Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience

This workshop is FREE btw

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Important message. TLDR; cite the software not the paper.

An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining. This needs to change. That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.

While maintenance is a big part of the software life-cycle, user support can be just as time consuming - if not more so. Support needs can be reduced by providing (and maintaining) decent documentation, but this is also not something that funders seems to consider important.

An important call from a lot of people I worked together with on MNE Python. If you use free open source software for your research, please read this. It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.

Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...

🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper: UnfoldSim.jl New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond! 📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos... 🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo... With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe

Congrats to @brittawestner.bsky.social (NEMOlab alumna 😊), Floris @predictivebrain.bsky.social, and team! Did you win more cake? 🧁🍰🧁🍰😜

Honoured to be paper number 500, together with my co-authors @predictivebrain.bsky.social et al! 🎉 Congratulations, @imagingneurosci.bsky.social and thanks to the Editors for making the famous move to start from scratch 💙

New paper published with co-first-author Ella Bosch, and Christian Utzerath, Jan Buitelaar, and @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! We find that neural adaptation to familiar images is not different between autistic and non-autistic peers. #MEG #neuroscience

Encouraging to see 5000+ protesters at our local Amsterdam protests against the budget cuts in higher education in the NL! In this time of geopolitical tensions, changing climate, democratic backsliding, & tech revolutions, governments should *invest* in knowledge & the future of the next generation

What are you doing on 28-31 October 2025? Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee... Registration coming soon!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

3500 people protesting the right-wing Dutch government's 1.3 billion € budget cuts to higher education. This is an extinction-level event for dutch research, and @Radboud_uni @radboudumc and the HAN are having none of it. #nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

Against the budget cuts in higher education. 🟥

“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.” 5/n

If you are working at Radboud University, I encourage you to join the strike! Here is the programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 2/n

🧠 Do you know about Research Software Engineers (RSEs)? #RSEMidlands2025 #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador 💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝

MNELAB, a GUI for #EEG/#MEG analysis in #Python, has reached the v1.0.0 milestone! - UI improvements such as an improved sidebar - Improved Montage dialog - Improved Filter dialog - A new dialog to inspect channel statistics - Improved export to BrainVision format github.com/cbrnr/mnelab

📢 New preprint from the lab: We are very excited to report the discovery of an oscillation in the Central Thalamus using rare direct recordings of human thalamic electrophysiology. The novel oscillation is tightly coupled to specific, natural states of consciousness.🧵

Came across this piece of advice, which I've heard time again in the past, but I'm actively working on incorporating in the new year. The author hit the nail right on the head about the feeling we get when writing feels so high stakes. Consistent writing as a practice reduces that feeling.

Hey friends, is there a starter pack for developmental cognitive #neuroscience? 🧠 👶

Are you #QueerinSTEM in the fields of #neuroscience or #psychology? Please fill out our survey if you haven't already. We're close to 300 responders, but I know we can get an even better (and hopefully diverse) sample! Also, please share and/or tag others (but don't out anyone). #PrideInSTEM

Today we protest to support the future of the Netherlands. with more than 20.000 people we say 'Stop the cuts to science and science education!' #woinactie #dja

Important protest against the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands today! As a strong believer in science & education, and as someone personally affected (e.g., my starter grant was cut retrospectively), I see these cuts as a threat to the international standing of the Netherlands!

Sidelined by a foot injury, I can only participate virtually in today's demonstration against budget cuts in higher education. Standing with all my colleagues who went to Den Haag today to make our voices heard! 🟥 #WOinActie

My 15' talk "the modern EEG regression toolkit: rERPs, TRFs, mixed models, and more" is now on youtube youtu.be/vnlbVDarRUc?... thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!

That's a wrap on CuttingEEGX 🎬 ! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Thank you for coming to our 10th birthday! You gave us the best gift: 336 attendees from 33 countries! To keep the party going, all the sessions are now available on our youtube channel -> www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Big announcement: Jupyter Book 2.0 has an alpha release 🎉 This is a major overhaul to use the @MystMarkdown engine under the hood. Lots of improvements and lots of changes. If you're willing to try bleeding edge tools, try it out and give feedback! blog.jupyterbook.org/posts/2024-1...

If it helps anyone: I have been working on a "BIDS inventory" of ALL (not just openneuro) open BIDS datalad datasets to gather info about them (like 'do they have accessible derivatives?'). Currently it lives here as a disgustingly-flat lists. github.com/neurodatasci... github.com/neurodatasci...

If you are not happy with the current science publishing system, take a look at #PCIManifesto and get involved. I haven’t heard about it until today’s #CuttingEEG session but I’m already sold and will see how I can contribute. peercommunityin.org/pci-manifesto/

#throwbackMEEG - Do you remember when you came across the #CuttingEEG crew? 👐 Were you looking for tutorials? for a community ? for great social events? Tell us in the comments and click here to register to the next event → cuttingeegx.org