Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to develop good research questions #CogSci #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely lovely and very much needed for experimental #EEG 🤩

At this point, I might as well -- Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!

TIL Adding a comment in #Rcode or #rmarkdown header in #R script that includes at least four trailing dashes (-), equal signs (=), or hashes (#) automatically creates a foldable code section visible in the outline In #RStudio. # My Title ---- ## Another Section ===== ### A Third Section #####

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month. Some surprises here, at least for me. #rstats Code: gist.github.com/carl...

a "real" vibe coding :) www.thewayofcode.com#1

Barber Says You’ll Soon Need Haircut

I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology: thebullshitmachines.com

A theme is emerging: attempts to reduce brain functions & dysfunctions to a few things (like an ion channel) aren’t working. A similar story exists for anesthesia - knockout all the putative things and anesthesia still works. “Lists of things” is not the way. The alternative? /1

What is the origin of tipping points? In dynamical systems, from cancer to ecology, this fundamental phenomenon shows the importance of bifurcations and critical thresholds. Check this and other lectures on the @upf.edu Complex Systems Lab YouTube Channel youtube.com/channel/UCEt...

Damn, joke's on me, I reversed mechanisms and behaviors 😂😂😂

What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/w...

📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

What is the role of chance (history) and deterministic laws (physics) in shaping life? Check out this inspiring paper by Temple Smith and former @sfiscience.bsky.social faculty member Harold Morowitz on history, physics, and life origins. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Oh Simon task included 😍*knuckle cracking sound*

I also like his phrasing here, re "great lesson" we've learned from #IntergroupContact

The space pencil myth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing...

Niels Van Santen wrote a guide to the use of information theoretical measures in psychology/psychometrics. Any feedback is most welcome!

Wiktoria Julia Goryńska was born in Vienna in 1902 but worked successfully in Warsaw where, by 1939, she had produced more than 100 wood engravings. Her cats were especially popular. ‘Cat on Branch’, 1927 (National Gallery of Canada). (www.gallery.ca/collection/a...) 2/4

Also true when your collaborator is your future self. 🙂

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Want to understand the brain? Watch Paul! #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Zotero now gives you the Figure as miniature if you hoover over a reference?? 🤯

New year, new preprint (+ last thesis paper!) Macroscale gradients of intracranial EEG power spectra follow familiar axes: sensory-motor and unimodal-transmodal 🕵️‍♀️ Gradients show overall stronger association to distance, but multimodal information was best in transmodal areas 🧠 tinyurl.com/ykacndd5

Happy New🎊Year, everyone! FENS has a super lineup of activities and events for 2025. First up is the #FRM2025 call for abstracts. Apply before 28 February. Don't miss this opportunity!🥳🎉 #FENS #neuroscience loom.ly/-oN1jko

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know www.thecollector.com/women-philos... 🧪

This is such an important point when communicating health research: average effects aren't super predictive at the individual level unless variance is also small. And the standard error is often confused for the population variance.

Postdoc opportunity in Krakow for those working on empirically-informed philosophy of perception, particularly on perceptual structures related to various sensory modalities: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833

Some time ago I wrote a non-technical introduction to marginal effects, in case you don't know the underlying logic yet. The idea is to use your model as a prediction machine that can be queried to return answers to precisely the questions you're interested in. www.the100.ci/2022/05/27/%...

embrace the worm www.tjmahr.com/quantile-qua...

All INCF Assembly 2024 recordings have been uploaded to INCF TrainingSpace: our free, open, online training platform! They are grouped into a collection and divided into courses - eg. all Session 1 talks are under Session 1's course etc. See the video collection here: bit.ly/4ffTGy8

Maurice Wilkins was born OTD in 1916. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography. He did not start out in biochemistry. He changed fields after being disillusioned by his work on the Manhattan Project. 🐋🌱 #HistSTM #STS 🧪 🐡

its all measurement / always has been

One thing that just keeps giving is @vincentab.bsky.social's marginaleffects package (see marginaleffects.com). It's just a complete game changer, moving from "trying to discern what model coefficients tell you after careful recoding" to "you know what, just compare these slopes, thx"

A nice image to capture 90% of what mentoring/casework involves. You don't need to point people towards the 'right' answers, just be there to listen to them and occasionally give your own views

Dang, I have to buy the new edition as well 😁😅 Thanks Steve! @stevenstrogatz.com ps. This video of Kuramoto talking about Kuramoto model never gets old: youtu.be/lac4TxWyBOg?...

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 Beautiful 1979 paper on the renormalization group and discussion of collective phenomana in ferromagnets etc. Amazing that in physics even challenging phenomena are simpler than biology (imo) (h/t @ricardsole.bsky.social) www.jstor.org/stable/24965...

Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!

We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

https://aeon.co/essays/when-ai-summaries-replace-hyperlinks-thought-itself-is-flattened The web represents the largest assembled repository of collective memory,… How will this repository be supported and developed if users rarely make it past the homepages of Google or ChatGPT? #AI 2/2

This is one of the most useful and satisfying, as well as enjoyable, discussions I've had about AI.

It has been hilarious, and sometimes frustrating, to read the AI/LLM enthusiasts claiming AGI was behind the corner. New evidence that when facing new math problems (ie, not used for training) the state of the art methods solve under 2% of them. #AGISaga #AI arxiv.org/abs/2411.04872

Check out our new tool to assess the rhythmicity of biological signals (a.k.a. how predictable is the phase in your favourite frequency band): Lagged Hilbert (auto)coherence. Way less noisy, more accurate, implemented in Python and MATLAB. #psychscisky 🧪 🧠🟦 🤖🧠 🧠📟 🧠📈

(recycled from X) My favorite take on LLM intelligence is by Paul Cisek on the connectionists mailing list: "We are like a bunch of professional magicians (...) wondering: 'Maybe there really is magic? I think it’s not that machines have passed the Turing Test, but rather that we failed it." 🔥

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.” I think of this as the “Powerball Principle” or—more darkly—the “Cancer Cluster Concept.” 🦋🦫🧪 #philsci #philtech #HistSTM

Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis" Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins" loreley.one/2024-09-pca/

Chat with any open source repo easily. Gitingest (free online tool) turns any GitHub repository into a single markdown file for pasting. Claude artifacts makes this 300k token output pretty easy to work with.