Todd Horowitz

OK, this may be my favorite thing that I've seen on Mastodon yet. I love Star Trek, and "Devil In The Dark" may be my favorite episode. I also secretly love geology, despite being a psychologist. #startrek #geology #Horta

VOY S5 E18-19: "Course:Oblivion" and "The Fight" Meanwhile, in my Voyager voyage, I have reached S5 E18-19. "Course: Oblivion" has a great twist and the midpoint, and then... does nothing with it. Very disappointing. What did we learn? Even a copy of Janeway is relentless and determined to […]

VOY S5 E9 & E11 Editor's note: And now we skip deep into Season 5, with this laconic comment on "Thirty Days": Voyager keeps wanting me to think Tom Paris is an interesting character, but it's not working. "Latent Image" gets a little more exposition: I just got to VOY S5E11: "Latent Image" […]

VOY S4 E10-11 "Random Thoughts" and "Concerning Flight" Editor's note: Inspired by reading Shatner's memoir Star Trek Movie Memories, I binged the Original Cast movies, then came back to VOY: By Star Trek V, I was really starting to miss Janeway and Chakotay and the gang (might have just been […]

Editor's note: My coverage of VOY S4 is pretty spotty in this era. No notes on "Scorpion", "The Gift", "Day of Honor", or "Revulsion". On "Nemesis", my review was: "Meanwhile, Voyager’s “Nemesis” is a well-intentioned misfire." I do have notes on S6-7: I'd already seen "The Raven", in […]

VOY S3 E23-25: "Distant Origin" , Displaced", and "Worst Case Scenario" Latest Voyager update: Almost to the end of S3. "Distant Origin" was a clever concept and good structure, undermined by sloppy writing. "Displaced" was kind of fun, but required too high a suspension of disbelief. But "Worst […]

VOY S3 E8-9 "Future's End" I’m really tired of Star Trek characters traveling to the “present” and dropping their monocles at youth subcultures. Tuvok acts like Venice Beach in 1996 is the craziest thing he’s ever seen. How can anyone who sees a Talaxian every day think a kid with a dyed Mohawk […]

VOY S3 E7 "Sacred Ground" On the other hand, “Sacred Ground” is pretty good. Star Trek rarely challenges the Starfleet point of view head on this way. I love how the spirit guide constantly subverts Janeway’s expectations, even while fulfilling them, without making her come off as stupid […]

VOY Season 3 There are a lot of things to complain about in the modern TV era of 10-episode seasons and “ten hour movies”, but watching season 3 of Voyager is really putting all that in perspective. So many of these episodes seem to exist only because they had to fill out a 26-episode order […]

There is a lot of literature linking personality traits to various aspects of health, including dementia risk. higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness are generally bad for health. However, beyond these basic patterns the picture gets muddier. The relationship between personality and […]

VOY S2 E20, "Investigations" This was... fine? I still don't find VOY's attempts to build long-term stories about the Kazon and Seska particularly interesting or successful, but I did like the payoff to the "Tom goes off the rails" B stories of the last three episodes. I was irritated in the […]

VOY S2 E 16-17 "Meld" and "Dreadnought" Meanwhile, "Meld" was pretty good. I liked the way it starts off as another whodunnit with Detective Tuvok but then veers in a very different direction. I did wonder how Grima Wormtongue ended up on Voyager, but he did a good job. "Dreadnought" was a […]

Same here

Here's a very useful paper from my colleague Luke Stockel, providing a framework for evaluating digital cognitive tests for MCI and Alzheimer's Disease https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.71559 #adrd #MCI

Eve Marie Saint always makes me think of Lloyd Cole's "Rattlesnakes": "She looked like Eve Marie Saint/In on the Waterfront/As she reads Simone de Beauvoir/In her American circumstance"

Digital health technologies (DHT) are an exciting new field of measurement, but they are bewilderingly diverse. This perspective piece from some of my NIH colleagues provides a useful framework for organizing and selecting appropriate DHTs https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-03176-2

VOY S2, E12 VOY update: After a series of lackluster, if well-intentioned episodes, "Resistance" actually has an emotional core to it that got to me. Typologically, it's more of a DS9 episode than a true Voyager episode... but of course I like DS9 episodes! #VOY #startrek

VOYAGER S2 E8-9 Voyager watch update: Please tell me that "Parturition" (s2e8) is the last appearance of Jealous Neelix, Voyager's worst character Meanwhile, "Prototype" is, oof. A mashup of "Samaritan Snare", "The Offspring", and a thousand sci fi stories where robots kill off their creators […]

VOYAGER S2 E4 "Elogium" I don't know if "Elogium" is the worst Star Trek episode ever, but it's definitely the most cringe-inducing. It's a weird hybrid: take a mash-up of TNG episodes (the one with the space whale that thinks the Enterprise is its mommy and the one where aliens impregnate […]

I have finished the first season of Voyager. The episodes fall mainly into two classes. There are episodes that could just as easily have been TNG episodes and have nothing much to do with Voyager ("Time and Again", "Ex Post Facto", "Emanations"), then there are True Voyager episodes, that make […]

After the 2009 Star Trek movie came out (the first JJ Abrams film), I decided they were no longer making Star Trek for me. Which was fine, really, because there were still 28 seasons of Star Trek TV (and 10 movies) out there. Furthermore, I realized that I hadn't really watched Voyager or […]

Happy International Democracy Day! #DemocracyDay

Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate!

NIA announces the 2026 Mentorship Prize Competition! The National Institute on Aging is awarding up to $600,000 to recognize excellence in aging research mentorship — $100,000 each for up to 3 early career and 3 midcareer/established outstanding faculty mentors. Nominations open August 17, 2026 […]

HPV vaccine drives cervical cancer deaths close to zero. A landmark study in England has found girls vaccinated against HPV on the cusp of their teenage years now have effectively zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30. Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in […]

April the Fourth be with you!

Over the last three nights, I watched “The Brutalist”. I have not been so blown away by a movie in years, probably since “Mulholland Drive”. It’s such a rich film, so much going on in each scene. I barely had time to appreciate one striking image before it was replaced with another one. This is […]

Patricia Fernández de Lis of the Spanish newspaper El País interviewed me about the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony moving to Europe. Here is the interview machine-translated into English. The original version, in Spanish of course, is on the El País web site […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116173274529697835 I love whisky neat!

Mild spoilers for this week's episode of Starfleet Academy: If your complaint is "But the Klingons playing along with a pretend war in order to keep their honor would be ridiculous," you may have failed to notice that *everything* about Klingon culture is ridiculous.

Idea: A list of movies and series where an MRI can easily be turned on or off without a massive cloud of helium. The magnet is ALWAYS on.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/115953266657831369 Star Trek. Always relevant.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

Happy New Year to all my Gregorian-calendar-using friends!

Walter Koroshetz was head of NIH's neurology institute for a decade. In 2017, when I was a research patient at NIH in an ME/CFS study, he spent 90 minutes one evening talking to my late partner, Beth Mazur, about ME/CFS and how NIH was going about its research. Beth gave him a bunch of good […]