Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

Happy Birthday @keithfrankish.com ! 🎂 🥳

Another hero today: Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Today's hero: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wapo.st/4oqYcz0

I voted today to keep our PA judges!

Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces - Michael Levin youtu.be/kQ6c_na_e0c #ConSci

Several weeks ago I had great fun talking about the #Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) with Will Millership & Calum Chase. Links to the podcast are here: www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno... Here are 2 short clips: bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM) bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)

Mike Levin is a magician! As I've said a number of times before, if anyone could convince me to be a panpsychist it would be Mike Levin. Here, he's almost convinced me to also become a dualist. What's a mathematician and computationalist to do? 😲 #mathematics #consciousness

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

"Worse than nothing" on the Supreme Court by Duncan Hosie from the New York Review of Books newsletter: email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-qktujj...

Hero U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

If you are worried about AI escalation, …

Top academic researchers leaving US amid funding cuts www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Join us for Michael Levin's talk on Wednesday! Context: bamxi.org/research-act... To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig... This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social! #ConSci

claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!

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Don’t usually agree with Reagan.

Just finished a fun interview with Will Millership and Calum Chace on #AIConsciousness. May be posted in November.

As an American, I would like to apologize to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on how he was treated in our house, the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in Nov. amid the federal government shutdown. I imagine at least 20 million are MAGA. (20 million is clearly more than 7 million who participated in No Kings.) I wonder how Trump, MAGA will respond? www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...

Trump’s Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Huge congratulations @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! I am excited to follow and participate in BAMXi’s contributions to #ConSci!

Brave folks! Our heroes!

that they left em masse, at least, seems like a good sign

An ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” has been placed on the National Mall in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder, its creators said, of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.

"America’s got talent: The case for investing in public education" Excellent piece by @lalthoff.bsky.social at @siepr.bsky.social

Be more like the MIT. Just say no to authoritarians

Looking forward to listening!

Happy Birthday to our dear friend and colleague Dana Scott!

Never as proud to be an MIT alum (along with my husband, son and daughter-in-law)! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I just received this email from MIT President Sally Kornbluth. Never more proud of being an MIT alumna! bit.ly/3IEPOMZ From the email:" In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence...."

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

After Centuries, a Woman Will Lead the Church of England www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...

Well, this aged well. Unfortunately. (Except for the part where @jimmykimmel.com said he thought I was higher up on Donald Trump's enemies list than he was.)

The Beatles - We Can Work It Out - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qycl...

"Nevertheless three of our men have defected: one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned."

The MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... You can register to the email list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

3²/4²/5² is the perfect day for arguing about best proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. An incredible thing about Euclid's proof is that it applies to the area of *any* similar figures drawn on the sides of a right triangle. 🧮

Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! 3² + 4² = 5² (9/16/25) The next one is in one hundred years!

One of the greats: Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Thank you @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social ! 🙏

What I Got Wrong About D.E.I. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

The U.S. is a nation of immigrants #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/immi...

All Men!

Bohemian Rhapsody in Zulu youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

Congrats @danarandall.bsky.social !

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)