The ability of the US to even pretend we have the moral high ground in any situation is pretty much gone for a generation, at least

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

We are a very stupid country www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

She's not taking any excuses and neither are we. Georgia, the state is on the line. Tuesday, March 10th-no "I forgot," no "my vote doesn't matter," no "I was busy." None of that! Get up and VOTE for Shawn Harris. On March 10th, you can make a difference! #GA14

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Open PhD/Postdoc position (start: Oct 2026). Topic: AI/LLMs and child language/communicative/cognitive development. The exact project will be shaped with the candidate. Join our team @univ-amu.fr at the intersection of computer and cognitive science (& right next to the Calanques!). Send me your CV!

Many states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to new USPS rules, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

The recording light can be hacked and turned off. There is now an app to let you know when the glasses are being used nearby techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/n...

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

“It seems like they woke up on Saturday morning and decided that they were going to start a war.”

IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required! Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 Another mega paper that deserves close attention. Lots of implications, including emergence and evolution iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #complexity

Can’t wait for this one! 🚀🌞🪨👽🛸

What’s the best way to work as a team across continents on some of the biggest challenges in #neuroscience? Our researchers and colleagues at the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social reveal 20 lessons from their partnership: www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Article about the new falling cat research!

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Excellent advice right here.

Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be The Growth of New Brain Cells www.sciencealert.com/superagers-s...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We wrote a commentary in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social on a really nice recent paper from van den Bosch & Cools where they provide the first real attempt at validating REACT (molecular-enriched fMRI). Here's what they found and what we think it means 👇 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Exciting research from Dr. Winston published in Neuroimage! Using robotic technology and neuroimaging, they mapped how brain connectivity patterns relate to specific cognitive impairments in TLE. Novel insights for understanding epilepsy as a network disorder. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "Two recent studies suggest that Long COVID may involve long-term neurobiological remodeling - even after mild infection. One examined the brain under cognitive load. The other looked at it at rest. Together, they..." 17-tweet 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20288...

🚨Preprint! “Bayesian surprise tracks the strength of perceptual insight” - Work with @lindedomingo.bsky.social & @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social Ever wondered what factors influence the subjective experience of suddenly understanding a previously unclear input? Click below: doi.org/10.64898/202...

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Check our @russpoldrack.org's series Better Code, Better Science, a really amazing resource bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/

Applications are open for #CompNeuro, a live, intensive online course. Participants learn to combine modern #MachineLearning and causality frameworks with advanced modeling approaches to tackle real #neuroscience questions. neuromatch.io/computationa...

This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder. www.rawstory.com/military-267...

NEW: Since Jan 2023, ICE + CBP together have spent at least $515 million on products from Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, & Google. But where is the money actually going, & what specifically is it powering? Here, I break down everything we know about both of these things: www.wired.com/story/how-bi...

The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

COMMENTARY: War Is Peace: Trump’s Regime-Change Reversal If the United States is now kidnapping and killing dictators without direct provocation, it will come back to bite us after demolishing our moral authority in the world.

Senator Merkley to me on Trump’s war in Iran: “This president has chosen to steal the power of the purse, breaking the Constitution; steal the power of taxation, breaking the Constitution; and now, stealing the power of War, breaking the Constitution. I’m not sure, are we still a republic?”

Honored to be part of this trial, led by my amazing colleague Dr. Farmer, with much teamwork. Thank you for funding from @cirmnews.bsky.social (CIRM). 🫶 Treating fetuses with stem cells proves safe in milestone spina bifida trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientists in California have created a new way to see inside the body by combining ultrasound with a light-based technique called photoacoustic imaging. The result produces fast 3D images that show both the shape of soft tissues and how blood is flowing. buff.ly/Z7ZOhm9 #ShareGoodNewsToo

"Kennedy has continued to spread misinformation and push politicised agendas at the expense of the country's most vulnerable...the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair." Bold,factual and somber editorial in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Successful psychopaths are very good at imitating normal emotional responses, which they learn over decades of observing normal people. But when facing a novel situation, they have no such learning to rely on, and their jarringly cold responses reveal their hollow interiors.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...