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Benedikt Ehinger

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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

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 17d

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

EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Mike X Cohen PhD, Sincxpress Education @mikexcohen.bsky.social · 7d

Why I left academia and neuroscience.

This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 2d

When is work not work? What is the workiest work?

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

Work that isn’t counted as work

An interesting LinkedIn post from some colleagues musing on the “expectation of free service” has been stuck in my head for a few days now. In my university, we have a workload model wh…

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com

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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · 4d

Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure.

stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...

#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia's SciML Infrastructure - Stochastic Lifestyle

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia’s SciML Infrastructure So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM s...

www.stochasticlifestyle.com

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Simon Danisch @simi.bsky.social · 2d

Finally announcing Bonito.jl! 🎉 A Julia web framework that went from "neglected prototype" to something I'm genuinely proud of.

Reactive UIs, rich widgets, Makie integration, deploy anywhere (Jupyter/VSCode/web/static HTML)
makie.org/website/blog...

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 5d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe release the illustration under cc-by as a vector? Then others don't need to reinvent the graph :)

Beautiful indeed!

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · 4d

Illustration of phase coherence!

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for organizing! It was a blast!

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 7d

Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...

fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short

This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · 8d

Added 3 slides to my "dear students, don't use LLMs" slidedeck. Here's how it works:

1. Generated map of <our country/city> from prompt "Generate an image: a schematic map of the <X> with major roads, cities, and landmarks."
Discuss how obviously wrong it is. Very fun, many lolz, silly LLM. 🤣

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks!

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 10d

Cool! Ist the data available somewhere? It is written "on osf" but without a link :/

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Michael Höfler @tontrug.bsky.social · 14d

Robust tests should be the default, not the backup. New preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps... #statistics #psychology #replication #testing

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 12d

That was a reference to the Farrell book - it's bout modelling of cognition, and ssm's were one example. I always found that a bit curious. I agree completely with you :)

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 14d

Never got a response from the authors either :(

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 14d

I used to be one of those people who insisted that the word "data" was plural and that "data is" was wrong.

I think I was the one who was wrong, after I read this.

www.arrantpedantry.com/2012/08/07/t...

The Data Is In, pt. 2

In the last post, I said that the debate over whether data is singular or plural is ultimately a question of how we know whether a word is singular or plural, or, more accurately, whether it is cou…

www.arrantpedantry.com

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 14d

DDM = cognitive model, no????

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 15d

Very strong for me!!

Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 15d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 16d

Well deserved! Very much looking forward what awesome science will come out from your lab :-)

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 16d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 16d

Andrey's second point is an important insight. Behind the authorship system lurks this vague and un-explicit auteur (in the sense of a brilliant film director or artist) mentality and attachment to a "great minds" model of science.

Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 18d

I wonder if there is a way to connect credit statements to a single ID provider to have a track-record of contribution? But more globally, I think people care about authorship because it creates status, serving as a measure of intellectual contribution. So it's not likely to go away.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 16d

Wait a minute.

Why aren't we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's dissertation.

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