Duterte's Playbook. I can't believe that Extra Judicial Killings is also now in the United States. I've seen this before in my country.

I used to be really affected by what strangers say on social media. But now, it feels like any opinion you share is almost guaranteed to attract a mob of hate. Online hostility has become so widespread that it no longer holds any real weight. So deadma.

Children today are very fortunate, as there’s now so much awareness of neurodivergence. When I was a child, I had tantrums because I was overstimulated but my relatives called me a demon.

Aside from doing sciences, I paint too. 2025 was a good year for my art. You can find my traditional artworks in these places. I'm grateful to the scientists who bought these paintings from me. (Brain parts and abstracts.) #neuroskyence

Hey Nobel what's going on here?! The only Maria who deserved her Nobel Peace Prize is Maria Ressa.

Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence Cognitive/Neuro Warfare is here. This is the real threat to Humanity. Pentagon 'bought' and used 'Havana Syndrome' weapon: theins.ru/en/politics/...

Professor: We have a quiz today. Classmate: Sir, did you know that there's a study that quizzes are not good for the brain? I laughed so loud in class.

Cognitive Warfare seeks to exploit facets of cognition to disrupt, undermine, influence, or modify human decision-making by altering human behaviour and cognition through any means and technological advances. A new CognitiveWarfare report from NATO’s chief scientist. www.sto.nato.int/wp-content/u...

I respected David Deutsch so much. I loved that guy. But he turned himself into an ideologist from being a respected physicist. His mixed cherry-picked ideas from Ayn Rand and Karl Popper don't make sense.

Oh so many Gen Zs have no idea how 9/11 reshaped the whole world, or how to connect the current terrible chain of events to that terrorist attack. The shift to a new age really started after the collapse of Soviet Union and the 9/11 incident.

Consicousness

Capturing Maduro is not the end of the story. This will have consequences. What's next after Venezuela? Iran Revolution? Another blowback in Iran? In the past, US covert operations in Iran that helped overthrow the government eventually resulted in revival of Islamic fundamentalism. 🧵

I am told I have no place working in #AI Ethics simply because my background is in computer science. In reality, people should value and even encourage more technologists to care about societal impacts. 🧵

should probably be a bigger deal that the vice president's favorite intellectual is a dull nazi bsky.app/profile/leah...

Astrocytes put the brakes on brain plasticity in mice by secreting the protein CCN1 to stabilize existing circuitry, a Nature study shows. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/astrocytes/a...

Popular culture loves the idea that men and women think differently, but the science is far less dramatic. Here’s what the research shows about cognitive ability and brain differences between the sexes: pennneuroknow.com/2025/12/23/t... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

You know, back at the start of the pandemic, I told a neuroscientist that there must be more to astrocytes than we realize like it’s not just neurons that matter. He brushed the idea off, saying only neuronal cells are important when it comes to information processing. Now look at all these papers!

Aww..Happy New Year! 🥳 "The world is for one with a brave soul and intrepid heart. To march through hellish adversity for a divine cause. And keep one thing in mind: virtue reigns triumphant at the end without tears or calling it quits." Thank you Kuntani!

In 2025, the books I read spanned diverse subjects: dystopian visions of authoritarian societies, examinations of women's roles in the data-driven world, neuroscience textbooks, works that debunk misinformation, and science fiction centered on neuroscience.

Books I've read this 2025. I don't know when I started some of them but I finished them all this year. Sometimes I'm a slow reader, sometimes I'm a fast reader. 😆 But I enjoyed each one of them #Booksky

I took a loan from friends to come home and see my father—the first time in 6 years since 2019. He came back from Japan for Christmas, but he’s been gone for days now. Tomorrow’s New Year, and he’s with his other family.

The Ramachandran phantom pain studies with mirror boxes...

‘Science Under Siege’: Two Experts Sound the Alarm on Trump’s War on Science | My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss our new book #ScienceUnderSiege with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/science-un...

これ面白かった。秘匿性が高い通信アプリの筆頭格であるsignalのMeredith Whittaker（元Googleの研究者）のインタビュー。 GoogleやMicrosoft、Apple等々のテック企業は基本的にユーザーの個人情報や利用情報などのプライバシーを餌として利用することを通して利益を上げていることや、その最たる例として昨今のAI技術が使われていることを解説している。私たちがネット上で日々交わしているあらゆるメッセージは、常に誰かに利用されるリスクに晒されており、それに対して人権としてのプライバシーが主張される。 youtube.com/watch?v=8BUU...

A new "quantum demon” may allow information to be processed in ways that classical physics does not permit.

Don’t forget that Penn demoted Kati, rather than supporting her. #Skyence #SciSky

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Over the last 50 years or so, left-wing revolutionary ideas have entered the cultural atmosphere, our columnist David Brooks writes. “MAGA has profited by exploiting these ideas in order to destroy the left.”

My science fiction book club Discord is alliiivvee 🧟‍♂️ Come say hi.

Is creativity nothing more than an illusion? | https://buff.ly/4ftIldT Join Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, Esther Freud, and Ian McGilchrist as they debate creativity, imagination, and whether or not they can help us reframe out understanding of reality. #philsci #universe #creativity

Headlines suggest that quantum computing is going to revolutionise the world, but is this little more than a hoax? | https://buff.ly/4g8dHrc Join @dominicwalliman.bsky.social , @joscha.bsky.social, and Ruth Oulton to reveal the science from the hype on all things quantum computing. #philsci

◻️ #neuroscience #death&dying #consciousness "Even as she slipped irrevocably deeper into death, something that looked astonishingly like life was taking place over several minutes in Patient One’s brain." ⚪ That's it. A teaser. No spoilers. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Packing is already a puzzle, and beauty products make it even trickier. We asked beauty experts how they actually edited down their routines for their travels. These are their smartest swaps, multitaskers, and non-negotiables.

Researchers identify genetic mutations for rare disorder causing cognitive decline medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09... #Neuroscience #CognativeDecline #Genetics #CSF1R #Mutations

Hey this worked! Import all of your old Twitter posts over to Bluesky (for a few bucks, depending on how irrepressible you were). Now I look like I've been posting on this platform longer than it has existed.

Oh, neat.

I was privileged to have met her waaaaay back in the late ‘90s. Such an incredibly brave soul.

Had a very fun chat with Sean Brady on the Simplifying Complexity podcast, on agency and free will... open.spotify.com/episode/1E3h...

I was watching this 2025 Spring Gala in China, instead. I realized how much different the most viewed event shows in Asia and the West are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqX...

Well well, timely! 😉 www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Heather Marsh, aka Georgie BC, envisioned a radically innovative decoupled Internet, allowing full open collaboration and privacy for personal data. Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, envisioned a basic text based message board like pre-Internet networks. georgiebc.wordpress.com/category/cod...

How algorithms are breaking democracy, featuring @bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...

And which I discuss in more detail here: Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...

Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses www.psu.edu/news/researc... - many cases of what used to be called 'intellectual disability' are now being diagnosed as 'autism'

It’s sadly accurate.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Should the human species survive? Peter Thiel really had to think about it. On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat and the tech right power player discuss immortality, whether Elon Musk really wants to go to Mars and the Antichrist.

Office Cat. www.patreon.com/posts/office...