Matt Wall

Strong endorse. Honestly, coming down out of the trees in the first place wasn't such a hot idea either.

"I don't have cancer, why should I pay for other people's cancer treatment?" What the hell is this nonsense Labour.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!

A true American hero.

Why does Microsoft Teams still make me type in a fucking captcha to join a meeting when I've literally just been through its torturous 2FA login process?

Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov (so many medals on his coat) in Death of Stalin. Simon Russell Beale (Lavrentiy Beria) and Steve Buscemi (Nikita Khrushchev) are looking at him.

This AI training thing. I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fucking furious.

Frontiers | High hopes? Precision psychedelic addiction medicine Despite decades of neuroscience research and significant investment in addiction neuroimaging, clinical outcomes for individuals with substance use and behav...

Hey kids! Read out new review/comment piece on the potential of precision psychedelic medicine in addiction:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

This is worryingly plausible.

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Weird!

A brief history of precision self-scanning When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.

When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.

By @lyrebard.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

This man is plainly not ok.

Why can’t you just be normal, America

So reassuring. I feel much better.

Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action - Alice Caulfield, Allan H. Young, Mitul Mehta, 2025 Psychedelics are gaining attention as putative treatments for a range of psychiatric conditions, and evidence suggests that they produce sustained behavioural a...

New theory of psychedelic mechanisms just dropped:
"Learning as the unifying mechanism of psychedelic action."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

a close up of a man 's face with the words do it now ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words do it now

DO IT.

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Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk)

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Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.

We're going to need a new word here because 'pathetic' just doesn't even begin to cover it any more.

If not now... when?!

It’s really too bad that Trump’s cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because “the President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didn’t give him a Nobel Peace Prize” is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for

Also:

Addendum: In case anyone is wondering, the reference to 'Knole Road' being the nearest Freemason's lodge seems to narrow this fruit-cake down to living in Bournemouth. Beyond that, I have no idea...

The thought frankly boggles the mind, and I guess we'll never know, but if you've read this far, thanks for joining me on this little jaunt into howling insanity. Take this as a useful reminder that truly, there are no limits to the depths of human perversity.

a man wearing a surgical gown and a mask says but why ALT: a man wearing a surgical gown and a mask says but why

I'm left with more questions than answers unfortunately, the most pressing being - WHY?! Why would you do this? However, given the choice of book to do this in, I'm also left wondering - are there flat-earthers out there who think the Discworld books are... serious, in some way? Discworld-truthers?!