Vincent Giampietro
@vincentgiampietro.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at @kingsioppn.bsky.social & @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. French chatterbox and musicbox floating in a most peculiar way in Sarf London since the late 20th century...
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After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 AM
After taking 7 years to write and draw, my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication is out in less than a week! At long last! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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A safe and nurturing environment is key to promoting youth mental health. On this #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we recommit to finding out what promotes resilience in children and young people - find out more about our research here: www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
Youth Resilience Unit - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
www.qmul.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
A safe and nurturing environment is key to promoting youth mental health. On this #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we recommit to finding out what promotes resilience in children and young people - find out more about our research here: www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...
Interesting thread to start the day with! I think that I will wait to have breakfast first before looking at the articles...
It's a beautiful plot, but it's terribly misleading about the impact of pre-registration. More recent studies (with higher sample sizes) find very little impact of pre-registration on the publication of null results.
Here's a thread with some references (1/N)
Here's a thread with some references (1/N)
@scientificdiscovery.dev Hi, I am creating a new version of my free online MOOC, and would like to use this picture, of which you have the copyright. Is it ok if I put it in a slide?
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Interesting thread to start the day with! I think that I will wait to have breakfast first before looking at the articles...
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Abstracts close 10 February!
BNA members are invited to submit abstracts for the BNA Members’ Meeting 2026 (22–23 April, online).
A great chance to share your work, get feedback, and connect with the neuroscience community.
Submit here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
BNA members are invited to submit abstracts for the BNA Members’ Meeting 2026 (22–23 April, online).
A great chance to share your work, get feedback, and connect with the neuroscience community.
Submit here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
BNA Members' Meeting 2026
NOW CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS UNTIL 10TH FEBRUARY. This is a meeting by members for members; an opportunity to get together to discuss your research and your plans for future work.
www.bna.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Abstracts close 10 February!
BNA members are invited to submit abstracts for the BNA Members’ Meeting 2026 (22–23 April, online).
A great chance to share your work, get feedback, and connect with the neuroscience community.
Submit here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
BNA members are invited to submit abstracts for the BNA Members’ Meeting 2026 (22–23 April, online).
A great chance to share your work, get feedback, and connect with the neuroscience community.
Submit here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
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Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers
Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers
The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords
The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.…
dlvr.it
January 29, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers
This is not something that I ever found myself thinking about, but now I am curious...
Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans. Do Humans Prefer Beautiful Chickens?
“Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans”, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003…
improbable.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
This is not something that I ever found myself thinking about, but now I am curious...
Is anyone really surprised by this? "So I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine." by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in @theregister.com
Cursor is better at marketing than coding
Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter
www.theregister.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Is anyone really surprised by this? "So I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine." by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in @theregister.com
Essential reading these days...
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons
At least when I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the Third Reich came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terrorizing th...
www.openculture.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Essential reading these days...
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I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI.
When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.
AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.
AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
January 25, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I think we're currently in the "radium skin cream" phase with AI.
When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.
AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
When we discovered radioactivity, people tried to cram into everything, and it didn't end well.
AI is a discovery at least as important as radioactivity, and at least as dangerous.
It is great to see the return of the mighty @thevinylvault.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to more banter and fierce musical debates!
It’s back!
A new offering from from the Vinyl Vault Boys-Guardians of the Vinyl Vault.
Who deserves music immortality and who’s banned for life?
A music podcast where legends are made - or destroyed! In our first episode it’s …. The Smiths. Apple and Spotify
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
A new offering from from the Vinyl Vault Boys-Guardians of the Vinyl Vault.
Who deserves music immortality and who’s banned for life?
A music podcast where legends are made - or destroyed! In our first episode it’s …. The Smiths. Apple and Spotify
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
January 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
It is great to see the return of the mighty @thevinylvault.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to more banter and fierce musical debates!
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A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
The term surrealism — or rather, surréalisme — originates from the French words for 'beyond reality.' That's a zone, we may assume, reachable by only daring, and possibly unhinged, artistic minds. But...
www.openculture.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
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🔬 Beginner-friendly #microscopy training with Dr Adrian Garcia-Burgos from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
#Undergrads, #PhD students, #postdocs & #ECRs welcome. Hands-on guidance, imaging & analysis skills.
Secure your spot 👇
www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchTraining
#Undergrads, #PhD students, #postdocs & #ECRs welcome. Hands-on guidance, imaging & analysis skills.
Secure your spot 👇
www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchTraining
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 AM
🔬 Beginner-friendly #microscopy training with Dr Adrian Garcia-Burgos from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
#Undergrads, #PhD students, #postdocs & #ECRs welcome. Hands-on guidance, imaging & analysis skills.
Secure your spot 👇
www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchTraining
#Undergrads, #PhD students, #postdocs & #ECRs welcome. Hands-on guidance, imaging & analysis skills.
Secure your spot 👇
www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#ResearchTraining
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Nice one: "“Anna Karenina scenario” a nod to the opening line of the classic Tolstoy novel: Perhaps successful AI models are all alike, and every unsuccessful model is unsuccessful in its own way."
Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality | Quanta Magazine
Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Nice one: "“Anna Karenina scenario” a nod to the opening line of the classic Tolstoy novel: Perhaps successful AI models are all alike, and every unsuccessful model is unsuccessful in its own way."
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
Interesting to see that things haven't moved much since I was a student. We still debate global workspace theory of consciousness despite decades of neuroscience/psychology research on the topic: "Shouldn't the difference be as obvious as peering through a keyhole versus standing in an open field?"
Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness?
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Interesting to see that things haven't moved much since I was a student. We still debate global workspace theory of consciousness despite decades of neuroscience/psychology research on the topic: "Shouldn't the difference be as obvious as peering through a keyhole versus standing in an open field?"
Fun way to spend 18 minutes during these liminal days when we don't even know what day of the week it is, and we don't care.
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fun way to spend 18 minutes during these liminal days when we don't even know what day of the week it is, and we don't care.
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The introduction of spaces between words revolutionized reading and writing, transforming how individuals engage with texts and think. This innovation facilitated silent reading, deep reflection, and personal expression in writing.
How Word Gaps Transformed Reading and Writing
The introduction of spaces between words revolutionized reading and writing, transforming how individuals engage with texts and think. This innovation facilitated silent reading, deep reflection, and personal expression in writing. It reshaped the human brain, fostering complex thought and literary consciousness, ultimately enhancing both comprehension and creativity in communication.
thinkingbeyondscience.in
December 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The introduction of spaces between words revolutionized reading and writing, transforming how individuals engage with texts and think. This innovation facilitated silent reading, deep reflection, and personal expression in writing.
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Last week, the BNA joined the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee's Christmas Reception to champion UK #neuroscience, celebrate our members’ achievements, and highlight key policy priorities. Read more:
www.bna.org.uk/resource/bna...
www.bna.org.uk/resource/bna...
BNA in Parliament: A Festive End to a Busy Year
BNA Joins Christmas Parliamentary Science Reception at the House of Commons.
www.bna.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Last week, the BNA joined the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee's Christmas Reception to champion UK #neuroscience, celebrate our members’ achievements, and highlight key policy priorities. Read more:
www.bna.org.uk/resource/bna...
www.bna.org.uk/resource/bna...
What a sad state of affairs...
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What a sad state of affairs...
Enough said: "The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write. Product managers can’t explain decisions they didn’t make. Leaders can’t defend strategies they didn’t develop" & "The developers who’ve been using AI since day one won’t have the architectural understanding to teach" by Josh Anderson.
I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Enough said: "The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write. Product managers can’t explain decisions they didn’t make. Leaders can’t defend strategies they didn’t develop" & "The developers who’ve been using AI since day one won’t have the architectural understanding to teach" by Josh Anderson.
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We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
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Linus, the creator of Linux and Git, is so savage 🤣. He doesn't hold back.
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/l...
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/l...
Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production
: Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers
www.theregister.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Linus, the creator of Linux and Git, is so savage 🤣. He doesn't hold back.
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/l...
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/l...
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Today I have seen more “just use Linux” messages than ever before.
Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy.
And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha
Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy.
And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Today I have seen more “just use Linux” messages than ever before.
Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy.
And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha
Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy.
And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha
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Learn how to write cleaner, reusable, and well-documented code with Dr Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford).
Practical tips in Python, MATLAB & R to boost your workflow and avoid common pitfalls.
📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2–5 pm
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#coding #MATLAB
📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2–5 pm
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#coding #MATLAB
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Learn how to write cleaner, reusable, and well-documented code with Dr Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford).
Practical tips in Python, MATLAB & R to boost your workflow and avoid common pitfalls.
📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2–5 pm
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#coding #MATLAB
📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2–5 pm
Register here: www.bna.org.uk/events/ems-e...
#coding #MATLAB