Who thinks this is an acceptable statement about Code Availability given the move towards Open Science? Are you out of your mind @ethz.ch? Today is 2025, not 2005. I'm also surprised that @natcomms.nature.com accepts such a statement. It is ridiculous really. Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

australian street style, 1973

This is impressively good

It's looking increasingly less likely that AI will take over the world and replace humanity in the process. Maybe GPT-6?

The EU wants to ban words like "burger" for veggie burgers. What are we supposed to call it then? Veggie thing formerly known as burger? Go do something useful with your time idiots, this is why the UK left. Please sign petition and stop the meat lobby. weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

This is a dumb take. Students already know how to use AI. Regardless, we need to teach them *about* AI, and they need to learn fundamental skills (find sources, reason, write, program) *without* AI. Only once such core skills are acquired can they even evaluate AI output.

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job. If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job. You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies. Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

Another example of my favorite recent quote I saw somewhere: “the dumbest person you know is being told by AI they’re absolutely right”

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉. @willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data meegsim.readthedocs.io I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!) #brainmovies

This all sounds great, but I think it starts with requiring that people power their studies to detect Null effects. Pick a SESOI and do power analysis for a TOST rather than NHST. Publication will be much easier for such results whichever way the chip falls. Or go Bayes. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Zappa was a visionary

As I was saying…

"Next" is such a confusing word. If "next" means "coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking", why isn't "next Friday" the same as "upcoming Friday"? Why is there this strange interaction with the week in which the day takes place? I have just stopped using the word "next".

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

I teach 2nd year neuroscience for psych - after grading nothing but chat lab reports last semester, we switched to handwritten worksheets; students get 20 min to answer 1-3 questions based only on that tutorial's content, no digital notes allowed. It's been v. successful, plus in-class exams ↗️20%! 🤷‍♀️

Today I had a curious encounter with my 4-yo son. He told me he discovered that his Batman action figure could switch the Batman logo to something else. He showed me, touched its arm, shook it and said: “there, it changed.” The thing is: the logo is fixed and cannot change. So what had happened?

Yep. This. I worked in tv for longer than I like to admit. This works.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

"De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten [AI] zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van achttien wetenschappers, onder leiding van onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit.” www.scienceguide.nl/2025/09/ai-s... 1/🧵

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Not much you can do in Europe, but if you happen to have a Disney+ subscription: now is the time to cancel it (ABC that pulled Jimmy Kimmel owns the Walt Disney company). Trump's words, after Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were pulled: "That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers]". Free speech no more.

New preprint out together with @mheilbron.bsky.social We find that a stimulus' representational magnitude—the L2 norm of its DNN representation—predicts intrinsic memorability not just for images, but for words too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New people are signing our open letter almost everyday, and it is so heartening to see. Especially good to see familiar names sign. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Academics should push back harder on AI in education. Paraphrasing: "Children do not learn how to spell while using spellcheck software. Children do not learn basic arithmetic operations with a calculator in hand. Likewise, we should not teach students how to write academic papers with AI."

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I've only read the abstract and I already know this paper is so very correct 👀

Indeed, we were already having problems teaching students to learn how to write with the available man power before AI, and now it's starting to look like armageddon. Not just BA, but also MA and eventually PhD degrees are going to suffer deeply. No solution in sight, very disturbing.

Most neuroscientists are materialists. Out of body experiences challenge this, but they occur when the EEG suggests recovery of consciousness after aa heart attack (Parnia et alb2023).

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

I have noticed a tendency of big accounts to mute and block the hell out of each and every person that is in their view not constructive. I understand the need to get away from the trolls, but some caution might be wise.

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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🚨 first time ever full brain-wide map of the activity of single neurons during decision-making. 600k+ neurons covering 279 brain areas, which together represent 95% of the mouse brain volume! Exciting times ahead! 🐭🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📜 ¡New preprint! 📜 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠 With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including: @zefanzheng.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social @jaanaru.bsky.social @bechir-jarraya.bsky.social

We have been working on a project where we try to "break" Weber's law, but to our surprise the law itself is pretty flimsy under standard conditions. I'm curious to hear any suggestions for a robust demonstration (specifically, where the just noticeable difference is proportional to magnitude).

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

What have the Romans ever done for us? Brilliant Picard version. youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA

Post a movie scene that made you laugh uncontrollably when you first saw it. youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs?...

Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Do you fall for the Müller-Lyer optical illusion? Psychologists had long thought that it depends on your cultural background—the famous "carpentered-world" hypothesis. Now, that hypothesis is widely disputed. Here's why. 🧪 by @norabradford.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

The internet at its best (in the comment section below this post)

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

What makes a puzzle hard? I found this video delightful.

In a 2015 TED Talk, Ms. Shirley said, “You can always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads — they’re flat on top from being patted patronizingly.” Funny and agonizingly true at the same time.

In @elife.bsky.social: Together with @phil-johnson.bsky.social, @nielskloosterman.bsky.social, @timostein.bsky.social and @svangaal.bsky.social we respond to a critical comment on our Criterion paper by @krsandberg.bsky.social and Overgaard. Our response can be found here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...