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La Constitution reconnaît le principe d'égalité devant l'impôt, faire croire que la taxe Zucman serait inconstitutionnelle c'est vraiment nous prendre pour des benêts.
Ce serait "confiscatoire" de prendre 2% quand la fortune des milliardaires augmente chaque année d'au moins 6% ? 🤔

Taxe Zucman : "Hors de question" de taxer les biens professionnels, réagit la ministre du budget (Capture d'écran du live PLF du Monde)

Bernard Arnault et Vincent Bolloré approuvent ce message d'Amélie de Montchalin !

Exclure les biens professionnels de la taxe Zucman, c'est la vider totalement de sa substance, car la fortune des milliardaires est composée essentiellement de ces biens professionnels.

"The group aims to amplify and extend the work that is already being done to push back against the co-optation of education by technology companies, and to bring the insights from a generation of critical tech research, advocacy and organizing to bear on this specific struggle."

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us”

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“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”

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Toxic truths are emerging. Do you know how everyday chemicals may be fueling the rise of Parkinson’s? A new important paper in Lancet Neurology just dropped. Toxicants are harmful substances in the environment that can damage cells and organs contributing to diseases such as Parkinson’s.

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function The authors review evidence that the primary function of the brain, supported by distributed neural systems, is the predictive regulation of physiology (i.e., allostasis). An example from Alzheimer’s ...

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function
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Si les grandes entreprises avaient le même taux d’imposition que les PME, on pourrait récupérer 14 milliards € de recettes supplémentaires de l'impôt sur les sociétés.

Il est urgent de lutter contre les niches fiscales.

Notre note 👇
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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.

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Introducing CellTransformer, a new AI tool developed with UCSF that makes it easier to explore massive neuroscience datasets and identify important subregions of the brain. 🧵

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

La France accueille moins d’étrangers que le reste de l’Europe, relève l’Insee ➡️ bit.ly/3IZdWda

Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health - Nature Aging This genomic study of magnetic resonance imaging-based brain age in 56,348 people identifies 59 genetic loci, links brain aging to mental and physical health, and suggests high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes as causal factors of brain aging.

🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others?
🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age.
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** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
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Happy to chat to interested applicants.

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Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
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Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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These datasets live on OpenNeuro. Shout out to @russpoldrack.org team's vision to build a data-sharing platform that accelerates discovering + maximizes the ROI of painstakingly collected data.

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Neurofeedback Training Facilitates Awareness and Enhances Emotional Well-being Associated with Real-World Meditation Practice: A 7-T MRI Study - Mindfulness Objectives Novice meditators often struggle to recognise and intentionally disengage from self-referential thought during meditation. We investigated whether personalised high-precision neurofeedback (NF) training improves volitional disengagement from self-referential thought during meditation and enhances meditation’s outcomes. Method In a single-blind, controlled study, novices received 2 days of veridical (n = 20) or sham (n = 20) 7-T fMRI NF targeting posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) deactivation during meditation. After NF training, at-home meditation practice was monitored for 1 week, followed by an in-lab behavioural assessment. Results Both groups reported similar perceptions of NF contingency, performance, and expectancy (p > 0.05), suggesting effective participant blinding. PCC deactivation during NF-guided meditation was comparable across groups (p > 0.05). Veridical NF group showed significantly stronger negative functional coupling (d = 0.59) between PCC and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), significantly greater mindful awareness (d = 0.41) and emotional well-being (d = 0.40) associated with 1-week practice, and significant correlation (r = 0.71, p < 0.01) between emotional well-being and PCC-DLPFC negative coupling. Conclusions These findings suggest that high-precision NF can improve novices’ ability to volitionally disengage from self-referential thought during meditation, thereby fostering greater mindful awareness in real-world practice and promoting emotional well-being. Preregistration This exploratory study was not preregistered.

Glad to share that my PhD's final paper is finally out in
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Mindfulness.

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7 Tesla fMRI neurofeedback training enhances meditation training and real-world practice for beginners.

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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

Pour l’éducation, la France dépense encore moins que ce que l’on croyait
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Bâtiments vétustes, déficits abyssaux : en Bretagne, l’hôpital public s’effondre Essorés par la tarification à l’activité, les hôpitaux publics bretons n’ont aucune marge de manœuvre pour investir. Pourtant, les bâtiments se dégradent d’année en année et les promesses d’aides à l…

Bâtiments vétustes, déficits abyssaux : en Bretagne, l’hôpital public s’effondre. Une enquête de @splann.bsky.social à lire sur @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Le mirage de la retraite par capitalisation

Contrairement à une idée solidement ancrée, la retraite par capitalisation ne rapporte pas plus aux assurés qu’un système par répartition. Bien au contraire, démontrent deux chercheurs.

La plus importante dégradation constatée en France au cours de la journée a été causée par l’action…. de la police. Le Gorafi aurait pu l’écrire.

A molecularly defined basalo-prefrontal-thalamic circuit regulates sensory and affective dimensions of pain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671771v1

Taxer les ultrariches, augmenter les impôts... et 3 autres mesures économiques dont on peut s'inspirer

Pour changer le monde, il faut commencer par changer de politique, et contrairement à l’adage thatchérien, il y a bien des alternatives. Quelques exemples, du Royaume-Uni à l’Indonésie en passant par l’Espagne ou l’Autriche…

à dérouler....
merci @vincent-lemire.bsky.social

Famine à Gaza : le crime était annoncé La déclaration de l’état de famine dans la bande de Gaza fait les gros titres. Il ne faut pas oublier que cette insécurité alimentaire a été décidée et mise en œuvre systématiquement par les autorité…

Famine à Gaza : le crime était annoncé

Parti pris indispensable de Gwenaëlle Lenoir @mediapart.fr

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Sur France Info, le député Modem Richard Ramos demande à François Bayrou de renoncer à supprimer deux jours fériés et de prendre cet argent aux très riches plutôt qu'aux travailleurs.

Même le député Modem Richard Ramos le dit : il ne faut pas supprimer deux jours fériés, il faut prendre l'argent aux très riches plutôt qu'aux travailleurs !

Attac soutient l'appel Bloquons tout le 10 septembre Pour une véritable justice fiscale, sociale et écologique, Attac soutient l’appel au 10 septembre.

Attac soutient l’appel "Bloquons tout le 10 septembre", qui exprime une colère profonde et légitime : le gouvernement instrumentalise la dette publique pour la faire payer par une austérité budgétaire et une régression sociale d’une ampleur inédite !
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