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"Use physics simulations to create your art," they said. "It will be fun!" they said... 😭😝 #CreativeCoding #GenArtClub #JuliaLang

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Visual illusions reveal wide range of cross-cultural differences in visual perception: http://osf.io/gxzcp_v1/

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OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

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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

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Journal of Eye Movement Research (the first journal I published in!), which used to be published by the University of Bern, has been transferred to predatory MDPI... I'm sad :(

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Mindestens eine halbe Million Menschen waren an diesem Wochenende gegen Rechts und vor allem CDU-Chef Merz auf der Straße. Für die taz zählen @ansanews.bsky.social und ich die Teilnehmenden. Bis zur Wahl sind schon jetzt mehr als 200 Demos angekündigt: taz.de/Demos-gegen-...

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

This week I finished teaching my mixed models #stats course @ BGU university! You can find all the updated #rstats and #lme4 related materials here: github.com/mattansb/Hierarchical-Linear-Models-foR-Psychologists

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

You think Jacobian and Hessian matrices are prohibitively expensive to compute on your problem? Our latest preprint with @gdalle.bsky.social might change your mind! arxiv.org/abs/2501.17737 🧵1/8

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Merz mobilisiert: Mindestens 75.000 Menschen konnten @ansanews.bsky.social und ich bisher bei Demos gegen Rechts am Mittwoch und Donnerstag zählen. Seit Neujahr waren so mindestens 300.000 Menschen auf der Straße. Bis zur Bundestagswahl sind noch mehr als 200 Demos geplant: taz.de/Demos-gegen-...

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Das ist für mich das furchtbarste Foto der Welt (unter so vielen furchtbaren Fotos): ein kleines Kind pflückt eine Blume und gibt sie einem anderen Kind. Minuten später werden sie alle vergast. Das Foto ist von 1944 aus dem Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau.

submitted 29 days ago • 127 comments

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):

submitted 30 days ago • 31 comments

Are you not a fan of journals' "enhanced online PDF viewers"? Me neither. I put together a little Firefox add-on that helps you skip the "enhanced" reader and download the PDF directly.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

really like this interactive demo of short-lived #vision static.laszlokorte.de/persistence-... Looks like absolute noise until you move your cursor, then looks like noise again!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

“…coming from R many things have ‘just worked’…”

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

our #s-ccs #EEG lab made it into national TV: youtu.be/20jAwDm2hB4?... Big kudos to the reporter Paul Jens (+Team) for coming back to the lab for another take, because we made a mistake in the analysis 🙈. Maybe I'll write a blog post on this? Lessons learned etc.? There is no fast science!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

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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Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Explore how CUDA.jl v5.4 transforms #GPU migration! Discover unified memory for seamless CPU-GPU access, incremental porting strategies, and enhanced performance. Watch the session to learn how to optimize your applications. juliahub.com/company/reso... #JuliaLang #Optimization

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

#StatsSky #Statistics thought of the day: parametric models are extremely Y-transformation-dependent&not really needed since ordinal regression models work great w/continuous Y. Upcoming update to R rms package can fit a model with 300,000 intercepts & 20 covariates in 2s www.fharrell.com/post/mle

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

In 2006 I plotted the number of Nature journals vs time and it sure looked like a Moore’s law: “the number of nature journals doubles every five years”. It’s slowed down to every 7.5 years, but we are still on track to get every scientist their own personal journal 🧪 #scipub

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I became an academic, in part, because of the freedom on offer. But I increasingly see academics online trying to mold others into themselves. Can I politely suggest we all relax a bit? The freedom, the individual paths we take.... those are to be relished, not admonished. #AcademicSky

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🚨New paper alert! What would you call this object? Most folks would say "guitar". You could be less specific ("musical instrument") or more ("Fender Stratocaster"), but we tend to use the mid-level (the "basic level" coined by Eleanor Rosch). Why? 1/ #neuroskyence #visionscience

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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I hope @dggoldst.bsky.social 's #statsmeme is the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down...

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Why #Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does) | "Any numerical probability... is not an objective property of the world, but a construction based on personal or collective judgements and (often doubtful) assumptions." www.nature.com/artic... #statistics

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Remember, the human brain only uses ~20 Watt (estimate below based on ATP consumption). Compute with less power is an engineering challenge worth solving in the coming decade. OpenAI won't figure it out. Their VC bro only throws money at the same uninspired approach. doi.org/10.1038/jcbf...

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"These changes have increasingly placed Elsevier, not the editorial board, in control of scientific oversight of the journal and reduced production quality."

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

With thanks to @julialang.org @makie.org and everyone helping with WaterLily.jl

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