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Happy Black History Month ✊🏾

This month, as we do every month, we celebrate Black history and all the many accomplishments our people have made inside and outside of science.

We are all Black history yall. We love our community and wish you all joy and peace 🖤

Look at Musk's salute in context and you can see the future of the US These people must not be normalised

Elon Musk did a Nazi salute because he's on the side of the Nazis. It's no more or less complex than that. When people show you who they are, believe them inews.co.uk/opinion/look...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

Watching from the outside, it's awful what's happening in the US right now, and seemingly how so many people are applauding it.

It seems there is a fatigue amongst non MAGA circles, but now is the most important time to mobilise together & voice distain at what Trump is doing.

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Know of any colleagues/pals not yet in an #fNIRS starter pack who should be? 🧠 💡

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I am very sorry to hear about this. Was this due to the President's slashing of anything 'DEI'?

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Elon Musk is starting to risk getting Jess Phillips killed. She's been safeguarding minister for six months. She oversaw nothing relating to the rape gangs. As an opposition MP she was one of the most prominent campaigners for the victims.

What he's doing is a travesty.

Funny how all the men outraged about grooming gangs are silent about Dominique Pelicot, Conor McGregor, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew or Johnny Depp. Almost as if they’re just co-opting the rape and abuse of women to be racist isn’t it?

Yeah, it’s exactly that.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

Right-wing attacks singling out Sadiq Kahn - who is obviously & demonstrably an exceptionally popular mayor as far as Londoners are concerned - are so blatantly Islamophobic & racist that we don't even say it anymore.

But we should say it. It isn't normal.

A collage of figures from the 350 papers published in Imaging Neuroscience in 2024.

2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published.

We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal.

Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.

The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

We need to start recognising online radicalisation as a mental illness.

Image showing new features to download data from charts on Our World in Data.

We recently made it even easier to reuse the data we provide, with two new features — upgraded data downloads & an API.

We’ve heard how helpful these are from many users — e.g., data scientists & researchers have told us how the API makes their workflows more efficient and reproducible.

Gisèle Pelicot - a hero

Dominique Pelicot is jailed for 20 years after drugging his ex-wife Gisèle and recruiting strangers to rape her for years

Gisèle has waived her right to anonymity, saying she wanted to make "shame swap sides" from the victim to the rapist [BBC News]

Let’s stop being coy about how Italy has reduced migrant arrivals.

Starmer is cosying up to Meloni to learn her secrets - what’s the problem?

I went on a rant on BBC5Live about it this week.
ENOUGH head scratching.
It’s torture
Slavery
Dumping people in the desert to die

Lots of strain on the Schengen area of late. But today EU ministers approved the extension of the passport free movement area to Romania and Bulgaria.

Will take effect from 1st January. The zone will then encompass 29 countries.

Just published🔈

"Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity"

Read: rdcu.be/d3dC4

We review how structural connectivity constrains directed connectivity models 🧠

Lead by @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social w/ @novelli-leo.bsky.social, @sinamansourl.bsky.social and Andrew Zalesky

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

What a year it was! #spotifywrapped

Sage words 👏👏👏

📢 Stop sharing your wrapped.

Brexit has hit UK music hard – red tape, spiralling costs, and lost opportunities are silencing our musicians.

Let’s remind every music fan why Brexit is bad for UK music. Share our UK Music Industry Unwrapped today. 📢👇

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk_music_ind...

South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.

Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

South Korean president declares emergency martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state activities South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law," accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.

This is really, really bad.

The current South Korean president rode a wave of misogynistic discontent to office. He was a fellow traveler of Trump's politics and now he may be dictator of South Korea. apnews.com/article/sout...