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This is a giant-killing performance.

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horrific statistic i didn't know about: it's going so badly for russia that wounded troops are being sent back to the front line after recovery, including 80% of amputees

53 pages should be the new 18 and a half minutes.

Report: SotU expected to be ***over two hours long*** which is crazy nuts.

Possible that the admin is just messing with journos, but that’s the word that they’re spreading.

@benwolfevision.bsky.social Just wrote your dad out of the blue with a question he would know immediately. Told him I think of him often, in part because of our interactions. (And I said positive things about Bluesky as a good "Old Twitter" science news and discussion replacement for me)

The science doesn’t seem so settled after all, and it’s important to understand what happened here. The approach of left-of-center Americans and our institutions — to assume that when a scientific organization releases a “policy statement” on a hot-button issue, that the policy statement must be accurate — is a deeply naïve understanding of science, human nature and politics, and how they intersect. At a time when more and more Americans are turning away from expert authority in favor of YouTube quacks and their ilk — and when our own government is pushing scientifically baseless policies on childhood vaccination and climate change — it’s vital that the organizations that represent mainstream science be open, honest and transparent about politically charged issues. If they aren’t, there’s simply no good reason to trust them.

This is anti-vaxx logic. It is not "naive" to accept the conclusions of experts in technical fields.

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Ye, Q., & Ke, C. (2026). Emotion enhances relative but not absolute temporal memory: A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, Article 66. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released Feb. 23, 2026 An illustration with Jeffrey Epstein’s email address on several lines, with the address more redacted on successive lines. Credit...Tyler Comrie Listen to this article · 6:36 min Learn more Share full article 1k By Daniel Richman Mr. Richman is a former federal prosecutor.

I'm sorry, what?

Funding this is a choice subscribers make.

A figure shwoing boxplots.

Happy to see this collaboration out - fun project led by Lorena Desdentado, Olga Pollatos, and colleagues using our heart rate discrimination task. "Cardiac interoception in action: Modulation after a stress induction with a speech task" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence

I personally like it and think it works. It’s a very sticky song. “the watusi…the twist…”

How segregated vs. integrated are face and body representations in human visual cortex?

In this new preprint with @kathadobs.bsky.social, we use DNNs and fMRI to find out.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#neuroskyence

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Study after study demonstrates that nothing the far right claims about higher education is accurate.

IL-1R1-positive dorsal raphe neurons drive self-imposed social withdrawal in sickness During sickness, animals exhibit prolonged social withdrawal, a response that may limit disease spread. Elevated IL-1β levels during inflammation activate IL-1R1-expressing neurons in the dorsal raphe...

IL-1R1-positive dorsal raphe neurons drive self-imposed social withdrawal in sickness

Liu Yang et al.

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

“The most extreme form of cognitive surrender is what the authors call “autopilot,” which is basically automating yourself.”

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-wharton-study-on-ai-warns-of
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Absolutely shameful. Four years of war and the United States sends nobody to mark it.

One curious thing about philosophy is that we had an internal MeToo a few years before actual MeToo, sparked by a blog called "What's it like to be a woman in philosophy". During that anonymous websites were set up by resentful young men to complain, and this exact sentiment was common and explicit.

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom - Nature Ecology & Evolution Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal resolution of perception.

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41... - new paper with Clinton Haarlem, Cliodhna Hynes and colleagues

Different species see the world as fast as they need to...

Oh dear me. Having found nothing, they pin hope on a result that is significant “before adjusting for multiple comparisons”. People: this adjustment is not optional. It’s clear nobody will ever give up on this quest.

It's pretty impressive how the Admin and Men's Olympic hockey teams have managed to erase all the men's hockey goodwill that Heated Rivalry fostered in the space of like, 5 minutes.

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

I romanticize France in the worst way. I follow the news, understand there are serious problems. But I've loved France for a long time, well before my first visit when I was 30.
My parents loved French food and I had some very good examples in NY and FL restaurants as a kid. That must be the origin.

It has been far too long since Heather and I have been in France; I think the last time was July 2014.
We ate here and it was very charming and delicious.
www.crabemarteau.fr

One comment about covers - I'm not the world's biggest Lenny Kravitz fan or anything but it is kinda hard to imagine a better cover of American Woman than his...

Johnny: Tossing all these satellites and shuttles out into the cosmos. What do they think they're gonna find up there that they can't find down here? They think if they piss high enough, they're gonna come across the monkey with the beard and the crap ideas? And it's, like, "Oh! There you are, captain! Are you busy? Because I've got a few fundamental questions for you." Are you with me? Sophie: Yeah. 'Cause let's face it, right? What are rockets? I mean, they're just big, metal pricks. You know, I mean, the bastards aren't satisfied with fuckin' the Earth up. They've gotta fuck space and all.

One of my favorite movies (inexplicably, to be honest) is Mike Leigh's Naked (1993). I find many of the ideas - and quotes - in the film to be relevant today.

These read like updated Roadrunner (Modern Lovers) lyrics.

We argue that the strange arrangement of cells and circuits is the consequence of a reduction of our visual systems to a simple median eye in our ancient filter-feeding ancestors.

I use Testable. It's just a text parameter-reading program. Testable offers a variety of forms types, block randomization, and I use it because it is the simplest thing out there by which I can collect RT.