Indeterminism means pervasive indefiniteness, not determinism-plus-randomness. Henry Potter, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & George Ellis explain why this is so and what it implies for the free will debate in their new paper in my Topical Collection, see link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FreeWill
Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:
we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals
Well this is utterly depressing
How can we hope to understand organismal development when it is controlled by huge, complex networks of interacting genes?
One option is to move away from molecular details and focus on learning representations and rules.
Check out the new perspective from me and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
Trump’s top men afraid to step out of line wearing his favourite dress shoes George Grylls - Washington President Trump and members of his top team were wearing Florsheims at Davos in January. Next image › Pairing an oversized power suit with a long red tie, President Trump is famous for exporting the look of a 1980s Wall Street trader to the White House. Often he wears a baseball cap too. Now, facing murmurings of discontent in the Maga movement over his appetite for foreign wars, the spiralling cost of oil and a potentially damaging set of midterms later this year, Trump has cobbled together a sartorial solution to encourage Republican unity: a $145 pair of dress shoes. The president is giving pairs from his favourite brand to members of his administration, according to The Wall Street Journal. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, JD Vance, the vice-president and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, have all received a pair of Florsheim shoes in recent months. Others presented with the brand’s classic lace-ups include the Fox News host Sean Hannity, the senator Lindsey Graham and the Maga celebrity Tucker Carlson. Trump likes to open cabinet meetings with a check-up on how people are enjoying the “incredible” footwear. “Did you get the shoes?” he asks.
closeup of Marco Rubio's shoes which are clearly one or two sizes too big, with a gap at his heel
These men will all tell you they are alphas but they can't even pick their own shoes [Times]
this is the argument I'd like to see from anyone and everyone who wants to lead us out of this wasteland
"Trinity Neuroscientist Show That Babies Might Be Smarter Than They Seem" - TCIN research featured in the University Times this week. Please see link below:
https://ow.ly/nUQn50YrGU3
Rhodri Cusack TrinityNeuroscience #Neuroscience #Psychology #TCD
"In the past 24 hours at least 7 Palestinians have been killed.. a journalist has been killed, three children were also killed, this makes the death toll since the beginning of the ceasefire 648..."
Hind Khoudary reporting from Gaza a few minutes ago
Linda Hamilton and Bryan Cranston in the bluest outfits and most 80's hair from the episode "Menace, Anyone?"
Folks...this picture of Linda Hamilton and Bryan Cranston from an episode of MURDER SHE WROTE. I didn't think it was possible for two people to look this 1986.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inhibitory neurons are among the most transcriptomically diverse class of neurons in the CNS, with some brain regions having 60+ distinct cell types. Do humans share the same repertoire as rodents? Birds? Fish? 1/13
🤦♂️ #GenAI #Academia
Conservation was remarkably high — most if not all AC types appear universal across mammals. Strikingly, ACs are more conserved than retinal ganglion cells, despite being more diverse. 8/13
Jacket design for new book The Man Who Broke Reality (US edition).
OK, I have a US jacket design now. I think it looks rather handsome.
The book is published in the autumn, in both the UK (Little Brown) and US (University of Chicago Press).
A controlled hallucination is what in philosophy we used to call a perceptual representation, no? We just had poor brand advice.
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
‘Right, I need an example of clunky writing…ahh, Blood Meridian, perfect.’
Inhibitory neurons do the computational heavy lifting of neural circuits. As most neuroscience relies on animal models, knowing whether our neural building blocks are conserved will help us study their origin, function, and role in disease. 2/13
Did a quick skim, and this paper is GORGEOUS! Very excited to do a deep read.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Just getting around to reading this. It’s excellent and for me, timely.
Finally ! My book on metaphysics/biology soon out
And open access #philsci #kant #histbio #organism
www.routledge.com/When-Metaphy...
The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
New acquisition
An excellent episode of Factually with @adamconover.net that does an excellent job explaining the war in Iran.
#Iran #Factually #AdamConover #RezaAsian
youtu.be/ZMwNzTRqzjM?...
(3/11) These rare variant effects on sulcal complexity reveal a unique neurodevelopmental signal not linked to area/thickness but instead converging on a spatial axis linked to the timing of prenatal sulcation. Rare variants seem to contract/expand how differentiated linear vs complex sulci present
🚨🚨New work just out by the truly stellar Will Snyder - revealing rare and common genetic influences on complexity of human cortical folding !! 🚨🚨
👀 Will’s thread ⬇️ for deets, and to follow on @willsnyder.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Will & thnx to fabulous collaborators who made this possible.
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
a tan long-haired dachshund with incredibly floofy ears sits with his front paws on a window sill and his nose pressed up against the window. he's accompanied by his stuffed squirrel friend. their reflections stares back at them. Stevie the dachshund does not see the irony in watching for squirrels with his squirrel friend. he's too busy being locked in on the happenings outside his window.
This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
