To continue with business as usual after Israel enacted an apartheidist death penalty law that is designed to apply only to Palestinians would make a travesty of this provision of the EU - Israel Association Agreement.

Not a ton of April Fools' submissions this year, but I'll do a quick thread anyhow. Here's a charming little paper on 'declarative bespoke modeling' "in which the modeller explicitly declares the relationship between model inputs and outputs."

"Go Down, Moses," - The Many Sending thoughts of freedom to everyone everywhere celebrating the Passover seder tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgjc...

After texting my family one year that I had broken my arm diving for a Frisbee, I learned that April Fools jokes are only funny if they're not quite so believable...

So, regarding that... @esivienna.bsky.social

Of course the biggest revelation was that mathematicians have blackboards in bathrooms 4/n

Headed home from fascinating meeting on AI & mathematics at the Newton Institute. Interesting to see mathematicians essentially doing Green OA/Plan U as an open access strategy 1/n

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar! Deadline is May 1. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

I was not able to attend the Bruce Springsteen show last night, but holy cow that Purple Rain cover 💜 youtu.be/VdF_yNpc2Wk?...

In Batak culture of North Sumatra, Hala Na Godang (Orion constellation) is a dragon so big, its head touches the sky and its tail the earth, and the Orion Belt is its three eggs. The tale of Hala Na Godang depicts a shepherd who destroyed the eggs, invoking the dragon's wrath. 1/2 #WyrdWednesday

“Their vision of citizenship…would bring Dred Scott back from the dead. And it would do this in support of a political agenda that seeks nothing less than the reconstruction of race hierarchy & the rank domination of despised minorities.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o... @jamellebouie.net is right.

Lovely work on autoimmunity and its link to psychosis. I wonder what effect this modulation of NMDA receptors has on HALIPs? Less PPI would seem to be the opposite of a strong prior?

I haven’t yet seen mainstream press coverage of the extraordinary leak of Claude Code’s source code, shared on X by an intern at Solayer Labs! It is a treasure trove for rivals such as DeepSeek - especially its 3 layer memory architecture. Seems a big deal… venturebeat.com/technology/c...

Preordering books is a powerful cultural statement that all readers can participate in, whether buying from a bookstore or requesting from your local public library. If there‘s an author you believe in who has a book coming out, do them a favor and preorder. #BookSky

Unless it’s a very talented song thrush doing a lot of impressions 😉 www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

PL Neuro is officially live! plneuro.xyz We exist to break bottlenecks, accelerate progress in neurotech & NeuroAI, and to invest in innovations that benefit humanity. PL Neuro will focus on 3 core areas: - Neural augmentation - Biologically-inspired intelligence - Whole brain emulation

For #MusicWomenWednesday Isabel Mundry (*1963) Signaturen, for 2 pianos, percussion and two string groups (2022/24) youtu.be/y_OfWJAEP0U

The Iranian people don’t need saving. We need space & understanding. Not bombs. Not speeches. Not imported “freedom” dictated by drunks, deviants & devils. We don’t want liberation written by outsiders or ghosts of the imperial past. We want to build it ourselves. Let us write our own history.

DR Congo declares national holiday after reaching World Cup for first time in 52 years bbc.com/news/article...

In Mandarin, the word for opossum,負鼠, does not actually translate literally as “negative rat,” but you could try it if you wanted to

In Korean, the word for cowboys, 속기 쉬운, translates literally to “American horse pirates” * read on for more of my all-time favourite translations from around the world (a thread)…

🌅 Sunrise over Manhattan today

I'll admit, this one actually made me hesitate 😆

NEW: Introducing the Bodleian Whispering Service. Too busy to read? Our expert librarians can now quietly narrate books, articles, and selected manuscripts directly to you in our reading rooms. Please note: whispering remains subject to standard library noise regulations.

God, how sad. I hadn’t heard and while it seems crazy given his success, he clearly lived a very difficult life in a lot of ways.

Nicholas Brendon obituary

I join Michal Feldon, Ahmed Alfarra, Eyad Amawi, Barry Danino, Feroze Sidhwa, and Ruth Gibson to make the case for reopening the humanitarian corridor from Gaza to the West Bank for medical evacuations in @thelancet.com: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Postdocs and advanced grad students in theoretical/computational neuroscience - come join our workshop in July!

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

A high-risk bird flu strain is circling the globe. How prepared is NZ? theconversation.com/a-high-risk-...

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

For me, this comes with a responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges of being trans in Singapore. So I wrote a short post about my own journey transitioning since 13 years ago, which you can find here: ztangent.github.io/blog/2026/td...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ This is my first TDoV since moving back to Singapore, and the 12th since I began my transition. It's been a long and sometimes difficult journey, but somehow I've ended up as the first (to my knowledge) publicly out trans professor in the Singaporean academy (cont.)

Hot off the presses for my peeps in Europe! My new piece on Raoul Peck 🇭🇹🎬#Orwell2+2=5 - a film perfectly timed for the present moment. #FilmSky 🗃️ docalogue.com/orwell-225/

Had such a great time presenting my PhD research at this year’s US Association for the Study of Pain conference in Philadelphia. @usasp.bsky.social #neuroskyence #painresearch

For more than a century, the study of brain lesions has been central to understanding cognitive processes and normal brain function (e.g., Broca’s studies). However, what electrophysiological signatures emerge following a brain lesion?

From there: early forensic guesswork—well, fancy calipers—and a very confident skull analysis led to the conclusion, “Yeah, kinda looks like him…” Bach now rests in Leipzig, properly labeled. Took ‘em a minute or two to get him properly stored, tho. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #BOTD #ClassicalMusic 😍 🎹 Have a Quodlibet:

The authors of a Nature paper outlining a mechanism for multisensory memories in Drosophila melongaster have retracted the work after they were unable to replicate a set of imaging experiments. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/r...

🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

🧵1/9 Everything is ready for #ArtemisII test flight — we're nearing the starting line.🔭 🧪 ⚛️ The countdown is underway at the Kennedy Space Center. It started ticking down yesterday at 4:44 p.m. EDT to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on April 1. ➡️ www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... #histsci #Moon

Another week, another dispatch from me & @jessicamalaty.bsky.social. Lots to cover in today's MMMWR: -Measles & child health horror in ICE detention -CDC is even more directorless -NIH cuts -Lab leak is still not true -Casey Means is still unqualified rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-maha-m...

Not to be overlooked! BTD 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn youtube.com/watch?v=3GPD...

"(The judge) also wrote that there was a simple solution for churches that wanted to avoid being penalized for endorsing candidates: 'Put differently, if the plaintiffs here gave up their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, none of the harms they allege could occur.'"

Low-key big news via @bmietana.bsky.social: Judge rejects Johnson Amendment settlement, keeping ban on pastors endorsing candidates —> religionnews.com/2026/03/31/b...

Read our statement here:

NEW: Leading Israeli international law scholars' statement on how new Israeli death penalty law "violates basic rules of international law" www.justsecurity.org/135364/israe...

We killed a third IRCS health worker today. In a medical clinic no less. This lawless war must stop.