what I had to say turned out not to be a column

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My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

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What are ‘the canonical ethnicities’ anyway? German? Greek? Hungarian? Not Austrian, Belgian, Italian, Moroccan, Russian, obvs. Imagine being so assinine. You can be an Austrian German but not a Scottish English. A Bosnian Serb but not an Icelandic Norwegian. Where are the Burgundians at?

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Check out our fresh new paper, out now in iScience! Songbird neuronal ensembles, from dozens of simultaneously recorded auditory neurons. bsky.app/profile/did:... Led by, and thread by, @felipe-cini.bsky.social below!!

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There are so few deaths *because* of the MMR vaccine. It means it's working, not that we should stop vaccinating. This is like saying "car accident deaths have dropped in the last 40 years, so it's ok to stop using seatbelts"

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