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kordinglab.bsky.social
@Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
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Recording all (cortical) neurons would not reveal their interactions. Better?

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

If you are a neuroscientist working in pretty much any area you definitely need the content of the CN course, and for many corners of neuro you also need the content of the DL course. Both of which are particularly true if you are an experimentalist.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Unique opportunity for young neuro+cog professors. Apply this week.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you are a young professor in behavior or neuro who can benefit from training in being a professor, do apply. Last week to apply for this.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Deep and thoughtful reporting on the crises of the NIH funding and review blocks. Share locally, share widely. And make sure your reps know! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

That recent paper mill paper in the atlantic ignored the massive energy that scientists bring towards making the field better. I wrote up a short post on how much scientists fight against waste and for rigor in the field. medium.com/@kording/cha...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

In a new blogpost I argue that buying cheap plane tickets may be better for the planet than buying tickets on high-efficiency planes. CO2 impact, like all impacts, is a causal entity. We need causal inference to formulate the right problem. medium.com/@kording/co2...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Brains can be more than just a source of inspiration for AI capabilities; they can be a source of inspiration for AI safety, writes @patrickmineault.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/does... #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #neuroscience

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Future CP symptoms, not only CP scores can be identified from videos: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We scientists would love to be left alone to do our work, but powerful people won't give us that option. Science, as the pursuit of truth, however imperfect, is fundamentally challenging to power. If we want to keep the option to do the science we want, we have to work at making science resilient. 🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post: The principle of neuroscience. medium.com/@kording/the...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

What is better for the environment? Buy a $200 ticket on a regular plane. Or a $400 ticket on a 30% more efficient plane?

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Great article by @kordinglab.bsky.social‬ on "why causal knowledge is pragmatically possible". The best arguments for causation--& only one we need--is pragmatic. Here pragmatic isn't weak/subjective, but connected to actual goals, utility & outcomes in the world. medium.com/@kording/why...

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So I wrote this for all the functional connectivity folks who kept complaining that I did not fully spell out my arguments. Now I do. Is seriously no one disagreeing with my statement that the field needs to stop making causal claims?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Semaglutide helps against alcohol and cigarette abuse. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Next up. Helps against doomscrolling, too.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Last time I spoke about why correlation is not causation. Here I talk about why causation can often pragmatically be obtained. medium.com/@kording/why...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Bimodal priors can be learned in a Tennis scenario: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Was just going to advertise another awesome summer course for people starting their labs: safelabs.info -- related to the one we are organizing compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... - if you have a new lab this is a good year.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Doctored by @charlespiller.bsky.social is a must-read. It lays out a devastating case for widespread corruption and fraud within the field of Alzheimer’s disease research, driven by the single-minded pursuit of the amyloid cascade hypothesis alongside major financial COIs.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Musk has received $13B in government contracts over the last 5 yrs. With all his fuss about the $9B/yr in overhead to the more than 2,500 universities conducting lifesaving research, I am curious when he is going to turn DOGE on his own contracts and ‘efficiencies’. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

How does airline booking causally affect CO2? It adds TotalCO2/nSeats no? Obviously no. If the flight would have happened in any case the effect is small (a tiny bit of extra weight). If it pivotal to making a flight happen it is big. Has no one ever tried to estimate expected?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment