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AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 14

Harvard will not comply.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
— Harvard President Alan M. Garber

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...

www.thecrimson.com

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SpikeInterface @spikeinterface.bsky.social · Feb 7

#ecephys #spikesorting
Hi all!

📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We just released SpikeInterface v0.102.0!

List of major changes and a list of all PRs in the release notes here:
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...

You can update your current version with:
>>> pip install -U spikeinterface

Happy spike sorting!

SpikeInterface 0.102.0 release notes — SpikeInterface documentation

spikeinterface.readthedocs.io

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Apr 5

#handsoff Philadelphia!

Protesters marching on the street in Philadelphia

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Apr 3

This seems like a great idea!

The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · Apr 3

venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

Anthropic flips the script on AI in education: Claude’s Learning Mode makes students do the thinking

Anthropic launches Claude for Education with Learning Mode that teaches critical thinking rather than providing answers, partnering with top universities to transform AI's role in education.

venturebeat.com

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Mar 27

LLMs can be unreliable, but some are very reliable if used in specific controlled ways. And you can quantify the reliability using benchmark tasks.

Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Mar 24

Introducing nbfiddle - a fresh take on Python notebooks! No login or installation needed. Edit & run code right in your browser and share instantly via GitHub gists. AI productivity integration. Open source.

nbfiddle.app

#openscience #datascience

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Mar 7

At the Stand Up For Science demonstration, Washington Square Park, Manhattan

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️

Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th!

More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️

Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Neurosift is expanding with new visualization plugins each week.

Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Neurosift can lazy load data from remote HDF5 files hosted on S3. That's what enables exploration and visualization of NWB files on DANDI Archive, and other h5 files on public repositories.

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Intended to be viewed on a desktop. You're probably on your phone, so enable desktop mode.

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Feb 27

Neurosift v2 has been released, check it out!

neurosift.app

@dandiarchive.org @nwb.org @openneuro.bsky.social

#openscience #opensource #neurophysiology

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · Feb 25

The freedom to live without fear of discrimination is a core American value, but anti-equality lawmakers in Iowa are trying to undermine that freedom by fast-tracking a bill that would remove civil rights protections for trans and queer Iowans.
Iowans are showing up for our community.

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 23

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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PLOS @plos.org · Feb 21

PLOS remains committed to the principles of #OpenScience: integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration.

Recent policy changes in the U.S. raise concerns about the impact on the global research community and scientific integrity. Read the statement: plos.io/3D4O8cH

PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog

Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

plos.io

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neurosift.app @neurosift.app · Dec 19

Explore NWB files interactively with the Neurosift chat interface.

* Load an NWB file (e.g., Dandiset 000473)
* Analyze data, generate Python code, and create plots in chat
* Embed visualizations like raster plots, LFP data, or histograms

magland.github.io/neurosift-bl...

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Dec 19

There are a lot of advantages of standardizing your data with the Neurodata Without Borders format. You get to hook into the #nwb ecosystem of analysis software, visualization software, and web based tools such as @www.dandiarchive.org and @neurosift.app. I'm happy to see them on bluesky!

Neurodata Without Borders @nwb.org · Dec 18

Hello world! We are excited to be part of the budding neurophysiology community here on Bluesky! We will be using this channel to promote NWB-related events posts, and efforts in open neuroscience.

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Dec 19

DANDI Archive is an amazing resource for preserving, sharing, and exploring neurophysiology datasets. I'm excited to welcome them to bluesky!

DANDI Archive @dandiarchive.org · Dec 18

Hello World! We are excited to use this platform to promote open data in neuroscience!

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Dec 15

I guess discovery would include testing a hypothesis, developing a method to answer a question, observing or examining something unknown to get better insight. Maybe there should be a list...

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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · Dec 4

We are #hiring! Learn more about working at the Flatiron Institute and view our numerous opportunities including postdoc fellowships, associate research scientists and HPC optimization engineer: www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/car... #science #computationalscience #math

Careers

Careers on Simons Foundation

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Dec 3

I think it's a great system for knowing accounts are legit!

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Jeremy Magland @jeremymagland.bsky.social · Dec 2

If there are published papers with this problem, what should be done? Is there a mechanism for marking those results for readers without going as far as retracting?

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Nov 29

Data can be analyzed in endless ways, as this paper reminds us. So while our published paper reports one way to do it, it's crucial to test many many variants of the analysis to see just how robust the conclusions are.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nima Dehghani @neurovium.bsky.social · Nov 22

To test the water and see how much traction I get here, each day, I will post a paper from 2024. Let's start with a public service minded one.
👇 Is the paper for open data for NeuroPhysio (ODIN 2023). We are organizing ODIN 2025 in @alleninstitute.bsky.social stay tuned 📻
arxiv.org/html/2407.00...

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