Kevin Mitchell
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Starting now!
Thrilled to be a speaker for the LOOPs Webinar! I’ll discuss predictive processing in brains 🧠 and machines 🤖
It's on Dec 10th 🗓️, 4pm CET ⏱️, live on crowdcast! (Link 👇)
Looking forward to the discussion!
It's on Dec 10th 🗓️, 4pm CET ⏱️, live on crowdcast! (Link 👇)
Looking forward to the discussion!
📣Join our last 2025 edition of the LOOPs Webinar 🧠➰ This month @agreco.bsky.social will explore how predictive processing shapes vision in both brains and AI - what models like PredNet reveal (and miss), and how new recurrent architectures combine feedback and variability for more robust perception.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting now!
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Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Generative epigenetic landscapes map the topology and topography of cell fates | PNAS
Epigenetic landscapes were proposed by Waddington as the central concept to describe
cell fate dynamics in a locally low-dimensional space. In mode...
www.pnas.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Super happy for having been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to continue our basic neuroscience work on the neural basis for motor control and motor learning. What a great way to set things up here at Champalimaud! 🎉
🚨 Job Alert for postdocs research technicians, and PhD students in 🧵
🚨 Job Alert for postdocs research technicians, and PhD students in 🧵
👏 Congratulations Juan Álvaro Gallego on his project “SELECT” being selected in the ERC Consolidator 2025 Call!
🧠 SELECT will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the learning, execution and adaptation of skilled movements at multiple brain areas
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/two-lif...
🧠 SELECT will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the learning, execution and adaptation of skilled movements at multiple brain areas
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/two-lif...
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Super happy for having been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant to continue our basic neuroscience work on the neural basis for motor control and motor learning. What a great way to set things up here at Champalimaud! 🎉
🚨 Job Alert for postdocs research technicians, and PhD students in 🧵
🚨 Job Alert for postdocs research technicians, and PhD students in 🧵
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
My son Ethan’s new track just dropped (that’s Mitch-E to his fans) and it’s a belter! m.soundcloud.com/beltersmag/m...
Mitch-E - Come On Now [FINALLAPP04]
Stream Mitch-E - Come On Now [FINALLAPP04] by BELTERS on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My son Ethan’s new track just dropped (that’s Mitch-E to his fans) and it’s a belter! m.soundcloud.com/beltersmag/m...
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I suspect that my entry on this Bored Panda list will be my most lasting philosophical legacy.
50 Funny, Silly And Relatable Memes About Philosophy | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/intelectual-...
50 Funny, Silly And Relatable Memes About Philosophy | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/intelectual-...
50 Memes That Might Either Cure Your Existential Crisis Or Make It Worse
These memes take life’s biggest questions and condense them into sharp, silly snapshots of existential humor. Whether you’re wrestling with the nature of reality or just trying to remember where you l...
www.boredpanda.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I suspect that my entry on this Bored Panda list will be my most lasting philosophical legacy.
50 Funny, Silly And Relatable Memes About Philosophy | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/intelectual-...
50 Funny, Silly And Relatable Memes About Philosophy | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/intelectual-...
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You know, I did actually want to go to the eco psych meeting next year but this is just getting impossible to justify
Bat shit crazy.
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
You know, I did actually want to go to the eco psych meeting next year but this is just getting impossible to justify
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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requisite meme
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
requisite meme
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There is this fantastic photo of Max Planck from 1901. The source on wikipedia is a dead link, but I assume there is a great story behind this one. I believe his black-body radiation law was published in 1901, so maybe this was taken after celebrations. Anyway if anyone knows more plz plz link
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There is this fantastic photo of Max Planck from 1901. The source on wikipedia is a dead link, but I assume there is a great story behind this one. I believe his black-body radiation law was published in 1901, so maybe this was taken after celebrations. Anyway if anyone knows more plz plz link
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🚀 New global #PeoplePower2025 report shows civic freedoms are under attack globally. A record number of countries are now rated as ‘Repressed’ and ‘Closed.’
See country ratings & data on top violations 🔴🟡🟢: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2025
See country ratings & data on top violations 🔴🟡🟢: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2025
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
🚀 New global #PeoplePower2025 report shows civic freedoms are under attack globally. A record number of countries are now rated as ‘Repressed’ and ‘Closed.’
See country ratings & data on top violations 🔴🟡🟢: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2025
See country ratings & data on top violations 🔴🟡🟢: web.civicus.org/PeoplePower2025
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Europe should enact a similar screening but based on vaccination status. Quarantine the disease bringers
Bat shit crazy.
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Europe should enact a similar screening but based on vaccination status. Quarantine the disease bringers
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Sperm banks should be much more strictly regulated. (particularly, only accepting donations from registered donors). The banks don't seem to make the slightest effort to avoid these cases.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children
Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Sperm banks should be much more strictly regulated. (particularly, only accepting donations from registered donors). The banks don't seem to make the slightest effort to avoid these cases.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Deserts are only liveable through exhaustive adaptation. But there is a limit. Conditions are becoming too extreme #NomadCentury
Dubai and Doha are unstoppable:
They are on their way of their hottest year.
DUBAI in 2025 is the world's hottest place outside the tropics,while
DOHA might become the northernmost place with an >30C yearly average temperature.
Their warming in the past decades has been brutal.
They are on their way of their hottest year.
DUBAI in 2025 is the world's hottest place outside the tropics,while
DOHA might become the northernmost place with an >30C yearly average temperature.
Their warming in the past decades has been brutal.
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Deserts are only liveable through exhaustive adaptation. But there is a limit. Conditions are becoming too extreme #NomadCentury
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Yet another 'could not make this up, must double check that this isn't The Onion' moment for this ridiculous administration. PS surely they should want an American font, not one from Europe... 😵💫 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Yet another 'could not make this up, must double check that this isn't The Onion' moment for this ridiculous administration. PS surely they should want an American font, not one from Europe... 😵💫 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chance, Choice, and Control – Agency in Real Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZS... - a recent talk from the ECoGS conference
Kevin Mitchell: Chance, Choice, and Control – Agency in Real Time (ECSU OIST)
YouTube video by ECSU OIST
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Chance, Choice, and Control – Agency in Real Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpZS... - a recent talk from the ECoGS conference
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Just the weirdest little guys imaginable
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just the weirdest little guys imaginable
Did AI write this?
UPDATE from Pentagon's "bespoke AI platform" rollout.
“We are pushing all of our chips in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force. The Department is tapping into America's commercial genius, and we’re embedding generative AI into our daily battle rhythm" -- Hegseth
“We are pushing all of our chips in on artificial intelligence as a fighting force. The Department is tapping into America's commercial genius, and we’re embedding generative AI into our daily battle rhythm" -- Hegseth
NVIDIA, whose stock is now a "load-bearing entity in the US stock market," "is dependent not on its customers, but on its customers’ credit ratings and financial backers." And it gets worse from there!
A fantastic, very long, highly-meandering-but-the-meandering-is-necessary @edzitron.com piece:
A fantastic, very long, highly-meandering-but-the-meandering-is-necessary @edzitron.com piece:
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Did AI write this?
Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - thought-provoking (2019) paper from @urihasson.bsky.social and colleagues
Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Evolution is a blind fitting process by which organisms become adapted to their environment. Does the brain use similar brute-force fitting processes …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Direct Fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological and Artificial Neural Networks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - thought-provoking (2019) paper from @urihasson.bsky.social and colleagues
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Today’s must listen: Kinship, Culture, and Death in Neolithic Ireland.
On the value of integrating aDNA science and archaeology to better understand the nature of prehistoric groups.
On the value of integrating aDNA science and archaeology to better understand the nature of prehistoric groups.
New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!
In this episode I chatted with Dr Jessica Smith, Dr Neil Carlin, and @suegreaney.bsky.social about the important recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, death, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.
In this episode I chatted with Dr Jessica Smith, Dr Neil Carlin, and @suegreaney.bsky.social about the important recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, death, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Today’s must listen: Kinship, Culture, and Death in Neolithic Ireland.
On the value of integrating aDNA science and archaeology to better understand the nature of prehistoric groups.
On the value of integrating aDNA science and archaeology to better understand the nature of prehistoric groups.