ah yes, the question we wake up to everyday now www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWts...

This study tracked neural responses to political content over 2.5 years using fMRI. Changes in political identity influenced neural plasticity, with significant shifts in the amygdala, hippocampus, caudate, & reward systems, reflecting evolving political affiliations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Social media use and wellness. Not what you might think... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

V interesting interview with Helga Nowotny on the future of European science Helga Nowotny, sociologist: "We need a European Union of Capital" to exist scientifically share.google/7c33qW6N3ORA...

Glad I haven't verified 🫣 thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

Well, that was good 42 - 21 #thatwasgood #result #sixnations #irevseng #Ireland #England

Well, that was good 42 - 21 #thatwasgood #result #sixnations #irevseng #Ireland #England

14 - 42 #sixnations #whoops #annihilation

OMG! What was that #sixnations

Dare I hope #sixnations

Whoops 🤭 🏉

Why is happening #sixnations #ireveng

1/Just back from Munich Security Conference. A few takeaways: 1.Old transatlantic alliance based on taken for granted trust is over (one official described it as a funeral). 2.US might talk nice but still is on a collision course w/Europe. 3.US firms stand to lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/w...

That was rough, glad 🇮🇪 <just about> won, but 🇮🇹 handed out some strong medicine Well done Italy! 💊 💪 😅 #sixnations

At last! #sixnations

At last! 17 - 10! #sixnations

There will be people who are understandably desperate to hear this, but it's important to be clear-eyed about Rubio himself and what the Trump administration is doing. 🧵

Italy 🇮🇹 are playing brilliantly 👏 Attack, attack, attack! #sixnations

Italian scrum is amazing 👏

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Visitors to our country should not face a digital shakedown. @wyden.senate.gov and I are calling on CBP to reverse its invasive proposal to collect five years of social media history from travelers from trusted partner nations.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two-speed Europe, coalitions of the willing, core Europe - all different labels currently circling in the debate for same idea that way forward is no longer at EU27. But the how is important, and I think different people understand different things by the concept. Quick thread on legal options:

My daughter has just sent me this … should I be worried?

Antivaxxer trigger warning: even more evidence suggesting shingles vax is extremely effective at reducing incident dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41... See also www.brainpizza.com/p/beyond-mag... where i summarise other recent evidence #vaccineswork #vaccine #dementia #neuroskyence

Creative Brain Week: Neuroscientists, Educationalists, Health Policy Makers, Artists & Innovators exploring brain & creativity. Theme: ‘Thinking. Better. Together’ @tcddublin.bsky.social creativebrainweek.com I'll be speaking on the 'Cognitive Republic'. Join us March 2–6: register below

Cognitive Republic. Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve — a book written in public, section by section. We can do so much better. Sign-up: steady.page/en/cognitive... #democracy #authoritarian #future #learning #Cognitiverepublic #Republic #memory

Surely there can't be any rain left

Count to one hundred. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog reflecting on a frenetic fortnight of domestic and international news, the state of the reset, the significance of the latest calls for 'proper Brexit', and the anger suffusing our politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/coun...

​who said this in conversation about useless ai integrations polluting everything? "The "shake out" is going to be hilarious because it will reveal that these tools were built for a user that doesn't exist: the person who wants to be an expert without doing the work."

A growing body of evidence identifies political polarization as a risk factor adversely shaping public health outcomes. Our new paper explains how this relationship can be understood through theories of group processes and behavioral decision-making. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Latest post- have a read 📚 😀

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) - What Cognitive Repair Looks Like. steady.page/en/cognitive... There is a way forward. There is no way back. #trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu

Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) - What Cognitive Repair Looks Like. steady.page/en/cognitive... There is a way forward. There is no way back. #trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu

Lesson here...

NEW Another death in Minnesota The significance of the killing of Alex Pretti By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why www.nature.com/articles/d41... biology is bizarre and amazing

Yes. Amazing stuff.

Bad thought: will Carney's speech give a fillup to the CANZUK freaks?

Thanks Donald, Europe will take it from here ft.trib.al/KkWQzfg | opinion

Writing is thinking www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What a fantastic idea

Piece I did last year on leaderless unity - we're slowly seeing it emerge now: the puzzle of authority when no one is really in charge - can a political community thrive, remain legitimate. and act decisively without a singular leader? yes is this answer www.brainpizza.com/p/the-puzzle...

Latest Cognitive Republic post is up: What if our societies were (deliberately) built to learn? (part one) steady.page/en/cognitive... #cognitiverepublic #politics #democracy #learning #experimentingsociety

I think the lessons of this book are due a revival: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, James C Scott en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons... also see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyda... <This is a subskeet 😀>

No more Ozempic for you, then!

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...

"A decade or so ago, Europeans who cherished their nation’s peculiarities could still tell themselves that Brussels was the chief threat to them. Now, there are scarier things than regulatory standardisation." www.ft.com/content/6dc7...

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/