A group of Persian-speaking intellectuals is working to translate Iranian perspectives on the war into English: truethings.naghmehs.com

What's the old adage? Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away? Software bloat has been central to the tech industry's business model for decades and the real innovation here seems to be the automation of inefficiency...

www.praxisnation.com accepting applications 😂 #solutionism #TESCREAL #grandiosity #philsky #polsky but only if you are in alignment: OUR PURPOSE IS TO REVITALIZE WESTERN CIVILIZATION BY CREATING A NEW CULTURE FOCUSED ON THE PURSUIT OF HEROISM, TRUTH, AND BEAUTY. (yes, all CAPS)

www.iuscientists.org/the-us-israe... #iran #scolasticide #philsky #philscisky #scisky

Trump as unwitting agent of decarbonization...

Listen to @warghetti.bsky.social, @justinsalhani.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social describe the war's devastating impact on civilian life in Lebanon. open.spotify.com/episode/7ahV...

1/ New preprint led by @kellyhoogervorst.bsky.social - Introducing MetaBites, a novel task measuring metacognition in nutritional judgements. Why does nutritional knowledge fail to predict dietary behaviour? Could metacognitive biases explain the gap? #psychscisky 🧪 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hello Mohammad posting & following you 🙏🏼

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Andrea Gambarotto link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@adw.bsky.social you might enjoy this essay - picks up on affordances and flows to characterize the emergence of man standard. You may find Massumi too tangential but his thinking has pushed mine. open.substack.com/pub/brianmas...

essay by #brianmassumi - war play, boys, group-subjects and subjected groups. identify and opacity. ‘Logic is on the frontline of the war (play) against the all-too-human. A body is beholden, for its own affirmation, to make a practice of a different logic’. open.substack.com/pub/brianmas...

revealnews.org/podcast/iran... voices from the region contrasted with eschatological lunacy of #christian_zionism #polisky

www.theguardian.com/business/gro... #auspol Australian smokers and drinkers pay more tax than gas companies pay PRRT - electoral consensus on taxing gas exporters - perhaps an on-ramp to a carbon tax

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.

This is a WIN for science. RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been BLOCKED by a federal court. The ACIP committee cannot meet as planned this week, since its membership has been invalidated, and ALL votes made by those advisers in the last year have also been invalidated.

I think one other thing that allows American wars to carry on is that Americans don't feel fear of attacks, which change political outcomes and add pressure

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... just in case anyone was under any illusion about settler sadism is the #westbank and the complicity and cheerleading of Israeli police and defense #polisky #auspol @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_75... #iran #anthonyloewenstein as usual, coherent analysis

I have to ask, 100s of Arab journalists were deliberately targeted and killed by Zionists for refusing to spread Hasbara Propaganda What makes white, Western journalists any safer from Zionists targets?

Is the U.S. repeating a century-old mistake in Iran? I told @ezraklein @nytimes that Western-backed “short-term gains” often lead to unintended consequences.

They call this a “prelogistical crisis” that previous “military planning treated as background noise”. How quaint www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #iran #criticalminerals #sulfur #supplychain

more hard intellectual graft for PM @albomp.bsky.social Nativist fusing antisemitism with anti Islamic sentiment All this grey bsky.app/profile/jewi...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/m... #machinicunconscious #simondon

In his Cheek op-ed today, our executive committee member Bart Shteinman explains why the ABC's National Forum failed to represent the true diversity of the Jewish community. Read the piece in full at: cheekmedia.substack.com/p/the-abcs-t...

With thanks to Prof. Raina McIntyre. Shared via email. All Australians with kids should read this carefully... Perhaps Kelly CMO would like to see his handiwork? doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: @meehancrist.bsky.social and @petergs.bsky.social reflect on how Helen Czerski’s 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 has altered their thinking about the ocean, and whether new perspectives can change public policy. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

The world we inhabit lies in between the frontiers of innovation and obsolescence arxiv.org/html/2505.05...

informationrights.org/donate #auspol #MaryKostakidis

#hyperscale #datacenters are the apogee of engineered #obsolescence - unfathomable speculative inflows realizing a transient apparition of abundance - iterative upward redistribution of wealth and all the while the gift of nature missing from any evaluation open.substack.com/pub/tscsw/p/...

On one side of the Atlantic you have tightened restrictions, improved assessment, slower medicalization. On the other side you have loosened restrictions, expanded access, and faster medicalization. #gender #trans #evidence open.substack.com/pub/iterinte...

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Bacteria in our BRAINS??! We observed translocation of bacteria from the gut to the brain via the vagus nerve. This occurred after high fat diet, or without dietary changes in mouse models of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and autism. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

open.substack.com/pub/harmonio... synthesis of the mechanisms underpinning the transmutation of the religious into the political with striking isomorphisms #polsky #auspol

The observed smallest worthwhile difference in this study "means that the current 15% antidepressant benefit over no treatment was sufficient for 1 in 3 people to accept antidepressants given the burdens, but 2 in 3 expected greater treatment benefits."

Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one? In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵

Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking: Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods? (alt link: tinyurl.com/2kk59dje)

@albomp.bsky.social tell us that you didn’t gift orange a gold submarine - please. Where is your dignity - perhaps you can take a lesson from @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/The-Magic-of... #solutionism #hornborg #metamarxism

What are cell types good for, computationally? Encoding innate behavior! In this 2-parter, I break down the relationship between cell types—which I had, in years prior, dismissed as mere implementation detail—and computation. I changed my mind! www.neuroai.science/p/cell-types...

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

@petergs.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pawe...

To mitigate the loss of context engendered by these “thousand tiny deaths,” we may consider transitioning from ephemeral runs to persistent identities by means of a “throughline protocol.” #AI #moltbook #agentiveAI

Achieving planetary salutogenesis is very centrally about finding a homeostatic balance with the microbes upon which we depend (and of which we are, in a profound sense, merely an extension).

@epochemagazine.org lovely essay on belief by Brendan Shine: 'Belief, viewed this way, is not an intellectual failure but a generative risk, a form of world-making'. epochemagazine.org/88/the-risk-...

Trump has caught himself in a vicious cycle of repulsion and retribution. The more he repulses people, the more he resorts to retribution www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...