The lesion network mapping method is not fatally flawed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The lesion network mapping method is fatally flawed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

…except we’ve known about the Academic Boys’ Club for decades…

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social says what needs to be said: "Frankly it stinks, and it doesn’t end with Epstein." https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-epstein-and-the-moral-rot-of-us-public-intellectuals/

Here‘s a classic: Fig. 2 (Guyomarc'h et al., 2009). Schematic from 'Skull fracture with brain expulsion in a one-level jumping-fall'

More AI slop, this time from @cp-neuron.bsky.social cc: @doctorzen.net

can LLMs really solve novel math problems? “This manuscript represents our preliminary efforts to come up with an objective and realistic methodology for assessing the capabilities of AI systems to autonomously solve research-level math questions.” arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

I wonder, @aaas.org and @researchamerica.bsky.social - are you also grateful to Trump for censoring research with racist grant screening? For ensuring multiyear funding still reduces the power of the NIH budget by threatening a veto if limits remained in the bill? For firing people who push back?

The exclusive EDGE salon run by Epstein confident John Brockman was always suspect, I’ve thought for 15-20 yrs. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake... @neuroskeptic.bsky.social also wrote about Hauser’s fraud at the time neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/10/marc...

Here’s more about Hauser: neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/09/fake...

The “Moral Nine” became the “Moral Eight” when Marc Hauser’s extensive fraud became public. I wrote about it at the time neurocritic.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/t...

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.

Bannon must be completely discredited because of his ties to Epstein. (He wants to avoid jail time if Democrats win the midterms... he's said so himself) www.ms.now/news/epstein...

“Why a convicted sex offender who operated at the highest levels of multiple industries was determined to engineer human behavior remains an open question. The Stanford Review will continue investigating Epstein's ties to the uni..“ stanfordreview.org/breaking-eps... [how about his ties to Thiel?]

“Dear Jeffrey: … I consider you one of my only real friends -- you don't want anything from me, don't …push any agendas and you care about me. The feeling is mutual.” JE: “There are few people i trust as much as you, and as you know am there if you need anything.” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of my blog, I present The Organized Destruction of Empathy neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Bari Weiss attended a fundraiser last night in NYC, attendee tells me. There was an auction item for dinner with her and wife Nellie Bowles. Several people cheered in approval, many others said after how gross it was. Bari shouted out “And you can make out with Nellie!” It ultimately sold for $55k.

And we know Nellie Bowles, Weiss’s wife, was in the Epstein files. Notice the date: October 2018

Here’s what JE thought of a new Bari Weiss hire: “ On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: roland fryer is a fraud , other one good value, . “ www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of my blog, I present The Organized Destruction of Empathy neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Americans must resist PURE EVIL

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Celebration of Bob Weir's life (blocks away)

Protest of Renee Good's death and ICE brutality

“If you look at what the genes are telling us, it suggests that these different categories are more fundamentally related at the biological level than we had thought,” said an author…. Yet anorexia, Tourette’s & OCD are quite different. Unique cyclical aspect for BP… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The true danger to America

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

“Trump sells the spectacle of political violence. He uses stereotypes to paint the target as non-human… Central to a sale of slaughter is an aesthetics of cruelty. … to see [nonhumans] punished — beaten up at rallies, arrested at the border, killed in big explosions” truthout.org/articles/tru...

Malicious human actors use common AI jailbreak techniques (e.g. prompt injection attacks) to propagate malware and to bypass ethical guidelines so chatbots will perform restricted actions. Bengio seems confused and doesn’t realize current AI doesn’t do this on its own www.ibm.com/think/insigh...

It’s unwise and deceptive to use the phrase “cure“ even for Alzheimer’s in mice. It happened in 1999 and look where we are now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...

Neurosocieties Unknown... I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur... Subscribe! neurocritic.substack.com/subscribe

Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social

Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social

But the ‘apolitical’ NIH Director was happy to speak at the ultra-right white nationalist Turning Point USA AmericaFest. He is a sad, vengeful man

But we have crackpot eugenicist RFK Jr, Thiel protégé Michael Kratsios, and VC billionaire crypto / AI czar David Sacks on their way to cure pediatric cancer with AI !! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I have never seen anything like this in the annals of fraudulent and unethical publishing. The authors of a retracted paper published the SAME TRASHY DATA in another journal and spitefully admitted they did so! They dropped the most clearly fraudulent biomarker data due to “high variability”

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science” 55 authors: “…a consistent performance gap relative to general science benchmarks … suggesting all current LLMs are distant to general scientific "superintelligence".” arxiv.org/abs/2512.15567

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

From the moment I learned about this planned study yesterday, it bothered my spirit so much I had to lay out just how wrong and criminal it is in writing. We know better and should do better in upholding ethics of research.💔 bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

The now-deceased murderer, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, dropped out of the Physics Ph.D. program at Brown in 2003 and is believed to have attended the same university as Loureiro in Portugal www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/b...

TAE ( $DJT ) is a rival to Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which collaborates w/ MIT’s Plasma Science & Fusion Center to build first fusion device that produces plasmas which generate more energy than they consume. Head of MIT center, Nuno Loureiro, was murdered this week news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lo...

Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. save #NSF !! save #NCAR !! from this right-wing absolute zealot

Brains are not designed for dimensionality reduction