Video Interview: Prof Erica Charters on when does (or did) the Covid-19 pandemic end?

Abstract. Information that is shared across brains is encoded in idiosyncratic fine-scale functional topographies. Hyperalignment captures shared information by projecting pattern vectors for neural responses and connectivities into a common, high-dimensional information space, rather than by aligning topographies in a…

This isn’t a call for the abandonment of the whole philosophical project. Clear, nuanced thinking is needed more than ever. But don’t we need to acknowledge more explicitly that the wolf is through the door, and temper the conversation accordingly?…

I use the recent emergence of optogenetics in neuroscience as an opportunity to explore how scientists evaluate their intervention tools. I look at how scientists promoted and defended optogenetics and what they took to constitute its improvement over time. My…

“Pandemic dreams” are already the subject of a book of essays from Harvard research Deirdre Barrett, alongside reams of popular audience articles and social media posts. Windt is particularly curious about the dreams and mind-wandering of people in lockdown. “It’s…

Do we have a duty to support artists by supporting their illustration work? Many artists likely do not see it as anything but a chore and might be happy with a direct cash transfer rather than having to churn out…

When my father was in his 90s and had lost most of his sight, I became a live-in carer and his Guardian-reader. The first thing he wanted read to him each morning were the funny brief letters. Like Ian Grieve…