Christian Kliesch

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...

CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213

More in this paper:
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Interested in the evo-devo of the mammalian cerebellum? This review is a must-read!

Really happy to have contributed to this work, led by @marisepp.bsky.social , together with @ioansarr.bsky.social .

A reminder that one thing that allowed Darwin to focus on science was a large team of servants that catered to his every need.

📢 Bitte weitersagen! An der Uni Zürich ist eine Professur für Klinische Kinder-, Jugend- und Familienpsychologie und Psychotherapie zu besetzen.

🔍 Gesucht wird eine Person mit ausgewiesener klinischer Expertise & exzellenter, international sichtbarer Forschung.

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The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list.

They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.

This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.

Let me explain & offer some advice.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

If Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs are forced to stop water activities in #Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people will lose access to drinking water.

Paula Navaro, our Water and Sanitation Coordinator, updates:

I cannot stress enough how important it is in this moment to get out of US media landscape to understand some of the Geopolitical impact of the Epstein files.

"Paedophile financier suspected of being engaged in ‘world’s largest honey-trap operation’"
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New book with more Chomsky-bashing. The website says March 2026, but it is available now.

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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Honestly, when I read this and think about the rise of fascism in Germany today, I see a common thread: mass complacency. People are concerned, but for the most part they think it will blow over. As a friend said this week: “they are sleepwalking towards it.”

I really enjoyed the podcast. Many of the discussion points remind me of Mary Hesse's work on the role of metaphors in epistemology - if you are interested in these topics, I highly recommend her papers, e.g. dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781...

Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social.

Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

See, more Cerebellum!

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Cerebrum, KT & Cerebellum, KT, (in press), Consensus Paper: How we see and act in the world

"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

In other news, I have taken up an interest in cerebral development.

Whatever the cerebellum is doing, The Cerebellum is establishing consensus.

(3) Leto et al. (2015) Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development, The Cerebellum. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s123...

Evidence:
(1) Koziol et al. (2013) Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum’s Role in Movement and Cognition, The Cerebellum, dx.doi.org/10.1007/s123...

(2) Marien et al (2013) Consensus Paper: Language and the Cerebellum: an Ongoing Enigma, The Cerebellum, dx.doi.org/10.1007/s123...

I have never seen so many consensus papers about a topic than about the role of the cerebellum.

Now tell me, is the role of the cerebellum particularly controversial or is it a field of study with lots of agreement?

This is one of the reasons I have said that protecting neighbors from being kidnapped or beaten without due process IS the strategy for voting. This isn't about "immigration" whatever they say.

It's about eradicating people of color from public life.

Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...

Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms.

"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."

"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...