Image from the NASA Artemis II mission flyby of the Moon. Image is of the dark side of the moon, with sun rays behind the moon, almost as if it is a total solar eclipse from a different perspective.
i love her
dread is in the air
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. Been working on a lot, some of it’s finally bearing fruit!
Excited for my latest review!
Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology & Behavior
#neuroskyence 🧠🧪
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I was giving a talk at WPATH one year and saw he was giving something at SEGM, so half out of curiosity and half out of self-loathing I watched a recording of one of his seminars.
Fewer things have given me more confidence than seeing him attempt to give a "scientific" talk.
Anti-trans hatred is the very lifeblood of 21st century fascism and we need everyone to wake up to this simple truth before it's too late.
So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.
Thanks Needhi!
until i get a “real headshot” random lab selfie will have to do
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted on here. Been working on a lot, some of it’s finally bearing fruit!
Excited for my latest review!
Sex Hormone Control of Neurophysiology & Behavior
#neuroskyence 🧠🧪
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Jeffrey Epstein justified his evil actions with "science"
Evolutionary biologists whispering in his ear about how men and women are fundamentally different, and it's "natural" to desire younger women
Our field has a duty to explain why this is wrong both scientifically and ethically
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Candid photo of Zara Weinberg. She has short red hair, bangs and glasses. She is laughing.
The Leading Edge Fellows gathered this week to celebrate Zara Weinberg, a beloved member of our community. Our 7th cohort of Leading Edge Fellows (2026) will be named in her honor.
The Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Cohort application is now open! Due Feb 2.
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/apply/
we can make a better world.
Zara was an inspiration.
Rest now, @weinberz.witchlab.org
We carry on your legacy, a love for biology, SERMs, public transit, academic publishing anarchy… You gifted us with power to speak and be our truth, to be unapologetic in realizing our visions of a better future.
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.
Zara Weinberg was a brilliant, loving, and beautiful woman. She inspired everyone who she interacted with, and always strived to make the world a better place for everyone. Tho the world is a little less bright today without her, her memory will always be a blessing.
She was truly one of the best.
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed.
She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
I cannot overstate how much my experience of my experimental results is my internal scientist going "WOAH" and my internal transsexual going "DUH."
the insanity of simultaneous
hope and hopelessness
too much and not enough
There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.
Beautiful and inspiring work showing how hormones and social context come together! Big behavior and neuroimaging data! I’m in awe 🤩
Very excited and proud to share my postdoctoral research with @neurrriot.bsky.social looking at the context-specific encoding of social behavior 💃🕺 in hormone-sensitive, large-scale brain networks in mice!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky 🧪
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"lmao"
~ Darwin. Probably.
call me shallow but this is why i never can bring myself to side with Reed, other than to play through that ending at least once 🤣
what have you built? i’m on my second play through of both and i can’t bring myself to do anything other than insisting on bringing swords and knives to every fight in a technofascist dystopia 🫨
is this your first PL playthrough?
Everybody's transgender, especially the nuclei from my transgender brain cells in my transgender mice. Everybody's transgender.
A good explainer on the EO. @kgandersen.bsky.social takes apart the key points.
His main point is exactly right. And we’ll add: politicizing science grants like this will — flatly — kill American science. Science, like business, is choked off by corruption.
