As body-augmenting technologies become more common, it is important to understand how the brain decides what counts as "the body", and how that changes over time.
My first postdoc paper 🦾 now out in @elife.bsky.social 👇
Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’
There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.
Obscene.
GA. ER. AF.
Strong dislike for this view that bland, formulaic scientific writing is desirable. I mean, we have to read this stuff, give us some flow
Cancelled my subscription after 10 years. A liberal newspaper should support equality of opportunities and meritocracy
UK governments of the 2000s and 2010s managed to buy short term "world-beating" status for British universities through a tuition fees and student loans bubble whose subsequent deflation has destabilised the sustainability of UK higher education.
A practical and moral policy failure
I asked Jacqui Smith last year what other models she was looking at to avoid getting stuck in thinking the US and Australia are the only ways of running a higher education sector.
Her response?
That she didn't have time for that...
The deliberate ignorance is going to kill us all.
Je kunt niet juichen voor de antikoloniale boodschap van Bad Bunny én Jutta Leerdam een rolmodel noemen, schrijft @rubysanders.bsky.social. Tenminste, niet zolang Leerdam zich niet distantieert van haar verloofde die een fascistisch regime aanhangt. ‘Sport ís politiek. En politiek is kiezen.’
This piece really nails how I have been feeling in the last couple of weeks. fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...
Families of nurses and carers have said they fear being torn apart under an immigration crackdown by the government condemned as “an act of economic vandalism”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is really encouraging. It's not too late to stop this.
If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.
Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
No wonder absolutely nobody was in favor of Brexit over at the Financial Times. They know their stuff.
There's an interesting appearance from @mattbelloni.bsky.social in the "Melania" documentary. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/triumph...
In de week dat ASML een winst van 10 miljard bekendmaakt en ING een winst van 6 miljard haalt het nieuwe kabinet de miljarden bij… de mensen.
Column! Vandaag zonder betaalmuur www.groene.nl/artikel/opto...
“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop”
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding.
RegCheck was built to help make this process easier.
Today, we launch RegCheck V2.
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regcheck.app
The national security assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse was supposed to have been published in October 2025. It wasn’t. “ Apparently there were two reasons: because its conclusions were “too negative”, and because it would draw attention to the government’s failure to act.”
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
New real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social
We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3)
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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Excellent new blog post from our 2025 Emerging Scientist Award winner, Dr Benjamin Filtjens, who describes his award-winning programme of research on enhancing the use of artificial intelligence in clinical gait analysis.
ispgr.org/using-artifi...
"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent."
Some thoughts on student loans
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
