Adrian Tchaikovsky is pushing the envelope of sci fi. He explores evolution, other minds, sentience, and complexity science. My favorite is "children of time" on a civilisation of jumping spiders, but I see he has way more books to explore nautil.us/what-we-misu...

“How comedy was destroyed by an anti-reality doomsday cult” It’s super insightful into Joe Rogan’s cult of comedy and his role in MAGA . Fun little Christmas documentary youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Every day that RFK Jr. remains HHS Secretary endangers the lives of millions. Enough is enough. Congress has the power stop him. We applaud @rephaleystevens.bsky.social for taking action, and we're calling on our other reps. to do the same! Join us in the fight: standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

The 2025 recap that matters

“Why AlexNet Died in AI but Lingers in Neuroscience — Through the Lens of Popper and Kuhn” - by K Kar AlexNet “is not the champion; it is the instrument.” medium.com/@kohitij_716...

YouTube channels are being bought en masse by private equity firms. Over time, this will diminish the quality and deter indie producers. Be aware of which channels you are paying attention to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwB...

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

It is actually an incredibly frustrating time to be a theoretical neuroscientist right now imo, for this reason

“If I could substitute one word for cognition, it would be flexibility …. Flexibility is what cognition is all about”

Mattias Kranz actually trained an octopus to play the piano -- the video is hilarious www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

Going to SfN? Check out our lab's presentations! We have a talk on Sat afternoon (1:15 pm, SDCC Rm 11, NANO004.02) by @dhasemusic.bsky.social and two posters on Wed afternoon (PSTR469.20 / OO3 and PSTR469.21 / OO4) by @ayakahach.bsky.social and Jonathan Shor.

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

New discovery: A brain wave sweeps across the cortex like radar, scanning a mental image in working memory to read it out. #neuroscience

Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...

ive been drowning in all the negative news this past few months and i tried to channel some of those reactions into something creative. I remixed a song from my old band that we released in 2019, that i think applies even more today on.soundcloud.com/rAldHC73GCpB...

“Trump is breathing hard trying to catch up with Stalin. Someone must have told him that the ussr was brought down by jokes. He employed Secret Police and snitches to hunt down jokers. Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke.“ andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/2c3917c8-8...

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Interested in consciousness? Join the club. And join us tomorrow (noon on Zoom) for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

A sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid in its mouth. I love seeing things like this. Reminds me of the raw and beautiful savagery of nature.

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

Perceptual Bias in Motion Discrimination is Related to Asymmetric Interhemispheric Alpha Traveling Waves doi.org/10.1002/advs... #neuroscience

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

Noise canceling headphones are a game changer for living in NYC. I can't believe it took me this long. I'm not anymore distracted and jumpy by every loud noise. Are there any negative consequences?

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

How do you train an octopus to play the piano? Any animal researchers here? youtu.be/iwntrLCW-J0?...

I just un-installed chrome and got a different browser and it feels like I have a brand new computer running at light speed

Journals should implement dark mode

"The worst trend on the internet right now" rage bait and outrage marketing www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-I...

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

The Titan documentary shows yet another instance of too much confidence leading to disasterous results. Is this a symptom of too much unchecked power in our culture or is it has always been happening across the ages?

I found this post really useful in understanding the latest of AI safety. The conclusion: there's not enough being done to keep up with the fast pace of AI development. Current LLM have potential for misuse and misalignment but also mistakes and reward hacking.. www.neuroai.science/p/why-im-mor...

The Bubonic Plague has a higher approval rating than war with Iran.

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

From my friend to you too. Change of pace.

Wow! www.cbsnews.com/news/fulbrig...

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Conscious AI? “It may be that today’s large neural networks are slightly conscious.” Ilya Sutskever “…in the same sense that it may be that a large field of wheat is slightly pasta.” @mpshanahan.bsky.social This was from @ronyhirsch.bsky.social’s excellent talk on consciousness.

Videos from Elizabeth Warren about 4 disastrous bombs in the big beautiful bill (links below) in comments…

from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪

Some people were interested in my 3D brain puzzle 🧠 🖨️, so I added it to Thingiverse for anyone to download and print! I made it a few years ago for my niece so she can learn about the brain. Let me know if you get to use it; I would love to see the results! www.thingiverse.com/thing:7000013

Neural correlates of minimal recognizable configurations in the human brain www.cell.com/cell-reports... #neuroscience

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

🤦‍♂️🙈 “Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.”

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

im running an experiment and my mouse died 😱😱😱 then I realized I am in a computational lab so i just changed the batteries 😮‍💨😅