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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/10/2026

Please consider signing! @arxiv.bsky.social

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 07/10/2026

Fascinating insights into the early history of Zotero, including the fact that the name is the Albanian word for "to learn well or master". Hats off to everyone involved in this project. Also if you're not using Zotero, why not? Dump that closed rubbish you're using now and switch.

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Beautiful Fall #roses. I wish y'all could smell their amazing fragrance... 🤤

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very extremely proud of @khoudary.bsky.social's beautiful work on this true tour de force! Congratulations on getting it out!

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 26/09/2026

To be honest the distinction between a sham scientific society and a real one feels blurry to me. I was advised to join IEEE hoping that at some point they'll give me an award or title for my CV. But you pay thousands of $ over a career for this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The superposition of these two studies — both incredible — reflect a snapshot of "one big thing" systems neuroscience has yet to resolve. In mice: 1. Task-related signals are everywhere. 2. Absent large swaths of "everywhere," suprisingly sophisticated learning & behavior remains.

Post by Enny van Beest, "Brainwide representation of navigation"

Post by Jieyu Zheng, "How fast can mice learn complex mazes?"

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Jerusalem Artichokes at the base are luckily more accessible... 😋

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀? We find evidence of both smooth and sharp transitions; latter sharply altered brain dynamics in as few as 1 time step. Link below -->

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Over the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward.

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Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As part of the @connectedminds.bsky.social program, we have researched better ways to approach co-creation in transdisciplinary settings. See preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As part of the @connectedminds.bsky.social program, we have researched better ways to approach co-creation in transdisciplinary settings. See preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Social Psychology: US: 23 CA: 2 Cognitive Psychology US: 36 CA: 1 (* no grad program) Same story for the past three years: ~1 Canadian job per year for cognitive psych/neuro. Amazing arbitrage opportunity for Canadian U15 schools to start hiring cog again!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."

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MGower (like MacGuyver but reality)💙 @cmgower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Such a Powerful Speech, it reflects who We Are. I remember 911 I spent 2 days not even getting dressed watching the news in horror crying at the loss to American lives. How far we have come now, "Lest We Forget" is not for a Single Event but a Shared Journey. youtu.be/a0hi7zuk3wY?...

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🚨Canada JUST SENT A MESSAGE…

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/09/2026

"SPAIN is leading calls for the EU to tax private jets and the profits of fossil fuel companies to bankroll a Europe-wide climate resilience fund, including extra money to fight wildfires" Excellent idea, and importantly, avoids the Norway problem where widespread fossil $$ makes us ❤️🛢️

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Spain wants private jet and fossil fuel tax to fight wildfires

Spain has called for a permanent EU climate emergency response system after a summer marred by extreme heat and wildfires.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was a fun one to write! Check it out if you want my (not-so-spicy) take on the recurring discussions about dimensionality in neural activity.

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How polarization might form in society: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... TL;Dr - it's about the number of social connections we have. Possible explanation for why social media rise coincides with increased polarization...

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Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies | PNAS

Over the past two decades, the number of close social connections increased substantially, at least by a factor of two. At the same time, societal ...

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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've been pondering this for some time...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @dlevenstein.bsky.social explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding our brains. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

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What’s the role of spontaneous neural activity during sleep?

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh. my. god. The biggest scientific publishers are collecting nearly $4 BILLION A YEAR in author fees. This is absurd. We've got to break free of this system. If everyone would just agree to it, we could just post all our new papers on bsky and it wouldn't cost anything. Or something. But not this.

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🤔 Could AI systems ever be welfare subjects? 🎥 New recording! As part of our AI Sentience Scholars program, Winnie Street and Geoff Keeling (Google Research) explore "Emerging Questions in AI Welfare" youtu.be/9PrjIULcUJs #AISentience #Neuroscience #AI #AIWelfare

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AISS Seminar - Emerging Questions in AI Welfare

In this talk we investigate whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could ever be welfare subjects, understood as entities for which things can go better or worse. Some people argue that AIs…

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Great now fund the scientific enterprise.

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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm serious, this needs to stop. Journal EICs, we need new policies or reviewers will choke to death on 30 page papers that should just be 10.

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is really bad. We need mandatory retirement (maybe with some special, but rare exceptions)

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That's what they said 20 years ago and we're still waiting... People need to retire! Not hang around forever 😞

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thread. I have yet to see a proper explanation of how LLMs actually work that is targeted to an informed general audience. So here is an explainer that I put together along with Tim @countzerozzz (inspired by @CIFAR_News LMB discussions).

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One solution would be to force retirement at the official retirement age... That would free up a lot of budget for new profs!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

With agentic AI’s rapid infiltration into science, researchers need to develop AI use policies and practices, writes @nicoschuck.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

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How, when and why to use agentic AI in our neuroscience labs

With agentic AI’s rapid infiltration into science, researchers need to develop AI use policies and practices.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

USians making it about themselves: "Half of us didn't vote for this! Be nice to us!" The world: "Half of you did vote for it. Twice. And probably will again. And your institutions and supposed opposition party do nothing to stop it. Sorry not sorry if your feelings are hurt."

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/08/2026

I wish the free speech and academic freedom fighters from the USA who are spouting off about Belgium in confused and misinformative ways, spend their energy on this instead.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is an incomplete understanding of academic freedom, and partly confuses academic freedom with freedom of speech. (🧵 adapting some things from this paper, esp. §5: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/. Highly recommend the papers by Dea and Kronfeldner that I cite there!)

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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Americans obsess about White House soap operas while their country looses all its friends and allies. The only thing that slightly moves them is rising gas prices. A country in total decline without any resistance from its people

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