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I used to try to understand how the brain works. Now I tell people how to name their files and variables.
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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1485 comments

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.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

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.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

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.

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

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

submitted 32 days ago • 0 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 33 days ago • 31 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled. My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Is anyone keeping a list?

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

A statistical Xmas tree... Full of stars with a cross at the top.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

"arbitrary woodland" == "random forest"

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

submitted 71 days ago • 29 comments

The venerable Bay Area Skeptics are hosting their latest free streaming lecture in 20 minutes, with a talk from the always insightful Massimo Pigliucci (editor of Philosophy of Pseudoscience, author of Nonsense on Stilts and many others): www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Unpopular opinion. To make sure you will publish the code that goes with your scientific paper: start with a PUBLIC repo from the VERY beginning.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference. He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'. What a sad man. hal.science/hal-04795904/

submitted 88 days ago • 56 comments

There's a lot of papers out there on optimal stopping but I think I've read enough.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

submitted 98 days ago • 107 comments

Does anyone have a recommendation for an eyetracking data analysis tool in Python? Ideally something that e.g. has fixation and saccade detection algorithms, and some visualisation. It seems that there is no particularly good standard. @benediktehinger.bsky.social #VisionScience

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Such a fun episode with some security horror stories.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

We could not have done this awesome revamp without the support of @incforg.bsky.social, Google Season of Docs, and our fabulous team of Tech Writer @iamdamion.bsky.social and mentors @remigau.bsky.social, @christinerogers.bsky.social, Anthony Galassi, and me! Feel free to provide feedback.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

BIDS Website Revamp! ✨ Struggling to find BIDS resources? We hear you! Our new website brings (most) everything together. Check it out: bids-website.readthedocs.io Let us know what you think! (Feedback survey link is at the top of the page)

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot stress enough how much work was done over the last few years to make this possible !

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

We are pleased to announce that the newest member of the BIDS Steering Group is Franco Pestilli. Franco has been elected to a term lasting from 2025-2027, and is replacing outgoing member Ariel Rokem. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

If you believe quant research doesn't need contextualization, remember: for most fMRI public datasets on openneuro you can get results that are highly reproducible but almost uninterpretable as neither the data nor the paper describes the task properly.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

In 1971, one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology was conducted in the Stanford Psychology basement. The lesson about the study, retold in countless lectures, textbooks, and movies, seemed clear: people slip naturally into social roles. We argue this is largely a myth.

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment