This is 3 weeks old but explains very well (without saying it) why the move in Venezuela is particularly bad news for Canada. It disarms Carney and opens the narrative to Canada annexation once again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwn...

The IMF and the World Bank are quoting Gramsci www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

Exactly. You're being asked to review because you're considered an expert, not because you're good at using ChatGPT. If this keeps going, grant awarding bodies will just stop bothering with experts and do the AI review in-house, and we'll all be so much worse off.

🧠🪰 The adult Drosophila brain connectome now gives us a complete wiring diagram of ~140k neurons. But a wiring diagram alone isn’t understanding. How is this massive network organized? Our paper tackles that question by mapping community structure across the entire fly brain. 1/

Ashamed of the British government today. Once again politicians are ready to hurt the country's economy and social cohesion in order to try and get some more votes. Labour, like Tories, choose their seat first, putting the country second. This will be incredibly damaging in real terms and reputation

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BBC News - Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy www.bbc.com/news/article...

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

A timely opinion piece on AI in reviewing by European Drosophila Board member Giorgio Gilestro.

Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer. This stand first says it all… A timely World View Colin in our pages by Giorgio Gilestro 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@nature.com asked me to write an op-ed on the perspective of the AI reviewing process, prompted by the recent partnership between @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @qedscience.bsky.social Hope my perspective adds value to the conversation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why has the cost of RAM skyrocketed in the past few weeks? What happened? This cannot be due to just AI frenzy because it happened suddenly.

I don't even mind paying more taxes, but it pisses me off to no end that the only reason we need to do this is Brexit. Reeves' tax increase will bring in an extra £26bn; but leaving the EU costs the economy £100-140bn a year. And useless Starmer would rather increase taxes than do the proper thing

I am afraid this sums up well the state of neurodegeneration research.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Dear US colleagues, can you please let me know if you are actually using these ridiculous evaluations you keep asking for? Are you aware that giving percentiles within a distribution is absolutely useless unless you know something absolute about that distribution? Such a waste of everyone's time.

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-...

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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...