As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead in seeing farther ahead--Holden Thorpe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why does AI sometimes fail to generalize, and what might help? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2509.16189), we highlight the latent learning gap — which unifies findings from language modeling to agent navigation — and suggest that episodic memory complements parametric learning to bridge it. Thread:

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Macroeconomy so woke

Disney has a great chance for rebranding to fully lean into pandering to MAGA

Disney has a great chance for rebranding to fully lean into pandering to MAGA

Human intelligence is overrated and not a useful yardstick for AI - a polemic. markusmeister.com/2025/09/15/w...

Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS): “violence is coming” “you either fight back or you die” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Can anyone see a pattern? 🔎

Outstanding opportunities in AI & Life Sciences, with strong @ellis.eu synergies

The Snell lab is seeking a Postbaccalaureate researcher and Postdoctoral associate to join our team. More details here: www.snelllab.org/contact-2

It was a small amount of money by the standards of the federal budget—just $25 million—and had lots of bipartisan support. But nine months ago, Elon Musk insisted that the bill funding kids' cancer research be wiped out. And it still hasn't been brought back. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Free eBook: PATTERNS, PREDICTIONS, AND ACTIONS - A story about machine learning by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht A beginner’s guide to machine learning mlstory.org/pdf/patterns...

No. If I say "I want to build a Mars base!" That's "Wanting to build stuff?" But if I say, "I want to end all fossil fuel cars by 2030!" That's holding back progress? 🙂🙃 "I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder? "I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist? 🙂🙃

Will this article mark the moment that balding forty-something consultants in business class airport lounges notice how fucking ridiculous The Economist is?

There's literally nothing you can't compute with matrix multiplications and point-wise nonlinearities: they are Turing complete, as we've known since the 90s. There's lots of problems with LLMs, but none of them come from matrix multiplication. Why do some people keep saying that?

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ollie Gearing, not on Bluesky, posts on a case of Software IP developing between xAI and OpenAI.

Pretty big vibe shift on open models coming from a predominantly AI Safety oriented org to say "gatekeeping access to general-purpose technology is not a sustainable or proportionate response to low-confidence evidence of serious risk." Pretty much my point for a few years.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

happy labor day

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen was hit by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport, the spokesperson added.

The time between fucking around and finding out for messing with the climate and environment is long, and attribution is sometimes difficult. So conservative politicians have gotten away with appointing imbeciles to positions of power in these areas. However, no such luck for them in public health.

“An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over AI-powered surveillance.” This is amazing! They love Ai so much, it’s funny to see Ai backfire! 🥳🎉

There's no need to align the models if you can align their users futurism.com/openai-scann...

June 2025: Bluesky is dying August 2025: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Some study history to avoid its mistakes. Others purposefully study only its most horrible errors to deliberately reenact them.

The WW2 negotiations famously led to significant concessions from Hitler. Like him shooting himself in a bunker

This is a superb short video on the consequences of the ongoing destruction of American science. Please watch and circulate. @sebastianseung.bsky.social is fantastic here. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Job ad now up! We have an opening for a tenure-track or tenured professor, joint between Computer Science and Physics.

🚨Another PI job opening in the Neuroscience dept. at @umontreal.ca ! 🚨 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Be my neighbor! @rwjms.bsky.social Neuroscience is hiring! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Turing Lectures at ICTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fF6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuK... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDa...

You may have seen Silicon Valley tech figures posting + panicking about Zohran Mamdani in recent weeks. I decided to talk to NYC-based tech execs who have actually sat down with him. They’re not panicking: www.wired.com/story/tech-e...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

While the effects on AI of [science] funding cuts might not be obvious in the next year or two, they threaten “the whole ecosystem that we have built around AI, which has been created by public support.” Yes. The US AI ecosystem grew from universities, from free academia and public funding. 🧪

The anti-vaxxers & conspiracy theorists are in charge now. Predictably, it's a mess. But destruction is easy. Building is hard. These folks don't intend to rebuild the scientific enterprise & health systems they're dismantling. The only beneficiaries here are the snake oil salesmen. Go figure.

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

gpt-4o number one fans happy that it's not dead

A few more ideas for the Swiss government to suck up to Trump: - Rename the Roche Towers in Basel to Trump Towers; - Turn the Prime Tower in Zürich into a Trump Casino; - Open the Rütliwiese Trump Golf Course 🇨🇭🇺🇸

GPT-5 lands first place on NoCha, our long-context book understanding benchmark. That said, this is a tiny improvement (~1%) over o1-preview, which was released almost one year ago. Have long-context models hit a wall? Accuracy of human readers is >97%... Long way to go!

Other countries will pay for tariffs is the new "Mexico will pay for the wall" www.npr.org/2025/06/09/n...