Here is a long story in the Columbia Spectator on Richard Axel's involvement with Epstein
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/03...
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Here is a long story in the Columbia Spectator on Richard Axel's involvement with Epstein
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/03...
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Americans, prepare for another sacrifice
“Why Silicon Valley Supports Armageddon in the Middle East” * “When US military commanders are telling troops that strikes on Iran fulfil biblical prophecy, this is an expression of an apocalyptic network connecting the Pentagon, Silicon Valley & the Kremlin” By @peterjukes.bsky.social, 3/3/26 … 1/
Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Brent crude tops $90 after gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries
"Qatar’s energy minister warned that war in the Middle East could 'bring down the economies of the world,' predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150 a barrel."
Gift link www.ft.com/content/be12...
A question that all researchers should care about regardless of their stance on the reality of neural representations:
What should or should not count as evidence for the proposition that neural states or structures are playing a representational role?
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
New preprint 🚨🧠🔬
@sophiepeterson.bsky.social + @margole.bsky.social dissect the roles of 2 major OFC subcortical pathways in context-dependent reward prediction.
TLDR:
OFC→CDS: critical for hierarchical gating of predictions.
OFC→MDT: more modest role, possibly limiting non-hierarchical predictions
I Spoke to Families in Gaza’s Largest Tent Camp. Here’s What They Told Me.
Sur Epstein, au-delà du tour d'honneur de la complosphère et du paternalisme des fact-checkers, mon autre lecture : la généralisation du roleplay dans un milieu d'élites mégalo, où le capital social et la projection d'influence importent autant que les moyens financiers.
(Accès libre ❤️)
To what extent is this true?
Killing women and children probably to gain territory. theconversation.com/a-2-850-year...
The Sphex story: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating a questionable anecdote
The anecdote concerns a female digger wasp which, at first glance, seems to act intelligently, but which turns out to be an automaton that can be made to repeat herself endlessly
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Pentagon is building National Guard “quick reaction forces” for U.S. cities — troops “trained for civil unrest and rapid deployment.”
The timeline most people missed:
They’re expected to be operational by April 2026. A few weeks from now.
More info: I will be co-teaching the neuroscience group with Lisa Roux, an expert in olfaction & memory research.
Theme: "Sense, memory and meaning: How do organisms' nervous systems represent and learn from multi-modal sensory experiences?"
Reminder: Deadline for applications is March 15th.
In just six days we’ve gone from “Iranians take over your country” to “we’re open to talking with the new leadership of the regime” to “I want to pick the new leader” to now “unconditional surrender”.
A “concept of a plan”, indeed.
www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...
We have been persistently assured that the growth of the super rich would make things better for everyone. How’s that working so far?
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Excellent stuff, as always.
A very interesting job opportunity for an ECR philosopher working at the intersection of human origins and the ethics of science.
Tübingen is a beautiful city with great people in this field (Claudio Tennie and Marlen Frölich, for example).
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Alt take: Congress has been unable to stop Presidents from going to war since 1945.
A sickening society is clear in these statistics
So why is it not in the news?
Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
SecDef: "War is hell."
Which is why the U.S. Constitution requires congressional authorization.
There has been no congressional authorization for this war.
The U.S. military is waging an illegal, unconstitutional war.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Videos like this are utterly cathartic.
I want EVERY Dem to throw away decorum and politeness and start YELLING the truth, like Rep. McGovern.
US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
But they are saving the world, so everything's fine
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
This is not my image, nor was it my camera. My hats off to whoever took this beautiful picture. It shows that life will allow more than one species to benefit from one thing at once. Even Bees and Hummingbirds can share water or nectar.
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
It's a peculiar thing. The BBC repeatedly gets into a mess, but meanwhile, Ros Atkins again and again does the kind of job that no one else does and which represents the best values of the Corporation - simply by laying out the facts clearly and calmly.
In a recent @financialtimes.com article, @valinasr.bsky.social’s Iran’s Grand Strategy is cited as part of the wider discussion around Iran's political history and ongoing tensions. Readers who’d like to learn more can explore Nasr’s research and the full list of titles here:
Killing people of Muslim faith or culture by millions
Over the past thirty years, more than four million people of Muslim faith or culture have been killed in the Middle East by people of Christian, Jewish or Muslim faith or culture, not counting the many wounded and displaced.
