Writing methods for an experiment. Is "novel object recogniton test objects were whatever random crap the PI could hurriedly find from Morrison's tat corner on a rainy Wednesday in Glasgow when it turned out the original objects were not exciting enough for our diva mice" too honest?

Ah, houghmagandie is one of the funnier Scots word. Not one I use often but always makes me smile nonetheless.

Lost Glasgow@lostglasgow.bsky.social · 7d ago

I have a dead letter drop today; a stranger gifting me something from 1938. The password? 'Houghmagandie'. Pic: Royal Exchange Square, 1955, Partick Camera Club.

I've had a lot of fun this afternoon with a stripper called Titan while my wife was out with the kids.

Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Welp, Stephen Miller happens to LOVE the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Doctor say that vaccines are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. A nepo baby who snorts cocaine off toilet seats, bathes in raw sewage, and takes raccoon penises home for “further study“ says they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

These jellyfish larvae: * . * . * . * . * * . * . * * . *

BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.

Okay, this is all really bad, but I am confused in what sense Frontiers wasn't immediately recognisable as a predatory paper mill from its founding. Yes, there are people publishing in their journals whose work I respect highly, but Frontiers' business model and priorities were *never* in doubt.

I've said many times that friends don't let friends publish in Frontiers... sad to see another example of why this is correct. 😟

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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. 👇

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. 👇

There is LITERALLY nothing more English* than the Cornish language. It is endemic, spoken in England, in one form or another since the Iron Age, via its Common Britonic ancestor. It is a sign of the callousness of the fascist Reform extremists to seek to erase this cultural gem.

Reform councillor questions Cornish language demand

The strategy to boost written, heard and learnt Cornish was debated at a meeting.

bbc.com

Sign up for SfN then get turned back at the US border and sent home (if you're lucky)... it'll be a long time before I attend a #NeuroSkyence conference in the US again.

Society for Neuroscience@sfn.org · 2mo ago

There's still time to submit your abstract for #SfN26! The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 11. Ensure your research is part of this year's scientific exchange. Don’t delay, submit today. 🔗 vist.ly/57a27 #neurosky #neuroskyence #medsky

If you are worried about this, can you please write to your MP asking them to stop the unfair & cruel ban on trans ppl using public spaces. I’ve included everything you need to target your MP. This actually works & we need straight ppl to do this, too. I’ve included data to help! Please!

Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Each UK MP constituency has roughly 70,000 eligible voters. When writing to your MP tell them there are 6,300 LGBTQ ppl 980 lesbians 1,120 gay men 3,710 Bi ppl 770 trans ppl Can they afford to upset 9% of the electorate, as well as their friends & families? If just 3 ppl each - that’s 27% [25,200]

The approach to the early 18th century Snuff Mill Bridge in Cathcart, with one of Glasgow's few surviving mill building from the same period. Cont./ #glasgow #snuffmillbridge #streetscars #cathcart

The US is no longer a function democracy but is led by an authoritarian regime. If this happened in any other country, people would be up in arms.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Maggots that only eat living, warm-blooded flesh. Truly stuff of nightmares here... 😱🫣

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

The first 2 pages of this report are essential reading. AI is an unmitigated ecological disaster...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

The Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land Footprints

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

unu.edu

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

Preprint alert! v4 of our psoriasis / neuroinflammation paper has now been posted on BioRxiv. Psoriatic disease is associated wih anhedonia and changes in thalamocortical circuitry in humans & mice. We've now analysed blood markers in our human cohort 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

He truly is a 'man of the people'. I mean, we've all been given a 'no-strings-attached' 5 mil donation from a crypto billionaire at some point in our lives. Leave him alone!

Sneak preview of Keir Starmer's speech.

South Park: Underpants Gnomes' Phase 1

ALT: South Park: Underpants Gnomes' Phase 1

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In vivo electrophysiologist looking for a postdoc? Come join @katejj.bsky.social and I!

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

Forgot to tag my co-I! @mickcraig.bsky.social

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

First off, these cells are gigantic. This one, for example, has >72 cm of axon! To our knowledge, it’s the longest neuron ever fully reconstructed. I leave it to the reader as an exercise to estimate the length of a human LC neuron. 5