@danielborek.bsky.social
๐ต๐ฑ PL in Brussels | A PhD candidate trying to make sense of human ๐ง #oscillations in #EEG #MEG using #R and #Python | other interests: knowledge management, #metascience, #OpenScience, #PhilosophyOfScience, #DataViz | ๐ฅ #cinephile
๐จ Big milestone for Rdatasets ๐จ
The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!
And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats ๐ฆ for easy download and search
Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets
R ๐ฆ: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month.
Some surprises here, at least for me.
#rstats
Code: gist.github.com/carl...
a "real" vibe coding :)
www.thewayofcode.com#1
Barber Says Youโll Soon Need Haircut
22.04.2025 17:11 โ ๐ 142 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology:
thebullshitmachines.com
A theme is emerging: attempts to reduce brain functions & dysfunctions to a few things (like an ion channel) arenโt working.
A similar story exists for anesthesia - knockout all the putative things and anesthesia still works. โLists of thingsโ is not the way.
The alternative? /1
What is the origin of tipping points? In dynamical systems, from cancer to ecology, this fundamental phenomenon shows the importance of bifurcations and critical thresholds. Check this and other lectures on the @upf.edu Complex Systems Lab YouTube Channel youtube.com/channel/UCEt...
16.04.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Damn, joke's on me, I reversed mechanisms and behaviors ๐๐๐
31.03.2025 15:38 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/w...
๐ updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet ๐ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
What is the role of chance (history) and deterministic laws (physics) in shaping life? Check out this inspiring paper by Temple Smith and former @sfiscience.bsky.social
faculty member Harold Morowitz on history, physics, and life origins. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Oh Simon task included ๐*knuckle cracking sound*
06.02.2025 19:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
One of social psychologyโs great lessons is that prejudice decreases with friendly social contact between people of equal status, while minimal contact sustains prejudice. In todayโs world, anti-immigrant sentiment in both Germany and the U.S. runs strongest in states with the fewest immigrants. West Virginians, whose state has the lowest proportion of undocumented immigrants, have been most likely to disagree that โthe growing number of newcomers from other countries strengthens American society.โ
I also like his phrasing here, re "great lesson" we've learned from #IntergroupContact
31.01.2025 14:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0![A common misconception states that, faced with the fact that ball-point pens would not write in zero-gravity, the Fisher Space Pen was devised as the result of millions of dollars of unnecessary spending on NASA's part when the Soviet Union took the simpler and cheaper route of just using pencils, making the pen an example of overengineering.[1]
In reality, the space pen was independently developed by Paul C. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Pen Company, with $1 million of his own funds.[2][3][4] NASA tested and approved the pen for space use, especially since they were less flammable than pencils,[1] then purchased 400 pens at $2.95 apiece (equivalent to $27 each in 2023).[5] The Soviet Union subsequently also purchased the space pen for its Soyuz spaceflights.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umpsiyampiq3bpgce7kigydz/bafkreihpd5yc6zeyzzrfqbsko7eqnvxzjkinu4bsr4tshamkwtwkunwgve@jpeg)
A common misconception states that, faced with the fact that ball-point pens would not write in zero-gravity, the Fisher Space Pen was devised as the result of millions of dollars of unnecessary spending on NASA's part when the Soviet Union took the simpler and cheaper route of just using pencils, making the pen an example of overengineering.[1] In reality, the space pen was independently developed by Paul C. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Pen Company, with $1 million of his own funds.[2][3][4] NASA tested and approved the pen for space use, especially since they were less flammable than pencils,[1] then purchased 400 pens at $2.95 apiece (equivalent to $27 each in 2023).[5] The Soviet Union subsequently also purchased the space pen for its Soyuz spaceflights.
The space pencil myth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing...
30.01.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Niels Van Santen wrote a guide to the use of information theoretical measures in psychology/psychometrics. Any feedback is most welcome!
29.01.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
wood engraving of a cat crouched on the branch of a tree, seen in profile
Wiktoria Julia Goryลska was born in Vienna in 1902 but worked successfully in Warsaw where, by 1939, she had produced more than 100 wood engravings. Her cats were especially popular. โCat on Branchโ, 1927 (National Gallery of Canada). (www.gallery.ca/collection/a...) 2/4
27.01.2024 10:54 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Also true when your collaborator is your future self. ๐
22.01.2025 12:55 โ ๐ 42 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!
Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc ๐ฟ๐งฌ๐ง
Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Want to understand the brain? Watch Paul!
#neuroscience
#neuroskyence
I would say that learning and remembering is necessary for cognition (some recent studies shows that the plants might indeed โlearnโ and remember across its lifespan ) Is having a representation necessary for learning and remembering I donโt know (maybe itโs a question of definition)
17.01.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0With your definition can you say that plant or bacteria have cognition? Do you need an internal mapping in such cases or rather a mechanism to response to change in the environment? (could be innate or learned)
17.01.2025 16:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Illustration of the new feature of Zotero
Zotero now gives you the Figure as miniature if you hoover over a reference?? ๐คฏ
13.01.2025 15:00 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New year, new preprint (+ last thesis paper!)
Macroscale gradients of intracranial EEG power spectra follow familiar axes: sensory-motor and unimodal-transmodal ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ
Gradients show overall stronger association to distance, but multimodal information was best in transmodal areas ๐ง
tinyurl.com/ykacndd5
Happy New๐Year, everyone! FENS has a super lineup of activities and events for 2025. First up is the #FRM2025 call for abstracts. Apply before 28 February. Don't miss this opportunity!๐ฅณ๐
#FENS #neuroscience
loom.ly/-oN1jko
1/ Does climate activism work?
The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how
Here are some highlights
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5 Women in Philosophy of Science You Should Know
www.thecollector.com/women-philos...
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22.12.2024 14:01 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is such an important point when communicating health research: average effects aren't super predictive at the individual level unless variance is also small. And the standard error is often confused for the population variance.
20.12.2024 13:26 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Postdoc opportunity in Krakow for those working on empirically-informed philosophy of perception, particularly on perceptual structures related to various sensory modalities: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283833
17.12.2024 20:21 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Some time ago I wrote a non-technical introduction to marginal effects, in case you don't know the underlying logic yet. The idea is to use your model as a prediction machine that can be queried to return answers to precisely the questions you're interested in.
www.the100.ci/2022/05/27/%...
