Valerie the Neuroscientist

Valerie the Neuroscientist

@docvalerie.bsky.social

Also an ecologist, but mostly a specialist in applied complexity. Interested in the dialogue, thinking, strategy & structure-building necessary to create a viable future. Also Nature, reality w/o Ego, logic, cats, beauty. #Blue #RejectDisinfo #WakeUpNOW

14,016 Followers 5,045 Following 7,898 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 days ago

Hi Mike, this is great - how can you add more of the academics and scientists - Chomsky, ffs!
Let me know if you need help with that.

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3 days ago
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Let's Put Pressure on the Epstein Class Take a minute to make a difference. SHARE and spread the word.

Take a minute and get into some good trouble.
1️⃣ SHARE this post to spread the word.
2️⃣ GET the contact information for the person you want to pressure.
3️⃣ SEND your message via email, social post, or phone.

mdavis19881.substack.com/p/lets-put-p...

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3 days ago

The connections, favors, and funding given to scientists - much more direct than advice - seems at least as pernicious to me.
Has anyone put together a list of how much moneyand positions these scientists - whether at Harvard, Columbia, the Santa Fe Institute or through Ambani - garnered?

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3 days ago

This is the understatement of our times.
Do we have enough faith in human intelligence rising upto do the necessary huge amount of work to re-seat the foundations of our civilization?
Because otherwise, our current actions merely speed our fate toward us. I can do the work, but is it worth it?

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3 days ago

How can I get a copy of this excellent graphic? It won't allow me to click or download... I'm feeling strangled by bluesky

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10 months ago
View That Effects of Global Warming Have Already Begun
By party ID
- Republicans — Independents — Democrats

Views diverge starting from 1997. Fewer Republicans endorsed view of effects of global warming 

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Big Oil had a big hand with changing Republican views on global warming. Propaganda works and we're now completely immersed in the era of disinformation and misinformation. Environmental advocates underestimated the power of propaganda to undermine science. But they've also been outspent.

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3 days ago

Thank you so much for posting this!

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4 days ago

Hope you got my DM on this. Happy to answer questions .. But after years researching this (and yes I am formally a scientific researcher) I cannot see how people can recover from LC without a serious program of anti-inflammatories. If you know different, do let me know.

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1 week ago

AI bingo card here.
bsky.app/profile/aldo...

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1 week ago
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US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

No one wants to use AI—we know that this is a technology in search of an actual use or a "killer app," as they used to say in Silicon Valley, that will attract users to their platform.

AI finally found their user base: fascist governments. And this time, the killer app actually kills.

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1 week ago

this year in canada and the us, international women’s day is only 23 hours long, and wow what a symbolic statement that makes

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4 days ago

Yes it's the people whose own egos render them open to flattery, that are sucked past his weirdness by flattery. But i am not seeing NEARLY the amount of press for academics that talked to EPstein all the way to 2019, it really looks like a silencing...Is anyone checking into this that you know of?

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1 week ago
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Indiana’s Odd Priorities: Weaken Water Protections, Increase Energy Production KEY POINTS: Indiana lawmakers want regulatory changes that dramatically weaken water protections. If the new legislation is approved, polluters will easily evade state environment agency oversight. Th...

In GOP seeking to weaken water protection.
"If the new legislation is approved, polluters will easily evade state environment agency oversight.
The proposal ... was written without any input from minority party legislators." 🌎🧪
www.circleofblue.org/2026/water-p...

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1 week ago

What book/lecture is being discussed? I'm glad to see someone is considering these issues, the best chance of societies is to identify their placement amidst the disinfo/misinfo. Hacking and redesigning our current systems to recognize and counter disinformation/manipulation campaigns is imperative.

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1 week ago

I'll try them again. When i tried 5 mos ago so they said 'absolutely no Novavax' - the time i did get the shot i literally badgered their national press office.
Need to get out in the world so i guess i go hardcore...

Thank you - have a wonderful day :

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1 week ago

Excellent, thanks so much.
Guess i need to dive into the literature to concretize my concerns, with some facts.

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1 week ago

If you have refs handy about Novavax, I could really use them.
My own experience with Novavax vs the others is that it seemed better in every way - NO postvax symptoms, and it didn't seem to be bring anything negative with it.
But trying to track down NOvavax is not easy, any current notes?

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1 week ago

Yes, AND they still learned nothing.
Nor has (at least American ) our society or systems.

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1 week ago
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[2/26 THURS] 출근길 영어뉴스 I Morning Wave in Busan YouTube video by 부산영어방송 Busan English Broadcasting

🌎EPA’s axing of its endangerment finding is international news. I was interviewed yesterday about it by Morning Wave in Busan, South Korea.

You can watch the segment on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIiT....

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1 week ago

It's time for strategy on this.
And we need to put this together for the Public.

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1 week ago

🔭🧪🌏👇

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1 week ago
DOJ’s Losing Streak Continues Because Federal Officers Just Can’t Stop Lying I'll take my joy where I can. And this iteration of the Trump DOJ continues to provide bright bursts of schadenfreude-tinted sunshine. Any competent DOJ can close cases. Any barely competent prosecutor can push a case past a grand jury. Any sufficiently slippery solicitor (mixing in some British for the sheer alliteration of it all) can convince a judge that the lies told by officers were merely good faith blunders not worthy of anything more than a judicial "no one's perfect" shrug.

DOJ’s Losing Streak Continues Because Federal Officers Just Can’t Stop Lying

I'll take my joy where I can. And this iteration of the Trump DOJ continues to provide bright bursts of schadenfreude-tinted sunshine. Any competent DOJ can close cases. Any barely competent prosecutor can push a case…

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1 week ago

Exactly correct. Trump doubled the deficit in just 3 years (pre-covid).

He just borrows a bunch of money that the taxpayers have to pay back, gives it to the richest people, and lowers taxes on the richest people so that the middle and lower class take more of the total tax burden.

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1 week ago

It already is!

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1 week ago

Same here. And yes, doctors are apparently still useless even post-pandemic. Did they learn nothing?

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2 weeks ago
Trump tells committee chairs he backs controversial spy law extension President Donald Trump wants Congress to sidestep internal debates and extend a key surveillance program — and he has made the demand directly to key Hill Republicans. At issue is the foreign spy program known as Section 702, which is set to lapse on April 20. Lawmakers in both parties want to put new restrictions to prevent the intelligence community from searching program data for Americans without a warrant. Trump has instead asked for a straight extension with no changes, according to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton and three other senior lawmakers who were granted anonymity to discuss the private request. “President Trump has requested a simple, clean extension and I support the commander-in-chief on this vital national-security decision,” Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a statement. Trump recently told House Intelligence Committee Chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that he wanted a clean extension, according to a congressional aide familiar with the discussion. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Crawford told him this week Trump wants a straight extension. “The chairman and a variety of other people have told me that the president is pushing [an] 18-month clean authorization,” Himes said. Spokespeople for the White House, Johnson, Crawford and Jordan didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump’s backing for a clean extension comes as top White House staffers have been privately lobbying for a clean extension of at least 18 months, including top domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller. Some intelligence community allies have privately floated going even longer — up to three years, according to one GOP lawmaker granted anonymity to discuss private discussions with the administration. Even with Trump’s private edict, a clean extension faces an uncertain path in the House, where a bipartisan coalition of privacy hawks have long demanded sweeping changes to the spy power. People familiar with the vote-counting effort don’t believe it can clear the two-thirds-majority bar for fast-track passage, and GOP lawmakers and senior aides are skeptical their party could unite behind a necessary procedural measure to put it on the floor. Himes said that while Trump’s vote of confidence could help rally Republicans, it could scare off some Democrats. “We now have a president who has shown disdain for the law, disdain for the Congress, and an awful lot of my Democrats are going to point that out and say, ‘Hey, I supported this when we actually had a president who supported the law — tell me again why I should support it now,’” he said.

Trump tells committee chairs he backs controversial spy law extension

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2 weeks ago
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Boycott Trumpist companies? Colorado makes sure your money helps them. | Colorado Newsline It's impossible for a Coloradan to fully disengage from many of the companies that are often viewed as the worst offenders.

Commentary: Palantir. Amazon. The GEO Group. Many Americans see these and other companies as complicit with a domestic dictatorship.

In Colorado, public money supports them all. Divestment would serve a moral principle. But it could also be enacted as self-preservation.

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1 week ago
This statement can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern: 

> “Ellison has already shown his cards. When the Trump administration unconstitutionally demanded editorial concessions from Ellison’s Skydance in exchange for government approval of its takeover of Paramount and CBS News, he obliged, even appointing a Trump loyalist as a so-called ‘bias ombudsman.’ CBS has since repeatedly censored journalists or altered its coverage to please Trump and his allies. There is no reason to believe that this proven capitulator will behave any differently this time around – in fact, he’s already reportedly promised Trump ‘sweeping changes’ at CNN, including firing people Trump dislikes. 
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> “Ellison will readily throw the First Amendment, CNN’s reporters and HBO’s filmmakers under the bus if they stand in the way of expanding his corporate empire and fattening his pockets. But censorship is bad for business. WBD executives and shareholders should recognize that selling companies that depend on the First Amendment to a censorial White House puppet is not only morally wrong but harmful to their bottom line. And lawmakers, state attorneys general and anyone else in a position to intervene should make clear that they will not stand by as the Trump administration abuses its power to unconstitutionally extract content-based concessions from news companies.”

📫 Censorship is bad for business.

WBD executives and shareholders should recognize that selling companies that depend on the First Amendment to a censorial White House puppet is not only morally wrong but harmful to their bottom line.

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