“Netanyahu is forcing Gazans south, then toward the Egyptian border,” says journalist Hussein Abu Shmukh on the ongoing Palestinian exodus from Gaza City. Why people are not leaving the North.. watch: x.com/gazanotice/s...

Excellent list of speakers! Come join the symposium at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Register now. #neurocybernetics #computationalNeuroscience

The world of classical music is so huge that even after 30 years of geeking out over it I still occasionally come across a brilliant composer or work totally new to me. Today's find is Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916). On first listen this is a brilliant symphony so how come I only learned of it now?

Help I can't stop making spaghetti puttanesca

Janina Dill discusses how Germany has drawn the wrong lessons from its history, making legal and moral errors by supporting Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

I can’t think of a better photo to describe what Chicago feels like right now; what America feels like

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this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Polycules have gone too far www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

🚨Major development: Canadian PM Carney says Canada would participate in a multi-national, region-led force to enforce peace in Palestine youtube.com/watch?v=uuYl... Today, I wrote about how this must be considered if the atrocities & annexation are to stop: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/22/c...

Kathleen Quast on Finding Her Path to Neuroscience Education at Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social

🚨Our NeurIPS 2025 competition Mouse vs. AI is LIVE! We combine a visual navigation task + large-scale mouse neural data to test what makes visual RL agents robust and brain-like. Top teams: featured at NeurIPS + co-author our summary paper. Join the challenge! Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14446

Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University. We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks. Applications are open until October 20th. For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Ari Schulman writes virology research may well have caused the pandemic, but cites Dr Alina Chan's NYT piece promoting the conspiracy theory the SARS2 furin cleavage site was lab-introduced, known since 2020 to be highly unlikely, as that fcs isn't canonical, thus atypical for lab-introduced fcs.

I'm unsure NIH head Jay Bhattacharya has "prioritized self-serving dishonesty since 2020". I'm open to blaming his earlier major errors (Santa Clara study, GBD) on incompetence. I agree he's been self-servingly dishonest since 2023/2024, & is willingly helping to destroy the NIH.

New manuscript from the lab! "Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening" Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One of my favorite things about being an editor at Vaccine is that I get to read really cool papers like this about the history of vaccination in different social and cultural contexts around the world 👇🏻

"... we call on all our colleagues to join us and: Validate and uplift Palestinian narratives of their own destruction. Denounce the genocidal actions of the Israeli government ...."

"At the time some of my friends attacked me for suggesting the letter [signed about a week after Oct 7] implied Israel might harm innocent people," he added. Now, he claims that it is clear that "inflicting as much harm as possible on Palestinians and destroying Gaza is the aim of the war."

New paper! Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience

Why does AI sometimes fail to generalize, and what might help? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189), we highlight the latent learning gap — which unifies findings from language modeling to agent navigation — and suggest that episodic memory complements parametric learning to bridge it. Thread:

"”While a welcome step, Britain owes Palestine far more than recognition," said Victor Kattan, public international law professor and adviser to the "Britain Owes Palestine" campaign, arguing for an apology and reparations for engineering violent divisions.” www.channelnewsasia.com/world/britai...

'Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.' Emily Dickenson * * * ~ Willy Ronis

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

This is a good paper, but it's a shame that the response to Clarivate excluding Maths from its subject rankings is a load of soul-searching from mathematicians rather than "well your rankings can't be that good if a few dodgy papers bias them". arxiv.org/abs/2509.07257

Peace is the best medicine - that’s not just a slogan, it's based on evidence. In countries affected by conflict and insecurity: -70% of disease outbreaks erupt -Half of all child deaths globally occur -1 in 5 people suffer from mental health disorders. The most courageous choose peace. #PeaceDay

Recently, I got a surprise email from a gentleman congratulating me on my book about the lab leak myth. He kindly provided a blurb I can quote 🔽 I guess the book's audience might be small in size, but certainly not in intellectual firepower or spirit 😅 Join the club: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKNDRJ8Z

Clear winner here: the Earthstar fungus, formally named Geastrum fornicatum - after the Roman vaults where lovers once went for a little yoopla boom

Interesting comments by Drew Weissman on Akiko Iwasaki's paper (already problematic for other reasons): "The problem is they used a bad assay to measure spike. It’s an ultra, ultra-sensitive assay, but it makes a lot of errors ..."

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Post by Etan Nechin on X: Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, who last week called for an end to the war during a London concert, was arrested at a demonstration on the Gaza border against the war. “Stop the genocide. It’s ruining everything. Stop it now.”

Dr Abu Salmiya was arrested and tortured during the invasion of Al Shifa, now his family has been killed. He penned this piece for The Lancet 10 months ago Stop the Gaza genocide immediately Muhammad Abu Salmiya www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting. Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy… 1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants 1/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

Born #OTD in 1956, English saxophonist & composer, John Harle. His work, The Little Death Machine, was premiered at a late night 2006 BBC Prom by Harle with Orchestra of St John’s under John Lubbock. open.spotify.com/track/6i95ug... #britsymphyear

"Four protesters, including Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, were arrested at a protest against the war on the Gaza border near Re'im." - Haaretz (Sep 19, 2025) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"Reflections on Gaza, Hamas, and Two Years of War" by Badar Salam It's an interesting essay by a Palestinian journalist based in Montreal.

“The good news is anyone can get this vaccine. The bad news is that no one is encouraged to get it even if you’re in a high-risk group,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine researcher and former government adviser. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Flowers in Singapore 🇸🇬

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning? Read on to find out more! 🧵

Justice for Netanyahu is Hope for Israel & Israeli Public Perceptions of Genocide Two of my recent op-eds reissued in artsforum.ca artsforum.ca/ideas/the-wi...

A Not So Textbook Case of Genocide Shmuel Lederman "What precise intents Israel's decision makers had, I should say, mattered little in my view: the completely foreseeable consequences of their actions ... justified the term genocide."

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It begins with funeral music about the wonderful TRUMP 🎺 Verdi - Requiem, Tuba Mirum www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNt... Though Mozart and Brahms - following Luther's translation - chose a trombone 😅

When historians analyze this period in American history, they will conclude that the road to repression of free speech was paved with a bipartisan assault on the Palestine justice movement.

Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excellent piece pushing back against the silly “universities must be run as businesses” rhetoric. As the author puts it: “When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge.” www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Anera’s staff members share the grueling reality in Gaza. Time is running out, and we call on member states of the UN to speak up for humanity sooner than later. @aneraorg.bsky.social www.anera.org/blog/gaza-le...

I'm super happy to have the lab featured on @thetransmitter.bsky.social, my favorite place for neuroscience news! #neuroskyence @uabneuro.bsky.social

A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My conversation with Michael Levin on causality and complexity in neural theories of language. youtu.be/Rl7B6P_uC6s?...