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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

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Always such a fantastic time being at @connectedminds.bsky.social and thrilled my students got to share our work from the past year!

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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Exciting research from Dr. Winston published in Neuroimage! Using robotic technology and neuroimaging, they mapped how brain connectivity patterns relate to specific cognitive impairments in TLE. Novel insights for understanding epilepsy as a network disorder. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exciting team spotlight! Ingenuity Labs Racing unites graduate students from diverse backgrounds on one mission: solving the challenge of autonomous racing. Part of the international Roboracer community, they're pushing the limits! Check their achievements: ingenuitylabs.queensu.ca/research/stu...

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Trump and Israel started bombing Iran while in the middle of negotiations

Trump is starving Cuba

He’s threatening to annex Canada

He removed the leader of Venezuela

He’s threatening Greenland

He’s aiding a genocide in Gaza

This is the man who took your tax dollars for his “Board of Peace”.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

I don't think this information can be trusted. They can't even place Luxembourg in the right geographical location.

Not to mention that several countries energy sources seem off. E.g. The Netherlands

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The throughline from COVID to destruction of NIH and US science today is this —Epstein-class billionaires backed the COVID disinformation effort because it decreased social trust and weakened consensus truth.

That worked very well.

A neural network for modeling human concept formation, understanding and communication - Nature Computational Science The CATS Net framework models how abstract concepts emerge from sensory experience. Aligning with human brain activity and enabling knowledge transfer, it provides a unified framework for understandin...

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NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

The government keeps doing it nonetheless.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30%+.

Canada’s new $1.7B Impact+ program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.

We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
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I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

Wtf?

This job has become the ultimate case study for why AI won’t replace human workers | CNN Business Radiology has come up multiple times as an example of a field that’s been impacted by AI without replacing the need for human workers.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/t...

Exciting research from our new postdoc member, Amin Jalali! His GEEGA method advances brain-computer interfaces through graph-based learning of EEG representations. Accepted to ICASSP 2026, validated across three datasets with significant improvements in BCI performance!
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07820

📝 New paper: Towards Multi-Brain Decoding in #Autism

🤨 How do we scale #hyperscanning when multi-brain datasets are small?

💡Our team introduces a self-supervised learning on large single-brain EEG data to improve multi-brain decoding.

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Antivaxxer trigger warning: even more evidence suggesting shingles vax is extremely effective at reducing incident dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See also www.brainpizza.com/p/beyond-mag... where i summarise other recent evidence
#vaccineswork #vaccine #dementia #neuroskyence

Hybrid neural–cognitive models reveal how memory shapes human reward learning - Nature Human Behaviour Using artificial neural networks applied to human data, Eckstein et al. show that good models of reinforcement learning require memory components that track representations of the past.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows

Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?

Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...