Modern health misinformation no longer behaves like a random collection of rumors — it has an infrastructure

Duterte and his allies will finally face justice at The Hague. Justice for all the victims of Duterte’s regime, the War on Drugs, and extrajudicial killings! @mariaressa.bsky.social’s Nobel Peace Prize is becoming more and more well-deserved.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Happy Mother's Day, everyone. 💜

Distributed acoustic sensing or DAS is a truly AMAZING seismology technique that uses laser pulses to turn a fiber optic cable into a string of tiny seismometers. DAS doesn't just pick up vibrations in the Earth, though. Exposed coils of cables can easily pick up human speech within 5 meters!

A shore smoothed Septarian nodule. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

I have no regrets about putting others before myself. It led to setbacks in pursuing my personal goals, but serving the communities I was part of was my choice. I did it because I wanted to connect with people, and through that experience, I learned so much about my identity and my family’s history.

Complain all you want (with good reason) about AI invading all aspects of our lives, but its applications in molecular genetics are gonna be 🔥!

There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-... #neuroscience

TranscriptFormer: A generative cell atlas across 1.5 billion years of evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - this looks cool! 👀

I just opened my Substack and the algorithm led me to "Neuroscience of..." writings that are actually just poetic self-reflections or psychological explanations of emotions. And I'm wondering where the f*ck is neuroscience there? And so many people read this stuff?

'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

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Whenever we have a class reunion, it always falls on my b-day or my best friend’s. I’m exactly 1 year and 1 day older than him. When we met again after all these years, we talked about our lives and discovered that we both studied Computer courses in college—we hadn’t planned or agreed on it at all.

Correlation does not mean causation or functional explanation.

Your digital footprints can actually tell more about your personality than your online friends. When you click the box "I am human", it's not to clarify whether you're human or not—it's to gather your metadata instead. Using the data, they can map your "shadow personality".

𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 circuit 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Finally research is considering the functional/ anatomical complexity of the brain. It's not about regions, but how circuits function dynamically. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroskyence

Why do brains generalize so well while today’s neural networks often fail outside their training data? Check this paper in @cp-neuron.bsky.social argues how neuroscience can guide better architectures & representations. Check the table below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aim for happiness and well-being not power, but know when to gain power and give up power.

That shortwave number station right before the start of Iran War is still in my mind. This tech from the Cold War is still fucking cool.

Me to myself: it’s okay to embarrass yourself in pursuit of human connection

“This work fundamentally changes how we think about disease progression in Huntington’s,” remarked Srini Subramaniam, senior author of a new study describing how tiny ‘tunnels’ allow mutant huntingtin protein to spread between neurons >>> www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience... 🧪

“Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken...” David Hume, Scottish empiricist philosopher, whose work influenced cognitive science & economic theory, born #OTD 1711. Portrait by Allan Ramsay 1754, National Galleries of Scotland

I feel like a bird watching this. I totally get it, Zendaya.

Neuroscientist Earl K. Miller proposes a new way to think about how brain waves act as an organizing force powering cognition. @earlkmiller.bsky.social vist.ly/53ecb

Aww. Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough! 💙 youtu.be/dWd-TempNMg?...

Ube craze! I'm also crazy for Ube 💜 A violet revolution, but who profits from the ube market? share.google/ey4lPMHopqWe...

I miss my Ube 💜 Ube aka purple yam is trending worldwide. Kerala has had its own version for years share.google/GyugX1HQbKMH...

Someone bought my abstract painting of Hippocampus. Now I miss it. #neuroskyence #sciart

非決定論がリバタリアン自由意志の、より自然主義的な解釈にとって問題とならないとするならば、これは両立主義と非両立主義という従来の議論にどのような影響を与えるでしょうか？この自然主義的リバタリアニズムは、本当に新しい選択肢を提示しているのか、それとも単に、これまでの議論を科学的な視点から捉え直しているに過ぎないのでしょうか?

After all this time, I thought "canon event" meant being canonized as a Saint or getting hit by a cannonball—like St. Ignatius of Loyola. (But they're canon events right?)

I also want some booty scratc---

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥: 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 link.springer.com/article/10.1... - really delighted that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in Synthese! 😀

There's Hantavirus and the FBI is releasing UFO files. Did you guys open the Pandora Box or something?!

After all this time, I thought "canon event" meant being canonized as a Saint or getting hit by a cannonball—like St. Ignatius of Loyola. (But they're canon events right?)

On May 5 in 2000, the ILOVEYOU virus began to spread to PCs around the world via email. Were you a victim too? Tell me your story! 😁 It was a massive news in my country, Philippines. I remember hearing this from the tv news, people at school, neighbors, etc.

Must read.

Someone bought my abstract painting of Hippocampus. Now I miss it. #neuroskyence #sciart

We found that the preference for allowing freedom of expression vs. limiting the spread of misinformation is politically polarized: In 32 out of 40 countries, right-leaning participants prioritize protecting free expression more than left-leaning participants (55% vs. 48%). osf.io/preprints/ps...

Be the author of your own story, not just a character in someone else’s script.

Today, I allowed myself to get lost.

Humans are More Than Machines, with Prof Kevin Mitchell www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRE... - a recent interview with Philip Davies... 😊

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Let me cry. I've been emotional lately. Dunno...I realized how much I've grown. I look at these pictures to remind myself to love myself deeply.

Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/auti... - not vaccines or cold mothers or iPads or fluoride or pesticides or the microbiome. It's genetic.

I'm proud of you, friend @garymarcus.bsky.social. Glad you stayed despite all the backlash. You were right all along about your ideas on AI. Keep being a brave voice.

Excellent reminder from @garymarcus.bsky.social of all the arguments about why chatbots(a far better term than the misleading “AI”) are not conscious, using Dawkins’ daft infatuation as the starting point.

I want to hug my younger self. You've come so far, baby. You can do everything. 💙

I just realized it's May 4! What a coincidence. May the 4th be with you. (I'm just not a big fan tho.😅)

Am I the only "daddy's girl" who was gifted Star Wars merchandise but neither of us is a fan? My dad just thought it was cool. That’s basically how my childhood was. He gave me everything he thought was cool because he wanted me to be a cool girl, even though he didn't even like that stuff.