Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I'm hiring again!! Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp - to work with me! Deadline: March 20, 2026 More info on PhilJobs

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the benefit from writing the paper is not having a 30-page paper as a result the benefit is the thinking that goes along with writing the paper — that is part of writing the paper. If all that's done is the pre-analysis plan and the analysis then that limits the new thinking

Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. We are urging Congress to act now to protect the American people by impeaching and convicting Vought. We invite all Americans to join us by signing on to our letter to Congress. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

This is correct. A serious “middle power” would be investing like mad right now in advanced knowledge right across the disciplines. It is the best reaction to the world’s greatest power seeking to return to the Middle Ages.

Since coming back to Canada I've been shocked by the lack of Long Covid research funding compared to the US (eg RECOVER-TLC at NIH). LC is now the most common chronic illness amongst kids. It needs to be a Tri-Agency priority.

@altfda.altgov.info challenged us to list #5Things that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.

On the invitation for a commentary on Mazviita Chirimuuta's The Brain Abstracted, I had the pleasure of writing on equating the brain with computation. The Ontological Reversal of Computation and the Brain in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences. Below see what I agree & disagree with in the book. 🧵 1/n

On March 7th, we are rallying nationwide and NEED YOU 🫵 to rally with us! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find a rally near you and volunteer or to host your own rally! #March7 #standupforscience #rally #ImpeachRFKJr #RFKJr

Wow.

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Well, this seems downright evil

Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly. In case y'all happen to know someone: @nataliepeluso.com @reubenrideaux.bsky.social @visnerd.bsky.social

New emails obtained by CBC through access of information show that before announcing the end of EDI at the University of Alberta, the president sent his announcement to the UCP before publication. How's that for institutional neutrality?

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family.

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

“…. the province said in a media bulletin Friday afternoon.” Classic late Friday public health bulletin bombshell from the prov. PCs always did this with bad Covid news. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

This is a monumentally irresponsible move. Whoever advised the premier should resign or be fired. Smith shouldn't just withdraw the threat. She should apologize for threatening to cut off Albertans' access to their own justice system. Tomorrow. edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/02/03/a...

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

“The take-home message from this study is clear: long COVID is here to stay, even in children, & can be exacerbated by reinfections and sustained by high viral circulation. …Without decisive action, the long-term societal cost of long COVID will continue to rise.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We are losing scientists from the government at an unprecedented rate - some were fired, but many more were forced out through trauma and fear. www.science.org/content/arti...

"Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

Number of COVID-19 Shots Delivered in Alberta Drops By Half, Following $100 Fee and Other Restrictions “What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.” pressprogress.ca/number-of-co...

As a Winnipegger I consider this reasonable cold.

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

In reviewing grants and papers lately, as an exp., I have been using LLMs *after* my reviews to see how they stack up. And let me tell you - they're (all) *completely* off the mark. That makes sense if you understand the fundamentals of LLMs, but I'm worried many don't. But, please, don't do this.

“The union representing firefighters in Lethbridge, Alta., is calling on the president of the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) to resign as it formally withdraws its membership from the coalition.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We, as a group, have decided to persevere with the same language — unaltered, uncensored. I feel strongly that there is no other way to accurately describe the problem and investigate it rigorously." - @dmohottige.bsky.social This is scientific integrity. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

This was my experience working at NIH, and the experience of my friends who worked at many other federal agencies. Americans do not yet fully understand what has been lost.

fun fact: if a recipe tells you it will take 8 to 10 minutes to caramelize onions, they're a lying-ass bitch

The Brownstone Inst is a billionaire-funded outfit. It’s been attacking science for yrs now. It would not exist w/ this platform w/out money from rightwing billionaires. This guy has written for them. I will not apologize for saying that. Or criticizing Twitter. Truth hurts, apparently. More 1/

If the pandemic has taught me anything, it's that universities and that includes their faculties, are incredibly ableist. thewalrus.ca/how-universi...

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

The department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University is proud to present a lecture series on the topic of eugenics. As philosophers and ethicists, we are concerned about the revival and normalization of eugenic discourse. humanitiesacademie.ugent.be/eugenics

NIH is losing so may good people. First they were fired or RIFd or pressured to retire early. Now they are leaving because “no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity.” Proud to know these brave scientists! www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Extremely important study, with very concerning implications for the future. The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...