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Daniel Borek
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🇵🇱 PL in Brussels | A PhD candidate trying to make sense of human 🧠 #oscillations in #EEG #MEG using #R and #Python | other interests: knowledge management, #metascience, #OpenScience, #PhilosophyOfScience, #DataViz | 🎥 #cinephile
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mvugt.bsky.social
These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
An astute book redresses our collective perception of a field that became known as ‘boys’ physics’.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology

by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel

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A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology Niels van Santen, Yves Rosseel, Daniele Marinazzo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2025.102969 Highlights • Information theory and psychology have a rich history • Information theoretical measures can be disconnected from information theory • These measures complement variance-based measures of variability and association • They are more general with respect to interpretation and possible data types • There are many extensions towards the investigation of higher-order interactions. Abstract In psychology, as in other sciences, information theory can be used as a tool to complement more standard regression-based methods of data analysis. It is important to see the potential of information theoretical measures as statistical tools without implying a connection to their origins in communication theory and engineering. The use of these measures may provide us with additional insights due to their sensitivity to non-linear relationships, their flexibility to the mixing of data types, and their more straightforward generalization towards investigating higher-order interactions. We briefly reintroduce information theory and compare several measures such as mutual information and co-information with correlation and regression-based methods for the investigation of variable dependence.
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
But wow - here's the beginning of the preface for Ruckmick 1938. I'm always taken aback when I read something from so long ago (here ~90 years) lamenting about the same things we're still lamenting about today. That's one reason I love these old books - they are so great for perspective.
To anyone who is conversant with the vast literature on the various phases of the affective life a treatise on this subject may appear to be a presumptuous undertaking. To one who is intimately working in this area it may even seem improbable that the stage can be set for any definite organization of the available materials. There is, on the one hand, a wealth ofij^^a^ya^red over a large territory, and there is, on the other hand, an^obscurr^ of focus which has led to a confusion of results. A perusal of the literature will reveal numerous theoretical writings and a far-llung line of research on many phases of feeling. But the serious student of systematic psychology may well stand aghast at the lack of standardization of terms, at the failure to obtain any substantial agreement as to what the feelings or the emotions are from a scientific angle, and at our lamentable inability to apply what we have learned from carefully controlled investigations in this sector of the mental life.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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dlevenstein.bsky.social
Some really good tips here. Wish I had learned number 3 earlier, or ever for that matter 🥲

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December 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Episode #34 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On balanced neural networks – with Nicolas Brunel

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn34

Cortical neurons seem to receive about the same amount of excitation and inhibition. One of the founders of this key idea in 1990s explains.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
We propose applications to physiological networks, climate, and finance
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Mini thread below 👇
Partial Information Rate Decomposition
Partial information decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multiunit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variable...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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bsiepe.bsky.social
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
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October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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davdittrich.economicscience.net
#EconSky
AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10165

"… find that productivity indeed increases.

… the increase in productivity is driven by less-experienced (peripheral) developers.

… 1/3
AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
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October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mvugt.bsky.social
"Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science
Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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gutlin.bsky.social
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

🧠🟦 🧠🤖

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Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles - Nature Neuroscience
The human brain cycles through a repertoire of brain networks on a 1-second timescale during rest and tasks. This cycling appears to allow periodic engagement of essential cognitive functions, with th...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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gutlin.bsky.social
How to develop good research questions

#CogSci #Neuroskyence

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How to develop good research questions - Nature Human Behaviour
Designing good research questions goes well beyond the standard definitions of clarity, focus and tractability, and even beyond ‘novelty’ in the strictest sense. This Comment describes the iterative c...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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gweindel.bsky.social
Absolutely lovely and very much needed for experimental #EEG 🤩
September 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Infographic illustrating different ways to model age. First panel shows two "extreme" cases; including age as a linear numerical predictor (df = 1) or including age as a categorical predictor (df = number of years of age minus 1). Second panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is categorized into broader bins (df = number of categories minus 1, here 5 - 1 = 4). Third panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is included with a polynomial (df = degrees of freedom of the polynomial, here 4). Fourth panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is modeled with the help of splines (df = degrees of freedom of the splines, here 4).
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
danielborek.bsky.social
TIL Adding a comment in #Rcode or #rmarkdown header in #R script that includes at least four trailing dashes (-), equal signs (=), or hashes (#) automatically creates a foldable code section visible in the outline In #RStudio.

# My Title ----
## Another Section =====
### A Third Section #####
August 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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vincentab.bsky.social
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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carlislerainey.bsky.social
Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month.

Some surprises here, at least for me.

#rstats

Code: gist.github.com/carl...
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
danielborek.bsky.social
a "real" vibe coding :)

www.thewayofcode.com#1
Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...
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May 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Barber Says You’ll Soon Need Haircut
April 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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manlius.bsky.social
I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology:

thebullshitmachines.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
A theme is emerging: attempts to reduce brain functions & dysfunctions to a few things (like an ion channel) aren’t working.

A similar story exists for anesthesia - knockout all the putative things and anesthesia still works. “Lists of things” is not the way.

The alternative? /1
April 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is the origin of tipping points? In dynamical systems, from cancer to ecology, this fundamental phenomenon shows the importance of bifurcations and critical thresholds. Check this and other lectures on the @upf.edu Complex Systems Lab YouTube Channel youtube.com/channel/UCEt...
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
Damn, joke's on me, I reversed mechanisms and behaviors 😂😂😂
March 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?
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What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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March 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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nschawor.bsky.social
📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM