Better Code, Better Science is back after a bit of travel. We also have a new web site (bettercode-book.org). Next week I will post a number of bonus articles based on sections added since the original posts - stay tuned! russpoldrack.substack.com/p/statistica...

I think this kind of thing deserves a response that reveals the assumptions that make "Rabois World" correct, including no mediators or colliders. I don't have time for that though. So here's my old series on what's wrong with thinking like a regression: elevanth.org/blog/2021/06...

A fun podcast with Maxime Gabella about our dreams about AI. The next frontier of AI is building agents that use statistical learning to tackle problem-specific challenges from data. Agents come with promises, but they need a statistical harness, as @probabl.ai's www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNpv...

Cette animation est saisissante. Elle montre, en seulement quelques secondes, l'accélération spectaculaire de la fréquence des vagues de chaleur au cours des 126 dernières années en France. 1/3

+1000% de mortalité chez les poules, +200% chez les porcs, +45% chez les bovins. Plusieurs millions d'animaux d'élevage sont morts sous l'effet de la canicule. 1/13

Konrad Kording argues that the best way to understand the brain may be to read its wiring directly rather than infer it from the outside. @kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast. Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

“agents should not directly touch the text of the paper. Paper text should be written by a human.” This is my lab’s explicit policy as well. As always, @mcxfrank.bsky.social nails it.

🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'm recruiting a post-doc to work on Tabular Foundation Models, one of the hotest topics in AI, where we are at the leading edge team.inria.fr/soda/files/2... This is an opportunity to develop the next-level tabular AI, blending deep learning and tables.

For those who are attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social brainhack, I will be giving a short presentation of this work at the neuroimaging statistics workshop, co-hosted with brainhack: sites.google.com/view/nsw2026

Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

La start-up française #MistralAI signe un partenariat stratégique avec le ministère des #Armées 👉"Garantir la #souveraineté et l’excellence technologique de la défense française" 👉La mise en œuvre du contrat sera supervisée par l’AMIAD www.bfmtv.com/tech/intelli...

"All intelligence is collective intelligence: each of us consists of a huge number of cells working together to generate a coherent cognitive being with goals, preferences, & memories that belong to the whole and not to its parts" @drmichaellevin.bsky.social paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37204591/

I think of it as this: LLMs lower the barrier of entry, and they make coders (beginners and experts) more productive. It's still worth investing in becoming an expert, because then you will get even more out of LLMs and will be able to deliver even better results.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Lots of interesting LLM releases last week. My fav was actually Olmo 3 (I love the Olmo series due to their full open-sourceness and transparency). If you are interested in reading through the architecture details, I coded it from scratch here: github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...

Interesting mystery. It is known that animals can learn to control neurons pretty much anywhere in the brain. But they can not learn to ignore hunger which probably means they can't turn of hunger sensing neurons. How is that avoided in the brain? They even have DA inputs.

New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I couldn't be more on board with this. Focusing on corruption/fraud/misconduct at the level of individual scientist appears to be misguided and counterproductive when systemic forces and selection biases are at play. This appears to be true even beyond the context of industry manipulation.

🚀 We’re hiring! Are you curious about how young children's brains develop? 🧠 👉 buff.ly/09zJXX2 💻 Postdoc (Computer Science) - on brain atlases & developmental trajectories in young kids buff.ly/sDffS1b 📋 Project Coordinator - lead the implementation & monitoring buff.ly/tMQ2gZn

Dans un contexte où la #Reproductibilité est clé pour la crédibilité de la science, ces journées rassemblent des scientifiques pour tenter de reproduire des études publiées. 👏 Bravo à toutes et tous ! 👉 Lire l'article : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Lefort-Besnard and Pron et al. present a survey and review on current infrastructures for sharing human neuroimaging data in the EU: doi.org/10.52294/001... @cmaumet.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

Vous êtes en dernière année d’école d’ingénieur ou de master spécialisé IA/embarqué/robotique et intéressé(e) par les problématiques autour de la distillation et de la quantization de modèles et des techniques d'optimisation de l'inférence ? Ce stage est pour vous. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

L’électronique ou la robotique t’intéresse ? 🤖 ➡️ RDV le mardi soir 18h-20h chaque semaine à l’ #Edulab de #Rennes 📍 Viens aussi découvrir aujourd’hui pendant l’ #OpenLab 14-18h (même endroit)

A sensitivity analysis of preprocessing pipelines: toward a solution for multiverse analyses with @melanieganzben1.bsky.social et al. Basically, adapting meta-analysis tools accountting for the correlations between pipelines direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Elodie Germani, Camille Maumet, et al: On the validity of fMRI mega-analyses using data processed with different pipelines doi.org/10.1162/imag...

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…? 🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code. inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...

Testez la version bêta du catalogue des logiciels libres de la recherche académique ! Une enquête est mise à disposition pour consolider et faire évoluer cette toute première version. www.ouvrirlascience.fr/lancement-de... #logiciellibre #opensource #scienceouverte #openscience

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier. Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture? ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

🧠 We have measured the speed of thought Researchers measured human thought at 10 bits/s – far slower than our sensory systems, which gather 1 billion bits/s, equivalent to streaming 125 MB of data per second. 🔗 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #Neuroscience #Brain #Cognition #SciComm 🧪

Another large-scale replication study that doesn't improve our understanding of anything. I know this is harsh but at some point we need to start asking questions that matter and focus on study quality and theoretical models instead of automatically replicating results in flashy mega-studies.

BIDS ‪@bidsstandard.bsky.social‬ is an great example of a community-driven data standard. Nice to see that the community governance model is going strong!

Bravo à Dr. Elodie Germani de l'équipe Empenn @Inria France ! @cmaumet.bsky.social www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/ill...

for those looking to replicate that classic science twitter energy 🧪 go.bsky.app/FGTURr3

Site pour estimer en quelques minutes notre empreinte carbonne annuelle: nosgestesclimat.fr

SMARTbiomed Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration smartbiomed.dk about to launch led by Naomi Wray. Lots of positions! Great opportunity to join Oxford Big Data Institute bdi.ox.ac.uk Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.

Thanks to all the speakers and attendees at the Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop, a satellite to OHBM 2024 in Seoul. Our program has been updated with slides from most talks in case you couldn't attend. Look out for NSW 2025 in Brisbane! sites.google.com/view/neuroim...

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Last year’s summer was the warmest in 2,000 years www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Collaborate on docs AND have privacy? 🤔 proton.me/blog/docs-pr...

Vous habitez dans la 4e circonscription d'Ille-et-Vilaine (Redon…) ou connaissez des gens qui y votent ? Votez et faites voter pour Mathilde HIGNET. C'est vital : c'était la meilleure députée sortante sur les dossiers écolos et agricoles ! Cf. le site : parlementerre.fr Nous avons besoin d'elle.

Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived @michaelemann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "It is absolutely critical ...that the public and policymakers understand the rising coastal threat from more intense, more damaging, and deadly hurricanes."

📰 Dans The Conversation, Maureen Bal et Raphaël Demias-Morisset, doctorants en science politique à l'IRM, estiment que le concept - controversé - d’« illibéralisme » peut servir à comprendre la convergence entre une partie de la droite et l'extrême droite : theconversation.com/...

Vous êtes conscient·e·s de l'urgence climatique, de la nécessité d'une transition écologique de l'agriculture. Mais vous hésitez à voter dimanche ou avez l'habitude de refuser de voter. Je vous en implore : lisez ce thread, sans doute le plus important que j'aie écrit jusqu'ici. 🔽🔽🔽

Le programme du NFP est de loin le plus précisément chiffré et équilibré, il bénéficie surtout aux pauvres et classes moyennes, il est soutenu par 300 économistes dont une prix Nobel. Macron a offert 20 milliards par an aux actionnaires via le CICE. Bardella prévoit de poursuivre la même politique.