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At least one victim is dead and two others are injured after a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, according to authorities. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3KjqWun

What is Russia trying to achieve with its incursions into Nato airspace and what options do these violations leave for the West?

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I enjoyed this article, but think it's especially interesting to consider non-primary reward to get at reward's interoceptive origin. This is part of what attracted me to birdsong: there is an intrinsic reward that is internally calculated - how good do I think my song was?

The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning This Review article represents a true quest for the Holy Grail: the origin of reward! In short, reward originates deep within our bodies, in our viscera, and not in the external environment! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/n

Big announcement : the upcoming 2026 Neurobiology of Drug Addiction GRC will be taking place May 3-8, 2026, at the Rey Don Jaime Grand Hotel, Barcelona, Spain. Registration is now open, so apply today! Kudos to Diana Martinez and Nii Addy for concocting the program 🙏 www.grc.org/neurobiology...

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I can't listen to your wonderful song anymore, my dear Louis, and I'm so sorry.

Great conversation between Michel Serres and Isabelle Stengers about science from 1980 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEe...

“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.” go.nature.com/4213aJO

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Germany, which has a government that views unconditionally supporting Israel and its genocidal behavior as one of its reason of state, is under increasing domestic and international pressure to recognize Palestine and join Europe in sanctioning Israel for its criminal actions.

What’s going on with Venezuela? An NYT report says the US force off the shore isn’t big enough for an invasion, nor is it in the right place to combat drug smuggling. Diplomats, military officials and intelligence officers say the true reason is to oust the President Nicolas Maduro.

I didn't read the OpenAI one yet, but my last Science column discussed the Anthropic "scheming" report" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Several international relations analysts believe that Trump is being held on a leash by Netanyahu, which explains why he put Israel first and America second, despite all the negative consequences for his own country. But these analysts never clearly explain why. Any serious hypotheses?

The mad king is losing it. This will destroy higher ed, tech, and the medical profession. Xenophobia has no bounds in this administration. I’m a former h1b holder

Is Kirk’s assassination Trump’s Reichstag fire? History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power Repression is quickly metastasizing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

Interesting interview with @axdouglas.bsky.social re his general take on philosophy and what not. www.contralytic.co.uk/conversation...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

There’s a whole book… www.amazon.com/Outsider-Sci...

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. This is a must-watch. 🔥 #cdnpoli

Legendary musician Roger Waters joined a group of protesters in New York in front of the UN headquarters to demand an end to the GENOClDE.

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

Discovery of the neurobiotic sense, a new gut sense at the interface of the biota and the brain Flagellin, an ubiquitous microbial pattern, stimulates neuropod cells from the colonic lumen to reduce feeding through a gut–brain sensory neural circuit. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The Trump administration has learned to effectively weaponize the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like from people it doesn’t like. [It] shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just 8 months." www.vox.com/politics/461...

This article is truly impressive, both for the significance of its findings and the enormous amount of work it represents! Briefly, it demonstrates that the gut-brain vagal axis exerts a considerable influence on dopamine-dependent reward-related processes... 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Nobel War Prize for Trump Trump now knows he won't win the Nobel Peace Prize. So he's using all his leverage to rename the prize the Nobel War Prize. After all, Alfred Nobel made his fortune creating and selling explosives.

👏 👏 someone deserves a round of applause. Welcome to #Windsor #Trump Trump & #Epstein projected onto castle wall! H/t Chris Ship ./1

🚨 BREAKING: The EU has unveiled plan to hit Israel with tariffs and sanctions amid outcry over the Gaza war. Developing story: ow.ly/csss50WY0P1

“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0

Dans le cadre d’une étude qu’il conduit sur les attaques aux libertés académiques, Pierre-Nicolas Baudot a dénombré plus de 70 livres consacrés à la "menace wokiste", publiés entre 2020 et 2023. "Si tous ne se vendent pas très bien, ils disposent d’une couverture médiatique très importante."

My new article in @justsecurity.org is unfortunately very timely. 2/n www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

If you want to know what Israel really wants in the Middle East, with the US on a tight leash, I highly recommend listening to this recent short interview with Pr John Mearsheimer, a political scientist specializing in international relations. It's unfiltered! www.aljazeera.com/video/the-bo...

Alcohol consumption that results in high blood levels of ethanol activates a specific ensemble of GABAergic neurons in the medial orbitofrontal cortex with long-range projections This is a truly impressive and comprehensive work 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

I think about this diagram a lot. This is a *simplified* schematic of *some of* the brain regions and circuits involved in behavioral control. (From: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

A Israeli soldier who was attached to the GHF "relief" operation, and was ordered to shoot at the crowd: "The officers would shout at me: take them down, take them down. I shot 50-60 bullets per day, I stopped counting the kills. I have no idea how many people I killed, lots. Children". Haaretz.

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Truth bomb‼️ This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch

Our new review on numerical cognition in birds, just out in Nature Reviews Psychology! 🐦🧠 Behavior, neurobiology & field studies across avian species Very fond of the neurobiology part :) 📖 Read it here: rdcu.be/eyErI

Introduction of an artificial cocaine-activated brain negative feedback loop that limits cocaine use 🤩 Rats are known to titrate their cocaine use based on the dose which suggests a negative feedback regulation process. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today. "You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."