Kevin Mitchell
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
“A maggot knows things about the outside world in a way that no computer does.” — Matthew Cobb, Manchester University Right on, Dr Cobb, right on. (This article is terrific btw)
Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 2h ago"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK" www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothin... Hmm... it's a great article, maybe not a great headline.
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
New paper! We found basic scene selectivity arises across the scene network early in infancy (i.e., by ~3.5 months old), prior to independent navigation experience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience | PNAS
Sighted people rely on vision to recognize and navigate the local environment. By adulthood, human cortex contains at least three regions that resp...
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One of the most important questions in the history of biology, posed during an 1837 discussion of agricultural breeding in Brnö by Abbé Cyrill Napp, the man who recruited Mendel: "What is inherited and how?" (Transliteration, translation, reference and source in Alt)
Alison Barth discovers how different neuron types contribute to cortical function www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Alison Barth on different neuron types’ roles in cortex
Barth uses learning tasks in mice to drive synaptic plasticity in the sensory cortex, hoping to unlock general principles of how the cortex works.
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Really is! I have a recent patient with a VUS that I'm pretty convinced by - more understanding helps patients.
Just as bad money drives out good, so too with science. Lysenkoism is growing.
Peter Daszak@peterdaszak.bsky.social · 12h agoBreaking: The dumbing down of America's scientific infrastructure continues. Dr. Quay, a conspiracist w/ zero training in infectious disease is in "final vetting" to lead NIAID, Tony Fauci's former institute. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Europe outsourced key defence capabilities to the US, which under Trump is no longer a reliable ally. Ukrainians die when missile defence runs out of interceptors because of an idiotic war against Iran started by the unstable autocrat in the White House and his genocidal friend in Tel Aviv. 2/n
Decades of complacancy have left Europe vulnerable. "Once in a century" weather events - droughts, heatwaves, floods - have become normal, and our infrastructure isn't ready for it. Yet many political leaders across Europe want to weaken and delay measures to end dependence on fosssil fuels. 🧵1/n
It's gratifying to see basic research we did over the years on the genetics of neural development (in mice) becoming clearly relevant to the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans, as here: bsky.app/profile/wiri...
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · last yr.ELFN1 Deficiency: the mechanistic basis and phenotypic spectrum of a neurodevelopmental disorder with epilepsy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race doi.org/10.53053/HIF...
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race
Sensory and association regions are established through a reciprocal process, according to a new model of cortical development.
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If this is accurate, this is truly distressing news. Terrible process and outcome.
Peter Daszak@peterdaszak.bsky.social · 12h agoBreaking: The dumbing down of America's scientific infrastructure continues. Dr. Quay, a conspiracist w/ zero training in infectious disease is in "final vetting" to lead NIAID, Tony Fauci's former institute. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
🇺🇸 JUST IN: CNN reports that 75% of Americans believe President Donald Trump should be impeached, tried, and imprisoned.
Aarabi, M.H. Neuroimaging runs on helium, helium runs through Hormuz. Nat Neurosci 29, 1777–1778 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Neuroimaging runs on helium, helium runs through Hormuz - Nature Neuroscience
The 2026 closure of the Strait of Hormuz exposed a structural dependency that the neuroimaging community has rarely discussed openly.
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That a dedicated public servant like Anthony Fauci is before a kangaroo court for doing his job is damning indictment of American politics. Lab leak remains a deeply stupid narrative, beloved of the worst people.. www.instagram.com/reel/DbnGj46...
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Our descent into mean-spirited, selfish barbarism continues.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
“A p-value is the most widespread statistical concept that is not definable in a single sentence“ CHECKMATE
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · yesterdayStop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
A new editorial by @utafrith.bsky.social on whether the term "autism" has been broadened so much that it's lost its meaning www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? - Volume 56
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Uta Frith@utafrith.bsky.social · yesterdayMy thoughts about the autism spectrum: Autism spectrum disorder: has it lost its meaning and is it leading to misdiagnosis? Psychological Medicine. 2026;56:e240. doi:10.1017/S0033291726105376
Announcing #engramsensembles '27, to be held at @tcddublin next May. Registration and abstract submission will open in autumn 2026.
Tomás Ryan@tjryan.bsky.social · last yr.Slán go fóill - we look forward to welcoming you all back to Dublin for the 3rd installment in May 2027 #engramsandensembles
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/116936019109206968 Repeat after me: Just like correlation is not causation, feedbck is *not* co-construction. Self-regulation is *not* the same as self-manufacture. Living beings are more than cybernetic machines. And if you don't manufacture yourself […]
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Yogi Jaeger@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w agoNew preprint out! One of two collaborations with Marcus Neustetter that we submitted to the #ArtScience journal #Leonardo. "Co-Creation: Systems Thinking Beyond the Machine" https://zenodo.org/records/21416181 #science #philosophy #art #complexity #sustainability #cocreation
once upon a time, we cut off the trolls’ oxygen and they got bored and wandered off. that’s how this place became the so-called “bubble” they hate so much. the end.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
It's gratifying to see basic research we did over the years on the genetics of neural development (in mice) becoming clearly relevant to the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans, as here: bsky.app/profile/wiri...
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · last yr.ELFN1 Deficiency: the mechanistic basis and phenotypic spectrum of a neurodevelopmental disorder with epilepsy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
