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Andrea Stocco

@andreastocco.com
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Computational cognitive neuroscience. And also: memory and cognitive architecture. But also: biking & stargazing & horror movies. Opinions are my own, but I do sometimes share them. andreastocco.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.
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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Time to die.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2026
This is a horrible, cruel, dumb decision. Higher ed is one of the US biggest exports; this will suffocate it. And it will deprive the country of many talents. And crush the dreams and hopes of many foreign students.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I want you to know I resigned today after 3 years with ALIEN (Archaeologists Laughing, Imminent Extinction Now). I'm tired of the coverup. For years we've known the truth about intelligent beings who lived here 12,000 years ago and seeded all civilizations. Now, they will come back to kill us all.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/09/2026
"...solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal."
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe useful for some people to know: Being a well-funded lab does not —necessarily — mean the lab is doing good research. I have seen several examples where the two seem fully dissociated.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I stand firmly by my assertion that metascientists should have seen this capture of science coming, but there is no reasonable way they can reasonably delude themselves into thinking the new nsf announcements are anything other than epistemic capture. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say
Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If politicians really cared about safety in youth sports, they'd be focused on preventing traumatic brain injuries and eating disorders. Not keeping trans kids from playing.
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Kianté @kiante.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A few years ago at MathPsych @singmann.bsky.social and I spoke about making an update. Well here it is new rtdists live on CRAN!
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of my favorites of the year! It's on VOD in the US and coming to theaters around the world. Weird and wild, Boots never disappoints.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026
As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.
A leaky drop ceiling with a large, dirty water stain.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/09/2026
"If most of what he presents here about Musk isn’t particularly new, there is a fearsome power to the way the director brings it all together." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/m...
nytimes.com
Four-Hour Elon Musk Documentary by Alex Gibney Has Venice Premiere
Much of what Alex Gibney’s documentary presents isn’t new. But in piecing it all together, he wants the viewer to take Musk seriously as a threat to democracy.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 09/09/2026
This is rad and I'm proud of my city for doing it
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/09/2026
The OMB Proposal will stop scientists from fighting against Trump's policies that fuel the climate crisis. We need the proposal permanently revoked. Visit the link to contact your MoC's and tell them to #RevoketheRule: tr.ee/QyLCZm #news #politics #AmericanPolitics #Trump
The graphic contains a photo of the CNN logo, Donald Trump, the red Stand Up for Science logo, and the recent tragic landslide in Nepal. The graphic displays a headline from CNN reading: "The Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal." All following graphics in this thread contain the photo of the Nepal landslide in the background and the red Stand Up for Science logo.
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Chantel Prat PhD @chantelpratphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
According to the Motion Picture Association, the average American spends more than half of their waking hours feeding their brain entertainment. In the newest episode of Brains for Dinner @andreastocco.com and I discuss why brains in different states crave different types of entertainment!
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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 02/09/2026
This was my favorite #Brains4Dinner episode! We got to geek out about the cognitive neuroscience of what makes us like movies, books, and music, why we like different genres, and what makes good entertainment. And the Star Wars prequels. Oh, and I got dual citizenship! substack.com/@chantelprat...
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Episode 11: Why Brains Crave Different Genres of Entertainment
The All-American Edition
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
USPS is reportedly pushing ahead with untested technology to carry out Trump’s attack on mail-in voting. The plan, if it’s allowed to go forward, could completely “derail” the midterms, according to a whistleblower. Trump will stop at nothing to cheat his way to victory.
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A 76-year-old man holding permanent US residency and grappling with stage four prostate cancer is reportedly being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in Tacoma, Washington. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residency
ICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Part 1 of a 3-part strategy. First, delegitimize real polls (that show Trump and his party struggling). Second, promote fake polls (that show the opposite). Third, deny election results they don’t like using fake polls as the “evidence” of election malfeasance. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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How Polls Can Help or Hurt Democracy
Attacks on legitimate polls and the rise of fake polls make it hard for voters to know what to believe.
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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 29/08/2026
ICE is now targeting folks at Sea-Tac Airport. Including those with no criminal records, who have built lives, received work permits, and waited years for their application. Trump is now using domestic flight info to track, detain, and send them to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
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‘It’s very unprecedented’: ICE targets certain immigrants at Sea-Tac Airport
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting immigrants at Sea-Tac International Airport, including asylum seekers and green card applicants married to U.S. citizens.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/08/2026
this is probably the first line of research I've undertaken that I got into purely bc of personal experience with a psychological phenomenon I'm v grateful to have received Marsden funding to do this. it almost certainly would not be funded under NZ's new, fully anti-science science funding schemes
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Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That red glow is sunlight, filtering through the Earth’s atmosphere and getting redirected to hit the Moon’s surface. A lovely visual treat created by the gravitational dance of the three celestial bodies. 😍
The Moon in near-total eclipse. The top edge is a bright white crescent, while the lower regions are reddish-purple with craters and maria visible. Taken with a Seestar S50 from Denver, CO.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026
When I think of all the amazing scientists that have lost their jobs here in the states because of Trump/Vought/Musk/RFK Jr/the GOP, it makes my blood boil to see the US interfering in a single overseas postdoctoral appointment matter to advance a white supremacist agenda.
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Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Carnegie Mellon faculty form advocacy group amid increasing pressures in higher education
More than 40 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have formed an advocacy chapter, an effort they say gives them more teeth to respond to university decisions during a time of increasing pressur...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of State
DEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU:  Thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department.  It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here.  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ...
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026
Bouie is 100% correct here. The goal for Democrats should be to grind the Trump administration to a halt and prompt Trump officials to abandon their posts in humiliation and despair.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Reading a thread in r/HomeschoolRecovery about Natalie Harp, and, man. Just an unbelievable amount of collective trauma in that group of people.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A good moment to recommend Angela Saini‘s Superior, which traces back the history of “race science” and shows the institutions that sustain this pseudo-research until today. These pursuits have nothing in common with the principles of academic inquiry www.angelasaini.co.uk/superior
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Angela Saini | Award-winning Science Journalist and Author
The website of British independent science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini. Her most recent book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/08/2026
Evergreen
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This network has been running for many years now and has big American money behind it. Cofnas is just one of their guys and they are all over the world.
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Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 22/08/2026
Dump Trump’s tariffs. Rebuild the American-Canadian partnership. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the reported $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign students to remain for a couple years in post-graduate employment. The fee would devastate the program, making the US even less desirable as a destination for the world's best and brightest.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/08/2026
White House is planning to announce “a large new tax on international students who stay to work in the US after graduation”.
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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 22/08/2026
This is utter madness 🤬💔
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/08/2026
Three more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪
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