Jay Bhattacharya giving an interview to the Epoch Times chief editor
Here’s the NIH Director giving an interview to the editor of The Epoch Times—a media affiliate of the extreme anti-vaxx Falun Gong movement
The interview is hosted by RFK Jr’s extraordinarily dangerous, extreme anti-vaxx activist group Children’s Health Defense
h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social
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A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!
09.03.2026 01:28 —
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Two cactus wrens sitting atop a chollo.
I love the way these cactus wrens (photographed today) have a safe shelter inside a chollo catcus where they built their elaborate nest.
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OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman
09.03.2026 00:58 —
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I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions
09.03.2026 01:40 —
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Honestly many people with backgrounds in both philosophy and cog neuro still have way too strongly-held beliefs about consciousness
08.03.2026 22:35 —
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The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio meets with Secretary Rubio
Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump pardoned them.
Tarrio and his men planned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tarrio even claimed credit for it, messaging others: “Make no mistake…We did this…”
Now he’s meeting with Sec. Rubio.
08.03.2026 22:00 —
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Astata boops (what a name lol)
Also know as the Shieldbug wasp as the Shieldbug is their main prey
Nikon Z9 and Z105mm
SS1/3200 F9 ISO3200
08.03.2026 19:41 —
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It frustrates me that people who are so reluctant to accept that there are other species capable of complex cognition or sentience, yet so quick to assign it to their fancy autocorrect.
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Interception at 10,000 miles an hour
And what it tells us about the nature of intelligence
When time is critical, smart decision-making requires simplicity not complexity
New newsletter:
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/interception-at-10000-miles-an-hour
Full of #DecisionMaking #CognitiveScience goodness. And a nice bit of military history #Cybernetics
08.03.2026 20:20 —
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YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
08.03.2026 10:27 —
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Life imitates art today.
@newyorker.com
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Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
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An utterly bleak picture of the future of academic science in America
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omg, nailed
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch
A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
08.03.2026 18:37 —
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The Aurora Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed in March of 2017 in Iceland.
08.03.2026 09:18 —
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What and how do babies see? Rhodri Cusack discusses early visual development.
Come to the session for the pics of babies (like the one below of baby watching "infant IMAX") and stay for the great science!
@rhodricusack.bsky.social
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First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪
08.03.2026 09:50 —
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Absolute fucking lunacy. Everyone is 12 with their talk of badguys and their stupid baseball caps.
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Broad-billed Motmot on a vine perch
#BirdOfTheDay is #photogenic. But what bird isn’t??? 😜😝 here’s a Broad-billed Motmot we saw in Costa Rica last year. Cheers!
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I do not know how you try to make an appeal to morality in a country that has done literally nothing to prevent the mass slaughter of its own children in its own schools.
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There isn't a *right* answer to that question either and both Uta's interview and Dermot's piece make really good points on different sides of this debate.
08.03.2026 17:59 —
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It then becomes a pragmatic question: how wide should those criteria be before the category becomes so heterogeneous that it stops being useful or even starts being actively confusing or at least highly uninformative?
08.03.2026 17:58 —
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But the definition of autism is set by convention - there isn't a *true* answer to how many people are affected. There's just a set of somewhat arbitrary criteria we've agreed on that we then apply.
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