Alessandro Torcini

The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest has ties to Christian nationalism And the "TheoBros."

One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest?

The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.

Federal agents just arrested an Army veteran—after he protested ICE outside a church Ian Austin was part of the group that interrupted a St. Paul church service.

Breaking: Days after declaring, "I'm not going to live in fear" in a now-viral video, Army veteran Ian Austin was arrested by federal agents on Friday. Austin was part of a group, including journalist Don Lemon, that interrupted a St. Paul church service.

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À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères La « petite désescalade » promise en début de semaine par le président Trump n’a pas duré longtemps à Minneapolis. L’arrestation de deux journalistes et celle de plusieurs militants ayant manifesté il y a quelques jours dans une église ont ravivé les tensions, vendredi 30 janvier.

À Minneapolis, l’arrestation de deux journalistes amplifie les colères

Par Patricia Neves

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Deadline is approaching

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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@incn.bsky.social Ready to participate to the INCNT Conference 2025 in Padua, with my new work on Dynamical balance for WEAK external currents with D. Angulo Garcia and A. Politi

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Attention, US Citizens: Yes, You Can Now Be Deported The Justice Department last month issued a memo outlining priorities for deportation, including naturalized citizens.

“Unlike birthright citizens, naturalized citizens can now be stripped of their status through a ‘civil process’ — which doesn’t guarantee a lawyer and uses lower standards of evidence.”

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Finally published the entire story

D. S. Goldobin, M.V. Ageeva M. di Volo F. Tixidre, A. Torcini, "Synaptic shot-noise triggers fast and slow global oscillations in balanced neural networks", Physical Review E 112, 034301 (2025)

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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation on Simons Foundation

Led by @stanford.edu's @suryaganguli.bsky.social, our Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning & Neural Computation will study AI's fundamental scientific principles: www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-foundation-launches-collaboration-on-the-physics-of-learning-and-neural-computation/ #science

The unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, it's highest level since 2021.

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Preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not needed to get dynamical E/I #balance short term depression suffices, results for rate and spiking networks via dynamical mean field theory with David Angulo Garcia

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A theory for self-sustained balanced states in absence of strong external currents https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672268v1

A theory for self-sustained balanced states in absence of strong external currents Recurrent neural networks with balanced excitation and inhibition exhibit irregular asynchronous dynamics, which is fundamental for cortical computations. Classical balance mechanisms require strong e...

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Last preprint in #neuroskyence #compneurosky strong external currents are not required to get dynamical #balance in rate chaos, results obtained via dynamical mean field theory

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Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here?

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Is the cortical dynamics ergodic? A numerical study in partially symmetric networks of spiking neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.666831v1

Eating ultra-processed foods could make it harder to lose weight Trial compared effects of diets with differing levels of food processing.

Eating ultra-processed foods might hinder attempts to lose weight even when the diet accords with national healthy-eating recommendations

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Non ergodic scenarios in the brain can explain a high variability in the neurons' responses joined to slow relaxational time scales, an investigation in #neural #network with Ferdinand Tixidre and Gianluigi Mongillo:
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Giorgio Parisi opening StatPhys29: AI resembles the heat engine in that the technology arrived before the theory.

Glad to be in Florence for the #statphys29 conference.