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Alejandro de la Vega

@neurozorro.bsky.social

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Building tools for better neuroscience - Research Prof, UT Austin 🤘 I like cities and bikes 🚴 - Chair, Austin BAC

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Nov 28

Attention neuroscientsts!

We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.

It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org

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Neurosynth-Compose App

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 20d

I really hope you fixed her bike by now though

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21d

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

You can use these tools easily using Python. To learn more, check out our quick start guide: litmining.github.io

Mining the biomedical scientific literature

Set of tools and workflow for easy and efficient text-mining of the biomedical scientific literature.

litmining.github.io

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

We showcase these tools by evaluating a heuristic based, and LLM based method for extracting participant demographics, namely sample size

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

Next up, we present labelbuddy, a simple, effective and flexible tool for annotating documents. We use this tool to generate manual labels for evaluating automated extraction methods

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

pubget makes it easy to downloads thousands of studies using a single command line operation. you also seamlesslyfit a neurosynth style meta-analysis to the results of your search.

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

We present a set of tools to facilitate mining biomedical texts, and apply it to neuroimaging as an example.

First up, we make it easy to download texts from the open-access subset of PubMedCentral using pubget

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 27d

Our latest paper outlining our ecosystem of tools for mining the neuroimaging literature, is finally officially published in eLife! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Mining the neuroimaging literature

New tools for literature mining, such as automated analysis of the research literature, are accessible, scalable, and reliable.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Sep 3

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule

While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Sep 2

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?

RFK JR: “I never said that.”

KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”

RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)

ht: @cwebbonline.com

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Right?? And this was in the cradle of innovation that is Silicon Valley.

Now that I think about it, I still kinda don't like math and I'm going to blame that.

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

I then proceeded to score higher than the average native speaker on the first ESL test so they pulled me right out... but kept me in remedial math

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ironically though, that was really good for my language development and the next year they noticed and put me in ESL (remedial english) BUT also for no reason also remedial math??

Even though in Mexico I'd been in Montessori and covered algebra in 4th grade...

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

What happened to me as an immigrant from Mexico to the US is that the first I was here (5th grade), nobody noticed I was brand new and I just got put into a regular class and everyone just thought I was "quiet", not you know... learning English.

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

jesuuus

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Also even just doing this in person. Why isn't this an online form? Haha

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh, much much worse things happen in other countries lol

I mean the somewhat benign yet bureaucratic insistence sounded very German

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Sep 3

Only in Germany

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Neurosynth @neurosynth.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚀 New in Neurosynth Compose: AI-Assisted Curation

Curating studies for a neuroimaging meta-analysis usually takes hundreds of hours. Our new feature uses LLMs + zero-shot learning to extract study details directly from full-text articles.

Try it now: 👉 compose.neurosynth.org

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Neurosynth-Compose App

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Jul 16

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Jul 14

More like pubic intellectuals

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Jul 14

I officially made my last student loan payment (of my life hopefully??).

I'm 38, and graduated from college 16 years ago...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 11

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.

So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Jul 11

In my case they were very helpful. I got a call from the AVP for research at UT helping me get the language just right to maximize the chance my budget stays intact.

Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · Jul 11

Another one is to avoid replying to official communication without looping in your university officials.

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