Derweil hatte die linke Regierung Sanchez in Spanien bereits im März 26 ein breit gefächertes Entlastungspaket für seine Bevölkerung verabschiedet. Erwartetes Wirtschaftswachstum (BIP) 2026: • in Spanien 2,6 % • in Deutschland 0,5% Woher kommt dieser Mythos Konservative könnten Wirtschaft? 3/3

i love how in the UK, every new PM says something like politics is broken but we will give you hope www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Science is amazing

Yep, the idea of a ‘carbon footprint‘ was developed by Ogilvy & Mather, a New York City-based British advertising and public relations firm working for BP: www.clf.org/blog/the-tru...

Currently finalising an article with a biography. Shocked to see that in proof setting, the editor, 'for clarity', changed my dead husband to a 'wife' - I've had to fix it back in the proof. The biography even notes I'm LGBT+ - they apparently don't believe two men can be parents. #LGBTSTEM #GayDad

would more middle class academics be happy to share whatever they do to improve their finances in this job and how they went about it, like side gigs, consultancy gigs, and investments, or organisations they joined, companies founded, or whatever it is?

"They [Reform] are a party that has a problem with women and they need to sort it out" - Sarah Wakefield Green Party Candidate for Makerfield tonight on Question Time

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

The Gender Recognition map of Europe. This is how bad the UK is now. 43rd out of 49. Down with Russia, Hungary, Albania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Worse than Turkey, Serbia and Belarus. A lot worse than Ukraine, and Ukraine has been at war for four years.

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

Sadly this isn’t new. Here in Stroud Labour threw good Cllrs out of the party because they insisted on working with Greens to keep the Tories out. Disgraceful for a central party to treat their cllrs like that.

Not In Our Name has reached 105,000. If you are against abuse and discrimination of trans women, particularly after the discriminatory EHRC guidance released yesterday, then please sign. Notinourname.org.uk Because it’s not only trans women that can get caught up by this, many cis women can too!

The new EHRC guidance is truly horrible and completely unworkable. Are we all going to be made to carry around kariotype photos? (not that it covers all aspects of sex) But this really takes the biscuit. People who think my marriage is inherently sinful shouldn't be assumed to be homophobic? What?!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... other countries try to attract the biggest talent from abroad, the UK tries to reach net 0 immigration.

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

Can’t help but feel this is a reaction to that YouGov poll, which I feel is a strategic error

Our preprint has grown up, and it is now out in @natneuro.nature.com Bottom line: variable patterns of brain connectivity in #autism can reflect distinct underlying biological mechanisms 🧠🐭 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Mouse fMRI datasets: tinyurl.com/44dwe6dz Detailed explainer below👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... so Starmer is unpopular over appointing Mandelson, and now - are they really putting a close friend of Mandelson forward as future PM?

The new European Rainbow map has been released! 🇪🇸 Spain has reached the top of the leaderboard! 🇬🇧 The UK has fallen yet again. Once the board leader it is now half way down the table, joining other reactionary anti-LGBTQ+ states. rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2

Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

I don't want to see em dashes in papers anymore, everywhere I look is an em dash

The judgement is damning of the bias / predetermined attitudes of OfS staff esp. Ahmed, also the resulting OfS investigation & report. Hard to see how they can continue in their roles, the OfS either needs a complete overhaul or be disbanded. Ironically they’ve just been given more draconian powers.

worth a read

R (Sussex) v OfS and FDU (2026) 1. The judgement: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The Tories' bullshit Office 'For' Students - agenda: imposing hate on vulnerable students - subsequently embraced by Starmer's Red Tories gets whacked in Court.

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Excited to share an early look at psilo-seq, a web portal for exploring our lab’s single-nucleus RNA-seq data in mice following psychedelic treatment.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Vote 😜 mol.im/a/15729479?i...

the reporting here is so utterly transphobic www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just in general, femme-presenting kidlets, older man in the industry taking an interest in you / wanting to “mentor” you: consider why he doesn’t have any friends his own damn age

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Today! #TMS #Friday

equality win: cis people are afraid of airport security

A fantastic review by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social et al. Highlights the difficulty of properly assessing these questions and the role of potential nocebo and expectation effects, providing an interesting link to the work we do @sfb. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Reminder that you can submit an abstract to give a talk at our upcoming 'Rewilding the Web' workshop at the University of Edinburgh up until the 31st March. Details in image and alt text. Supported by @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social + Scotsphil

Sir Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure to drop his EU “red lines” as part of efforts to win back Green voters and put more space between Labour and the Conservatives and Reform. www.ft.com/content/6a67...

TIL: Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from The Great Famine of 1845-52.

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

Some of you gave some really sassy quotes for this piece, but my favorite...well perhaps I shouldn't say which one is my favorite 💅

The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work retractionwatch.com/ctrl-z-award/

MRC / @ukri.org are moving to in-person panel interviews for applicants. Have they done a disability and equity impact assessment on this? I know some great scientists with great ideas who would be unfairly disadvantaged, due to minority ethnicity, class background or neurodivergence.