RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is ādangerous and defectiveā.
A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24.
Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational,
that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical
cancer deaths. This is sh...
Everyone should read this, just to see how they implemented a perceptron (a very basic neural network) in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514
The artificial neurons pass activation energy in the form of goats.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
I swear, there are far too many evil neuroscientists in free will and responsibility debates.
How do human minds make sense of big, messy problems? šµāš«š
How do we distill complexity into something simple enough to solve? š¤š”
Weāll be tackling these questions (and more!) at two workshops on task representations, abstractions, and construals #CogSci2026 #CCN2026 š§µ
framing-the-problem.github.io
A fundamental study of individual variation and contribution of learning to behavioural individuality. Conclusions are supported by compelling, rigorous analysis across a number of experiments in thousands of individuals across genotypes and conditions.
Mark Riedl
But wait there's more!
Great essay by @philipcball.bsky.social looking at the messy, complex *deeply physical* nature of the genome and the processes of gene regulation... 1/n
A workshop series on representation construction in cognitive science and AI. CogSci 2026 (Rio) and CCN 2026 (NYU).
Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLM-powered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthro...
āThe writerās role is to be a menacer of the publicās conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.ā - Rod Serling
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
