Professor of Neuroscience 👩🎓
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children's welfare | science | 🧠 brains & their people
Anastasia Christakou 💙
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Come & hear about @histparl.bsky.social's Oral History of Parliament on 24 June @19:00.
With clips from David Blunkett, Malcolm Rifkind, Gisela Stuart & others,the session explores who makes it to Westminster, how Parliament has changed & who challenged its ways
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Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.
Another contender for thread of the year.
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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"If we are constrained by others, then we are not free to be ourselves. But if we are altogether unconstrained then we don’t have to try."
That's why games matter - because they don't matter.
Both the book and Runciman's piece are superb.
Nobel laureate misunderstands the historicity of the concepts "lab", "technological progress", and "getting up to reasonable speed in a number of areas that aren’t your domain"...
"I’ve now written [...] and, each time, [...] with a sense of low-level anxiety. A worry that I have misunderstood something fundamental... That I don’t know what I don’t know..."
Thankfully, the rest of the piece and the book itself are both uplifting and wondrous.
‘A mix between arcane procedure and schoolboy-ish behaviour’? Westminster as told to the History of Parliament’s Oral History Project
Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months, writes @briandepasquale.bsky.social. The field risks becoming prolific but shallow—generating models faster than we can generate insights. #neuroskyence
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A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK.
But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org
