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Benedikt Ehinger

@benediktehinger.bsky.social

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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 · 15d

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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Mike X Cohen PhD, Sincxpress Education @mikexcohen.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

Illustration of phase coherence!

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for organizing! It was a blast!

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 9d

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 · 8d

Thanks!

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Michael Höfler @tontrug.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

Never got a response from the authors either :(

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 13d

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 · 13d

DDM = cognitive model, no????

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 13d

Very strong for me!!

Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 15d

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 🤗

a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 15d

Wait a minute.

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

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 15d

I don't read it that regularly anymore, but this one... :S

www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Dinosaur Comics!

to be fair, how else am i to know that my computer has the raw, unchained power of a VALU-MAXX JUNIOR brand processor??