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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 12h

so?

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. Just read the email!

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 2d

co-pilot summaries of emails. a useless solution in search of a non-existent problem. awful. and pointless. and witless (bc co-pilot doesn't understand context).

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 6d

And to @shanewriter.bsky.social Shane O’Mara for also acting as examiner!

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 7d

predators: evolution, culture, and the neuroscience of alien hunters
Come for the alien, stay for the science
open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

#predators #humans #guild #comparative #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Of interest @iandunt.bsky.social ?

predators

evolution, culture, and the neuroscience of alien hunters

open.substack.com

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 7d

predators: evolution, culture, and the neuroscience of alien hunters
Come for the alien, stay for the science
open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

#predators #humans #guild #comparative #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Of interest @iandunt.bsky.social ?

predators

evolution, culture, and the neuroscience of alien hunters

open.substack.com

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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 8d

Would be nice to hear the candidates push back against this notion that Dublin is some sort of dystopian hell hole

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 12d

Non-substack EU-based, alternative available here: steady.cello.so/ru9CHpzA0v4

Steady — One ecosystem for those who create

Giving independent media makers everything they need to build and manage a thriving membership community.

steady.cello.so

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 12d

Non-substack EU-based, alternative available here: steady.cello.so/ru9CHpzA0v4

Steady — One ecosystem for those who create

Giving independent media makers everything they need to build and manage a thriving membership community.

steady.cello.so

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 12d

To mark the award of the Broadbent prize to Ruth Byrne by the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Ruth will present her recent keynote lecture, which considers the central role of the imagination in cognition, illustrated by examples from different domains of thinking.
@ruthbyrne.bsky.social

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 13d

I've just found a very nice EU based alternative to Substack called Steady.Page; I've set up a holding page there called Cognitive Republic: you can sign up at steady.page/en/cognitive...

Cognitive Republic

A new way of thinking for democracy

steady.page

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 13d

I've just found a very nice EU based alternative to Substack called Steady.Page; I've set up a holding page there called Cognitive Republic: you can sign up at steady.page/en/cognitive...

Cognitive Republic

A new way of thinking for democracy

steady.page

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 15d

Knucklehead, perhaps?

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 16d

ensure surely not insure?

Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 18d

They'll simply employ them in other countries lacking this requirement, and get the research and other work they do performed abroad. I sense a big opp for the EU here.

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 18d

He, of course, bought a very mansion in the EU:
Well-known billionaire planning further alterations to historic Waterford estate - News - Waterford News & Star share.google/XxZQlQEXKHhw...

Well-known billionaire planning further alterations to historic Waterford estate - News - Waterford News & Star

A well-known multibillionaire acquired the Waterford property last year

share.google

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18d

"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration"

@stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty.

www.ft.com/content/43da...

The truth about immigration

Ageing societies seeking to preserve living standards will continue to rely on new arrivals — but governments can be clearer about the trade-offs

www.ft.com

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 18d

Brilliant 👏 make it so!

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 19d

So, THIS is happening

"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.

Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.

(tk u @robin.berjon.com)

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for a new book deal. The text of the Dear Report reads:
"REWILD THE INTERNET
By Maria Farrell
Imprint: One Signal, Continuum
Irish tech writer and speaker Maria Farrell's REWILD THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESIST BIG TECH showing how to resist today’s toxic tech monoculture and grow a flourishing, competitive internet ecosystem where we can live better, freer lives, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal at auction by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA) on behalf of Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. UK & Comm rights to Octavia Stocker and Tomasz Hoskins at Bloomsbury Continuum by Antony Topping. Translation: krizzo@greeneheaton.co.uk

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 22d

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad.

Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 22d

@chrisbjohns.bsky.social
This resonates with your recent pods

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 22d

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad.

Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 25d

UK guts public spending, wrecks research training, exits largest economic bloc on Earth, adds red tape to talent-based visas, wonders why it can't recruit "top AI talent" to help cut even more costs:

on.ft.com/3Kl9tBJ AI ‘hit squad’ set up to drive Whitehall efficiency struggles to hire top talent

AI ‘hit squad’ set up to drive Whitehall efficiency struggles to hire top talent

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence unit spent less than half of its budget last year because of recruitment delays

on.ft.com

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Shane O'Mara @shanewriter.bsky.social · 27d

learning styles: a seductive but utterly useless idea - Fuggetaboutit, they don't exist
www.brainpizza.com/p/learning-s...
#learningstyles #learning #memory #cognition #psychscisky #brainpizza #neuroskyence

learning styles: a seductive but utterly useless idea

Fuggetaboutit, they don't exist

www.brainpizza.com

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