Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyRomain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Letting kids play with the red button is dangerous. But it's not because kids are so much smarter than adults. The point is not to prevent AI to get "too smart", but to have strict barriers in place. An LLM did not figure out how to send requests over internet: an engineer implemented the feature. 1102
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyRichard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026at least when the universities fold and I'm unemployed, the government will have made sure there's a pub open near me 1245
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 17/08/2026Live tomorrow: ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot's first spacewalk to replace a crucial piece of equipment on the ISS. Watch from 12:00 BST / 13:00 CEST on ESA WebTV and YouTube. 🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_Sophie_Adenot_s_spacewalk_live @exploration.esa.int 🧪🔭 323836
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I mean, what exactly did they expect after making universities financially depend on international students, and at the same time making international students feel increasingly unwelcome in the country?theguardian.comUK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international studentsHigher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’ 48018
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 12/08/2026🤔What is a total solar eclipse? 🔜A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth. The Moon blocks light from the Sun and casts a shadow on Earth. Find out more www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #EuropeanSolarEclipse 523965
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.nsaphra.netLife on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi SaphraWe were wrong about the Uncanny Valley. 1026362
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026do not anthropomorphize software, episode 7,000karlbode.comAI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting TiredThe "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures. 14404131
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyHarmonious Bosch @ljon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Dystopian Future Enjoyers' Association Warns Against Any Future Dystopia Not Controlled By Them. 03915
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyKatja Reinhard @katjareinhard.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We still have 1 PhD position in Neurobiology at SISSA! deadline is August 18th. www.sissa.it/bandi/ammiss... please read the quoted post for further info. #neurojobssissa.itAmmissione ai corsi di PhD della SISSA per l'Anno Accademico 2026/27 - Admission to SISSA PhD courses for the Academic Year 2026/27Extra EU candidates are welcome to applyCheck the Information Sheets below for additional information on the examsCLICK HERE FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONSMATHEMATICS AREAGeometry and Mathematical PhysicsInf... 014
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyShahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 27/05/2026🚀 PhD position in #NeuroAI & neurodevelopment 🚀 Co-supervised by Sarah Lippé and myself, to investigate visual processing & cognition abnormalities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a neuroAI framework. Full project details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/kbuyntpn 🧠🤖 📈 12918
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 22/04/2026We're hiring for a project on #SpikingNeuralNetworks and #neuromorphic computing, to start in October this year, for 36 months. Can hire at pre- or post-PhD level. Email me informally, or apply at the link below. Share with your networks / anyone who would be interested. 🤖🧠🧪 01513
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyIris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 20/04/2026They will be *scandalised* to find that the frequentist foundation of statistics is openly debated and that Objective Bayesianism as a statistical epistemology is actually quite popular 2423
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskySepiedeh Keshavarzi @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026When universities and research institutions become military targets, academics cannot remain silent. I co-initiated an open letter calling for global academic solidarity and support for affected students and scholars. Please share. to read and sign: sites.google.com/view/protect... 03317
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyJascha Achterberg @achterbrain.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Going to Cosyne? There will be a "Biologically-inspired Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop on Monday 16th! 🧠 Exciting lineup of speakers alongside the opportunity to present your #NeuroAI poster, more info on program & poster signup below! #compneuro #neuroscience 2478
Nicolas Skatchkovsky @nskat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026We're organising a #Cosyne workshop on biologically-inspired AI on Monday 16th with @achterbrain.bsky.social! 🧠 We've got an incredibly exciting array of speakers, and you have the possibility to sign up to present your poster on #NeuroAI! More info below ⬇️ #compneuro #neuroscience #neuroskyence 1125
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskySeán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share! 3x Job Details below: (fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs 22316
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Saving a lot of time these days using AI to do the crossword for me - it's brilliant! 😀 6506
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyThe Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 18/02/2026Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 17 March 2026. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...crick.ac.ukPhD student recruitmentPhD recruitment information. 01810
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyNPA L'Anticapitaliste @npa-antica.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Une minute de silence pour un militant fasciste, mais des années de silence pour les victimes de crimes racistes… 7309104
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyAndrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Excited to launch Principia, a nonprofit research organisation at the intersection of deep learning theory and AI safety. Our goal is to develop theory for modern machine learning systems that can help us understand complex network behaviors, including those critical for AI safety and alignment. 1 19428
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory 12642191854
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyDenis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Déroulez : Macron tolère parfaitement l’antisemitisme quand il est de droite. 2328133
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyDan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 11/02/2026PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇. Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27). 🤖🧠🧪 www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...imperial.ac.ukPhD opportunitiesThe School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup... 22222
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2026In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comTrans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It UpA Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone. 5033161703
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMarine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 10/02/2026Quand Anne Le Strat a été recrutée par l’OFB à l’issue d’un processus rigoureux et normal, Sébastien Lecornu a demandé une enquête pour complaire à la droite et à l’extrême droite. (1/5) 711665
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyCurrent Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This is who runs this account 424137
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyJoao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 27/01/2026Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏 37456
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.nature.comI’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, tooIf we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett. 511432
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 12/01/2026We used to do real science 401926578
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMiami DSA @miamidsa.org · 24/09/2025RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971). 1350651526
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs, writes @marcusghosh.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...thetransmitter.orgNot playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy modelsAmid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs. 46126
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneurolindsay-lab.github.ioLindsay Lab - Postdoc PositionArtificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change 212791
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2025I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place. 1149773
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion. 33753812428
Reposted by Nicolas Skatchkovskycornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 16/12/2025can you imagine having even a fraction of the money pumped into ai bullshit but instead you get to R&D something actually fucking useful and which doesn't exist exclusively to extract wealth from creatives and those who enjoy creative works. 7338102
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyJohannes Herrmann (Phylloscopus) @taigasangare.eurosky.social · 13/12/2025Je reprends, et ensuite n'y reviendrai pas. Une pub mignonne où un loup devient végétarien se met à tourner, et ça y est, "les écolos devraient s'en inspirer au lieu du punitivisme, car ça marche". Xième épisode "le problème c'est que vous êtes des casse couille peine à jouir contre productifs". 1/ 34711
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyThe Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 10/12/2025@petrznam.bsky.social is working to understand how the three-dimensional world is encoded in the brain, in a new project supported by a Consolidator Grant from the @erc.europa.eu www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-12...crick.ac.ukExploring how the 3D world is encoded in the brainIn a new five-year project supported by the European Research Council, researchers are working to understand the brain’s built-in capacity to perceive the world in 3D. 0191
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyJohannes Herrmann (Phylloscopus) @taigasangare.eurosky.social · 01/12/2025Que j'aime (non) ces braves gens se déclarant de gauche de vraie qui ce matin ont tous sorti le canot et les rames pour venir faire la morale sur l'air "désolé l'oeuf de Bardella c'est une violence in-to-lé-rable vous ne pouvez pas cautionner débat d'idées." Déjà, les mecs, un oeuf. Ensuite 1/ 9486253
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 18/11/2025By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together. 35929261
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/11/2025So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes? 651475483
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyAndreas Schaefer @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Join us at Crick - amazing team and great colleagues to collaborate on exciting design and development projects 021
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... 18098
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyPhineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025New awareness campaign 1302540811306
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMarcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Interested in #neuroscience + #AI and looking for a PhD position? I can support your application @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ✅ Check your eligibility (below) ✅ Contact me (DM or email) UK nationals: www.imperial.ac.uk/life-science... Otherwise: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a... 1198
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyAlessandro Galloni @argalloni.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Really enjoyed reading this short opinion piece by Tim O'Leary. I think it echoes the classic Feynman quote "what I cannot create I do not understand". I think engineering approaches such as neuromorphic computing will prove fundamental to scientific understanding of how biological brains work 081
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyMarcelo Moglie @mjmoglie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Proud to have contributed to @gaiabianchini.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social new paper on how the superior colliculus temporally integrates multisensory informationnature.comFunctional specialisation of multisensory temporal integration in the mouse superior colliculus - Nature CommunicationsWhether and how anatomically distinct regions of the superior colliculus (SC) exhibit specialisation in multisensory temporal integration to facilitate different behavioural responses are not fully un... 05323
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/10/2025> Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dot. com crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp... 13816
Reposted by Nicolas SkatchkovskyThe Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 22/10/2025Researchers at the Crick found that virgin female mice can become aggressive towards pups when hungry, but only in certain hormonal states. It highlights the importance of understanding hormones when observing how different physical states interact in the brain. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-10...crick.ac.ukHunger influences the behaviour of female mice towards pupsResearchers find that virgin female mice can become aggressive towards pups when hungry, but only in certain hormonal states. 1115