Why are there so many weird crypto finance posts on this feed all of a sudden? #neuroskyence

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

Bit rough when a moral abyss like Le Pen comes out with a stronger statement than most world leaders. Weird times.

Starting to think that the FIFA peace prize might be bullshit...?

Here’s to 2026

Happy new year to ye all - let’s do this!

Can you all please exercise like one single iota of skepticism when you see a post saying "Alzheimer's has been cured" jfc

Holy shit!

New Paper 🚨 "Are Psychedelics Ethically Exceptional After All? Some Further Reflections" by @Katherine_Chg, @ExistWell (David B. Yaden), and Kyle Patch in @bioethics_net

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Can confirm. Just made some this morning and they are crack-on-toast.

Saw Jarvis Cocker getting his MacBook looked at in the Apple Store. Also once saw Jimmy Page having some Vietnamese takeout in the food court at the same mall (Westfield, Shepherd's Bush).

Because I’m evilllll… Enjoy Rik Mayall out-performing a Beatle and Jools Holland at a charity gig in Nether Wallop!

What the... hell?! apjmt.mums.ac.ir/article_2724...

And @profdavidnutt.bsky.social coming in with some insider info regarding Crick's psychedelic use. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Slightly cheekily, I asked him [Watson] why Crick had turned from genetics to neuroscience, and his reply was “it was those psychedelics!”"

Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light. You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever

Completely agree, but you could make the exact same arguments about guns (and many people have! Repeatedly! Validly!) but as long as your industry has the right lobbyists and enough money it apparently doesn't matter how many people you kill.

This is what writing is for.

*Holds monkey's paw* "I wish psychedic therapy could go mainstream" Oh, dammit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just got a new plan for 2026: 1. Move to California. 2. Start a religion. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Seems to me this is a pathetic exhortation but an air-tight confession of guilt

Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are FOUR ghosts!

I am 97% cheese.

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

"You'd think I would've been fully consumed by the threat to my life, or at least been captivated by the ever-escalating cat-and-mouse game between the terrorists and Holly's insecure but roguish husband. But no, this Christmas question just gnawed at me."

In accordance with the tradition

Definitely time to deploy this.

Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.

Any requests I get to review papers this week:

started / going

Signing over copyright to our papers is a bad idea, 2025 edition

Eh… I mean I guess I could try and pull it off.

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Horrifying glimpse into a possible future of the scientific information ecosystem. Fake papers cited dozens of times in real journals, and indexed in our most commonly used databases -- As this grows, it could become a corruption of the literature impossible to undo. 1/2 #academicsky 🧠🟦

Should have been dropped years ago because his books are just utterly God-awful, but whatever - I’ll take it.

First time I've heard of an AI hallucination actually having a kind-of existence in the databases - this is going to get way our of hand, way too fast...

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜? We employed Switching Linear Dynamical Systems to investigate the dynamics of resting-state networks They are dynamic, not static! Work with Xiaoyu Zhao with lots of new methods. Thread. #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence

When your PI presents your work

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Best MRI demo I’ve ever seen. Accurate. (Sound on).

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A U.S. customs officer having to go through my social media history