iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: I need to keep this computational environment stable for reproducibility purposes, so I'm just going to switch off automatic system updates for now IT Services:

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 14h

This is horrific. Govt funding for psychology, linguistics, archaeology and many other fields just... gone. Zero. Nada. Cancelled. YIKES.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tory party not really disproving the "they're still mad as pants" allegations then.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

👇 I mean, to be fair, it's a line from a 40 year old movie which is referencing an even older beer ad and she doesn't even drink... So... Yeah. Don't know what I was thinking.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So, yesterday I dropped a quote from Ghostbusters (1984) into a message to a Gen-Z colleague, which was met with total incomprehension (obviously, what was I thinking?), but then followed with: "Sorry, I don't watch old movies." Oof. The casual brutality.

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Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI @elh-institute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We’re looking for a PhD researcher in high-resolution laminar fMRI! 🔬 Laminar fMRI of Hippocampus 🌍 International, interdisciplinary team 📍 Essen, Germany | 4-year PhD position | 75% part-time ℹ️ Subject to the approval of the funder 👉 Apply by 30 September 2026: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

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Penguin's Job Application

Alt: Penguin repeatedly hits a sign labelled “Job Application”.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No hell deep enough for this.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever

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Rosalind McAlpine @rosmcalpine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're now recruiting UCL MRes/MSc students (eg Cog Neuro / Brain Sciences) for the 2026/27 academic year to join several research projects involving psilocybin and nitrous oxide. If you're a student on one of these programmes and would like to find out more, email ucjurgm@ucl.ac.uk or dm here 😊

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is true! I received a very apologetic email from a student once saying they couldn't afford the fee to download my paper. 💔 I was absolutely delighted to send her a free copy!

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Loads of great suggestions but can't see anyone mention McCartney? Obviously a general musical genius but his bass-playing is sublime.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Next AFNI Bootcamp: Oct 20-22, 2026! Classes cover: FMRI visualization, full subject-level processing, alignment, regression modeling, and quality control. Registration is free & open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. Registration+details: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp Please share widely.

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AFNI Bootcamp: October 20th - 22nd, 2026 | afni.nimh.nih.gov

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 23/09/2026

after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.

The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.

The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great. Now do school uniforms. Ridiculous we make kids dress up as little executives when no-one even wears these things anymore. Ties are just a big arrow pointing at your dick.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Better make the most of October folks… (Published in Science in 1960: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do try to resist the urge to be all old-man-shaking-fist-at-cloud but I just had to send something registered post (passport docs for my kid) and it cost NINE POUNDS FUCKING NINETY-FIVE PENCE. Jesus.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Congratulations Harry! Awesome!

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tor @torwager.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

neuromarkers.io : Browse, view, and download fMRI neuromarkers, population-level predictive brain models that can be applied to new studies and populations

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Neuromarkers · CANlab

Population-level brain patterns for new studies. Browse, explore, and download published neuromarkers.

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Konstantinos Tsetsos @ktsetsos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Cunningham & O’Connell Laboratories at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience are recruiting a 3-year postdoc for the MAP-IT project! 🧠 Using OPM-MEG to improve localisation of epileptogenic tissue in glioma-associated epilepsy. Ideal start: Q1 2027.

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 13/09/2026

The Rolling Stones formed in 1962 and are still releasing records in 2026. That’s like if a band that formed in 1898 was still releasing records in 1962.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Counterpoint: Two billionaires have just flushed £72m down the drain on a wildly unpopular twat who doesn't stand a chance of actually forming a government.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky

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Jobs - The University of York

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

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝘀? It seems like a boring visualization change but quite important! fMRI maps have been thresholded for 3+ decades so as to emphasize peaks of activation. This paper argues for a different approach. rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Opposing fascism, supporting the RNLI, upholding the rule of law. Not difficult.

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fuckin’ everything feels like that these days. 😣

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What could possibly go wrong?

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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