I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

Tonight was a very bad night.

There is an "AI arms race" developing in planning as AI scanning speeds up planning applications But off-the-shelf AI-analysis of those planning applications generates objections (objections which will then all be analysed by...AI !!) It's all going a bit mad www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

what happens when you spend two weeks learning new navigation or memory skills? as shown in our recent paper below, brain network connectivity changes but not hippocampal or other brain volumes! special thanks to collaborators Li Zheng and Steve Weisberg elifesciences.org/articles/106...

New research from #ProcB: Confounding Fuels Misinterpretation in Human Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #Behaviour #Evolution #Genomics

The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

Our 2017 @nationalacademies.org report on “Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance" (www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/hum...) was designed to prevent exactly this kind of rogue science. One of the many reasons why we need industry-independent regulatory frameworks for emerging tech …

Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

”I Tidöregeringens nya kulturkanon ingår offentlighetsprincipen och tryckfrihetsförordningen från 1766, något alla svenskar tydligen ska känna stolthet över. I praktiken trampar landets regeringar just på dessa klassiska svenska principer.”

Kina ökar sin geopolitiska makt och leder den gröna omställningen. Man ska heller inte glömma att USA och EU tillsammans orsakat nästan 70 procent av klimatförändringarna. Kinas ansvar landar på 1 procent. globalinequality.org/responsibili...

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

Bland det viktigaste @isobelhk.bsky.social skrivit. Förtjänar att läsas och spridas igen, på förekommen anledning. Befolkningsutbyte är och förblir nazistisk propaganda. www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...

72-year-old cancer patient Phillip Lewis said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. Surprise surprise (not surprised), it turns out, he wasn't the guy they were looking for. If only his story were unique.

The masked face of a religious settler attacking Palestinian olive harvesters with the visible backing of the IDF. Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh. See full story in @haaretzcom.bsky.social. haaretz.com/israel-news/...

När en ledande sosse kör mantrat ”Sverige behöver bli lite mer som Sverige” kommer jag att svara ”…och socialdemokraterna behöver bli mer socialdemokratiska.” Sverige behöver en fungerande opposition mot den regerande högerpopulismen. Läs mer om ”barnfägelsereformen” i DN!👇🏼 www.dn.se/ledare/amand...

“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda “Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” An interview with Marius Turda published in @scielo.org www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8j...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology New study out on values & cognitive biases (self-serving biases; halo effects) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Have you ever seen 350+ printers in action? Now you have 😎 The Wild Hornets 3D farm runs non-stop — even through power outages and other external challenges. All for the defenders who critically need drones.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📅 There's just 1️⃣ month to go until our annual Scientific Conference in London! Discover how to join us in person or online, & find out much more including the full agenda here: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data/researcher-collaboration/researcher-events/uk-biobank-scientific-conference-2025/

Holy shit. Noam Shazeer, one of the original authors on the "Attention is All You Need" paper and Character.AI founder, came out as major transphobe. Like Trumpian levels of "this is child mutilation" of transphobia. (via The Information)

NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.

The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY. Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?

Enligt källor till SVT ville klimatminister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) att någon annan minister skulle representera Sverige på klimattoppmötet i hennes ställe, eftersom hon är gravid. Men ingen annan minister ville åka.

Umami version 3 is here, a free and open source, modern, privacy focused alternative to Google Analytics that is self hosted on your own server. Repo github.com/umami-softwa... Blog post umami.is/blog/umami-v3

❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them." ✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

This story is bonkers archive.is/csVPb

Går inte ta in. Vilket jävla mörker. omni.se/a/kwqw9B

I en debattartikel skrev David Holmberg att han vill att Miljöpartiet ska få vara ”ett flumparti” – ett intuitivt och kreativt stigfinnarparti. Men flum löser inga problem, skriver Lasse Ståhle i sin replik, och råder Miljöpartiet att fortsätta stödja sig på vetenskap.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Anna Ardin: När demokratin blir en fernissa

NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found. Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US. www.ft.com/content/231d...

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

"Tidöregeringens klimatpolitik har hela tiden varit en särdeles sorglig soppa", skriver DN i dagens ledare. Förutom att utsläppen ökat har kartläggningar av klimatrisker skrotats på många håll i landet. Vi kommer att få leva med fler bränder, översvämningar, skyfall och jordskred.

Sweden, once a symbol of integrity, now appears to be using bribes to push through its policies abroad. The minister sinks deeper every time he tries to talk his way out of the situation. @palmecenter.bsky.social @equaltimes.bsky.social @sidasweden.bsky.social @ www.dn.se/sverige/kall...

Two most relevant papers are: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

rip 😔

Folkligt! — America’s top 10 richest saw their wealth grow by $700 billion combined under Trump: report www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.