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Matthieu Chidharom @matthieu-mx.bsky.social · 10d

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you! Wishing you the best in Adelaide!

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks Will!

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 20d

How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task

Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...

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Kirsten Adam @kirsten-adam.bsky.social · 22d

New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)

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

Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex

Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Sep 4

Additionally, using representational similarity analysis (RSA) we found that both the breath of spatial attention and the modality of remembered items reliably predicted some variance in EEG activity. However, a purely item-based measure of storage explained unique and separate variance!

Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Aug 21

Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · Jun 20

Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules

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

Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules

Abstract. A defining feature of human cognition is our ability to respond flexibly to what we see and hear, changing how we respond depending on our current goals. In fact, we can rapidly associate al...

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Jun 18

That godawful NYT article on an "unpublished study on puberty blockers" was favorably cited by Thomas (p22, fn9)! Bad reporting can easily construct a narrative that science is "biased" which is then weaponized

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Jun 18

And, this is how even "liberal media" like NYT nonstop pushing anti-trans bias (like turning a researcher not wanting to publish a null result with some methodological issues into a controversy) has caused so much harm -- it's all the narrative

Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Jun 18

Basically saying "you can ignore scientific consensus as long as I can find some made-up evidence of bias." Maybe, just maybe, people who have advanced training in a field actually do know more (this is why overturning Chevron was terrible too)

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Jun 18

Not looking forward to this getting quoted - may be one of the dumbest words committed to judicial opinion. Don't assume that "experts" are correct, but assume that judges are better at science than scientists?

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Apr 29

And this is why musk, Vance etc are so opposed to scientific funding - they see any line of inquiry that doesn't generate profit for themselves as "wasteful." They want it to reinforce their ideology first and then search for truth ... Which is just bad science

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Apr 29

It's valuable to distinguish science as a method from science as applied. Obviously the questions asked, methods used, etc are biased as a result of the human element. But those are more a flaw of people instead of science itself

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johno_5 @johno5.bsky.social · Feb 8

UChicago has ~$108 million in NIH grants. According to most recent F&A rate info I found (2019-20), UChicago has an F&A rate of 62% for on-campus grants, so around $67million in F&A support. If the rate is cut to 15%, that’ll be a loss of $50 million in support. That’s thousands of jobs lost

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Dec 30

One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012.

United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade.
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts

In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 30

The problem here was that they jumped to make the diagnosis based just on symptoms when it probably wasn't supported by the evidence. Dr. Pham omitted findings from the pediatrician (expanding head) and neurosurgeon (chronic hematomas) which would have supported another cause

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 30

The parents filed a lawsuit against the hospital for refusing to provide medical records from the birth (probably also a HIPAA violation). The hospital says they purged (!!!) the records. Looks like the hospital might be doing shady stuff to cover something up.

trellis.law/doc/22095065...

COMPLAINT & JURY DEMAND FILED - DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATIONREDACTION MAY BE NEEDED October 14, 2024

COMPLAINT & JURY DEMAND FILED - DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATIONREDACTION MAY BE NEEDED October 14, 2024. Read court documents, court records online and search Trellis.law comprehensive lega...

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · Dec 22

variable names *are* code comments

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 19

I find it pretty useful as a smart autocomplete tool, saves a lot of time as long as you double check. Also use it (I know this is bad) to write comments when too lazy to

Wouldn't use it to write anything critical tho, and wouldn't pay for it

Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 19

I don't \n\n know why

would you do that?

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Dec 18

Terrific! Paywalls are disappearing! No more 12 month embargo between when NIH funded work appears in a journal and when it becomes accessible to all (as of December 2025).

www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

NIH issues new policy to speed access to agency-funded research results

The 12-month embargo period before manuscripts resulting from NIH funding must be made publicly available is removed.

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 18

And a big part of the polarization is that the people they work well for (hardworking but need extra effort to get the material), really like it, but the people they don't (either lazy/unmotivated or people who are generally ahead of the class/find it easy), really hate it

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Darius Suplica @dsuplica.bsky.social · Dec 18

I think flipped classrooms *probably* end up teaching better but feel worse to students, mostly because they involve a lot of relatively unengaging asynchronous content, and tend to teach less material (or more slowly) than traditional lectures (plus for some and minus for others).

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