@turrigiano.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and curious human. Views are mine alone and re-skeets are not endorsements.
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We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
this!
Also, is the occasional nit picked? Of course. But peer review guards against bad or dangerous science being funded and protects tax dollars against cronyism. The scientific community understands this and knows that they have a duty to participate. I am so grateful to everyone who reviews.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
this!
Belly laughs
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Belly laughs
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A reminder that a lot of people in the South are working their butts off as they fight back against the shitty political landscape in their states, and the country.
In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists
The recent redistricting of the county commissioners court has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.
www.texasobserver.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A reminder that a lot of people in the South are working their butts off as they fight back against the shitty political landscape in their states, and the country.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
apparently I now have to start worrying about "shadow banking"
Project Syndicate asked @profhilaryallen.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, Corey Klemmer, Anat Admati, and me about the prospects of a financial crisis in 2026.
I focused on the concentration of risk in the AI sector and the opacity of how it's being managed in off-balance-sheet debt deals.
I focused on the concentration of risk in the AI sector and the opacity of how it's being managed in off-balance-sheet debt deals.
Will 2026 Bring Financial Crisis?
From US President Donald Trump’s weaponization of trade to the erosion of US Treasuries’ status as safe-haven assets and breakneck investment in AI, the last year has shaken the foundations of the pos...
www.project-syndicate.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
apparently I now have to start worrying about "shadow banking"
can't teach under these conditions. tenured faculty should walk out
Yeah, like at this point this was a student very clearly recruited to bait this kind of situation. And because academic discipline is never a neutral situation it’ll work: bsky.app/profile/cait...
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
can't teach under these conditions. tenured faculty should walk out
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OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
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Irrespective of whether one has a valid complaint or not, emailing the governor of the state, the university president, and an anti-union organization before initiating any of the standard appeal measures available to students following a grade one disputes is a very strange move.
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Irrespective of whether one has a valid complaint or not, emailing the governor of the state, the university president, and an anti-union organization before initiating any of the standard appeal measures available to students following a grade one disputes is a very strange move.
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My quote of the day
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My quote of the day
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
I will offer those who suffer all my attention, my science and my love. Never will I betray them or risk their wellbeing to satisfy my vanity.
The Oath of Hippocrates (Amelia Arenas translation)
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Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
A Kennedy adviser said he wants to preserve the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The health secretary's anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.
www.politico.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
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*reading all the Thanksgiving posts*
This is it this is the moment where we catch up with US science because we're working while these lazy socialists are cooking and eating and vacationing
This is it this is the moment where we catch up with US science because we're working while these lazy socialists are cooking and eating and vacationing
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
*reading all the Thanksgiving posts*
This is it this is the moment where we catch up with US science because we're working while these lazy socialists are cooking and eating and vacationing
This is it this is the moment where we catch up with US science because we're working while these lazy socialists are cooking and eating and vacationing
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
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Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING BIPEDS!
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING BIPEDS!
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to the Trump admin's ICE actions sweeping the country — her nephew's mother was arrested by agents in Revere, Massachusetts this month.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
White House spokeswoman Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area woman who is the mother of Leavitt's nephew, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
www.wbur.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to the Trump admin's ICE actions sweeping the country — her nephew's mother was arrested by agents in Revere, Massachusetts this month.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
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Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Current Opinion in Neurobiology | Interoception 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Current Opinion in Neurobiology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Check out the newest Editors' (that would be me and Eunjoon Kim) Choice issue in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Superbly guest edited by Stephen Liberles and @zknight.bsky.social
>20 review articles on Interoception
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Groundbreaking study in journal Pediatrics found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 (1.6%) discontinuing treatment only 4 of whom re-identified as cisgender.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Groundbreaking study in journal Pediatrics found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 (1.6%) discontinuing treatment only 4 of whom re-identified as cisgender.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
PSA: "calm down" is not a productive way to start a discussion, esp with people who have been traumatized by chaos and bad faith actions in a system they must keep navigating. information good, condescension not so much
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
PSA: "calm down" is not a productive way to start a discussion, esp with people who have been traumatized by chaos and bad faith actions in a system they must keep navigating. information good, condescension not so much
I agree what matters is how funding priorities are set, and by whom. Institute directors must be hired based on expertise/ experience, not partisan politics, or funding priorities AND DECISIONS will reflect ideology. The system already allows this, but one can read intention into making this easier
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important.
A new webpage on the NIH site called “Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions” is causing a small kerfuffle on the socials. As per us…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I agree what matters is how funding priorities are set, and by whom. Institute directors must be hired based on expertise/ experience, not partisan politics, or funding priorities AND DECISIONS will reflect ideology. The system already allows this, but one can read intention into making this easier
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Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures.
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
@jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts.
They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪
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70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Also make sure to turn off smart workspace settings (the button right below the first setting which shows up after you reload to turn off the first one)
Unfortunately this will also turn off some basic formerly non-AI functionality like, y'know, spellcheck. 💀 As if this wasn't already a dick move.
Unfortunately this will also turn off some basic formerly non-AI functionality like, y'know, spellcheck. 💀 As if this wasn't already a dick move.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Also make sure to turn off smart workspace settings (the button right below the first setting which shows up after you reload to turn off the first one)
Unfortunately this will also turn off some basic formerly non-AI functionality like, y'know, spellcheck. 💀 As if this wasn't already a dick move.
Unfortunately this will also turn off some basic formerly non-AI functionality like, y'know, spellcheck. 💀 As if this wasn't already a dick move.