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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

🧠🟦 🧠🤖

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

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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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely lovely and very much needed for experimental #EEG 🤩

Ladislas Nalborczyk @lnalborczyk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy to share a new preprint in which @paulbuerkner.com and I introduce a novel model-based approach for precisely estimating the onset and offset of M/EEG effects!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precise temporal localisation of M/EEG effects with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models

Time-resolved electrophysiological measurements such as those obtained through magneto- and electroencephalography (M/EEG) offer a unique window onto the neural activity underlying cognitive processes...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jul 16

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).

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Daniel Borek @danielborek.bsky.social · Aug 24

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 #####

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨 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

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Carlisle Rainey 👨‍💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social · Jun 3

Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month.

Some surprises here, at least for me.

#rstats

Code: gist.github.com/carl...

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Daniel Borek @danielborek.bsky.social · May 23

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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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · Apr 22

Barber Says You’ll Soon Need Haircut

Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Apr 22

Translation: “Company that sells AI employees says AI employees are less than a year away” www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away

Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Apr 21

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

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Apr 20

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

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Apr 18

Basic pain researchers Steven Prescott and Stéphanie Ratté critique the clinical relevance of preclinical studies in the field and highlight areas for improvement.

By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/pain/basic-p...

Basic pain research ‘is not working’: Q&A with Steven Prescott and Stéphanie Ratté

Prescott and Ratté critique the clinical relevance of preclinical studies in the field and highlight areas for improvement.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Apr 16

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...

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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · Mar 31

Damn, joke's on me, I reversed mechanisms and behaviors 😂😂😂

Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · Mar 31

With mechanisms like these, who needs behaviors?

My commentary on the latest by Thomas Robiglio, friends, and @lordgrilo.bsky.social

physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

With Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?

A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Mar 11

What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/w...

What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · Mar 10

📆 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

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · Feb 6

What is the role of chance (history) and deterministic laws (physics) in shaping life? Check out this inspiring paper by Temple Smith and former @sfiscience.bsky.social
faculty member Harold Morowitz on history, physics, and life origins. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · Feb 6

Oh Simon task included 😍*knuckle cracking sound*

Krish D. Singh @magnetokrishio.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jan 31

I also like his phrasing here, re "great lesson" we've learned from #IntergroupContact

One of social psychology’s great lessons is that prejudice decreases with friendly social contact between people of equal status, while minimal contact sustains prejudice. In today’s world, anti-immigrant sentiment in both Germany and the U.S. runs strongest in states with the fewest immigrants. West Virginians, whose state has the lowest proportion of undocumented immigrants, have been most likely to disagree that “the growing number of newcomers from other countries strengthens American society.”

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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · Jan 29

Niels Van Santen wrote a guide to the use of information theoretical measures in psychology/psychometrics. Any feedback is most welcome!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 24

A hitchhiker's guide to information theoretical measures in psychology: http://osf.io/vb5s6/

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · Jan 27

Wiktoria Julia Goryńska was born in Vienna in 1902 but worked successfully in Warsaw where, by 1939, she had produced more than 100 wood engravings. Her cats were especially popular. ‘Cat on Branch’, 1927 (National Gallery of Canada). (www.gallery.ca/collection/a...) 2/4

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Jan 22

Also true when your collaborator is your future self. 🙂

Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Jan 22

When sharing data, 3 things you can do to help ensure your collaborator doesn't spend countless hours trying to understand the files:

1. Add a README to the folder, explaining its contents
2. Organize files in subfolders
3. Name files clearly so that contents can be inferred

They will thank you 🙏

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · Jan 21

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Jan 18

Want to understand the brain? Watch Paul!
#neuroscience
#neuroskyence

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Jan 18

Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek youtu.be/CnT7jaQX4X8?... - if you want to understand what brains are for (and their functional organisation), this is the way... 👍👏

Rethinking Brain Mechanisms in the Light of Evolution with Paul Cisek

YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University

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Daniel Borek @danielborek.bsky.social · Jan 17

I would say that learning and remembering is necessary for cognition (some recent studies shows that the plants might indeed „learn” and remember across its lifespan ) Is having a representation necessary for learning and remembering I don’t know (maybe it’s a question of definition)

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