Chris T. Armstrong

Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. David Duda and Hong Liang, a married couple, rely on A.I. translation and external battery packs. If their phones die, so does their ability to communicate.

#jokesters
Maybe this is me😁😎🤣

YouTube video by Chris T. Armstrong Even God Herself—A Dramatization of the Opening and Closing Paragraphs of the book...

Behold, dear humans, the wonderful video and voiceover artistry by the great and powerful @ani7sh and @meena_jain

This video combines quotations from the opening and closing paragraphs from my book, Even God Herself.

youtu.be/lVSg89RVgAU?...

At last…

Swati reviews, Even God Herself!!!

Created by the great and powerful @ani7sh (video), and @meena_jain (voiceover) on Fiverr

On Amazon: a.co/d/c4sQ9l3

Swati lives!!!

Behold, dear humans, the wonderful first animation of Swati, by the great and powerful @ani7sh (video), and @meena_jain (voiceover) on Fiverr

On Amazon: a.co/d/c4sQ9l3

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

YouTube video by Chris T. Armstrong The new philosophical science fiction novel, Even God Herself, by Chris T. Armstrong

Behold!!!...the beautiful trailer for my new book,

youtu.be/YF-BmJtcwNI

…created by @ani7sh (video), and @meena_jain (voiceover) on Fiverr

You can read the book description and buy it on Amazon: a.co/d/c4sQ9l3

‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt In her new book, published today, neuroscientist Nicole Rust takes us on her personal quest to spell out the brain research community's "Grand Plan."

In her new book, published today, neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social takes a bird's-eye view of where the neuroscience community is currently and where it needs to go to solve some of the field’s biggest questions.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...

Dopamine neurons signal default behavior to reinforce habits Movement-sensing neurons in the striatum influence a mouse’s choice of action by favoring routine behaviors.

A non-value-based system in the brain automates decision-making and frees up cognitive resources for other tasks, a new study in mice suggests.

By Holly Barker

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

I asked gpt 4o to visualise the brain areas involved in consciousness according to IIT and GNWT. turns out it knows as much about neuroscience as the average AI researcher...

#neurosci #consci #philsci #neuroskyence

Thrilled to get my hands on the first copies of my book!

“A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality” in bookshops soon - from 26th June 🧠 🍎

(Though Ralphie more interested in the packaging….)

www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

#booksky #neuroskyence

A book cover entitled: Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis by authors Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. It features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel, as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

Less than two months before our book is finally released. If you are interested in bird behaviour or comparative neurobiology and want to learn more, this is the book for you!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...

And the ebook will be open access!

#neuroskyence #ornithology #birds 🧪🧠

The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is in Amsterdam this year, but you don't have to go that far to attend. Local meetups/watch parties are being organized all over, including the one I'm hosting in New York!

Check them out and register (free!) here 👇
#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Like many things, Bluesky is what you make of it. Following lots of scientists and science journalists can be depressing because of what's happening now. But if I look under #neuroskyence or another interest-specific tag, I can easily slip out of it.

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · 05/20/2025 · 19m

Neural networks are deeply inspired by the human brain. They’re also totally different.

Listen to The Quanta Podcast on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2FJL...

Sluggish sloth's secrets of success revealed in new study Scientists say early humans were to blame for many extinctions - but small tree-dwelling sloths survived.

Sluggish sloth's secrets of success revealed in new study www.bbc.com/news/article...

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You too!
Super bitchen photos. ❤️

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

How Canadians Are Fighting Back Against U.S. Tariffs Raising legal drinking age to 37 for American tourists

How Canadians Are Fighting Back Against U.S. Tariffs
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"The citadel was dark, the heroes were sleeping. When they breathed, it sounded as if they were testing the air for dragon smoke.
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully.
In those day the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over the edges."

7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published.

This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

A valuable role for futurists is to concoct plans for how to handle scenarios, which people may find useful later, if the scenarios come true.
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cover of the dedicated issue on brain aging

An impressive new issue of Neuron on the science of brain aging with 10 papers on everything from sex differences, role of astrocytes, immune system, waste clearance, autophagy, DNA damage, and rejuvenation cell.com/issue/S0896-...

YouTube video by Julia McCoy Humanoids Set to Add $24 Trillion to Economy: Will This Bring UBI?

Here's a great UBI video by Julia McCoy. I don't think she's on Bluesky yet, but I recommend subscribing to her YouTube channel and following her on her other socials

Feels like we’re transitioning from the Trump era to the Musk era.

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer -The Onion

Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer
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Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care -The Onion

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care
theonion.com/health-insur...