Quirst Lemonade (1978-1980): A clear, non-carbonated, lemonade-flavored soft drink marketed as a thirst-quenching beverage (hence the name). It was the flagship of the "Quirst" line from the then-independent 7-Up company. Sued by Squirt Soda for confusing consumers with a too-similar name

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ossington Avenue parkette by Forest and Field Landscape Architecture and art panel by Indigenous artist Philip Cote.

Charlie Chaplin on the run in MAKING A LIVING (1914), his first released film appearance after signing on with Keystone

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Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

happy "netflix and chill" day to all who celebrate

For example. See paper for more. And no it's not just about whether something's in the pretraining ;) (but also, think about what it would mean for a system to match Jabberwocky text to pretraining data! arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432

..what LLMs have learned when they learn language, the inappropriateness of parrot metaphors, the (non)autonomy of syntax, and the sheer power of pattern matching (construction grammars had it right!) Pattern matching is not an alternative to “true” thinking, it is its key ingredient.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432 I want to share an astonishing result. LLMs can "translate" Jabberwocky' texts like 'He dwushed a ghanc zawk” & even and even 'In the BLANK BLANK, BLANK BLANK has BLANK over any BLANK BLANK’s BLANK' This has profound consequence for thinking about.. 1/2

Old English had two words for “knife”: ‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’. ‘Meteseax’ was a compound of two words: - ‘mete’ (“food”), the ancestor of ‘meat’; - a word for “sword” related to ‘Saxon’. German ‘Messer’ and Dutch ‘mes’ are its living cognates. Zoom in for more: 1/

Earl's point of focusing on "how" (not "where") is the way to go. Neuroscience has been obsessed with where but is moving on. Biology is very descriptive so "where" dominates. But eg we've seen how mapping genome was "transformative" only to realize the action is elsewhere (regulatory networks, etc)

The point is that there is no module for long-term memory even though a lesion might lead you to believe so.

There are explanations for such phenomena that don’t require modularity. If I disconnect the hippocampus from the cortex, memory consolidation in the cortex stops. That’s not because long-term memory is a function of those connections, but because a critical network has been decoupled.

The driver-less Ligne 14 subway in Paris. You can go to the top of the first car and look out the front window. They even printed a console of pretend controls, so kids can pretend to be the engineer!

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴? That I don't know but D Brooks discusses some ideas of my book, The Entangled Brain: '"neuronal ensembles distributed across multiple brain regions,” which, like a murmuration of starlings, “forms a single pattern from the collective behavior."' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

The UVA Faculty Senate has released a Resolution condemning the continuing UVA governance crisis: “The Board of Visitors has failed both to act in the University’s best interests and to protect the University from outside influences.” @ucwva.bsky.social

There's no possible way this is true.

discovered a pretty critical coding error in The Human Body where sometimes the way to feel better when you feel too bad to work out is to work out. this is suboptimal for user experience of The Human Body

Günther Förg, Untitled, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135371

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

you know, not constructed to specifically redress the grievances of billionaires

Maybe the real "free inquiry" university was the one we had all along

this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I hate to break it to anyone but Nobel Peace Prize laureates doing really embarrassing things after they’ve received the award is not a new thing.

Welcome to Chicago, hope you like walking approximately a mile and a half through a progression of liminal spaces to get to the train

81 likes 0 reposts says "cool. but no one else needs to see this"

IMPORTANT Arrowhead Desert Bloom seltzer tastes just like the honeysuckle page of the Strawberry Shortcake scratch n’ sniff book I had as a child. 10 out of 10

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/a...

You'd get to live in an affordable city with delicious food (Houston), and work with the talented @sameershethmd.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @srheilbronner.bsky.social @elebartoli.bsky.social

Help! We want to understand multi-task neural representations, but all we have is 24/7 spiking data from human patients in hippocampus and cortex, along with video, audio, speech, heart rate, and so much more! If you can help, please apply to join the lab as a postdoc ☺️ jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoct...

I read all of the books, including the weird like management ones! why! why was I entranced by the idea of a professional world that was explicitly shitty???

my wife is incredulous that people actually listened to this back in the day. i am people!

UVA hired as president a guy who lists his committee chair as coauthor on his dissertation, and has no - literally zero - peer-reviewed journal articles in n his CV.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

Underwater scenes had been popular in cinema since the beginning but were faked with sets, tints, and by placing a clear fishtank between the camera and the performers.

True underwater photography in the 1916 version of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

Our collective efforts to save science are working. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

This may lead to mathematicians becoming (even more) closed off than now about their half-baked ideas and insights - why share an observation on MathOverflow which solves 50% of a problem when a week later someone will ask GPT, which will fill in the other 50%, and give it 100% of the credit.

This leads to people viewing proofs as more 'purely AI-generated' than they are. Often AI is capable of correcting this when prompted, and can dig up references/sources, but people sometimes don't dig deeper when they should.

One of the big challenges now in using AI for mathematics is the credit/attribution problem. AI has a tendency to use observations/techniques without giving credit as to where it 'learnt' about them (mainly because it's forgotten itself).

Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven) archives.yale.edu/repositories...

The finest window into The Grateful Dead for rock lovers who never really got them is the @500songspodcast.bsky.social episode about them. May not be what a mourning deadhead wants to listen to right now but if you don’t get it this WILL help. I was super into them in junior high & saw them 2x but

and yet… they can exceed some humans. My opinion is that if it can imitate reasoning well enough that it would be passed as human reasoning, then we should give it the benefit of the doubt and say it *is* reasoning à la Turing’s test.

okay this is like the worst shit ever, what tf is wrong with new england

Hi Zach! Owner/maintainer of erdosproblems.com here. Just wanted to say how exciting is for me personally to see one of my favourite comic artists/authors posting about Erdos problems. This is a great summary of the state of play for non-experts.