@guidomeijer.com has #neuropixels preprocessing worked out for you!

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the Netherlands donned red and marched on Sunday to protest the Dutch government’s policy toward Israel, exceeding the turnout for a similar event in May.

I’m hearing rumors that thousands of people are calling the ICE tip line to report little green men and other aliens from outer space. That’s not why ICE set up this number, so you should absolutely NOT call that tip line to report those types of aliens. 👽

I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

Kilosort4 detects a LOT of neurons, I recorded 15k neurons in one year 🤯 Traditionally, one would curate these detected units to see if they are well isolated single neurons. This is not feasible anymore, so today let's look at three options that are out there to automate this process! 🤖👇

"Urgent plea to Dutch higher education institutions: Cut ties with genocide and refuse police on campus!"

openletter.earth/nederlandse-...

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

Come study at the @dondersinst.bsky.social Neurophysics Master!

"We are not just products of our genes or our environment, but of their dance across time. The past has shaped our DNA-but the future is ours to shape".
Beautiful use of comics for skillful science communication of a complex & nuanced topic, by @dr-appie.bsky.social & @lizahaart.bsky.social. 🧬🧪👇

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.

A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/03/u...

⏰ Today's the day:

please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us.

Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry.

Some new results to inform this debate.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christopher Cover, Alexander J. Poplawsky, et al:

Awake rodent fMRI: Gradient-echo echo planar imaging versus compressed-sensing fast low-angle shot

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:

Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

THE TOP 50 GUARDIAN HEADLINES 2024 - RANKED!

part 1, 50-26

50. How I turned my gap year into an ethical-criminal "dementerprise"

49. Could Trump's war on NATO's "Axis of Woke" save the marmoset?

48. Microdosed and hairless in the bath, I sang old CND protest songs

I'm excited to share another project we've been working on: The Transmitter's first book, which includes some of our favorite essays from our first ~9 months. Download a copy here: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-...

A few papers I think worth reading. Mostly open access.

Causal inference is hard:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

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