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Neuroscientist, psychologist, writer; Prof Exp Brain Res, Trinity College Dublin; newsletter @ www.brainpizza.com; New book: Talking Heads @ www.shaneomarawriter.com
That was rough, glad 🇮🇪 <just about> won, but 🇮🇹 handed out some strong medicine
Well done Italy!
💊 💪 😅
#sixnations
At last!
#sixnations
At last! 17 - 10!
#sixnations
There will be people who are understandably desperate to hear this, but it's important to be clear-eyed about Rubio himself and what the Trump administration is doing. 🧵
14.02.2026 12:56 — 👍 383 🔁 164 💬 25 📌 35Italy 🇮🇹 are playing brilliantly 👏
Attack, attack, attack!
#sixnations
Italian scrum is amazing 👏
14.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Visitors to our country should not face a digital shakedown. @wyden.senate.gov and I are calling on CBP to reverse its invasive proposal to collect five years of social media history from travelers from trusted partner nations.
13.02.2026 20:47 — 👍 726 🔁 218 💬 30 📌 13
“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Two-speed Europe, coalitions of the willing, core Europe - all different labels currently circling in the debate for same idea that way forward is no longer at EU27.
But the how is important, and I think different people understand different things by the concept.
Quick thread on legal options:
I suspect they want this appealed to the high court, overturned, and then it's not their fault if it proceeds...
13.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0indeed. and parnell sq is not exactly shall we say entrancing to begin with. RCSI were able to build srugical and other facilities on Stephen's Green, and enhanced the place dramatically. their new buildings really upped the place.
13.02.2026 11:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0and then people wonder why there are no houses or a shortage of hospital beds
13.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My daughter has just sent me this … should I be worried?
10.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Antivaxxer trigger warning: even more evidence suggesting shingles vax is extremely effective at reducing incident dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See also www.brainpizza.com/p/beyond-mag... where i summarise other recent evidence
#vaccineswork #vaccine #dementia #neuroskyence
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Province of castalia is not entirely different to gormenghast
07.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I reread hesse glass bead game just before it. I'd give that a blast too
07.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wyb, am halfway thru 1st one... have put it down for a little while bc it becomes suffocating, but it is worth it
07.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Surely there can't be any rain left
06.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Count to one hundred. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog reflecting on a frenetic fortnight of domestic and international news, the state of the reset, the significance of the latest calls for 'proper Brexit', and the anger suffusing our politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/coun...
06.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 170 🔁 75 💬 12 📌 17I cheated. I should've said what said this? Google Gemini did in conversation and a useless integration in Gmail that is making consider moving to protonmail or similar.
It's not wrong. But it is reflecting back what I just said to it.
So no, no insight here.
who said this in conversation about useless ai integrations polluting everything?
"The "shake out" is going to be hilarious because it will reveal that these tools were built for a user that doesn't exist: the person who wants to be an expert without doing the work."
it'd be nice to see it nan'd - maybe an oily garlic cheesy nan
30.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A growing body of evidence identifies political polarization as a risk factor adversely shaping public health outcomes. Our new paper explains how this relationship can be understood through theories of group processes and behavioral decision-making.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Latest post- have a read 📚 😀
28.01.2026 23:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
you might like my take here: there is plenty we can do - steady.page/en/cognitive...
27.01.2026 08:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) -
What Cognitive Repair Looks Like.
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There is a way forward. There is no way back.
#trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu
Trump at Davos: How Democracies Lose - and Recover - Their Minds (latest post) -
What Cognitive Repair Looks Like.
steady.page/en/cognitive...
There is a way forward. There is no way back.
#trump #cognitiverepublic #politics #davos #democracy #nato #atlanticalliance #europe #eu
