Nothing even comes close to the polite, erudite savagery of the postmortem of a failed English cricket tour down under www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

Tulsi Gabbard in negotiations to pardon Snowden? This really could get spicy

annoyed people are finally believing Epstein died by suicide bc of this note. it's so common for child abusers facing real consequences to attempt or complete suicide. but I guess people wanted to use a rapist's suicide to seem cool despite having zero knowledge of rapists and their behavior

Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

Just an absolute masterclass of test cricket bowling by the Aussies today. Flat pitch, stifling dry heat, and yet they get them with line, length, and guile.

remember, never f**k with a country who names swimming pools after a man who disappeared while swimming

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Become ungovernable

If you've never contacted your House rep (I hadn't until now), it's as easy as anything. Calling is great, but you can easily email too! Anything is better than nothing, takes just a couple of mins to send something www.house.gov/representati...

no reason...

Just a shocking missed opportunity that this paper (a) develops a Bayesian approach to network community detection, tested on (b) Sampson’s Monastery Data—which is about conflict amongst a group of monks—but (c) is somehow *not* titled “Updating Your Prior”. www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/researc...

Students are going to love it when that one classmate in 500 who does no work and complains about everything shuts down a requirement for them all to graduate on time

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The number of people who sit in hospitals watching videos on their phone with sound on is just incredible. Maybe it's bc it's been a long time since I've been on this side of things. Oh and dementia sucks fyi

Special place in hell for the guy in the next bed in the hospital room watching tiktok or whatever at full blast no headphones

Passionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)

Would it be too much for the NYT or any news outlet really to spend 5mins on these cog exams, speak to a neurologist etc? Most neurologically intact ppl will score 100%. Of course they are going to tell big baby leader he aced it

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Poms 0 Aussies 2 youtube.com/shorts/3i-8D...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Death Taxes Mitch Starc getting a wicket in his first over

Between this and the problems with twin-studies it's been a hell of a year for some people I can think of

Neil! Neil! Neil!

Hahahahahaha

Hipster linux users who learned everything they know from Youtube influencers nodding in approval

So what all the guys bleating "she was responsive to the prompt, first amendment, first amendment" didn't bother to look at what the assignment was? You are kidding me...

There's Norway they'd do that I'll see myself out

Always good to think about the first amendment! First amendment is great! It's just the Con Law Guys never seem all that concerned with the first amendment rights of trans people

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

I've often wondered what in the name of hell are they teaching in Con Law to make otherwise-seeming intelligent ppl think this way, and now I think I've learnt a little bit

Going to make my kid watch this Clockwork Orange style so she is never interested in drugs ever

This was super interesting. The rise of EEG is cool. We've got a bunch of EEG studies on the go for 2026!

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

When Kilian invites you over for a few quiet ones

I'm willing to bet that these capitulations will come down to a small number of lawyers and administrators working for the interests of the Trump admin not their institution

As you head out to your local favorite indie bookstore this weekend (because of course that’s what you’re doing, right?!), here is my list of my 25 favorite books of the year: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...

Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

My sweaty internal emails about how I am not Enron are raising questions already answered by my sweaty internal emails about how I'm not Enron.

It puts the lotion on its skin, Charlie Brown, or else it gets the hose again

Not directly related to @neurograce.bsky.social’s comment here but to the thread: I am baffled by the number of people who seem to think the claim is that all brain computation is low-d vs. the *emprical* finding that task-related neural activity is (linear) low-d in many (not all) cases.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

This Is Just To Say I have read the poems that were in the screenshots and which you were probably hoping would entice Forgive me I cannot read more so gross and so wrong

Putting aside all the criticisms of twin design methodology, this is enough to put them to bed as any sort of gold standard. No-one with half a brain believed the 50-60 (70+!)% heritability estimates for complex traits

It is nuts that these are highlights from one day! Head's innings was a brutal reply to bazball youtu.be/I2g0pGqYOIs?...

At this rate is the test in Perth even going to go to day three?