This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

L’alcool, et si on en parlait ? De l’usage à risque à l’addiction A Bordeaux, ce n'est pas rien www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAyF...

Goal selection through the lens of subjective functions: arxiv.org/abs/2512.15948 I welcome any feedback on these preliminary ideas.

Darwin on the possibility of understanding other minds Darwin believed that "he who understands baboon would do more for metaphysics than Locke" and, at the same time, he felt "that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton."

The nosology of addiction as a medical condition In the evolution of addiction nosology, we have observed a gradual but inexorable progression toward an understanding that is both more scientific and more humane www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolutionary ecology of ethanol This insightful Review article suggests that our anthropocentric view of ethanol has masked its importance in nature www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

More than 50% of researchers have used AI while peer reviewing manuscripts, according to a survey of some 1,600 academics across 111 countries Are you part of this majority? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Guardian in the UK is reporting he was shot twice himself but is now in hospital and recovering Remarkable human, bless him

Heartbroken and outraged. At least 11 people in Australia celebrating Hanukkah were murdered in an antisemitic attack. Families came together in joy and celebration and were met with hatred and violence—carried out in broad daylight, with horrifying boldness. Antisemitism is a threat to us all.

The man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been named: The hero’s name is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two, who owns a fruit shop.

Qui sont-ils ? Vont-ils résister à l'IA ? Ghostwriters sur LinkedIn, les petits soldats de la foire au storytelling

Australia police responding after multiple gunshots reported at Bondi Beach

None of these are animal videos. All are AI. If you watched a lot of dog videos or even met dogs you'd know these aren't normal or plausible behaviours.

In the interest of transparency, we will continue to release photos from the Epstein estate. We have released an additional 70+ photos sent to our Committee. More to come. See them using the link below. ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fq3vn...

I’d like to formally apologize for the horrible images you’re about to see and the feelings they will invoke. /

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is facing a court hearing to determine whether he's competent to stand trial for alleged sex trafficking after being hospitalized for dementia and Alzheimer's symptoms.

Trump-Venezuela live: Fears US is ‘beginning a war’ after seizing oil tanker

President Trump's lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean are cold-blooded murder. We need to know how his administration is claiming to justify them. Tell Congress: Transparency and accountability can't wait.

A Bay Area police officer dressed in a full Santa suit helped recover stolen Christmas trees and wreaths taken from a Safeway, authorities said.

Why the war on Gaza is so different from other conflicts Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘We’re living in terror’: fears in southern Syria over Israel’s growing occupation

Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.

📻 @sergeahmed.bsky.social, chercheur @incia-neurocampus.bsky.social , était invité il y a peu sur RFI pour évoquer une addiction qui va en s'aggravant, celle qui concerne le sucre :

Le trumpisme s'inscrit-il dans la continuité du reaganisme ou rompt-il avec lui ? Un débat éclairant et argumenté entre le sociologue Joan Stavo-Debauge et l'historien André Loez. 1/2

À regarder absolument, et à diffuser massivement. Merci Antonin Bernanos, merci @olivierbesancenot.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmg...

Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

God bless Szamado. He's completely correct and has been soldiering away at this for years - but the complexity of the topic is just slightly too high to outcompete Zahavi's (misleading) golf analogy. academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

America, don’t normalize this. Cancel these outrageous contracts with Palantir. Do not fund Thiel’s extreme ideological surveillance machine dead set on war profiteering using our tax dollars. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/p...

I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes

Without Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia, Eurovision has no meaning.

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Putin's war in Ukraine shows where authoritarianism can lead: ~1.4 million casualties. An entire generation sacrificed for one man's imperialist delusions. We must not let any president drag us into war without congressional approval.

During the incredibly awkward FIFA Peace Prize ceremony, Trump had to put on his own medal. Humiliating. Trump will have HATED this.

This is proof that FIFA is a corrupt federation

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Role of mesolimbic circuitry in aversive signalling, pain relief and opioid use disorder In this review, the authors explore how opioid use modifies heterogeneous VTA neuron populations, enhancing sensitivity to aversive stimuli and promoting negative affect 1/3 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

Reward prediction error on female steroid www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Having now seen the new US National Security “Strategy,” I regret to say that I saw this one coming: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/u...

If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Hunger increases exploration and risk-taking behavior, allowing an animal to forage for food despite risks Hunger-induced changes in exploration result from the modulation of dopamine signaling in the tail of the striatum via the following circuit: 1/2 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.

Cocaine Addiction Trinity Three subtypes of cocaine use disorder and their neurobehavioral profiles A ‘Relief Type’ with high negative emotionality A ‘Cognitive Type’ with lower executive function An ‘Undefined Type’ with no apparent impairments www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A vigorous negative finding Subsecond dopamine transients in the striatum of mice are neither required nor sufficient for specifying the vigor of ongoing forelimb movements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had a great visit with Ádám Miklosi in Budapest about their Gifted Dogs (G-Dogs!) program... 😊 These are VERY CLEVER bois and girls!!! 🐶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/dogs...