'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time. My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

Obscene.

GA. ER. AF.

Strong dislike for this view that bland, formulaic scientific writing is desirable. I mean, we have to read this stuff, give us some flow

Cancelled my subscription after 10 years. A liberal newspaper should support equality of opportunities and meritocracy

UK governments of the 2000s and 2010s managed to buy short term "world-beating" status for British universities through a tuition fees and student loans bubble whose subsequent deflation has destabilised the sustainability of UK higher education. A practical and moral policy failure

I asked Jacqui Smith last year what other models she was looking at to avoid getting stuck in thinking the US and Australia are the only ways of running a higher education sector. Her response? That she didn't have time for that... The deliberate ignorance is going to kill us all.

Je kunt niet juichen voor de antikoloniale boodschap van Bad Bunny én Jutta Leerdam een rolmodel noemen, schrijft @rubysanders.bsky.social. Tenminste, niet zolang Leerdam zich niet distantieert van haar verloofde die een fascistisch regime aanhangt. ‘Sport ís politiek. En politiek is kiezen.’

This piece really nails how I have been feeling in the last couple of weeks. fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

Families of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown by the government condemned as “an act of economic vandalism” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is really encouraging. It's not too late to stop this.

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

No wonder absolutely nobody was in favor of Brexit over at the Financial Times. They know their stuff.

There's an interesting appearance from @mattbelloni.bsky.social in the "Melania" documentary. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/triumph...

In de week dat ASML een winst van 10 miljard bekendmaakt en ING een winst van 6 miljard haalt het nieuwe kabinet de miljarden bij… de mensen. Column! Vandaag zonder betaalmuur www.groene.nl/artikel/opto...

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

The national security assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse was supposed to have been published in October 2025. It wasn’t. “ Apparently there were two reasons: because its conclusions were “too negative”, and because it would draw attention to the government’s failure to act.”

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

New real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3) misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

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...