If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat.

New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.

𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 + 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Brain dynamics must-reads by Deisseroth team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social how should we manage childcare at #OHBM2026? I am assuming it is possible for caregivers to bring young children into the venue without needing a registration?

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social how should we manage childcare at #OHBM2026? I am assuming it is possible for caregivers to bring young children into the venue without needing a registration?

TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

“Our most urgent challenges, whether the governance of artificial intelligence, the erosion of democratic norms, or the challenge of building shared meaning across fractured communities, are not engineering problems with determinable solutions.”

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Eugenicists

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab: Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes. arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

A common gotcha is "but Olivia, proofs don't capture reality" which I find honestly so beautiful because that's THE point. A formal system, a proof, maths, code, 💯 CANNOT solve reality, the frame problem, human cognition — so their gut tells them exactly the answer. Lean into it! That's exactly it.

After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here! I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!! 🧵⬇️:

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to be at the Computational Psychiatry Conference #CPC2025 in Tübingen! I’ll be presenting a poster called Computational Psychiatry meets Algorithmic Fairness. You can read it (along with some of my other philosophical ideas) here: www.beingsaige.com/single-post/...

I defended my PhD! You can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/OCfqTtPy1KM?...

If you want to make America healthy again, start with Universal health & UBI Masks in healthcare Clean air & water Affordable housing & food Guaranteed education Paid time off Affordable child care When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit

There may be even more stupid use cases for #genAI, but this one is definitely a top contender

Congratulations @Saige to a wonderful PhD Defense!

To help computational cognitive scientist engage with more naturalistic experiments, I've made NiceWebRL. NiceWebRL is a Python library for designing human subject experiments that leverage machine reinforcement learning environments. github.com/KempnerInsti...

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

Science builds our future. In Europe it has the freedom and support it needs. To find the next cure and develop the next ground-breaking technology. Our mission is clear: We want the brightest minds and boldest innovators to "Choose Europe!" ↓ europa.eu/!fyy9RX

Our work with Pablo Tano, @hyunggoo-kim.bsky.social Athar Malik, Alexandre Pouget and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social exploring how dopamine neurons could enable multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain is out in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Curious about the MAHA Report on children’s health but don’t have the time or energy or inclination to read all 75 pages? You’re in luck! I’m reading it for you. Link in replies. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count. Many thanks to my BU colleague @brookeenichols.bsky.social for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science. 103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re among 100+ organizations calling on House leaders to reject a proposal that would stop states from regulating AI. This still-in-development technology should not be allowed to make unfettered life-or-death decisions about our lives, safety, and freedoms. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/t...

I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia S. & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social to elaborate: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/ 1/n

Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

My Ph.D. thesis is now online (www.publicatie-online.nl/files/9017/4...), the books are printed, and my defense is scheduled for June 17th. What a surreal feeling! #PhDone

Complete and transparent reporting aids critical and assessing risk of bias in #predictiveAI. TRIPOD+AI and PROBAST+AI are key tools to improve #AI research in healthcare TRIPOD+AI -> tinyurl.com/39pz3rfd PROBAST+AI -> tinyurl.com/yt8vrvrf #Digitalhealth #healthcareAI #machinelearning

Charlie-Mop is ready for the long weekend. 🐣🐇🐑

We are going to Bodensee this weekend to see the tulips!!!🌷 🇩🇪

Do you train students--including scientists and engineers--how to think about the ethical, social, political, and policy dimensions of their work? Check out @stpp-um.bsky.social's new report, which includes recommendations on how these programs can be cultivated. And come to our webinar on April 10!

This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!

Y'all see why I can't stand these horrific men going off about the so-called "existential risks of AI" while simultaneously telling us everyone should be replaced by "AI"? One of the best grifts of the 21st century. www.wsj.com/video/elon-m...

📣 New abstract concepts for #ESMRMB2025! 📣 Two new abstract concepts will be accepted in a later deadline in August for #ESMRMB2025: 👉 Registered reports 👉 Project abstracts These are new formats that encourage transparency, rigor, and collaboration. Stay tuned for more information!

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Yesterday I wrote about how Trump's "flagged" word list might block all of epidemiology, and some people complained discussing this was a distraction from bigger issues. But I think they're wrong. I think inclusiveness is fundamental to epidemiology, and without it we are dramatically limited.

There is no space for racism in the EU. No one should be denied a job, home, or opportunity because of their race or ethnic background. On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and every day, the EU stands united against racism, for a #UnionOfEquality.