The Neurocritic
@neurocritic.bsky.social
Soft Money Pseudoacademic!
Erratic Blogger!
Occasional Driver of Electric Boats. Still trying to find my place in the world 🏳️🌈
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Erratic Blogger!
Occasional Driver of Electric Boats. Still trying to find my place in the world 🏳️🌈
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/
https://neurocritic.substack.com/
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Neurosocieties Unknown...
I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.
“Trump sells the spectacle of political violence. He uses stereotypes to paint the target as non-human… Central to a sale of slaughter is an aesthetics of cruelty. … to see [nonhumans] punished — beaten up at rallies, arrested at the border, killed in big explosions” truthout.org/articles/tru...
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 AM
“Trump sells the spectacle of political violence. He uses stereotypes to paint the target as non-human… Central to a sale of slaughter is an aesthetics of cruelty. … to see [nonhumans] punished — beaten up at rallies, arrested at the border, killed in big explosions” truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Neurosocieties Unknown...
I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Neurosocieties Unknown...
I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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Malicious human actors use common AI jailbreak techniques (e.g. prompt injection attacks) to propagate malware and to bypass ethical guidelines so chatbots will perform restricted actions. Bengio seems confused and doesn’t realize current AI doesn’t do this on its own www.ibm.com/think/insigh...
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Malicious human actors use common AI jailbreak techniques (e.g. prompt injection attacks) to propagate malware and to bypass ethical guidelines so chatbots will perform restricted actions. Bengio seems confused and doesn’t realize current AI doesn’t do this on its own www.ibm.com/think/insigh...
It’s unwise and deceptive to use the phrase “cure“ even for Alzheimer’s in mice. It happened in 1999 and look where we are now
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...
January 1, 2026 at 2:59 AM
It’s unwise and deceptive to use the phrase “cure“ even for Alzheimer’s in mice. It happened in 1999 and look where we are now
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/...
Neurosocieties Unknown...
I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Neurosocieties Unknown...
I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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I'm starting a newsletter called Neurocritical Thoughts. The delusions of tech billionaires. The latest in brain recording and stimulation technology, from the awesome to the awful. neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/neur...
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Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social
Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Republishing Retracted Nonsense! The Guru Republished a Retracted Paper in Another Exploitable Journal, and I wrote a letter to the Editor and Publisher neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... cc: @retractionwatch.com @deevybee.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @ioanaacristea.bsky.social
But the ‘apolitical’ NIH Director was happy to speak at the ultra-right white nationalist Turning Point USA AmericaFest. He is a sad, vengeful man
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
But the ‘apolitical’ NIH Director was happy to speak at the ultra-right white nationalist Turning Point USA AmericaFest. He is a sad, vengeful man
But we have crackpot eugenicist RFK Jr, Thiel protégé Michael Kratsios, and VC billionaire crypto / AI czar David Sacks on their way to cure pediatric cancer with AI !!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
But we have crackpot eugenicist RFK Jr, Thiel protégé Michael Kratsios, and VC billionaire crypto / AI czar David Sacks on their way to cure pediatric cancer with AI !!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I have never seen anything like this in the annals of fraudulent and unethical publishing. The authors of a retracted paper published the SAME TRASHY DATA in another journal and spitefully admitted they did so! They dropped the most clearly fraudulent biomarker data due to “high variability”
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I have never seen anything like this in the annals of fraudulent and unethical publishing. The authors of a retracted paper published the SAME TRASHY DATA in another journal and spitefully admitted they did so! They dropped the most clearly fraudulent biomarker data due to “high variability”
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science”
55 authors: “…a consistent performance gap relative to general science benchmarks … suggesting all current LLMs are distant to general scientific "superintelligence".”
arxiv.org/abs/2512.15567
55 authors: “…a consistent performance gap relative to general science benchmarks … suggesting all current LLMs are distant to general scientific "superintelligence".”
arxiv.org/abs/2512.15567
Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis genera...
arxiv.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science”
55 authors: “…a consistent performance gap relative to general science benchmarks … suggesting all current LLMs are distant to general scientific "superintelligence".”
arxiv.org/abs/2512.15567
55 authors: “…a consistent performance gap relative to general science benchmarks … suggesting all current LLMs are distant to general scientific "superintelligence".”
arxiv.org/abs/2512.15567
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“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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From the moment I learned about this planned study yesterday, it bothered my spirit so much I had to lay out just how wrong and criminal it is in writing. We know better and should do better in upholding ethics of research.💔
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
How Unethical Research Seeds Medical Mistrust
The absence of equipoise can turn research into harm
bktitanji.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From the moment I learned about this planned study yesterday, it bothered my spirit so much I had to lay out just how wrong and criminal it is in writing. We know better and should do better in upholding ethics of research.💔
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
The now-deceased murderer, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, dropped out of the Physics Ph.D. program at Brown in 2003 and is believed to have attended the same university as Loureiro in Portugal www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/b...
December 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The now-deceased murderer, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, dropped out of the Physics Ph.D. program at Brown in 2003 and is believed to have attended the same university as Loureiro in Portugal www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/b...
TAE ( $DJT ) is a rival to Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which collaborates w/ MIT’s Plasma Science & Fusion Center to build first fusion device that produces plasmas which generate more energy than they consume. Head of MIT center, Nuno Loureiro, was murdered this week
news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lo...
news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lo...
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
TAE ( $DJT ) is a rival to Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which collaborates w/ MIT’s Plasma Science & Fusion Center to build first fusion device that produces plasmas which generate more energy than they consume. Head of MIT center, Nuno Loureiro, was murdered this week
news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lo...
news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-lo...
Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
save #NSF !! save #NCAR !! from this right-wing absolute zealot
save #NSF !! save #NCAR !! from this right-wing absolute zealot
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Brains are not designed for dimensionality reduction
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Brains are not designed for dimensionality reduction
Brains are designed for dimensionality reduction
Brains are designed for dimensionality reduction.
Simulated Complex Cells Contribute to Object Recognition Through Representational Untangling
doi.org/10.1162/NECO...
#neuroscience
Simulated Complex Cells Contribute to Object Recognition Through Representational Untangling
doi.org/10.1162/NECO...
#neuroscience
Simulated Complex Cells Contribute to Object Recognition Through Representational Untangling
Abstract. The visual system performs a remarkable feat: it takes complex retinal activation patterns and decodes them for object recognition. This operation, termed “representational untangling,” orga...
doi.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Brains are designed for dimensionality reduction
The subversiveness of Adversarial Poetry in circumventing AI safety mechanisms arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The subversiveness of Adversarial Poetry in circumventing AI safety mechanisms arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
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Experience and scientific expertise is a huge negative.
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Experience and scientific expertise is a huge negative.
“The two-day meeting of ACIP— [which] once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy… just wrapped. And… it was something else. Disgraceful. Unprepared. Dysfunctional. Incompetent. Terrifying. Embarrassing. Opaque.” yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/acip-key-t...
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“The two-day meeting of ACIP— [which] once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy… just wrapped. And… it was something else. Disgraceful. Unprepared. Dysfunctional. Incompetent. Terrifying. Embarrassing. Opaque.” yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/acip-key-t...
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
by @kkjetelina.bsky.social
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So anyway, Dr. Brainworm has decided to kill untold numbers of people. He's directed the CDC and ACIP to stop vaccinating babies against Hepatitis B.
They really do want to kill us all. They bring only death. No progress, no wonderful new inventions, no economic expansion.
They really do want to kill us all. They bring only death. No progress, no wonderful new inventions, no economic expansion.
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
So anyway, Dr. Brainworm has decided to kill untold numbers of people. He's directed the CDC and ACIP to stop vaccinating babies against Hepatitis B.
They really do want to kill us all. They bring only death. No progress, no wonderful new inventions, no economic expansion.
They really do want to kill us all. They bring only death. No progress, no wonderful new inventions, no economic expansion.
I knew from the start that Edge Foundation (John Brockman) was a sexist exclusionary boys’ club that proclaimed its own privileged knowledge of intelligence, consciousness, creativity, cognitive science, and AI. We’ve known about Epstein’s funding since 2019. Here we see its racist, eugenics agenda
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I knew from the start that Edge Foundation (John Brockman) was a sexist exclusionary boys’ club that proclaimed its own privileged knowledge of intelligence, consciousness, creativity, cognitive science, and AI. We’ve known about Epstein’s funding since 2019. Here we see its racist, eugenics agenda