Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

It's ridiculous isn't it?

I couldn't see it at first, but very cool when image adjusted

Zing

roon @tszzl the private sector has been remaking its own versions of NIH, ARPA etc as these public science institutions have seen structural decline and defunding and it will be supercharged by the funding NPV of machine intelligence and its firepower at allocation decisions

This is only true for people who understand neither science nor economics.

The NIH budget for this year is FIFTY times larger than OpenAI’s $1B pledge.

The foundation of US science & innovation is public funding. The private sector cannot replace it.
US science is being killed

New preprint with Chris Nolan and Kelly Garner in which we develop a new metric - transition entropy - that can be used to measure the extent to which behaviour in cognitive tasks is based on a routine.

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Sorry to be stupid but I need a figure legend

Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best

While many psychologists have been trained to develop multi-item multi-dimensional scales, there is a place for very brief, even single-item, measures of psychological constructs, particularly if the aim is to have one's work embraced by policymakers and other stakeholders.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨New preprint alert🚨
Does hunger affect your decisions beyond food? We tested whether being hungry affects attention & choice across food, intertemporal and social domains.
Spoiler: the effects of hunger state on attention and choice are more limited than you might think🧵👇

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic fashion, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms | Common Dreams Silicon Valley elites plan to spend big in 2026 to influence Congress for AI-friendly legislation. Leading the Future PAC pledges $100 million.

“‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms ***
The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.”
2/11/26 … 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/ai-supe...

sign with lots of angry wugs protesting cuts

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals

the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts

join us in the fight against these cuts!

This is so depressing. If it's safety they are worried about, um motor vehicles??

A Ketogenic Diet for Treatment-Resistant Depression This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of a ketogenic diet on mental health outcomes in individuals with treatment-resistant depression.

Just out today, the keto diet showed a (modest) benefit in treatment resistant depression, when compared to a pretty reasonable control! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

On all fours by Miranda July; the book of guilt by Catherine Chidgley

Marina Hyde being brilliant

Nice thread

1/8 🧵 Breaking: Groundbreaking study drops in Psychedelics!
Psilocybin's effects on social behavior & inflammation in female mice modeling anorexia nervosa? TOTALLY context-dependent on metabolism & exercise. Explains why only ~40% respond in human trials. Implications for personalized therapy!

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives.

LLM ratings converged with self-reports and predicted daily behaviour & mental health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flock of chickens (BHWT)

The race is on to re-home 120 ex-commercial laying hens in Didcot before February 8th. The British Hen Welfare Trust is appealing for would-be kind hearted chicken keepers to come forward by 4pm Friday and give the hens a chance at a free range retirement.

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

Sounds like a job for an AI friend ;)

What diet are patients with T2D more likely to choose when looking to lose weight? First author Alexis Care (University of Staffordshire + RehabCare) + team, found preferences for continuous vs intermittent low-energy diets, low-carb & simple diet approaches: doi.org/10.1111/jhn....

Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

wake up babe, new effect size metric just dropped

Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.

Lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... via @drrickadams.bsky.social

Fantastic talk! I learned so much