Kevin Mitchell

This is not a "culture war". This is a war of self-determination for countries who don't want to be ruled by MAGA or its cronies' whims, grifts, and toxic exports. Get your shit together.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The covers of GROOVY SCIENCE and GREEDY SCIENCE, two edited volumes.

The 70s and the 80s, man. Two different worlds and two terrific books.

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

Audio long read 🔊 Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
go.nature.com/3ONrV8q

Fascinating ideas @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @utafrith.bsky.social 1/4 So just trying to unpick this a bit, if an infant had a little packet of information saying “mum” traveling around the brain, how would other bits of brain know what that meant, but…

easily the most corrupt administration in US history, and we're just barely starting year 2.

'The highest pitch of refined emotion': The tragic romance hidden in a 19th-Century painting How the devastating meaning of The Meeting on the Turret Stairs is unlocked by a medieval Danish ballad – and why the painting can only be viewed for two hours every week.

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Bought this card & saw this painting many times in Dublin but never knew history..

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group A group of autism researchers and advocates are forming an independent advisory body to develop a scientific agenda for the autism community.

nice move to counter pseudoscience
www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/a...

I talked to @mattsheffield on the #TheoryOfChange podcast @discoverflux about #AI, #agency, #minds, #computationalIsm, and why these topics matter in today's politics because of the "scientific Trumpism" that is #transhumanism:

https://youtu.be/AWV3Rk16yvM

What Is Déjà Vu? Michio Kaku Wonders If It’s Triggered by Parallel Universes I've spent the past week on a road trip across America, and, during it, experienced perhaps my most intense case of déjà vu ever.

www.openculture.com/2015/10/mich...

psychologists/neuroscientists, if you need an antidote for physics-envy disorder, this may help

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

😎 #Ireland #Dublin

The concerning background:

-CEO of the Thiel Foundation
-Managing Director at Thiel Capital
-Managing Director of Clarium Capital (hedge fund led by Peter Thiel)
-Managing Director of Mithril Capital Management (VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir)
-Co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship

Excellent piece by @stemcells.bsky.social. I'd add points. 1st, wh/an embryo model is an "embryo" in statutes or regulations likely differs betw/jurisdictions & may not line up w/a scientific definition (even if there were 1). 2nd, we could (I think houstonhealthlaw.scholasticahq.com/article/3853...

How do brains generate an endless stream of subjective experience? Why does it feel like anything to be alive?
See my review in the New York Times of Michael Pollan's new book about consciousness: "A World Appears".

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.

Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.

Priorities.

The war in Iran is already hugely expensive Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.

did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects

The J6 rioters are all the kids who we knew in middle school would end badly.

makes us pretty fucking annoying TBQH 😂🤣

It would be tempting to do thematic analysis on the quote-skeets here, if only the sample could be understood as representative of anything.

Spotted a seal noshing on something, being mobbed by some hungry seagulls… 😊🦭

Morning.

I watched 'Network' tonight. Never saw the movie before but I've heard of the "Mad as hell' reference. All I can say is HOLY SHIT. This movie laid out how fucked up everything is and this was 50 years ago. I'm shocked they even let them make this movie.

Can we all just agree that if your evolutionary theory of humans posits we all evolved to have the social values of 1950s American it’s probably wrong? Thanks.

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"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer should never be allowed to make management decisions."

You could say the same thing about rich people tbph.

In my own contribution to this special issue, I explore how internalised semantic representations could have evolved from simpler pragmatic control policies philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...