Check out this @nature.com News explainer article on measles, with my comments about our prior work, and featuring an upcoming article led by Drs @malar0ne.bsky.social and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prof Thomas Van Riet explains how String Theory beats out Quantum Loop Gravity when it comes to calculating correction factors to the entropy of black holes. Part of a longer discussion asking "Why String Theory?" Clip: www.youtube.com/shorts/8E3Av... Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHv... ⚛️🧪

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Mindscape 343 | Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social on The Laws of Thought. Everyone knows the laws of thermodynamics, but do you know the laws of thinking? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

There isn't a single note that he wrote that I don't admire deeply, but the obvious answer for me is the Violin Concerto, especially in this historic interpretation.

Happy 141st b-day Alban Berg! Prob the easiest of the 2nd Viennese to get into because his music is still essentially late romantic and melodic despite serialism. What's YOUR fave Berg piece? Wozzeck was harrowing to see, shook me to the core. But I'll still go Chamber Concerto on this nanosecond.

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND REACTION I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY NOBODY COLD from Intifada Incantation by June Jordan (1996)

This is our last rescue message. 5 kids shivering,my wife suffering from mitral valve prolapse,& no shelter.The cold is eating us alive. We are a family fading in the winter. 200$ could keep us alive.I hope this is not just a passing message Vetted @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

Imagine Bad Bunny wanting to collaborate with you. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Iburied my2daughters with abroken heart😭💔 Now,Ibrahim is withering away in this tent⛺️ Our escape from Gaza is the miracle we're waiting for &every second of delay kills hop⏱️ Please,your urgent support is Ibrahim's only remaining lifeline... Save my only son"now"🙏🫂 Link🔗 chuffed.org/project/161145

Part four of four at TT: Interview with Wynton Marsalis iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-par...

My forthcoming book is in many ways about why symbolism is important to understand: bsky.app/profile/chan...

The King and Queen consort of Hawaiʻi visited the UK in the early 19th century. Tragically, they contracted measles and died because the vaccine wasn’t available until the mid-20th century. RFK Jr. and the Trump regime are attempting to revert the US to the state of medicine in the 19th century.

Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That is UNION labor! Those bushes are well paid!!! Shout out to the support dancers and these Birnham Wood performers.

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

🚨 I am thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded a new grant! We will soon be recruiting. This project will focus on dissecting host mechanisms as a direct follow-up 👇 If you are interested in cellular stress responses and host-pathogen interactions, stay tuned or reach out for more details!

#PressRelease🗞️ A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot’s disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/discov...

this is the dream tbh

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

If you were wondering if Liam was at the Super Bowl (he was not), this is what is actually happening to him and his family

This is just delightful.

A couple invited Bad Bunny to their wedding. He suggested they be part of his halftime show instead.

Delighted to encounter this thread. Estimable.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Gaza plays football again.👏💙👏💙

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Ten years ago this year. I DO choose health over sickness. I DO choose democracy over fascism. I DO choose revenge over tin or aluminum. SeaHAWKS open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Drilling down into US life expectancy. The two big reasons that life expectancy is higher in 2024 than 2023 (and 2019): ➡️Drug overdose deaths are lower ➡️Covid deaths are lower 1/

grateful to work at a place that always lets me write about how much i love gay women www.chron.com/culture/arti...

New Journal Club: Neural manifolds are maturing from visualization trick to biological claim. But if population activity lives on low-dimensional manifolds, what constrains the geometry?

like this a lot, just adding alt for accessibility, text search and such

such a lovely thing to think about

"the regime was not so much something that sat on top of German society as something that was embedded in it. This encourages us to think of musicians – and others – not merely as passive objects of the regime’s policies, but as agents in the formulation and implementation" - Neil Gregor

Singin' to an Empty Chair Ratboys

What drives the sequential emergence of spatial neurons in developing rats? In our ICLR 2026 paper, we show how changes in movement statistics drive spatial tuning. Our model replicates experimental timelines and predicts novel conjunctive tuning maturation. doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.30.696864

Rounds (2nd movement from Violin Concerto No. 2) Composed by John Williams Played by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

For some, Moltbook showed us what’s coming next: an internet where millions of autonomous agents interact online with little or no human oversight. But is it? Smart from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...

For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots. As the website’s tagline puts it: “Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.” We observed!

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥 Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️ 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755 ➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Exactly. A paper just came out in Molecular Biology of the Cell, and about ⅔ or more of it is replication of results from two of our older papers; the rest is new. This is one of the best feelings a scientist can have — our observations and interpretations are sound, and others have built upon them.

what's ironic and absurd here is that replication is a mainstay of both laboratory and clinical investigation crucial findings are replicated over and over again those that survive the stress tests change our view of reality and our ability to intervene

Breakthrough @nature.com study showcases new non-invasive treatment for Parkinson’s Disease that targets the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) with personalized neuromodulation, for superior outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thread 7: Somitogenesis. All these dev bio threads (so far) have been compiled from my own notes on my biology advisor's graduate Dev Bio class. It was one of the hardest classes I've ever taken and what I've covered is less than 10%, maybe less than 5%, of the content I learned in the class! (1/n)

Thread 6: The Ito Lemma Fyi, a lot of what I'll go over today is covered in Chapter 4 of "Stochastic Methods" by Crispin Gardiner, but this is a pretty standard derivation too, and I explained it in a way I think makes more sense. For today I am going to derive Ito's Lemma for you. (1/n)

𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘴𝘯'𝘵 is out now. It arrives with the video for “Bad Wolf,” directed by AF Schepperd: youtu.be/gQsFPPFNUXk “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥.” - Maynard James Keenan

Fuuuuuuuuuuck! Look at this! Look at this! youtu.be/WBu8SFr1eAc?...

R.I.P. Cake founding guitarist Greg Brown

Flowers in Singapore 🇸🇬