase “Second Founding” in her rulings. Interesting to see historical scholarship wind its way into judicial opinion like this

At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM

Cool new PhD projects now available for interested students at Curtin Uni. (part of @icrar.bsky.social) More info and apply here 👇 research.curtin.edu.au/cira/study-w... This one caught my attention 🤩 Use pulsars to build a GPS system! research.curtin.edu.au/cira/wp-cont... #RadioAstronomy

"Discovery is not the opposite of application"

We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.

The laser was a solution that preceded every problem it would solve. This is what foundational research looks like. Defund it today, and the breakthroughs we can’t yet imagine will never happen. ⚛️🔭🧪 #BasicResearch #FundScience #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

Following Trump's executive orders, Microsoft news, and announcements of $billions in investment, I wrote about the current state of quantum computing and what we can expect. bit.ly/4v3kedO

I was asked to write a portrait of my mentor and dear friend Di Otto for @verfassungsblog.de's Outstanding Women in International Law series. I hope that you'll read it and realise what a treasure she is verfassungsblog.de/outstanding-...

had 2 young Bowhall Maple trees planted in my back yard. can’t wait till the fall when they turn red. 🍁

Do I have any friends at UC:Berkley, Cornell, Columbia, Toronto, Arizona, Texas, or otherwise in the city of New York who can help me track down and digitise a book in one of the archives? I will happily pay for your time.

‚AI will resolve climate change‘ - reality check.

I wrote earlier this year about a wave of profs fired for critical Kirk remarks who then returned to the classroom. One got a $500K settlement. That story: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Another professor fired for comments about Charlie Kirk is poised for a payout, this time $1.9M from University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The prof, Tamar Shirinian, won't return to campus: www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e... via Keenan Thomas

I am really proud to share the Stand Up for Science Foundation's new Impact Report on the OMB Rule Proposal--done by the brilliant @irenesufs.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social and team! We've got such a great team at @standupforscience.net. www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Fact check: Vought has, in fact, repeatedly expressed support for Christian nationalism by name. He has been very public about that. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/o...

i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"

The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

"His theories have won praise in UFO circles but often put him in conflict with academic peers." "His hand-picked team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists." Crikey. What a place for a scientific career to end up. 🫢

In 'How to Change a Memory', Steve Ramirez draws on his own memories of friendship, family, loss and recovery to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch, edited and even constructed from nothing. royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

I was really excited to see this happen! @willdalrymple.bsky.social is one of my fav authors ....his books are so engaging and always an eye opener on aspects of history I should have known more about. This podcast was riveting...highly recommend a listen.... youtu.be/13zQVPW9LjU?...

I’m sorry, but did anyone else think that this was a Frank Gehry piece?

My obit for the great Abdullah Ibrahim downbeat.com/news/detail/...

🧠🧬 How do antipsychotics affect the brain? We ran a meta-analysis of public transcriptional profiling datasets to reveal the converging effects of different antipsychotics on the frontal cortex. Surprisingly, dopamine signaling was not our top finding(!). Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Congratulations to outgoing #KempnerInstitute research fellows Naomi Saphra (@nsaphra.bsky.social) and Alex Damian on their faculty appointments at Boston University and MIT! 🎉 Read more about Naomi and Alex's research 👇 bit.ly/4whMn1A @bucds.bsky.social @mitmath.bsky.social

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

“This is one of the most egregious and extreme examples of repression of pro-Palestine speech that we’ve seen. This is a professor who was fired over a free speech activity – a punishment that’s usually reserved for conduct like sexual assault or physical violence www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...