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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

REP. @aoc.bsky.social: "This is the drinking water in Morgan County, Georgia. This is what it looks like next to that Meta data center.” (As Fisk University welcomes a data center to their Nashville campus as part of their billion-dollar renovation with an unclear funding source)

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Diffusion MR Microscopy of the Human Hippocampus at 50 μm Resolution at 14.1 T for 3D Virtual Histology | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A recent paper argued that there is no visual binding problem. I disagree, and wrote a response... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Related demonstrations can be found here... staff.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqdarnol/JS...

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...

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Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response

Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rarely appreciated fact: A typical EV has about 5 to 8l petrol equivalent in their battery. 1l of petrol has a massive 9kWh. EV batteries are between 40 and 70 kWh, some larger. 70kWh equals about 8l of petrol. EVs drive about 400kms with that. Our Hyundai Inster: 49kW doing about 340 to 380km.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Truth is, it was rather obvious about 5 years ago, and car manufacturers DID react. The biggest issue they had/have was/is predicting how fast or slow it will happen. But the hard facts are EV is a superior technique in most situations. Not all situations currently though.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love R2* images. Here's our newest. This is from a Philips Ingenia CX 3T. Oh, and a lot of clever image processing.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

He never deleted it.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

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EBRAINS @ebrains.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

EBRAINS has released the Roadmap 2026–2036 community contributions ahead of the Strategy Symposium taking place in Munich on 21-22 May 2026. Read more: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group @ohbmossig.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Remember when 70 teams analyzed the same fMRI dataset and got 70 different answers? Yeah, us too. That's why we're launching the 2026-2027 OHBM OSSIG Reproducibility Challenge: ohbm.github.io/reprochallen... (More info below 👇)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026

Yesterday Google made it very clear it will degrade Search to use the massive amount of traffic to goes through it to push its billions of users into generative AI tools they aren’t asking for. Search is no longer a portal to the web; it’s a portal to Gemini. disconnect.blog/google-is-it...

Google made its ambitions quite obvious in its I/O announcements in 2023. On Tuesday, it laid out the next stage of its plan. The company made it clear there will be no escape from its generative AI products as AI hype continues to grip Silicon Valley, despite public sentiment very clearly turning against it and the data centers needed to power it. Search is the center of Google’s business and its power, and the company is taking a serious risk with the part of its business that drives more than half of its revenue.

While there will still be a box on google.com, it will no longer be a directory to the web. Now it will be the portal to Google’s suite of services, but especially its various generative AI tools it wants to force its users to become reliant on. In part that’s to try to win the AI war against its competitors, but it’s hard not to imagine it’s also a play to build user dependency on generative AI before it has to further jack up its prices.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 07/05/2026

Oh I'm so happy my university has chosen this exact moment to switch all our teaching to Canvas.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is a feel good image for me. These two adorable young Australian superb fairywren staying close to each other.

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 04/05/2026

Swans have one off the coolest landing technique ever.. 😊

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Harald Lesch bringt es auf den Punkt: Viele sind “geschockt, dass wir demonstrieren müssen für den gesunden Menschenverstand, für erneuerbare Energien.” Aber angesichts von Reiches fossiler Lobbypolitik müssen wir das tun - und das werden wir morgen bundesweit. Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen!

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Heating oil prices are sky-rocketing around the world. The Nordics have understood the risks of using fossil fuels for heating early on and transitioned away from heating oil almost entirely whilst phasing in heat pumps.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I sooo love the song Global Warming by #Gojira.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Australia uses about 30 billion litres of diesel per year. About 35% of that, a little over 10 billion litres, is for mining. About half of that is for coal mining. So if Australia is worried about running out of diesel, I have a suggestion where to stop.

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Cleanthinking.de - Sauber in die Zukunft @cleanthinking.wsocial.eu · 24/03/2026

Energieschock durch Iran-Krieg beschleunigt Energiewende in Asien -> Chinas Electrotech-Giganten gewinnen 70 Mrd. Dollar an Börsenwert, während Ölkonzerne zurückfallen Analyst stellt klar: "Es gibt kein Zurück mehr" - und meint damit, ein "Zurück" zu fossilen Energieträgern.

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Energieschock beschleunigt Energiewende in Asien

Der Energieschock durch den Iran-Krieg könnte sich als mächtigster Beschleuniger der Energietransformation in Asien erweisen. Während die Schließung der

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Serious question, why is sensitization in aplysia called learning? From what I understand, if one shocks the tail of the slug it becomes agitated, it releases serotonin onto the synapse between gill sensory neuron and motor neuron. It will then react stronger. Plasticity, yes, but where learning?

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Occasionally the internet still delivers

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I have to admit, it took me second to understand. (3 probably...).

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hehe, in reaction to Pete Hegseth's advertising for Anthropic, and being frustrated with OpenAI getting dumber by the minute, I gave #Claude a try. Not for coding, but for other stuff. It's actually good. It seemed much more deep thinking than Gemeni or OpenAI, less dumping same old text stuff.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

WTF? A collaborator submitted a manuscript to a Wiley Journal. When liking my ORCID account, the first thing #Wiley asked me, is what gender I identify, what ethics I belong to and so on. WTF. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

With the disruption in oil trade and supply, maybe it would be time to think harder about using less oil? This would make us more independent, right? Just a random thought.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Snapple fact of the day: The entire mouse cortex has approximately 13.7 M neurons (Herculano-Houzel et al., 2013), human cortical area V1 has approximately 400 to 900 million neurons *.

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

God forbid they would use this moment to reflect and acknowledge the mind boggling stupidity. This is just one of many examples how idiocy hurts productivity and ruins the economy. If only the political alternatives were not unfathomably evil. I don’t want Australia to go to shit like …

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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I can only encourage the rest of the world to do the same.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 16/01/2026

This clip is great. The fact that this view isn't the default amongst scientists is so depressing.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone. How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!

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Mark Schira @mschira.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It is not a dream at all. I have a zero bill home. Actually, I have a negative bill home.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 30/12/2025

"What we didn’t seem to learn much about was the brain. It is unclear in what sense the foundation model ... tells us anything about how the visual system of rodents works. Instead, one suspects that in creating a “foundation model” they’ve just rediscovered reservoir computing" Indeed 🤔

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Here's @jsresearchpro.bsky.social reporting on the proposed ARC job losses & restructure. Super-concerning to read the "Staff dissatisfaction" stuff here. It serves noone to have staff so unhappy. Sackings & restructuring when "burnout" is so common is 🤯 [Paywalled but see excerpts in reply post]