Clayton Page Aldern
@compatibilism.bsky.social
🌎🔥🧠
Data reporter @grist.org. Thinking about climate change, brain health, active inference
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE is out now:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717097/the-weight-of-nature-by-clayton-page-aldern
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Data reporter @grist.org. Thinking about climate change, brain health, active inference
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE is out now:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717097/the-weight-of-nature-by-clayton-page-aldern
Signal: aldern.01
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
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ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:
grist.org/accountabili...
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“When we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed.”
—Walter Benjamin, somehow writing about this painting
—Walter Benjamin, somehow writing about this painting
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“When we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed.”
—Walter Benjamin, somehow writing about this painting
—Walter Benjamin, somehow writing about this painting
One of my least favorite genres of internet is The Ostensible Dunk on Correct Stats
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
One of my least favorite genres of internet is The Ostensible Dunk on Correct Stats
the AI tries its hand at French post-structuralism
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the AI tries its hand at French post-structuralism
This newspaper will do anything in its power to avoid the construction “[Asymmetrically powerful instigator] [inflicts unimaginable horrors upon] [victim].”
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This newspaper will do anything in its power to avoid the construction “[Asymmetrically powerful instigator] [inflicts unimaginable horrors upon] [victim].”
Okay I did NOT have Willa Cather on my Epstein files bingo card
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Okay I did NOT have Willa Cather on my Epstein files bingo card
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All of North America looking skyward and losing their minds.
Seattle:
Seattle:
The color of the sky in Seattle is taupe gray #969489
![2025-11-11 18:55:00 #969489 taupe gray | [#969489 - 45%] [#6b6a68 - 22%] [#6b6d6c - 15%] [#615e60 - 6%] [#535659 - 6%] [#363639 - 3%] [#81817b - 2%] [#858784 - 1%]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohjjzadgzeub2ffc5agg7k4z/bafkreib4jaoz3ho3v4ni7migwmounzdca4zyuwpr56jsat73dftfcmh6bu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
All of North America looking skyward and losing their minds.
Seattle:
Seattle:
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i cannot believe that “material reality is important to the potency of political narratives” is a controversial take
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
i cannot believe that “material reality is important to the potency of political narratives” is a controversial take
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This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
share.google
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
“Comparable gaps are evident in humans, where cognitive models of psychiatric disorders have only recently begun to incorporate bodily contributions.” #neuroskyence
New essay in @currentbiology.bsky.social special brain-body issue! Fly lab meets psychiatrist: how bodily signals shape cognition and mental health. Great collaboration with Albino Oliveira-Maia showing @champalimaudf.bsky.social discovery ↔️ clinic at its best. www.cell.com/current-biol...
From cognition in the body to the body in cognition
Carlos Ribeiro and Albino Oliveira-Maia propose how brain–body interactions may inform
the study of ‘higher’ cognitive functions such as learning and memory across model
systems.
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“Comparable gaps are evident in humans, where cognitive models of psychiatric disorders have only recently begun to incorporate bodily contributions.” #neuroskyence
Hear, hear. Almost felt a spot of pride reading Paxson’s email today!
Brown rejects the compact!
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.
October 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Hear, hear. Almost felt a spot of pride reading Paxson’s email today!
“We conclude that, through our common ancestry, humans have co-opted the abilities that macaques use for foraging to support reasoning and decision-making.”
𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗫
By Mars and Passingham
"Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition"
Going to the top of the reading list!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
By Mars and Passingham
"Understanding anthropoid foraging challenges may thus contribute to our understanding of human cognition"
Going to the top of the reading list!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroskyence
October 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“We conclude that, through our common ancestry, humans have co-opted the abilities that macaques use for foraging to support reasoning and decision-making.”
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I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.
Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel! Somewhat serendipitously, I am in the middle of Satantango right now and just found myself thinking yesterday: Surely this guy has won a Nobel. Off by a day! apnews.com/article/nobe...
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre.”
apnews.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel! Somewhat serendipitously, I am in the middle of Satantango right now and just found myself thinking yesterday: Surely this guy has won a Nobel. Off by a day! apnews.com/article/nobe...
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Many more important things happening in the world right now, but one question about the state of affairs I have is: How in the year of our lord 2025 is there not an ‘insert link’ option for Gmail on iOS?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Many more important things happening in the world right now, but one question about the state of affairs I have is: How in the year of our lord 2025 is there not an ‘insert link’ option for Gmail on iOS?
Yes my first thought when I saw this subhed was “we should promptly promote the founder of this serious website to editor-in-chief of CBS News”—so it looks like Tyler Cowen and I both get to see our digital media dreams come true today, the future is now
October 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yes my first thought when I saw this subhed was “we should promptly promote the founder of this serious website to editor-in-chief of CBS News”—so it looks like Tyler Cowen and I both get to see our digital media dreams come true today, the future is now
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This is a great read by @zteirstein.bsky.social.
Living in Arizona, Valley Fever is scary! This piece breaks down the threat perfectly, how climate is turbocharging it, and the challenges to protect the public under an administration attacking public health.
grist.org/health/valle...
Living in Arizona, Valley Fever is scary! This piece breaks down the threat perfectly, how climate is turbocharging it, and the challenges to protect the public under an administration attacking public health.
grist.org/health/valle...
In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
grist.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is a great read by @zteirstein.bsky.social.
Living in Arizona, Valley Fever is scary! This piece breaks down the threat perfectly, how climate is turbocharging it, and the challenges to protect the public under an administration attacking public health.
grist.org/health/valle...
Living in Arizona, Valley Fever is scary! This piece breaks down the threat perfectly, how climate is turbocharging it, and the challenges to protect the public under an administration attacking public health.
grist.org/health/valle...
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Applications are now open for the SWC Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme.
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
Join us in London!
🧠 World-class neuroscience training
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🖥️ Close links to @gatsbyucl.bsky.social
Apply by 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...
September 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Since 2023, the city has drawn between $70 million and $90 million of an approximately $325 million federal loan for lead service line replacements that expires next year
via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...
via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Since 2023, the city has drawn between $70 million and $90 million of an approximately $325 million federal loan for lead service line replacements that expires next year
via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...
via @keertigopal.bsky.social and @juanpab.bsky.social grist.org/economics/ch...
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The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health.
On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...
On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health.
On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...
On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health.
Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...
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I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example?
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example?
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."
One reason Gregg Colburn and I wrote HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM was to push back against the dehumanization of people without housing. Kilmeade’s rhetoric is a direct consequence of a society that defines disposable underclasses
Some conservatives are saying that Kilmeade’s “Just kill them” comment is less horrifying when you see it in context.
So here’s a longer clip, where you hear almost 4 minutes of Fox couch banter before he says it.
And, uh, it’s not much better. At all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPa...
So here’s a longer clip, where you hear almost 4 minutes of Fox couch banter before he says it.
And, uh, it’s not much better. At all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPa...
Kilmeade talking about Decarlos Brown
YouTube video by Chuck Ross
www.youtube.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
One reason Gregg Colburn and I wrote HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM was to push back against the dehumanization of people without housing. Kilmeade’s rhetoric is a direct consequence of a society that defines disposable underclasses
Trans rights and security, now and always
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Trans rights and security, now and always
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‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute
Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute
climateandcommunity.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/