Vincent Bonin

!!!???

This is a dramatic shift. Since the 2025 budget has not been cut, is this entirely due to the mandatory shift towards Multi-Year Funded (MYF) or "forward-funded" awards? If so, would we expect the situation to recover and return to baseline over time?

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

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then "drift" is a misnomer. repeating the same stimulus over and over changes tuning properties. gratings are usually shown as a balanced stimulus set so it is not likely to bias inputs in one direction or another. movies are the opposite of that. they are bound bias the population in one direction.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-62k.

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It’s not just US corporate media, the Canadian media are not better. Shame on all of them.

No it's not rocket science.

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“officials at NSF have spoken publicly about how President Donald Trump is now calling the shots at the $9 billion research agency…”

Hard to imagine a cleaner statement of the big-picture destructive change at science agencies this year:
Presidential takeover. Presidentialization.

"Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said Canada is 'abandoning” its historic commitment to preventing the illegal use of aggression. He said it has become a pattern for Carney to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada can be a 'complicit partner.'”

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

Of course they don't have plan; they don't even think it's their job (to have a plan).

City Council rejects effort to ask Wu administration for info on ICE detainer requests In accordance with a city law, the Boston Police Department ignored every detainer request ICE sent to the city last year.

Another week, another effort from Councilor Flynn to prop up Trump and attack Mayor Michelle Wu

TY to the 9 City Councilors who voted against this effort to push harmful narratives around immigrants and crime. Boston

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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.

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This #RareDiseaseDay, we're highlighting research initiative @sparkforautism.bsky.social and Simons Searchlight, a research program focused on 184 rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Learn more about these cohorts: https://www.sfari.org/resources/?nav_items_term=cohorts #science

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

"More than 270 staff signed an open petition to take the same stance as Anthropic, joined by more than 60 people who said they work for OpenAI."

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Republicans think starting and conducting a regional war for another state is America first.

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #QuitGPT #ChatGPT #SubscriptionCancelation

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1132577/a-quitgpt-campaign-is-urging-people-to-cancel-chatgpt-subscriptions/

hey team! I need advice! If there were theoretically an organization whose sole purpose was to systematically identify and break nuisance and stupid IP in the biomedical space, creating shareware equivalents, what would be the highest value targets? e.g., AAV serotypes, antibodies, CRISPR, 1/n

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Lee Smolin pauses working relationship with Perimeter Institute after being named in Epstein files Lee Smolin has been asked to “pause” his work by the Perimeter Institute as they review ties to Jeffrey Epstein

I‘ve mentioned that thanks to the Epstein tranche I learned that one of my PhD advisors, Lee Smolin, continued to have contact with Epstein after 2007, which is not the impression I had

It’s weird to say the least for my professional past to become a public story that demands feminist analysis

Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.

This, like the rest, is completely unwarranted. Hyperscalers and large AI/IT companies with any sense of responsibility (or self-preservation) should step in and provide compute to researchers. It would be a tiny fraction of their capacity.