OMG @giorgio.gilest.ro really coming in hot opening this preprint with a lady scientist (Maria Manaseina) from the 1890s killing puppies with sleep deprivation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Palestine Action was labeled a terrorist organisation for spray painting walls. X, on the other hand, a platform where countless people claim "mustache guy was right" is still legitimised by the government that uses it as one of their official platforms. Let's think about that.

Big protest at Place de la République in Paris against Israel’s seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Colombia has expelled the Israeli diplomatic delegation after the Gaza flotilla interception.

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Unless they actively want to end up like the Tories, the labour party must change all their leadership, now. Starmer and Mahmood may as well walk across the aisle and join Farage.

Keir "island of strangers" Starmer

Pretty remarkable analysis. The authors admit that the effect of vast cuts may be an underestimate. Grant funding also supports graduate and post-doctoral research careers. I’ve worked in biotech and all of our projects came from NIH-funded research.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

900 arrests for elderly and disabled people peacefully opposing genocide. 9 for drunk thugs attacking the police.

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind. He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now. I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*. As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament” And the government just…continues to use X.

PSA: #Google charged me £300+ for having generated 4-5 images in Gemini last month. Even though I have a paid subscription to the service as #gemini pro user. Try nano banana, they said. They should have pointed out the price is not included perhaps!? Goodbye Gemini.

Another day, yet ANOTHER stupid, pointless announcement on immigration from this stupid pointless government. Today: you are a student - we're going to write you a stern letter about how you better not be thinking of staying! Insanity. Racist, cowardly, insanity. #r4today

Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.

This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.

My son's Microsoft account got hacked by some other kid. The best @microsoft.com can do is acknowledge the intrusion and show us the middle finger. Five years of progresses gone and buy the game again thank you very much. All this because their own security is sub par.

Gemini-cli is an utter joke. It's like the crazy cousin of Claude code. A complete disaster for me. Here I have asked to replace a js widget and it went on opening random files that had nothing to do then told me he cannot perform sexual stuff. Excuse me?

When you lose Nick Fuentes Nick Fuentes to Trump: "Fúck you. You suck. You're fat, you're a joke, you're stupid, you're not funny... This entire thing has been a scam. We're gonna look back at MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. The liberals were right we will see Trump as a scam artist."

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

I found the silliest post ever on LinkedIn, written in such a LinkedIn way, hypothesising that Trump's tariff announcement strategy was actually an optimal way to discover improved cooperative trade. Sadly I can't find it now. It's drowned in the sea of people announcing great things.

We finally know that international law does not exist. ICC, UN were paper tigers, theatrical stages that powerful countries used to justify their actions as convenient. They got dropped, humiliated, attacked, as soon as tables turned. There is no justice without enforcement. No law without order.

When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point. niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

After a few tweakings, Musk finally got us a nazi Hitler apologetic that more closely aligns with the rest of the platform. All it needs is a more hatred towards black and trans. Has the line been crossed yet @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - what more do we need to see? Do we even have a redline?

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

Almost a decade ago, Microsoft released a chatbot which it immediately shut down because it started mimicking, racist, sexist and anti-semitic behavior. Now: Musk releases an AI, which he keeps revising until it adopts sexist, racist and anti-semitic behavior.

This week the Lancet published landmark research investigating the death toll of Elon Musk's dismantling of USAID. 14 million lives projected to be lost by 2030. That's over 2.4 million dead men, women & children a year. Thanks to one man's venality & cruelty. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

They should have called it Elonius www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic...

I really do not understand why Facebook does not allow posts in markdown or at least links and images intercalated within the text, like we could do with HTML 1.0 back when t-rex were around. I have been using this thing for the past 20 years basically and has not changed for the good once.

True but superficial. Problem is that AI is the ultimate black box: never deterministic, always stochastic. You would need to trust a digital PA in the same way you trust a real PA (or your mum). Gone is the time when OSS was enough guarantee. We are going to move towards a human level of trust.

And do you know which other city is full of immigrants? Just about every other great city in the world. And do you know why? Because great cities are engines of prosperity and social mobility, which keep attracting people.

A friendly "plane wave" to Iran. awww. Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?

"I want to just thank everybody and in particular God. I want to just say we love you God and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America thank you very much." President Trump, 22 Jun 2025. The war of the three theocracies.

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Logiciel / Europe / Après l’Allemagne, c’est au tour du ...“On ne peut plus dépendre de Microsoft” : ce pays européen claque la porte et choisit Linux

Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

How do brain circuits evolve? We started looking for some answers by using synapse-resolution cross-species comparative connectomics on an entire olfactory circuit 👇 bit.ly/44aVm9E

In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

Riot of liberty - a 2020 work of artist "whatshisname". Rather timely.

Folks, remember

once again I must tap my own sign

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.