war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

Divas nedēļas militārās agresijas Irānā klimata budžetam pievienojušas Islandes patēriņa gadu - 5 megatonnas CO2. Aprēķini neietver vēl gaidāmo militarizāciju un fosilo kurināmo meklējumus un infrastruktūras atjaunošanu. Karš ir klimata kaps. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/iran-war-p...

The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th. Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

This is a fucking travesty. “In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.” (A year’s worth of production or more, btw) kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...

Latvijas Tēatra darbinieku savienība skaidro, ka "demokrātiskā valstī nav pieļaujams izdarīt spiedienu uz māksliniekiem, lai tie noklusētu kādam politiķim netīkamus vēsturiskus notikumus".

Another Special Military Operation is upon us.

Delighted to share that part of my PhD work is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR Forelimb-hindlimb coordination is up to a quarter-phase more synced when hindlimbs are relatively more loaded, regardless of speed & phases of other limbs. 🧵1/11

💯Izrāde kā piedzīvojums uz citas planētas, turklāt psiholoģisks bezsvara stāvoklis saglabājās vēl ilgi pēc pēdējās nots. Hands down, jaudīgākā šosezon redzētā izrāde, un neiztrūkst arī Liepājas teātrim tik raksturīgais sirsnīgums.

🇱🇻 Rihards Lozbers is just so unique. He’s just 16 years old, so not even the top of the Youth age category. He just finished 32 in the Sprint at the Olympic Games. Youth Worlds just isn’t a challenge for him and that’s not an insult to the other young men. He’s so good 📸 Deubert/IBU #biathlon

"Estonia, Latvia and Poland will also stay away from the ceremony." www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/theme...

SWC is the best place to do neuroscience in the world

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This is a criminal attempt at destruction and silencing of knowledge. And it’s very intentional, in light of the leading role Georgian academics and students have played in protests against authoritarian rule

A fun article about our work and the Olympics. There's some interesting relationships between skiing and basal ganglia function. Also see the front of @cmu.edu 's homepage! @cmuscience.bsky.social @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social theconversation.com/hesitation-i...

Do you think they’d ban someone honouring people died in a natural disaster or an accident or because of an illness? I doubt it. Meanwhile, Russia can kill you and be sure institutions like that will look away coz Russia made your death “political” and “we don’t talk politics here. It’s a bad taste”

⚡️ BREAKING: International Olympic Committee has banned Vladyslav Heraskevych from using a custom helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia at the 2026 Olympics.

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥 Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️ 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755 ➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

Everyone deserves an obituary, but this woman especially.

Trump: "Some very good things happening on Ukraine and Russia. Very good things." Very good things? Like the humanitarian disaster they caused in Kyiv? Today’s attack on the passenger train in Kharkiv region, or the bombing of a residential building in Odesa? WHAT GOOD THINGS?

Jeb, kā vakardienas Krustpunktā šī temata sakarā norādīja Latvijas otrā augstākā amatpersona, "redziet, Jūs runājat tikai par sliktām lietām". . . .

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

"The world is not collapsing, but our illusions are. We can't continue as before."-Foreign Minister Baiba Braže at opening of the Latvian Foreign and Security Policy Yearbook. President Egils Levits 2019—2023: sad, but the rules-based world order has ended. The EU must switch from observer to actor.

I remember the celebration of this ⬇️ and had a tiny hope three years ago that things might get better. But no. The obsession with this term is still there across Western media.

Incredible clarity. This is the best conceptual connection I have seen between the failures of our information ecosystem and the rise of populist and conspiratorial forces

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

European alternatives for digital products european-alternatives.eu

Thought-provoking piece by @lewisgoodall.com. He argues that the US under Trump is no longer from the UK perspective a - military ally (Greenland) - strategic ally (Russia/Ukraine) - political ally (NSS calling for empowering far-right in Europe) - economic ally (tariffs)

Vērts izlasīt vai noklausīties — sevišķi tiem priekšstāvjiem Saeimā, kuri Trampa prezidentūru Latvijai vērtē "ar plusa zīmi". "when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. [..] It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I love everything about Cow Tools -- this is peak Current Biology, one of the few journals with a personality.

Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting - The Baltic Sentinel balticsentinel.eu/8394326/wiki...

👀 #newpreprint: 🎮 Real-time Pong gameplay after #spinalcordinjury by learning to control just one motor unit from paralysed muscle - no implants. Co-led by @juangallego.bsky.social and Dario Farina, with work carried out at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. 📄👉🔗 shorturl.at/RYuYG

@taragarnett.bsky.social made the crucial point: the real gains won't come from converting people to veganism, but from many people cutting back on overconsuming meat. The good news that cutting back would save lives from poor health.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Latvia's finest cartoonist @karikaturalv.bsky.social

Feel like this fresh year needs some serious culture change? We got you covered! With @clarekelly.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social Anna van 't Veer 📝 rdcu.be/eXja4

🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bye bye 2025, a divisive year, with many divisors: 3, 5, 9, 15, 25, 27, 45, 75, 81, 135, 225, 405, 675. Happy 2026 = 2*1013 Just two primes Cheers!

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Adam Kampff prioritized spreading knowledge over publishing flashy papers in prestigious journals, but colleagues say his mark on neuroscience was undeniable. The researcher and educator passed away on 9 December. By Lauren Schneider www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Cat and Ashley work so hard to do justice to both: - the scientific rigor of their fields - the human duties of making those fields serve us equitably, honestly, without distortion or manipulation You have been misled about girls and math ability. Don’t miss this one:

Kamaniņu PK šonedēļ atgriežas krievijas sportisti. Izskatās, ka TV6 viņu braucienus sistemātiski aizstāj ar reklāmām un viņu eksistenci principiāli nepiemin. Lai gan problēmas ignorēšana problēmu nemazina un šāds šķietams protests visdrīzāk ir piliens jūrā, patīkami, ka notiekošo nenormalizējam.

The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win. Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project. First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/

We can improve both health and planetary health by shifting to plant-rich, minimally processed foods. This simultaneously reduces disease, emissions, and environmental damage while boosting economic productivity.