Benedikt Ehinger
@benediktehinger.bsky.social
Comp-#CogSci TT-Prof - follow.me @ @[email protected]
🧠, #vision, #eyetracking, #cognition, VR/mobile #EEG, methods, design (www.thesis-art.de), teaching & supervising
our lab mainly develops in #julialang
🧠, #vision, #eyetracking, #cognition, VR/mobile #EEG, methods, design (www.thesis-art.de), teaching & supervising
our lab mainly develops in #julialang
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S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
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I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15).
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position in NeuroAI for Video Perception in the Human Brain
<p><span>Are you interested in using AI to unravel the mysteries of the brain? Do you want to perform cutting-edge NeuroAI research and leverage deep learning to understand human vision? Then check out the vacancy below and apply for a PhD position in this exciting research direction.</span></p>
werkenbij.uva.nl
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15).
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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If you are working with #JuliaLang in health, medicine, or biomedical research, consider submitting an abstract to the 🩺 Health Mini-Symposium at JuliaCon 2026 (10–15 August 2026, Mainz, Germany). @thecedarprince.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
If you are working with #JuliaLang in health, medicine, or biomedical research, consider submitting an abstract to the 🩺 Health Mini-Symposium at JuliaCon 2026 (10–15 August 2026, Mainz, Germany). @thecedarprince.bsky.social
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Y'all? Never again is now.
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Y'all? Never again is now.
Natalie is sheer amazing. Any faculty/company would be very lucky to have her!
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
January 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Natalie is sheer amazing. Any faculty/company would be very lucky to have her!
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I didn't even realize how long I had been waiting for a tool like this!
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
I didn't even realize how long I had been waiting for a tool like this!
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still one of the best explanations of principal component analysis (pca), explained at different levels from layman to the more math inclined stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132...
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues
In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues.
I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly li...
stats.stackexchange.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
still one of the best explanations of principal component analysis (pca), explained at different levels from layman to the more math inclined stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132...
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Great article, this is what matters most on Earth right now. Forget the chaotic fascist. Repeat: forget the orange noise!
January 11, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Great article, this is what matters most on Earth right now. Forget the chaotic fascist. Repeat: forget the orange noise!
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nils Harmening, Alexander von Lühmann, and Benjamin Blankertz:
Data-driven head model individualization from digitized electrode positions or photogrammetry improves M/EEG source localization accuracy
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Data-driven head model individualization from digitized electrode positions or photogrammetry improves M/EEG source localization accuracy
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nils Harmening, Alexander von Lühmann, and Benjamin Blankertz:
Data-driven head model individualization from digitized electrode positions or photogrammetry improves M/EEG source localization accuracy
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Data-driven head model individualization from digitized electrode positions or photogrammetry improves M/EEG source localization accuracy
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown):
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
Introduction to Principles of MRI — Principles of MRI
larsonlab.github.io
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown):
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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I'm happy to announce the release of LastCall.jl
We can call Rust code from Julia! like Cxx.jl
github.com/AtelierArith...
We can call Rust code from Julia! like Cxx.jl
github.com/AtelierArith...
GitHub - AtelierArith/LastCall.jl: It's the last call for headache.
It's the last call for headache. Contribute to AtelierArith/LastCall.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
I'm happy to announce the release of LastCall.jl
We can call Rust code from Julia! like Cxx.jl
github.com/AtelierArith...
We can call Rust code from Julia! like Cxx.jl
github.com/AtelierArith...
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A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology
by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology
by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OMG... Worth a read. How, when, and why to use icons - and when NOT.
Original post: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/...
Original post: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/...
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
OMG... Worth a read. How, when, and why to use icons - and when NOT.
Original post: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/...
Original post: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/...
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I have been asked several times how we draw the 3D Figures for of our papers, so I wrote a blog post on it. This does not replace a Blender tutorial, just a couple specifics for scientific papers:
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I have been asked several times how we draw the 3D Figures for of our papers, so I wrote a blog post on it. This does not replace a Blender tutorial, just a couple specifics for scientific papers:
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
- import images as planes
- render edges
- transparent BG
chriswolfvision.medium.com/creating-3d-...
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This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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🚨 New preprint!
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Neural representations of visual memory in inferotemporal cortex reveal a generalizable framework for translating between spikes and field potentials
Translating neurophysiological findings requires understanding the relationship between common measures of brain activity in animals (spiking activity) and humans (local field potentials, LFP). Prior ...
www.biorxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
🚨 New preprint!
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵 (1/10)
🧠🟦 🧠💻
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For this week's #TidyTuesday, I visualized the themes of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol.' Used ggpage for a page-by-page layout of the novel with color-coded words.
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...
#RStats #dataviz
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...
#RStats #dataviz
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
For this week's #TidyTuesday, I visualized the themes of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol.' Used ggpage for a page-by-page layout of the novel with color-coded words.
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...
#RStats #dataviz
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...
#RStats #dataviz
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Yeah! Let's get this year started off right.
A new theoretical model for everyone's favorite sensitive and specific neural marker.
So why is it a marker of goals if it is called the Reward Positivity? 1/4
A new theoretical model for everyone's favorite sensitive and specific neural marker.
So why is it a marker of goals if it is called the Reward Positivity? 1/4
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Yeah! Let's get this year started off right.
A new theoretical model for everyone's favorite sensitive and specific neural marker.
So why is it a marker of goals if it is called the Reward Positivity? 1/4
A new theoretical model for everyone's favorite sensitive and specific neural marker.
So why is it a marker of goals if it is called the Reward Positivity? 1/4
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2025 seems to be the end of p-curve. This preprint shares what we have learned from 10 years of p-curve results.
replicationindex.com/2026/01/03/w...
replicationindex.com/2026/01/03/w...
What a Decade of P-Curve Tells Us About False-Positive Psychology - Replicability-Index
The File-Drawer Problem A single study is rarely enough to provide sufficient evidence for a theoretically derived hypothesis. To make sense of inconsistent results across multiple studies, psychologi...
replicationindex.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
2025 seems to be the end of p-curve. This preprint shares what we have learned from 10 years of p-curve results.
replicationindex.com/2026/01/03/w...
replicationindex.com/2026/01/03/w...
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New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
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Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.
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> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
December 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available.
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data.
annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
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are you looking for someone with expertise in analysis of neuroimaging data (fMRI/DTI/EEG)? see ⬇️
I’ve mostly kept this space professional, but today I need to share something and ask for your help 🙏🏻
I’ve dedicated my entire career to neuroscience research in Russia. Through challenging times, my colleagues and I have done our best to continue the work we love and believe in...(1/4)
I’ve dedicated my entire career to neuroscience research in Russia. Through challenging times, my colleagues and I have done our best to continue the work we love and believe in...(1/4)
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
are you looking for someone with expertise in analysis of neuroimaging data (fMRI/DTI/EEG)? see ⬇️
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📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Interesting study, quite related to recent work with @theneurocookies.bsky.social on modelling event durations direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
The Role of Temporal Factors in Processing Rapid Serial Visual Presentations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694535v1
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Interesting study, quite related to recent work with @theneurocookies.bsky.social on modelling event durations direct.mit.edu/imag/article...