Excellent new blog post from our 2025 Emerging Scientist Award winner, Dr Benjamin Filtjens, who describes his award-winning programme of research on enhancing the use of artificial intelligence in clinical gait analysis. ispgr.org/using-artifi...

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Good website to find European alternatives: www.goeuropean.org

Op www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/st... staat een heel draaiboek hoe je van de Big Tech afkan. @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social

There's much talk these days about what's required for "real" intelligence, such as world models and the like. One thing we know about the human evolution of it: it required/requires emotion. That may have been better appreciated in 1938 than today. archive.org/details/in.e...

interesting parallel between Brexit and Maga: both fundamentally underestimate their country's dependence on the goodwill of its allies, because the very realization of that dependency contradicts their fantasies of omnipotence.

I wrote about this last month. Overshooting on reducing migration is going to be very costly. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

Er is geen 'polarisatie'. Er is niets anders gebeurd dan dat mensen wiens politiek gebaseerd is op haat voor 'de ander' steeds luidruchtiger en agressiever zijn geworden. Ik ben deze misleidende frame zo totaal zat. En het midden dat 'een beetje haat' een fijn compromis vindt kan ook doodvallen. 1/

Large Language models pose an existential threat to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An AI can now evade a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks.

The Royal Society continues to absolutely disgrace itself. Musk had no place being in the Royal Society in the first place, and continuing to keep him there despite the fascism and CSAM shows they are entirely discredited.

Please everyone stop writing articles about "defense" or "economic" reasons to occupy Greenland, that's all irrelevant

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

#BMJExclusive A £40.5m programme to train doctors from overseas at a Midlands NHS trust has been discontinued after an independent review raised a host of red flags. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

If your New Year’s resolution is to find a fantastic 3-year post doc position in a great city with a small, friendly lab group and national collaborators… you’re in luck!!! Open for applications until Tuesday. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... @ispgr.bsky.social @ncmsociety.bsky.social

Hoe harder Trump en Poetin Europa bedreigen, hoe sterker het wordt Mijn XL column in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

New preprint out! (doi.org/10.64898/202...) We examined how EEG activity during movement preparation and error processing distinguishes learning and error processing between motor adaptation and de novo learning.

New post just out: "The Overshoot" Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration. What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Amerika "ontwikkelt zich voor onze ogen in angstaanjagend tempo tot een nietsontziend voortdenderende autocratie." Hij windt er geen doekjes om, de nog altijd uitstekend ingevoerde eminence grise Alexander Rinnooy Kan- ooit jaren achtereen meest invloedrijke persoon van NL www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Once more for the haters...

6. (Which is one of the key theses of Matteo Pasquinelli's new book, and which, at least at the midway point, I can warmly recommend.) www.versobooks.com/products/735...

1/ Imagine being the owner of a freight company. Your business is profitable, but you have a lot of bad practices. You allow your drivers to use false licenses, concealing where they're really from.

The surge in Indian and Chinese overseas students of the late 2010s looks increasingly like a higher ed bubble that can no longer subsidise the UK system But no UK party has a strategy to overcome a breakdown of this funding model and erosion of the ability of UK unis to compete with EU competitors

The BMJ appeal 2025-26: “There is no ceasefire”—Gazan doctors brace for winter as Israeli attacks and aid restrictions continue buff.ly/x9lWneL

Read the latest developments in posture and gait research from our two 2025 early career award winners @chrismccrum.bsky.social and Benjamin Filtjens (not on bluesky). Great work, both! And proud to have you both within our society.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

So torn over this. I believe with all my heart that same-sex marriage is a fundamental human right. I also believe that if you impose cultural norms through the courts rather than allowing them to evolve through a democratic process, the backlash can be catastrophic. See abortion in the US.

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

De beelden van Gaza nu lijken verontrustend veel op de foto’s van Hiroshima en Nagasaki in augustus 1945.

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

The main problem in the UK is that refugees are stuck in hotels and cannot work or contribute to society due to how slow/inefficient/incompetent the home office is…this idiotic and offensive suggestion would just make this situation permanent. We have to reject this insult to decency and humanity!

Nine days to go until the ANZFPS Biennial Conference! Introducing one of our plenary speakers [email protected]. Toby will be presenting on concerns about falling as a risk for future falls. Tickets still available at: anzfpconference.com.au/registration/ vimeo.com/1136679851

"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images." We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Het idee dat ‘verstandige asielmaatregelen’, in welke constellatie ook, een einde maakt aan de extreemrechtse hondsdolheid is volstrekt naïef. Die wordt namelijk niet veroorzaakt door reëele zorgen maar door online propaganda.

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump & his entourage know that they'll spend the rest of their lives in jail if they ever relinquish power. So they won't. It's only difficult to understand if you don't want to understand it - for instance because understanding it makes you feel as helpless as I am feeling about all this.

Honestly feel like Labour on immigration is a political and moral crisis with potentially scary consequences

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This bill will rip down more or less everything: almost all the nature protections that generations in this country have fought for. We're a nation of nature lovers, and that interest is meant to be represented by the big groups. But, yet again, they fail to fight for our species and ecosystems.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

In fact this *understates* the point here. Tory policy is not (just) to remove benefits but to remove ILR and deport, exactly like the Farage plan the PM correctly described as racist.

First first author paper of Anouck Matthijs on the fact that aging does not affect the ability to compensate for interaction torques during movement planning. Both the timing and scaling of anticipatory EMG activity are preserved with age. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Denk hieraan als je in een talkshow weer een sympathieke clown hoort beweren dat Trump en Musk ergens heus okay zijn. Zonder overgangsregeling zo'n programma stilzetten. Dat is, op zijn minst, dood door schuld. Duizend- en duizendvoud.

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving. Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

The ten year policy in particular is abysmal, as is the mandatory volunteering idea, which has the additional benefit of being absurd. You can imagine them thinking they're bring terribly clever and mapping a middle way. I suspect it'll just make everyone hate them.