With the specter of #H5N1 looming I listen intently to birdsong and spy avian silhouettes with a preemptive solastalgia. Is it better to never have known what was? #birdflu

Americas ideological fictioning #Revisionism

@sarahschwartz.bsky.social articulates the deeply personal and political with precision. ‘Israel becomes the “persecuted collective Jew”. Its critics become antisemites’. #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social seems utterly determined to undermine trust—fatal move. Read the room. #auspol

before slop there was #murdoch

This retrospective observational study suggests that modulation of the neuroendocrine immune axis using MLT, Ang 1-7, and CBD is associated with favorable serological and clinical trends in a heterogeneous cohort of patients with refractory autoimmune diseases. #autoimmune #combination_therapy

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In the words of Maciej Stolarski, the initiator of this in memoriam article dedicated to Philip G. Zimbardo: "I am happy - and deeply moved - to share our newly published tribute paper honoring Phil, which in many ways feels like our final goodbye to him": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

new to the work of @midorihirano.bsky.social but long time #CoH tragic—what a delightful interplay

frontier #AI labs as parastate actors essential essay that explores the curious status of entities building out AI infrastructure mandatory reading for policy wonks and politicians

karl thinks he is so naughty where do you begin to rehabilitate these pervasive aggrieved affects? how do we hobble attentional economies of hate? #auspol

Yep... The great Unvaxxed were, and remain, the greatest cohort. The evidence for vaccine related myocardial injury suggests the vast majority are self-limiting and recover The issue was Moderna's decision to use a bigger mRNA dose (100) over Pfizer (30)

deep and tremendously satisfying pops, crackles, undulations and propagation. environmental and ecological patterns through sound @room40.bsky.social @hallowground.bsky.social hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/werner...

sweetrationalism.com/articles/bio... what is claimed is narrower...defensible: that adding “cognition,” “intelligence,” “purpose,” or “experience” as primitives to explain efficient biological function is unfalsifiable #philsky #philsci #constraints #falsification #deflation

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

From the archive: "Alfred North Whitehead and the Bifurcation of Nature", by Brendan Shine #Philosophy #Philsky

the preeminent figure of racism confirms the desirability of ‘mass migration’ #auspol

Finished. Here are some excerpts from this thought-provoking book that I thought are worth sharing.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

Legal experts and NGOs say the dismantling of climate policies and proposed reforms of environmental regs may be the biggest rollback of environmental rules in Canadian history - and will create a massive blind spot when assessing projects' long-term impacts

The life (ontogenesis) of ones interlocutor lives in the ambiguity, the vaporous undulations that suffuse syntax. Care animates the co-production of significance which is always already about gaps. A proliferation of gaps creates the conditions for reactive regimes where signs behave badly.

You don't learn where you are. You remember where you've never been. Moser lab just showed grid cell toroidal topology appears before eyes open, before locomotion — the map precedes the territory.

Hillscape cells: Hippocampal place cells map terrain geometry independently of behavior #neuroskyence @roddy-grieves.bsky.social Eleonore Duvelle and Jeff Taube: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In this beautifully illustrated review, Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar et al discuss the relationship between the vasculature network and neurogenesis in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and the subgranular zone (SGZ). It turns out that this is a 2-way communication interaction. doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

before @michaelpollan.bsky.social puts a line under michaelpollan.com/books/a-worl... he might do well to reflects on knowledge creation–specifically the kinds of institutional forces that shape the framing of legitimate research.

just came upon this firebrand: sweetrationalism.com very agnostic targeting revealing some thin skins in the plutonic realm – including the illustrious @drmichaellevin.bsky.social #AI #philsky #philsci

The Society of the Screen mitpress.mit.edu/978026205122... #posttruth #artlifeart #Vilém_Flusser

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard! DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Post-training may be a brittle stabilization attempt.

1/8 Do LLMs have stable personalities? We ran 2 million tests. (Spoiler: no.) 🧵 Paper accepted at AAAI 2026 - Alignment Track Safe deployment requires behavioral consistency. We found persistent instability across scales, reasoning modes, and personas. ⤵️

Another nail in the coffin of computational functionalism. Excellent paper by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social and @jaanaru.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to breathe life back into brain theory www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Indeterminism means pervasive indefiniteness, not determinism-plus-randomness. Henry Potter, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & George Ellis explain why this is so and what it implies for the free will debate in their new paper in my Topical Collection, see link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FreeWill

I reviewed On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson for @thelancet.com. Adrian has now responded to my review here. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Multinucleate cells challenge deeply-held assumptions about complexity, ecological success and evolution. Postdoc extraordinaire and gifted writer @mrosjac.bsky.social tackles this subject with aplomb - tell us what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social

Cool new work from @dudman.bsky.social and @fluketc.bsky.social Reward magnitude determines reinforcement learning efficiency: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@marcwittmann.bsky.social Hi marc. Sense you may enjoy the his paper philarchive.org/rec/ROJGAT

Gradients as the First Symbol: Biological Time and the Origin of Meaning Rodolfo Rojas philarchive.org/rec/ROJGAT

Dr. Evan Thompson on the ideas that shape his research philosophy.ubc.ca/news/profess...

I've been reading this book and it is absolutely WILD how wrong people are to try and back-project modern dynamics onto the premodern Middle East in an attempt to frame the process of Islamisation as an instance of settler colonialism. Warning: this will involve a lot of fiscal adminstration!

If this is the behavior and implied impunity of ministers, how can anyone disregard the sexual abuse of Palestinians detainees. Bad eggs? Israeli foreign policy is so rabidly oppositional that pariah status is inevitable. #gazaflotilla

Our sole possibility of struggle is through an economic and political proposal capable of projecting beyond the Anthropocene /1 #polsky #philsky #activism

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

Living systems know how to deal with invaders, but not with space invaders. Mirror life is a kind of space invader - Ariel Lindner #philsci #philsky #syntheticbiology #mirrorlife #prometheus #doom www.noemamag.com/the-doomsday...

While universities have never been places of unregulated speech recent moves are truly oppressive… #auspol #australianuniversities #protest #dissent informationrights.org/take-action/...

First-wave neurodiversity: a movement led by autistic people to counter the deficit narrative of bio-medical accounts. Engages in the careful excision of deficit language and discourse but continues to adopt the neocolonial position of the bio-medical narrative in claiming to know how the /

Somehow I am STILL not saying “no thanks” enough. And I say it quite a lot!

I decline your invitation, it’s not personal, it’s genocidal #jmcoetzee #gaza #idf #genocide