“Shortly afterwards, the 85-year-old reacted to the news from Nuremberg's Palace of Justice by saying ’it must be a joke‘ and thanked those who had gathered to applaud her. ’If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,‘ she joked.”

Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social · 2d ago

More like a badge of honor. - A proud half Norwegian, American citizen Trump: "This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway," www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bad headline. Correction: 'OpenAI withdraws three preprints THE day after releasing 722 manuscripts' (not "three reprints a day" have been withdrawn, which is how I read it). OpenAI: “We welcome scrutiny and feedback from the mathematical community [in our ongoing effort to exploit free labor]”

Prashant Kamat@kamat.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wait....... OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems retractionwatch.com/2026/10/08/o...

New paper w/ @edvogel.bsky.social & Wilma Bainbridge: we showed that aphantasic participants, who lack mental imagery, had lower visual working memory performance for simple colors & complex fractals (Exp 1), & visually presented words/pseudowords (Exp 2). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mental imagery ability is associated with visual working memory performance: evidence from aphantasic participants

Visual imagery refers to the mental generation of visual representations of stimuli, while visual working memory involves retaining visual information…

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Regarding the adversarial collaboration pitting IIT vs. GNWT: “…we disagree with the broader conclusion many people have drawn: that the enterprise of theory building in this domain has been vindicated and, therefore, that theories of consciousness have earned their keep.”

Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS@comadork.bsky.social · 6d ago

Have grand theories of consciousness earned their keep? Our opinion, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today. @action-brain.bsky.social @cifar authors.elsevier.com/a/1nupi3BtfH...

Reason #2 for the destruction of NSF (and other science agencies): hateful white christian nationalist troll Russ Vought neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/04/reas...

A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.

psychologicalscience.org

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

The Independent@the-independent.com · 3w ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

Emerging from public social hiatus to celebrate my primary grad school research formally being published on Friday!!

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Nature Neuroscience - This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable...

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Human brain is NOT two separate organs. Don't believe the misleading headline! neurocritic.blogspot.com/2026/09/huma...

What a great idea! “Sources told Reuters that one of the things Anthropic is looking at is to make Claude control robots to carry out scientific experiments.” www.engadget.com/2262087/anth...

Anthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments - Engadget

Anthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco.

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Thomas Wood@advanced-eschatonics.com · 3w ago

cool

The Independent article is terrible and misleading. Dr. Loh came to the opposite conclusion: “The brain is one organ,” says study co-author Kyle Loh, a development biologist at Stanford... “But it’s built in two different parts that connect and work together.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture

Research also uncovers an efficient way to grow hindbrain cells from stem cells — a difficult feat.

nature.com

Jeff Browndyke@jeffbrowndyke.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is big. 🧪 www.the-independent.com/news/science...

“Once you understand that these are chatbots that were designed to complete challenges like this, using tactics like this, you can understand that the chatbots didn't ‘go rogue.’ They did what they were designed to do … with inadequate supervision" pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

Wow! It's nice to see that the topic of my dissertation decades ago is VERY hot right now

Not that anyone will listen to me, but why doesn't [MS NOW, CBS, CNN] interview an expert like Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender, Margaret Mitchell, or Abeba Birhane to explain what actually happened! Kokotajlo: "agents... managed to hack out of their boxes" [BECAUSE HUMANS WERE CARELESS ABOUT SECURITY!]

MAKE IT STOP! Kokotajlo: "companies are 0 - 5 yrs away from building superintelligent AIs" N. Wallace: "When they talk about killing all humans, what does that mean? Killing them how?" Kokotajlo: uh, robots, self-driving cars, automated factories producing more robots www.youtube.com/watch?v=hApl...

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

"I want to lead by saying that these men, regardless of their intentions or cynicism, are beyond loathsome. They are disgusting to me. I find them vile. And I find it equally vile how many people are falling for their garbage." --opening lines by Ed Zitron

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.

Better Offline monologue: I run through the nonsensical, pro-AI lab scare campaign driven by a former researcher, how the media keeps falling for grifts, and how dangerous AI is already in the wrong hands - those of Anthropic and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

"it is essential for lawmakers, and the public, to understand that none of the reported incidents actually involved loss of control at any time, or arguably even “rogue agents,” or any kind of humanlike agency on the part of AI models."

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

bbc.com

Join us on Sep 15 for NeuroFuture: Conversations on Women Advancing Neuroscience Worldwide, as we advance the dialogue on the intersections of neuroscience, diversity, and society, and their implications for research, policy, and practice. 🔗 www.internationalbraininitiative.org/events/neuro...

NeuroFuture: Conversations on Women Advancing Neuroscience Worldwide — International Brain Initiative

Upcoming session: September 15, 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT: Neuroscience, Diversity, and Society ( Register here ) Previous sessions: March 30, 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT: Artif...

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I initially read the headline as, “Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense ATROCITIES” and I wouldn’t be wrong

Simon W Davis@woodforbrains.bsky.social · last mo.

Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x

Stephen Wild@stephenjwild.bsky.social · last mo.

Does anyone know of a good counterpoint (eg, the Hugging Face incident was no big deal, it's better than you think, etc) to this? I am genuinely curious to read it to see what the counter-arguments are.

“Libertarianism doesn’t really exist. It never did. Libertarianism is an adolescent fantasy embraced by grown men who never achieved a certain level of political or adult maturity. …the libertarian pose went away [when they] saw they could have access to the federal budget & government contracts”

Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a new book, author and journalist Gil Durán argues that another, less understood Silicon Valley innovation may be the most dangerous of all — tech fascism. capitalandmain.com/silicon-vall...

My thoughts on Trump’s witless, dangerous attempt to reschedule childhood vaccinations:

The Proposed Changes in Childhood Vaccination: A Strongly Felt Opinion

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From a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

taranis.ie

Abnormal vestibular signals can disrupt the relationship of the self to the environment, leading to strange feelings of detachment (depersonalization, derealization) — in addition to the profound experience of viewing the earth as an observer for 6 months neurocritic.blogspot.com/2017/07/role...

kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo ago

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]

Fixed it for you… what is wrong with the writers of headlines at Science and Nature?? White House report calls for big changes to DESTROY U.S. science system

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Deprioritizing basic research that gave us the GPS, cell phones, Wegovy, etc. for commercialization & AI will usher in a Fool’s Golden Age of Science. Pair this w/arbitrary grant terminations & repeated attempts to test the limits of defiance. RIP real gold standard science. 🧪 archive.today/Yk939

Yup, “MAHA is an opportunity for anti-vaccine influencers to make even more money selling books, page views, supplements, and ivermectin” It’s hard to believe that Dr Spencer fell for MAHA’s quackery & massive conflicts of interest! www.stopantivaxpropaganda.org/p/public-hea...

Public Health Needs MAHA... Like It Needs Another Outbreak

Public health needs an HHS led by evidence - not a MAHA agenda that won’t even make us healthier!

stopantivaxpropaganda.org