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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 15d

S-CCS Lab PhD Position

3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...

Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de

Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy

EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just in: The new and updated version of our preprint (under review in Imaging Neuroscience)! Now with major revisions, including a completely new fMRI dataset! 🧠📈

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Together with @benediktehinger.bsky.social & @judithschepers.bsky.social

🧪 #EEG #fMRI

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Jul 24

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Interesting analysis of publication trends pre & post tenure.

#Psychology mirrors natural sciences (and deviates from other social sciences, business, etc, where there are declines post-tenure)

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Jun 27

TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...

The cover of the book, in greenish blueish color. The title is "The autobiography of a transgender scientist" by one of the most badass human beings that have ever existed, Ben Barres

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Jesper W. Schneider @jesper-w-schneider.bsky.social · Jun 27

Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment url: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment

Abstract. The Villum Experiment (VEX) is one of the few funding schemes that employs a double-blind review process where applicants are blinded to reviewers, applications are highly standardised, revi...

direct.mit.edu

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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · May 20

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness

As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.

elifesciences.org

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · May 9

Unfold.jl workshop is live: www.youtube.com/channel/UCCl...

#JuliaLang #EEG #neuroimaging

Stuttgart Computational Cognitive Science

www.youtube.com

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · May 5

The individual toolboxes received lots of 💗 and 💦 from their respective authors:
@judithschepers.bsky.social @theneurocookies.bsky.social @vladimik.bsky.social

Big round of applause 👏🏼!!

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · May 5

Just four more days until our Unfold workshop! Interactive slots are filled, but you can still access all material and watch the talks regardless 🎉

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · Apr 15

‼ Announcement: Online Unfold.jl workshop ‼

📅 09.05.2025
💶 Free!
👉🏼 www.s-ccs.de/workshop_unf...
❓ rERPs, mass univariate models & deconvolution!

#EEG #linearmodels #statistics @julialang.org #julia

Organized with Romy Frömer @thechbh.bsky.social
and the S-CCS lab @unistuttgart.bsky.social

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Mar 18

"It turns out there is higher agreement between two letters written by the same referee for different candidates, than there is for two letters (written by two different referees) for the same candidate!" Plus huge gender and cultural biases.

theconversation.com/bias-creeps-...

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks to @skypeascientist.bsky.social I got to talk about the brain and computers with a wonderful class of primary school students in Namibia today!

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Sabrina Hansmann-Roth @shansmann-roth.bsky.social · Feb 11

I am looking for a PhD candidate (3-years) and a Postdoc (2-years) studying serial effects in visual perception. Positions are funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Join us at the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social. If you are interested, reach out to me!
#VisionScience #CognitiveScience

Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · Feb 11

Two grants to IVL 🥳 "Serial effects in visual perception" to PI @shansmann-roth.bsky.social + "Haptic harmony" to postdoc Ivan Makarov in collab with Unnthorsson, Kristjánsson, Jónasson & Uenala. Sabrina is looking for candidates for a three-year Ph.D. and a two-year postdoc position: [email protected]

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jan 31

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.

www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/rou...

Roundup: The false association between vaccines and autism

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Jan 22

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!

In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org

Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: „Heil Tesla!“

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jeanette-mumford.bsky.social @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social · Jan 15

Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · Dec 20

Friends, this is urgent. Families in Gaza are starving and need our help. I have donated to and been following this soup kitchen since they started. They provide hot meals to thousands & they need funds to keep going. Please consider donating & sharing. gofund.me/aab9459d

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza

gofund.me

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Dec 13

Hey scientists!

Want to share your science with classrooms via video chat in 2025?

Sign up for @skypeascientist.bsky.social!

You can volunteer to chat with 1-5 classrooms between January and August. It's easy, it's fun, it's life-affirming.

Sign up
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

🦑 🧪

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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · Dec 13

🚀 Excited to share our preprint! 🌍 "Doing conferences differently: decentralising for ecological and social sustainability" highlights #CuttingGardens 2023, the multi-hub conference #CuttingEEG designed to reduce carbon emissions and enhance inclusivity in international events.

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · Dec 13

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...

looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

forms.gle

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Dec 11

5/5 As this is preprint time we are looking for feedback, studies we missed, approaches that complement our findings, errors, typos - we take it all 🙏
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Brain responses vary in duration - modeling strategies and challenges

Typically, event-related brain responses are calculated invariant to the underlying event duration, even in cases where event durations observably vary: with reaction times, fixation durations, word l...

biorxiv.org

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Dec 11

4/5 We show that spline-regression / #GAM outperforms other approaches - and that not modelling overlap or duration is not an option (here shown one simulation, but many more in the preprint)

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Dec 11

3/5 One complication: Durations typically come with overlapping signals (in fMRI this is obvious, but also in #EEG!). Deconvolution/TRF-modelling is possible, but can we model duration and deconvolution at the same time?

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · Dec 11

2/5 Especially for fMRI and reaction time, e.g. by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social et al. '23 modelled reaction times explicitly and found many effects!
We argue that duration-modelling could be generalized to all forms of durations and brain related time-series.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a funny face and says wibbly .

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a funny face and says wibbly .

media.tenor.com

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