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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New preprint from the team - what's the role of frontal cortex - LPFC & MCC - in learning about progress towards goals? Data from the checking project collected by Fred Stoll. New analyses by Xiaoqi Xu. With Matteo di Volo, Manu Procyk, & skytorial from @nilskolling.bsky.social below

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thanks for CNRS Biologie for highlighting our new work - more to come...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

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Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of BCIs, ANNs. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk.

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Vinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

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Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A fun hippo thread that is worth your time… “ it makes neutering them a copper-plated bitch.”

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Kraftwerk gets it #neuroscience

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 11/03/2025

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Very sad news, an inspiring scientist.

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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance

To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One of those days where you bust out the soldering iron half way through the experiment 🤷‍♂️

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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

⚠️ New preprint ! « Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries » Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished.  How comes?  www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... A short 🧵👇 1/7

Older women participating to a race at the Senior Games 2023.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I've largely been absent from the socials, for reasons, but as this place seems to have a reasonable discussion to bullshit ratio, and folks are here now, let's give it another go. Here is an introductory thread for all these lovely new followers....

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Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Thrilled to be presenting at the Foraging Conference: Mechanisms of foraging, information seeking and exploration. Please join us in delightful Lyon, France, Dec 11-13 for in-depth, exciting discussion. Registration and poster abstracts now open: bit.ly/48levq6 #Neuroscience

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Foraging conference

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Always limit your global variable changes.

A STNG meme where Dr. Beverly Crusher defines "hot" as 1.9 million Kelvin, with text "Later:" and Capt. Picard orders Tea. Early Grey. Hot. The result is a plasma-hot cup of earl grey that blasts the captain into a skeleton.

I'm not the original author, but for the life of me, I can't find who did create it first.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.

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Mark Baxter 🏳️‍🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

me responding to colleagues' emails about this grant I'm working on

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Charlie Wilson @crewilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Hello world. I'm a neuroscientist based in Lyon studying the neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex, and how it changes during learning & cognitive training. Particularly interested in the role of neural oscillations in frontal regions. #Neuroskyence #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neurocience

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