Ian Aitchison

Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation | RathBiotaClan Scientists ran a real fruit fly brain in simulation using the FlyWire connectome, achieving the first working whole brain emulation.

Wow. Total brain 🧠 simulation, 127,000 neurons, and… the fruit fly lives, virtually. Mind boggling. www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-...

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

Ok this is brilliant

youtu.be/niMKvJ-Itq8?...

Claude gets it

Time for my fourth cuppa

100%.
If you are a PM living in Jira … you possibly are not be being a PM at all.

A: how do I set the washing machine? B: what are you washing? A: a t-shirt. B: what does it say on the t-shirt? A: Depeche mode

that mode isn't even on the setting dial

Nigella joins GBBO.
Suella joins Reform.

One move - making something good even better.

The other - the inverse.

I’m going to go and gleefully heat up the oven and whip up some cream.

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

A lot of people think UX design is about features. It's not. The best UX comes from finding the gaps between the features, and then filling those gaps with delicious sticky marmalade so that your users can't escape

A typical office stapler on a desk. With a sticker on it that says ‘for rectal use only’. Yikes.

This, today on the counter at local tyre repair place.

“Even the vegetables hated him”.

What a line.
Name that movie?

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

Bracket for the semifinals

🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I had this a few weeks back. Suddenly my discover feed full of over-buff muscle-flexing gym enthusiasts. After blocking a few of the more… uh… enthusiastic advocates, they all stopped appearing. Something weird deep in the machine.

we have to go back. to warn them.

Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"

www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

Yeah, this should
make us all nervous. More like this will follow I’m sure. www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

#VibeHacking :-(

JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD YouTube video by JAGGL113

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

This is an incredible bit of reporting.

Statistical, humiliating (for "X" and of course the news orgs who still treat the platform like the innocent "Where News Happens!" that it used to be).

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This guy dropped the coldest truth about distraction

I love this. Imagine a distant future, after civilisation passes, when aliens find earth and discover one remaining satellite. They connect and discover a virtual world! Could it be humanity, their old world, saved, in silicon?

They enter and meet … Doom!

Yup. That was the humans.

Being decisive and detail-oriented keeps teams safe.
Until it starts making people hesitate to share ideas with you.

It’s not that you’re “too much.”
It’s that your sharpness shows up before your curiosity does.

If you want more influence, lead with openness before accuracy.

Time Wave Lament

Oh look. I recently did a music thing and it slid onto Spotify just last night. open.spotify.com/album/5G9BdE...

Full of synthy swooshing sounds.

#music #musicsky

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Scatterplot showing a correlation between rates of chocolate consumption and rates of Nobel Laureates

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Such a wonderful triumph for medical science www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Funny, but also there’s something … unsettling about this.

I hope they don’t remember us laughing at them when they get better at standing up. And hitting things.

“…. could provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees”. Hooray! Fingers crossed.