‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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All BrainGlobe atlases now have Neuroglancer links so that you can explore atlases in the browser without needing to download them first! All links here: brainglobe.info/documentatio... Here you can view our Eurasian Blackcap atlas: neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com#!https://bra...

Lovely result from the Stephenson-Jones lab at SWC: during sleep, mice replay newly-learned motor skills in the striatum — and it continues even after the hippocampus is fully removed. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02362-5

The apical dendrite looks great, and does wonders in a slice. What does it do in the living cortex? It depends on the cell. A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by @anyiliu.bsky.social with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @fedrossi.bsky.social

Pyramidal cells in the cortex send a long apical dendrite to layer 1. What is its role? What happens when it's gone? ✂️ A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex Out today with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net and @fedrossi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex

Cortical pyramidal neurons project a long apical dendrite to layer 1 (L1), to receive synaptic inputs that are thought to provide contextual and possibly suppressive modulation. In visual cortex, thes...

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@ptrrupprecht.bsky.social providing the new go-to GECI reference. Read when doing calcium imaging. rdcu.be/fwF82

Spike inference from calcium imaging data acquired with GCaMP8 indicators

Nature Methods - In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the...

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Two-photon calcium imaging. What makes for good data? How can we optimize experiments to get good data? New post labrigger.com/blog/2026/07... and new free web apps from @filip-tomaska.bsky.social (1/8)

The west was much more vocal against apartheid in the 1980s than it is now against this form of discrimination. Even Reagan did better than our current leaders. E.g. 40 years ago he purposefully chose a Black US ambassador for South Africa, to show and give support to those fighting apartheid.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘We can’t even walk through the streets’: women arrested for kissing in public on life under Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law

Check out this either somewhat significant or highly significant factoid.

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

Hi co-activation patterns people! I've been playing around with CAPs recently and wanted to sanity-check something. My understanding is that CAP vs. anti-CAP is usually interpreted not as "activation vs. no activation", but as two opposing configurations (two poles of the same fluctuation).

A neat description of @agnesland.bsky.social 's discovery. (I wish I could write as clearly as @ericaklarreich.bsky.social)

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · 2w ago

Neuroscientists have long wondered exactly how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new paper from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain suggests the answer lies in a hidden balance between two opposing groups of neurons. Read more: https://bit.ly/3QX90to #science #neuroscience

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Neuroscientists have long wondered exactly how brain activity relates to blood flow. A new paper from the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain suggests the answer lies in a hidden balance between two opposing groups of neurons. Read more: https://bit.ly/3QX90to #science #neuroscience

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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Very nice response by the UK's @royalsociety.org to the proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance in the US. And the style of the first paragraph rings a bell...

AI may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. The effects for researchers will be as disruptive as industrial mass production was for artisan manufacturers, writes @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

Mass-produced science is coming. What happens to scientists?

Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed.

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My home institute, @ucleye.bsky.social, is looking for a new Director! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-1183a/

Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - REF 1183 | Veredus

University College London Director of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology  Location: London Salary: An attractive remuneration package UCL is a world leading, global university with a community of more...

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Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

This is stunning

Introducing the International Brain Lab AI Agent: a tool to help researchers analyze neural activity from across the mouse brain, using AI coding agents. Please try it! We would love your feedback. github.com/int-brain-la...

SWC & @gatsbyucl.bsky.social are inviting expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external career fellowships in computational neuroscience. A unique opportunity to work at the intersection of neuroscience and computation. Apply by 16 July.

Fellowship Sponsorship | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour & Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, are looking to sponsor early career researchers in theoretical or c...

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We are seeking two postdoctoral fellows to join our team working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Our research is built around three intertwined questions: how to… | ...

We are seeking two postdoctoral fellows to join our team working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Our research is built around three intertwined questions: how to mea...

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"NIH officials are telling grantees who submitted annual progress reports [...] to remove papers that name co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions if NIH had not previously approved a foreign component." Sad and absurd in so many ways.

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · last mo.

NIH, NASA place limits on foreign co-authors. @science.org

Brexit tore apart European science — 10 years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, there are signs that their relationship in research is healing #AcademicSky A news story by @lizziegibney.bsky.social for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brexit tore apart European science — now the research rifts are healing

The UK’s share of EU research funding is climbing, but lost networks will be harder to recover.

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HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus will close two of its programs dedicated to rodent work, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. #neuroskyence By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ex...

Exclusive: Janelia sunsets rodent work, launches transparent fish project

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that…

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Data-driven model discovery 🔁 Model-driven experiment selection. For mechanistically-interpretable models! From Google DeepMind Neuroscience Lab, let by @noemielteto.bsky.social

Noémi Éltető@noemielteto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First paper since joining Google DeepMind! We present 🌍ATLAS (Active Theory Learning for Automated Science), a pipeline that generates interpretable mechanistic models from data and optimizes experiments to test them. Thread below

I would never say that “drift isn’t a thing” in visual cortex - but at #COSYNE2026 we show that much apparent drift in mouse V1 natural image responses can be explained by gaze drift. Tested with predictive deep network counterfactuals and closed-loop MEI restimulation. With @sinzlab.bsky.social.

Leon Kremers@leon-kremers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On my way to #COSYNE2026! Are you interested in representational drift in the visual cortex? Did you ever wonder how much gaze shifts contribute to it? (spoiler: a lot) If yes, come to my poster [3-197] on Saturday! Excited to present our shared (with Samira Altpeter) work and chat with you all

Apparently this is acceptable behaviour by a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say

The newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X.

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Professor Masud Husain FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding human cognition and its disorders. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/masud-husain-38121/

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇