Naomi Mittet

This is a game in which Bad Bunny wins and the teams are inclusion versus exclusion. Wins on behalf of the former.

Thanks! I'm not keen on American football, but I'll likely watch Bad Bunny's halftime show to support.

Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building 1 month after woman’s death Renee Good was killed on Jan. 7.

Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building 1 month after woman’s death

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.

Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.

Trickle-up economics.

Students walked out of Pa. and NJ high schools to protest ICE Students at several school in Pennsylvania and New Jersey staged a walkout on Friday to protest ICE and recent immigration enforcement activity.

nbcphiladelphia.app.link/tDIEuzg1z0b The kids are alright ✊

Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."

New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe

"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."

One month after Renee Good’s death, wife sends thank-you note to Minneapolis for enduring ICE’s presence “Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other.”

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” writes Becca Good in a thank-you note to the people of Minneapolis.

😕

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:

lataco.com/captive-loti...

Keep pushing Norm.

Wishing you a restful weekend - from Sleepy Neuron 🧠 💤 😴

#neuroscience

Whistleblowers are essential to a democracy.

The Hilarious Decline of MAGA’s Brief Cultural Relevance A year ago, everyone was doing the “Trump dance.” Now the president is too scared to show his face at the Super Bowl, and the right’s “alternative” halftime show features the cringey, washed-up Kid Ro...

The Hilarious Decline of MAGA's Brief Cultural Relevance

Come to the International Sleep Replay Workshop in Vancouver on March 6th — registration and poster submission closes Feb 15 isrw.bio.uci.edu
The workshop will include symposia, short talks, posters, discussion groups, and many opportunities to interact - Memory - Sleep - Dreaming - and more

Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.

“The retraction of this paper removes a significant portion of the already weak evidence supporting the value of folinic acid as a treatment for autism" #ImpeachRFKJr cc @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

Job alert!!

We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below:

RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757

Please repost :)

Vigilance state dissociation induced by 5-MeO-DMT in mice - Communications Biology Administration of 5-MeO-DMT produces a dissociated brain state in mice, characterized by global slow-wave activity alongside behavioral wakefulness and marked pupil dilation.

Our paper with @vyazovskiy.bsky.social showcasing research conducted at @ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social is out!

We describe the effects of the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT on brain states and sleep via EEG, LFP & freely moving oculometry.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#EEG #neuroskyence

Sounds like Seattle, haha.

Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects' problem-solving abilities.

Nice coverage of present and future hopes for research using dream engineering — from the PhD dissertation work of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and her new publication in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social — here at The Debrief thedebrief.org/did-scientis...

Unresponsiveness under #dexmedetomidine was distinct from unresponsiveness under #propofol, and more similar to N2 sleep

https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00721-4/fulltext

New Hearts - Just Another Teenage Anthem (UK, New Wave/Post-Punk) [1977]

New Hearts - Just Another Teenage Anthem (UK, New Wave/Post-Punk) [1977]
https://redd.it/6grndj
https://youtu.be/QK5p9JO4EOo

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

Full story:

apnews.com/article/immi...

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

A massive scandal.

Kash Patel and Pam Bondi refusing to investigate the murders of American citizens to cover up Trump administration culpability.

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

For anyone teaching/studying/researching the evolution of language, we wrote a framework paper especially for you!
It lays out how bridging diverse fields can give new insights into this most mysterious of human traits.
There's a link for free access on MPI website here:
www.mpi.nl/publications...
🧪

The Last Judgment - Central

The Last Judgment - Central

In Japan's election, voters hope for relief from rising prices Japanese households are finding it harder than ever to make ends meet as wages fail to keep pace with rising prices.

Japanese households are finding it harder than ever to make ends meet as wages fail to keep pace with rising prices.

tbf I am in a way not surprised, the Epstein files are full of high-profile cognitive scientists (and adjacent people) - I looked through the jmail.world account and saw TSC regulars and speakers like Chopra or Hameroff

Mongolian 2026 winter olympics uniforms

Haitian 2026 Winter Olympics uniforms

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms