If you are interested in mountain practices and climate change, don't miss this one! 🏔️⛏️📈 Impacts of climate changes on alpinism – A review by Cailhol et al (2025), Prog. Phys. Geog. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉. @willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data meegsim.readthedocs.io I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!) #brainmovies

The house of Ghada Rabah, a teacher in Gaza, was hit by an Israeli airstrike four days ago. After the strike, she had been trapped under the rubble and spent the last hours of her life calling everyone, begging for help, before a second missile fell. Geolocation: 31.5103, 34.4358.

We really loved this series of tutorials on #metaprogramming in #LeanLang by Heather Macbeth. It's a great intro to a complex topic for novice users of #LeanProver! Pt 1: youtube.com/watch?v=cKvg... Pt 2: youtube.com/watch?v=5er4... Pt 3: youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8T...

Finally published: “Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"A genocide in our time with this level of mass killing, destruction, pain and suffering shows how fragile the rule of law is. The facts are there, the law is there. No one can claim they didn’t know. As a society, we cannot allow international law to die in Gaza by allowing Israel’s impunity."

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

Wish for a progressive EU industrial policy.

Someday someone will have to explain to me how international investment law #ISDS gets nation states sued for taking climate action & has chilling effect but international humanitarian law is entirely toothless as hundreds of thousands of people are massacred in Gaza. Schrödinger's international law

Very cool derivation.

Net private wealth has skyrocketed since 1980 - this is one of the main findings of a new @wid.world study overturning the Kaldor’s facts. More findings in thread 🧵 🔗Study wid.world/news-article...

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘀 Static networks are good but how about their dynamics? (after all nothing is static in the brain) They cycle according to this study. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #neuroskyence

EUxit or EU-turn? A new, improvised, amorphous Europe is emerging, one without structures, rules, checks and balances, while the EU as a constitutional framework is becoming an empty shell. #SOTEU should usher in a new era of integration. My thoughts: sophieintveld.substack.com/p/euxit-or-e...

Conservation Imperatives: securing the last unprotected terrestrial sites harboring irreplaceable biodiversity www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Chemotatic bacteria solving a maze. Mesmerizing.

Tour Ronde (3793 m) north face used to be an entirely ice-covered slope not so long ago...! 🧊😰 See the situation this morning (📷 X. Cailhol) and in the 1960s (from famous Rebuffat's book 'les 100 plus belles...')

14 years after Alan Turing's death, an unpublished manuscript emerged where he suggested the idea of a "disordered" computer that anticipated the rise of connectionism cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Alan...

I used to go at enormous lengths debating my fellow Ukrainians (especially pro-Israel ones) telling them that if we lose the war, our situation will be very much like that of Palestine. People laughed at me.

Moving interview with @misanharriman.bsky.social , starts off with insights into colonialism and culture, but it's the reminders of moments of care and connection, that give a glimmer of hope on a rainy Sunday night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4MB...

Doing Lean dirty: Lean as a Jupyter notebook replacement. ~ Philip Zucker. www.philipzucker.com/dirty_lean/ #ITP #LeanProver

Built a thing to solve my annoyance setting up Python + Quarto projects in Positron (& teaching others to do the same) For anyone moving from .Rmd to .qmd who wants a cleaner on-ramp: meet Quoncierge. 🔗 github.com/lkwhite/Quoncierge #positron #quarto #rstats #datascience #reproducibility #jupyter

Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Yesterday, Chat and I read Francesca Albanese’s latest Report on Israel's Economy of Genocide together. If you haven’t had time to read it and you want to listen to the “audiobook + commentary” version while you do the dishes, this video is for you youtu.be/mv-qwXvaavw

New from 404 Media: the open-source piece of software saving the internet from AI bot scrapers. Anubis has been downloaded almost 200,000 times. We spoke to the creator: www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

"In the four largest Dutch cities, a quarter of homes for sale in recent years were purchased by investors. Even in Vienna, a city widely heralded for its vast, subsidised housing stock, institutional players are now invested in every 10th housing unit and 42% of new private rental homes."

Interesting paper on why people follow rules: Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.

Category theory: Introducing the perfect language. ~ Richard Southwell youtu.be/H32kyA4BMz4 #CategoryTheory

Check out this archived #complexitycat review, where I argue for a reconciliation between the autopoiesis-anticipation-adaptation trialectic proposed by the authors and broader conceptions of what we mean by computation, beyond symbolic transformations./3 amahury.github.io/posts/review...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...

Learning interpretable network dynamics via universal neural symbolic regression @natcomms.nature.com

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex 🧠 Nature 2025 #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectionism in general has this levied towards them, and they have various ways of negotiating it. None of which work well for modern connectionism. See, if curious: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Here's a bit of spice. Brain research clearly needs to tackle more complexity (than, say, Step 1: simple linear causal chains). But that leaves an ~infinite set of alternatives. Here, @pessoabrain.bsky.social advocates not for just a step 2, but a 3. /1 arxiv.org/abs/2411.03621

A Greenlandic mother gave birth in Denmark. Two hours later, her baby was taken. Now-banned "parenting test" tore families apart. This is Keira's story. 🧵 (1/4) Source: The Guardian, All photographs: Juliette Pavy

I don’t know if this is unprecedented: Labour under Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper made Palestine Action a terrorist group, meaning they now consider some of their own MPs terrorism supporters. Punishable up to 14 years in prison. Their own MPs. bsky.app/profile/zara...

Helping undocumented migrants in Netherlands could soon be a crime

Salman Abu Sitta is a Nakba survivor and historian of Palestine. Together, we digitally reconstructed his birthplace, the village of al-Ma’in, exploring its history and documenting how, in 1948, the village was destroyed and its people forcibly expelled: forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

PNAS special feature on Collective Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics Contributions from scientists in machine learning, evolutionary game theory, and their growing intersection. www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122...

Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland all heading in the wrong direction: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... Defending your country should not mean killing civilians. Very odd these 5 want to be more like Russia... www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

On Sunday’s stream we talked about how the current discourse on Bob Vylan distracts from 2 key points: 1) it’s Israeli society that has a problem with genocidal songs 2) that Bon Vylan’s songs show how racism in 🇵🇸 and 🇬🇧 are connected through solidarity in struggle youtu.be/hjtUYKssc0c?...

This map categorizes European forests according to their use. Unmanaged forests are super rare. Finland and Sweden are timber plantations. France has created Landes de Gascogne, a match box forest on the Atlantic coast. Britain got rid of their forests . Source: buff.ly/cQBsb9x buff.ly/EbK7dvz

Can we build a science for chess? That has been an old dream shared by great scholars, including Turing, Shannon and Ulam. In this paper, Marc Barthelemy shows how to define a measure of network Fragility that allows detecting tipping points in the game www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc...