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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Apr 22

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTM...

Gojira - Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by Gojira

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Apr 21

Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass
Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them.
Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD
Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Apr 21

Equally astonished. Same goes for monarchies that are still around. But then again I am French and we have historical grudges against monarchs and clerics.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Apr 11

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Apr 11

Only sometimes????!!!!

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Apr 9

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 9

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · Apr 9

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.

And it's live RIGHT NOW!

psych-ds.github.io

(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

Psych-DS

A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.

psych-ds.github.io

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Apr 6

If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.

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Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · Mar 26

GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython.
hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...

Free-threaded Python on GitHub Actions

hugovk.dev

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.

marimo @marimo.io · Mar 19

Traditional Python notebooks are stored as JSON, not Python, causing a whole host of problems.

For one, ipynb files are hard to use with Git: few character changes can yield enormous git diffs.

marimo solves this and more by storing notebooks as pure Python files: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuI...

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Mar 5

Not if you include the cost of suffering my dad's jokes.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Feb 22

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · Feb 15

After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app.

The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’.

The name? Histogram.

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · Feb 3

We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Retinotopic mapping data permit accurate matching of participants across different datasets

Public sharing of neuroimaging data is becoming increasingly common for the advancement and validation of scientific research. However, this sharing poses challenges regarding privacy and data safety,...

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Feb 3

Will check it out as I keep asking people: show me it can be done!
Though I have also heard people being stopped from sharing group level stat maps because they were told it could lead to individuals being reindentified. And that sounds wild to me.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Jan 31

Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened.

Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Jan 29

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

The Collapse of Ego Depletion

Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

open.substack.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jan 29

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Jan 27

I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · Jan 25

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Jan 26

The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".

Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Jan 26

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

Nature @nature.com · Jan 26

More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers

https://go.nature.com/3Ej9RxA

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Jan 25

Knee jerk reaction: for the plot showing there use a proper sequential colormap and ditch the rainbow colormap (except maybe on #LGBTQA pride month) and add some isoline on the plot.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · Jan 13

Or... We need to ask less from individual scientists, promote more team work and hire more research software engineer who would be more in charge of the coding... But things will get way worse before any of that happens... If they ever do.

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