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Andrew Reid
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Canadian 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor at Tilburg University 🇳🇱, interested in the neuroscience of decision making, aging, and Alzheimer's disease. Also a dad 🤓 More at https://www.reid-lab.org
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · Sep 24
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Hi! Finally getting around to making new blog posts. Here's an introduction (by me, a rookie) into #CausalDiscovery approaches.

How can we use observational data to discover the underlying causal system?

Please comment &/or share!

#CausalInference #Stats #Neuroscience
Causal discovery: An introduction | Andrew's Blog
This post continues my exploration of causal inference, focusing on the type of problem an empirical researcher is most familiar with: where the underlying causal model is not known. In this case, the...
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 13d
Haha, yes the language is quite abstract and a bit fluffy, have yet to give it a good read to dig down into the grounding of these claims.
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 13d
Just found a post from author in my feed:

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 14d
Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 13d
Looks amazing, top of my list!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 13d
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kirsten L. Peterson, Michael W. Cole, et al:

Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 14d
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
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An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 13d
This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯

#neuroskyence #compneurosky

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Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 28d
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Malte R. Güth, Travis E. Baker, et al:

Right posterior theta reflects human parahippocampal phase resetting by salient cues during goal-directed navigation

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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 23d
📣 PhD opportunity with my colleague Marieke van der Schaaf, here at @tilburguniversity.bsky.social (in collaboration with @dondersinst.bsky.social).

Analysis of #MRI, #cognitive, and #immunometabolic data in ppl w/ Myalgic encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

More: tinyurl.com/3dhkv5n6
Job opening: PhD student: Investigating Metabolic and Neuropathological interactions (22947)
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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Sep 4
Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.

Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.

Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · Sep 4
There's a very cool Buzsaki #neuroskyence paper out in Science this week, looking at hippocampal spatial information encoding by multiple interneuron subtypes in parallel. The brilliant @agonru.bsky.social and I wrote a wee perspective to go alongside it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do inhibitory interneurons encode information or just keep the rhythm?
Inhibitory interneurons may help encode the brain’s internal representation of space
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · Sep 1
But.. but... "prompt engineers" 🤔
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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · Sep 1
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 31
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Sep 1
Today marks the start of #WorldAlzheimersMonth. During the month we'll be sharing UCL's world-leading research into dementia prevention, care & cure through our research stories.

Find out more: buff.ly/D1vi69x
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 1
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · Aug 22
This is pretty amazing - mapping the morphology of arbitrary neurons in vivo.

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Designed optogenetic tool for bridging single-neuronal multimodal information in intact animals - Nature Communications
Understanding brain function requires integrating neuronal structure, activity, and genes. Here, authors developed an optogenetic tool they name Pisces, to enable complete labeling of individual neuro...
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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · Aug 20
… Link here: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... ... (2/15)
Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network-level activity
The amygdala is a core region changed in depression, a disorder characterized by compromised emotion, motivation and learning processes. However, lesion studies in humans examining amygdala function h...
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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Aug 19
Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.
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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · Aug 20
Delighted to share our new paper in Behaviour Research Methods! 🎉

Web-based sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI) tasks reliably measure the temporal binding window of audiovisual integration.

📃 rdcu.be/eBhIl

📊Data/code: osf.io/ew7jm/
#openscience

Well done @dpmcgovern.bsky.social and coauthors💙
Assessing the reliability of an online measure of the temporal binding window of audiovisual integration
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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · Aug 12
If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis
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Nature @nature.com · Aug 10
Replenishing the brain’s natural stores of lithium can protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease

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New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice
Nature - Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · Aug 11
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?

Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘

We have two open positions:

1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · Aug 8
Ironic that the party of Ronald Reagan would end up reconstituting the USSR in America.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 7
One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Aug 1
🚨New paper🚨

Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.

Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · Aug 1
Hmm, what's the motivation for that, do you think? 🤔

This article suggests it is the fast turn-around time...?

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Understanding the increasing market share of the academic publisher “Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute” in the publication output of Central and Eastern European countries: a case study o...
As the open access movement has gained widespread popularity in the scientific community, academic publishers have gradually adapted to the new environment. The pioneer open access journals have turne...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jul 31
Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
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New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them
Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...
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