Fish and chips sheet into the light

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA Making a Difference with Dr. Jane Goodall.

Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
janegoodall.org

When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.”

Just came across Bertrand Russell's response to Oswald Mosley in 1962 - not as a solution but something to consider too, see e.g. www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/06/b...

A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)

Who is still listening, or continues to listen, or even changes their mind when the data speaks a story that does not fit a particular world view?

YouTube video by neilyoungchannel Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)

No more great again

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Dark Years: The Legacy of Euthanasia

For those interested, back in May 2016, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has also published a documentation entitled "Dark Years: The Legacy of Euthanasia" that can be accessed here youtu.be/umuTD2md1uE?...
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Now, in 2025, a database has been published in which every brain sample is attributed to the murdered, deceased or otherwise killed person and can be accessed here ns-medical-victims.org/mpg-project
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from German occupied countries (in particular Poland), including children. These brain samples were then used for research and teaching (and in which publications[?]) long after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and some were apparently discovered only recently.
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eager to profit from the Nazi killings (termed “euthanasia”) domestic and abroad by collecting, staining, and analysing hundreds of brain samples from people with mental disabilities or psychiatric disorders, prisoners of war, forced labourers, or civilians (jewish as well as non-jewish)
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German neuroscientists, e.g. Hitler appointed Professor Julius Hallervorden, and their research institutions, e.g. the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (founded in 1914 as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin), were not only complicit but also seemingly
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Emotion research has a communication conundrum In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

A photo of six butterflies which depicts the many different colours and patterns of butterflies in the genus Morpho. The top left is Morpho menelaus, the top middle is Morpho helenor, the top right is Morpho cypris. On the bottom left is Morpho rhetenor, the bottom middle is Morpho sulkowskyi, and the bottom right is Morpho hecuba. Photo credit: Emilie Snell-Rood.

In her Perspective, Emilie Snell-Rood discusses the value of basic science, using the Morpho butterfly as an example of how this type of research has driven later innovation & highlights the value of government and institutional support for basic research

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

^das Studium

at least for a couple of years (if not more).

Besides Hans Jonas who were the other Jewish students of Heidegger again?
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So possibly you are quite right that Arendt did not want Heidegger and Heidegger’s philosophy to be entirely dismissed by later generations due to the fact that he
served as fascist chancellor of the Freiburg University and sympathized with Nazi ideology
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And perhaps she also felt somewhat indebted to Heidegger. Take that and add some more perennial love to it and you may well end up with a fateful mixture of sorts.
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Thus, your point 1 seems pretty valid to me. And she is probably not alone thinking so. For Karl Jaspers, for example, H’s philosophy laid down in Sein und Zeit (Time and Being) was of utmost importance. Same goes for Arendt’s friend Hans Jonas.
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and then continues with “… man zahlt einen Preis für die Freiheit, aber ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich ihn gerne zahle” meaning like that there’s a price to pay for (personal) freedom but I cannot say that I am happy paying it).
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but life itself did often not leave her with much choice, e.g. in the great Gaus interview there’s a passage where she says “Philosophie war kein Brotstudium, sondern eher dass Studium entschlossener Hungerleider, die gerade deshalb recht anspruchsvoll waren”
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I don't think that Arendt was defending Heidegger and also Heidegger's philosophy, I guess, from a feeling of superiority, or because she liked being a contrarian (your points 2, 4, and 5; may be she also did not like to be a contrarian after all,
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Nevertheless, this connection to Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's SF novel is astonishing.

Ok, but that's a bit he [Jim Stewartson] said that he [Elon Musk's father] said; I don't try to disbelieve though. Would not come as any surprise, unfortunately (may be that way Elon Musk even learned his Hitler salutes from an early age too).

Why was she doing that?

It would make sense, unfortunately. Can you provide an accessible source to that interview?

Liebe macht blind. - Perhaps this is also an example how love can make you blind, even a Hannah Arendt?

Can you please tell me the source of the Jasper quote?
Jasper's wife was Jewish and Hannah Arendt his pupil but also his friend (especially in later times, I think).

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

Scientists are rising. Come on everybody and join the resistance. We are all in this together. Love's stronger than hate. Facts triumph over fear. It is enough, however, to do nothing for the old and the new enemies of our (still) open societies to succeed and destroy them. We must stop them.

Dr. Lucky Tran at the NYC Stand Up For Science rally wearing at mask and holding a sign that says “When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction!”

When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Thanks a lot, Misha!