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Colin Hoy @colinwhoy.bsky.social · 2d

Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying

Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 2d

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · 3d

They even have a bike parking spot for IPCC Nobel laureates:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com 🙏🏽

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 25d

An insightful & enjoyable conversation with computational cognitive scientists Dr @olivia.science & Prof @irisvanrooij.bsky.social about their paper 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia'

Give it a listen❗
Share this & the paper w university leadership & administrators❗

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26d

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

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Kira Vibe Jespersen @kiravibe.bsky.social · 26d

New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Sep 6

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · Aug 29

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex

Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...

doi.org

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 25

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've reviewed for @elife.bsky.social and liked the experience. However, they still charge APCs, and have a confusing way of defining paper acceptance.

The examples above are diamond open acces which is what we should strive for IMO.

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 18

I was not expecting that. Guess it makes sense people would try to game the most prestigious brands due to high reward / almost no risk.

So basically, boycotting leaves us with very few places to publish. But alternatives exist. Open mind and apeer Communtiy come to mind.

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 17

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 17

maybe let's stop reviewing for for-profit publishers? I have gladly declined a few Elsevier request recently.

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Aug 5

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Jul 21

Personally I think fMRI reflects mostly population firing which is best captured by high-gamma (>70Hz) and is not necessarily oscillatory. It does, however, inversely correlate with lower frequencies which are quite oscillatory (e.g., alpha) perhaps because oscillations are related to inhibition.

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Jul 21

fMRI best correlates with higher freqs (gamma / high gamma) and inversely correlates with lower freqs (alpha, beta).

A study on gamma:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interesting work on fMRI-EEG:

doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Recent work with OPMs/iEEG/fMRI:

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

Hemodynamic Signals Correlate Tightly with Synchronized Gamma Oscillations

Functional imaging methods monitor neural activity by measuring hemodynamic signals. These are more closely related to local field potentials (LFPs) than to action potentials. We simultaneously record...

www.science.org

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Jun 29

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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · Jun 3

We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

asterainstitute.substack.com

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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · May 30

Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres.
He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates

Andres Canales-Johnson @canalesjohnson.bsky.social · May 30

I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

Large-scale interactions in perception and prediction across species | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki

Andres Canales-Johnson research group

www.helsinki.fi

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · May 6

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv!

Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation

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

#EEG
#neuroscience
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Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation

Harmonicity is an important feature for auditory perception as it influences pitch processing, memory and hearing in noisy environments. However, the neural substrates of processing harmonic and inhar...

www.biorxiv.org

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David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺 @dquiroga.bsky.social · Apr 18

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Apr 17

as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc

anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito...

the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech

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