This one is a no brainer for me

very normal country

Washington state passed a tax on millionaires. A lot of the usual suspects have been screaming & tearing their hair out & warning of apocalypse. But the actual rich people of Washington? Turns out they are mostly Democrats & they mostly support it!

Public communication alters private confidence - cool study from @danieljamesyon.bsky.social and team www.cell.com/current-biol...

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

Note the names lol. Second article is from last year:

Last year: We need a Joe Rogan of the left! This year: No not like that! I need them to sound like Kamala!

If you're interested in emerging ideas in neural interfaces, I humbly suggest my lab's latest: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Neural interfaces create dynamic interactions between the brain & devices. This means mean we need new engineering approaches beyond typical ML to "decode" a static brain

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

Abolish TSA

🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu) "Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks" We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context. How might this work...? 🧵1/8

Sanders: People can't afford health care. People can't afford childcare. And this guy, in addition to giving tax breaks to billionaires, now wants to spend another $200 billion on a war that should never have been fought.

How do MTL theta oscillations relate to eye & body movements during navigation? @suthanalab.bsky.social &co show that #theta power increases during #saccades under memory demands, linking exploratory gaze & planning to memory‑related dynamics during #navigation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dwJhR8

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

We also see a shift in CA1 recruitment during learning. Neurons active before the threat, when the animal is simply exploring the context, are excluded from the engram. This suggests that the hippocampus updates which neurons will store the memory as the experience unfolds. bsky.app/profile/clem...

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

"Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign!" My sibling in Christ, she spent a million dollars putting her face on the Vegas sphere.

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

This is exactly what Hegseth meant when he bragged that we “don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

How does the brain generalize past experiences without confusing memories? 🧠 Our lab's newest preprint reveals a fundamental division of labor between the cortex and cerebellum that solves this problem. (Check out the cortex-cerebellum video below! 👇) 🧵

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Actively upsetting to find this in my fortune cookie

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

We’re about to be dragged into another war in the Middle East for AIPAC and Netanyahu. We must do everything to support those fighting for democracy diplomatically, not with bombs. This is no different than the invasion of Iraq over 20 years ago. Congress must stop this war, before it’s too late.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

A source told Drop Site Trump was intent on striking Iran in January, but was not satisfied with the options. The new diplomatic talks gave the Pentagon time to dispatch more firepower to the region. Source assesses an 80-90% likelihood of U.S. strikes within weeks.

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

Great position for an RA and Durham a fun city! www.linkedin.com/posts/nanthi...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Spent all afternoon driving folks around and buying groceries for families in hiding. Played soccer for the first time since this mess started (even scored a goal). Just kind of overcome with emotion on the snowy drive home as I listened to music from my younger days. Hard to believe this is life.

In less than 24 hours, Colbert's interview with Talarico is at more than 3.8 million YouTube views. The video is already one of the two most watched videos on the Late Show's YouTube page this year.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

This has been the coolest part of the last few months, all of these people stopping Kat on the street to just shoot the shit about what’s working and what’s not because they know her from Instagram or the TV. It happens… a lot. They’re usually people who say they don’t vote but now they will.

We are in a separation of powers conflict and the branch being held down needs to get on its horse and use every political tool possible to reassert its power.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Really enjoyed "Playing with reality" by @kellybclancy.bsky.social. Beautiful prose, well-organized, clearly written with deep subject matter expertise, and non-trivial broader social considerations. Enjoyable read and IMO underrated.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.