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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

what an incredible achievement and resource for retina researchers. We use it, we love it — it is a game changer for all of us who love retinal circuits. Kudos.

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Journey from Eye to Galaxy for National Space Day

ALT: Journey from Eye to Galaxy for National Space Day

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Eyewire II is a great research project from @philipp.hertie.ai's lab and international collaborators! Read @janlause.bsky.social's thread to find out more👇

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Meet Eyewire II: a new connectomic resource for the mouse retina. ~1 mm² of retina at nanometer resolution, with synapses and circuits of ca. 100,000 neurons, plus visual responses from the ~400 neurons shown in the video! Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... Data: eyewire.ai 🧠📈 🧠💻🧪 #VisionScience

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

1-2-1-2 *taps mic* Is this still working?!

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

As the world hurtles towards geopolitical crisis, my marine biologist son sends photo of an underwater leaf slug from Fiji to wish us calm.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 20/01/2026

Coming soon to all of Europe? I hope so. I've been complaining about our lack of autonomy in the domain for as long as I've been using Linux.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Want a relaxing break? Scroll this thread instead of your timeline. 🐈 (For best results, close this app once you are done and check your own surroundings for cats you don’t own — maybe you get lucky!

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The numbers in this overview were pretty surprising to me - I wonder how they look for Germany... (were we also suffer from low economic mobility etc...)

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

once again being driven insane by ML conference submissions

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Interesting work on LLM memorization: Researchers were able to extract long book passages verbatim from Claude, Gemini and Grok --- sometimes almost the whole book. Curious to see how this type of result influences Copyright cases... Also see their thread with details and limitations below ⬇️

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/01/2026

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL. So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research. That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

Altmetric Explorer screenshot: Showing 5,011,088 mentions (from 4,918,333 individual posts) of research outputs from the results of your search query.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I have been asked several times how we draw the 3D Figures for of our papers, so I wrote a blog post on it. This does not replace a Blender tutorial, just a couple specifics for scientific papers: - import images as planes - render edges - transparent BG chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 05/01/2026

lol. Before Stackoverflow I knew SelfHTML and R-Help. Stackoverflow et al. were so welcoming and well-designed by comparison (e.g., they would search existing posts based on the text you wrote). Meanwhile, all my current LLM prompts include stuff like "please please tell me when my premise is false"

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

From the 2022 drop era: “who needs wheat? Bread is so much tastier”

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John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

To include some numbers here, StackOverflow in Dec 2025 had 3862 new questions. The last time SO had this few questions was in *Aug 2008*, the first full month that SO was in operations! In its peak month (March 2014), SO had 207,493 new questions!

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Because international media largely seems to struggle to choose the correct wording to describe what’s happening: the US, under the self describes „peace president“, attacked another country and kidnapped its president. That is factual, no matter how bad or illegitimate Maduro‘s rule is (very bad).

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Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me · 02/01/2026

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Warum brauchts Journalismus von Netzpolitik.org? Nur so erfährt die Öffentlichkeit von Datenleaks und problematischen Entwicklungen in Richtung Überwachungsstaat (Palantir, Chatkontrolle..). Digitale Zukunft geht nicht ohne unabhänge Medien, die sich auskennen! Also, wer kann: Jetzt spenden!

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netzpolitik.org - Online-Medium für digitale Freiheitsrechte

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thrilled to see our review article "The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins" highlighted on the cover of Nature Reviews Neuroscience 🤩. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @msarscentre.bsky.social 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

come for the economic data comparisons, stay for the carbon emissions burn 🔥

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use... 🧠📈 🧪

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Are you unable to continue your research in the USA due to political pressure? 14 Postdoc fellowships (2 years) are available for relocating to Germany

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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The future is not in the training set.

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Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Interesting (even if loaded) visualization of German politics. Columns: voters of various parties. Rows: what OTHER party they would be ok to vote for, if not for their 1st choice? Nazis (blue here) mostly wouldn't vote if Nazi isn't on the ballot. You can't win them. Nazis are Hitler of bust +

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Jakob Macke @jakhmack.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Come work with us!!!

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🎁Your [scientific] BlueSky 2025 Wrapped is here! 🧪

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

From the Scientific Reports publisher response: "Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision [..] that [..] was a case of human error." 🥲🥲🥲

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 27/11/2025

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/11/2025

Yikes! Take a look at the “Controversy” section on the Wikipedia page for Scientific Reports. The supposedly “peer-reviewed,” open-access mega-journal from Nature Portfolio has been dogged by serious issues for years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

How can it cost >2000$ to publish in Scientific Reports (by @springernature.com ) and such a paper gets through? Check out the pub peer comments, the Fig 1 might be just the beginning.. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...

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Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/11/2025

A term I do prefer is “language model.” It makes more sense to center language than “intelligence” imo, and the term has a long history (eg 2003 below). But people won’t like applying this term to multimodal stuff, and it doesn’t draw a line at 2022 where one is perceived. PS: BERT actually 2018.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

More spoon science - this time tracking how they disappear from an office kitching! 🥄 🕳️ 🕵️‍♂️ “The loss of workplace teaspoons was rapid, showing that their availability, and hence office culture in general, is constantly threatened.”

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🥄💥🥄 “We note that the illusion makes for an excellent party trick.” (from the paper ⬇️ , which is a nice short read and has more gems like “These results speak for themselves. However, in this digital age many scientists cannot believe results without inferential statistics.”)

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 20/11/2025

How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience

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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We're almost at the end of the year, and that means an end-of-year review! Send me your favorite NeuroAI papers of the year (preprints or published, late last year is fine too).

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Very interesting set of threads below on: What is limiting Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience right now? Are we missing better models or more/the right data? Why can’t ”AI” solve it all?

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Auf dem Weg nach Wien zu den @sciencenotes.bsky.social — 5 #wisskomm Talks zum Thema VERBRECHEN ab 19.30 im FLUCC, Eintritt frei, folgt der Spur und kommt vorbei! 🕵️‍♂️ Ich spreche über Sprach-KIs in der Justiz 🤖 ⚖️🧑‍⚖️ und welche Probleme KIs bei Gericht verursachen. sciencenotes.de/veranstaltun...

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Veranstaltung auf der »Buch Wien«: Verbrechen - Science Notes

Bei der diesjährigen »Buch Wien« richtet Science Notes am 15. November einen Abend zum Thema »Verbrechen« aus – kommt vorbei!

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