Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

Just finished @badphysicist.bsky.social's "Einstein's tutor: The story of Emmy Noether and the invention of modern physics." This was a fun read which I quite enjoyed!>

someone reminded me, I had forgotten, that I put this crazy curve in as a practice problem in my book, page 236

Here, the consequences of US admin science funding decisions are spelled out in equations and simulations. The TL; DR: it’s dire.

How not to defend science. A Decalogue for science defenders. (2020) Sven Ove Hansson. studiahumanitatis.eu/ojs/index.php/…… (1) Do not portray science as a unique type of knowledge. (2) Do not underestimate scientific uncertainty. (3) Do not describe science as infallible. 1/n

My thesis would smother me with a pillow in my sleep

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

differences in skills explain the female advantage in college attendance and part of the STEM gap but have little effect on the gender earnings gap due to offsetting effects across these pathways: women's verbal advantage facilitates educational access but also steers them toward lower-return 3/4

What happens when your specparam model specification doesn’t match your actual neural signal? I built a small WASM Python app to explore on simulations how model misfit can skew PSD shape and parameter estimates. Try it online here: danielborek.me/code-spectra... #EEG #MEG #Python #shiny

𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 I've shared book suggestions on the brain, conceptual foundations of biology, and much more. Check out the collection from past years. (interface not perfect at this point). sparkling-trifle-93b8c9.netlify.app

"if my PhD kind of taught me one thing about research, it’s that the work is never done, and there’s always a new research project to pursue with community, more students to collaborate with, more policies to work on, to change." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

"In a world of team science, there must be a better way to learn from failure, and not to see it as a burden. We all need to be doing a lot more to make failure a normal part of the scientific process." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A terrific illustration of the trickiness in this space; thank you for it. To paraphrase Joe LeDoux: When researchers call a gene "hedgehog", no one confuses the gene/protein and the animal. But call it a "fear" circuit, and all manner of chaos ensues ... +1 for belief and its neural correlates.

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Another rule is that if you actually challenge any of this stuff, some tech bro must say "Yeah but what do you know? They actually built these systems!" www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

Recognizing LLM-generated text isn’t just a skill—it’s a life sentence.

This #infographic by Stephanie Phung is always a favorite example during my workshops. ✅ What WORKS in this infographic? • Consistency: colors, fonts, font sizes and illustration style are the same throughout the entire visual. Everything in the visual belongs together. 1/7

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min! 1/n 🧵 github.com/posit-dev/gr...

From an old slide deck on replication research. Rewatching this episode of the Big Bang Theory hit differently after my own experiences with conducting replication research ;)

It's hard to pick my favorite widget of our course — but our new "Patchwork Playground" is a top candidate! 🏆 Learn the {patchwork} syntax 📦 as you interactively stitch up to 8 plots in any layout you can think of 🤯 Available now in "ggplot2 uncharted" 🤘 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module4/plot...

Paul Rosenbaum's Causal Inference book is strongly recommended even if you think you don't need another intro causal inference book. It's short, it's precise, and it's thoughtful about sensitivity analysis and using all the evidence we have. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Latest post, on why a lot of LLM-based results may just be a coin toss: kucharski.substack.com/p/ai-has-an-...

artefacts in MEG: here, the participant forgot to remove a belt with a metal buckle. the buckle moves when breathing, introducing low frequency artefacts. taking off the belt solves resolves this. 🙂

Biology is full of coconuts. 🥥

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG

Aperiodic parameters are systematically dependent on the frequency range used to estimate them. We evaluated intracortical recordings of 62 patients using both Specparam and IRASA. The full article is finally out. @martinirani.bsky.social @medelero.bsky.social ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Wasn’t joking

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

Astrocytes spread electrical influences but don't spike. Food for thought. Cell-type specific astrocyte activation is driven by cortical top-down modulation doi.org/10.64898/202...

Everyone should wait a few weeks for him to debug, but what @lakens.bsky.social did to my brittle idea is great, it'll become a huge success (and I'll happily contribute if he'll let me (i added it into a full app here for example)) his iteration seems the better idea here so happy someone did this!

#statstab #503 Reaction time distributions: an interactive overview Thoughts: Might be useful when you start off with this type of research. But I am curious what people think for no-nos with this approach. #reactiontime #rt #distributions #guide #r lindeloev.github.io/shiny-rt/

The next scikit-learn release will allow inspecting the type and values of attributes of fitted estimators in Jupyter notebooks & example code rendered as HTML in sphinx-gallery powered project websites. scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_exa...

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop: In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table. Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission. She did not win a Nobel prize.

New post, on whether I could get Claude Code to complete a data task that had taken me AGES a decade ago… kucharski.substack.com/p/how-much-t...

This looks like really useful software: a GUI-driven EEG analysis shell on MNE, specifically targeted towards resting state EEG dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Move over LLMs, it's time for wetware DOOM www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

AI is rapidly changing how we write code — but how should we use it in research? To kick off our 2026 “How-To” we welcome Russ Poldrack (@russpoldrack.org; Stanford University): 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅 22 April 2026 🔗 Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience

This Thursday (March 5th), we're hosting Changsong Zhou, but mind the time shift (from our usual 15:00 UTC to 14:00). Here's the registration link + more information about the talk: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

perennial reminder that this typographic thing: * * * is called a "dinkus" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus

looks like an awesome setup for brms

Here's what they don't tell you about topic modeling: preprocessing determines everything. Corpus homogeneity, document length, and context windows matter more than algorithm choice. BERTopic won't fix bad inputs. No model will.

I am doing a short workshop in this symposium (quoted below) for folks in and around Leipzig. Here's the abstract. I really indulged myself with this one. A Guerilla Approach to Scientific Workflow:

The preprint is now out : arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016

I especially like to use a data dictionary to add labels! :) cghlewis.com/blog/dict_cl...

cool R trick for those unaware: the {labelled} package can be used to set variable labels which are automatically used by some other packages, including {ggplot2} and {gtsummary}