Mattia Chini

thank you for listening to my EEG TED talk! (the vibes from these chairs 😅).

we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂

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Mood after submitting two grants in the same week.

Mean

The ones from the group of @gozziale.bsky.social are much better!

I agree on the last part. It's a tempting claim, but the link is indirect and multifactorial.

But I think that the link holds not only in simulations. There are quite a few (more or less indirect) papers showing that the arrow holds also in messy experiments!

1/f exponent = E/I ratio seems excessive, but I’d defend E/I ratio* -> 1/f exponent

*among other things

YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science Bat Island: The New Era of Science

Neuroscience projects last several years, and you are usually a bit jaded by the time you wrap it up. Not this one– spending several months on an island in the middle of nowhere, away from all the craziness of the world reminds you how beautiful the world really is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sv...

nice paper!

That’s most likely a W though

Indeed, too bad. I wonder if they reach continuous activity by that age.
I would also love it if sharing ephys data would be the norm, but by the "data availability" section, I guess that only sequencing data will be made openly accessible.

Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years in culture The human brain develops and matures over an exceptionally prolonged period of time that spans nearly two decades of life. Processes that govern species-specific aspects of human postnatal brain devel...

5 years? WTF! That's called a kid, not a brain organoid 😂😂

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

😂

Science social media is in a dire state these days. Can’t be too picky

I see that you're indeed unusually quiet on LinkedIn!

I guess I could have argumented better what I wanted to say but.. character limits 😀
I hope it's understandable

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"Is it [..] different from the evidence that if you filter a signal in a specific band you get some nonzero number even if you don't have a pure oscillation?"
I think that's it, but surprising (to me) how strong the effect is! And it's very common to ignore it and misinterpret freq-specific FC.

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Thank you, the comment is only visible if you sign into the platform, that's probably why I couldn't see it before!
First of all, I love the comments. I wish more people took the time to discuss papers openly like you do.

also, I feel guilty to have tried to convince you to use LinkedIn for science stuff. I saw the paper there and tried to repost it with the meme. Not possible 🤮👎

most normal Ja celebration 😂

Feynman said it best!

I can't follow the link

Functional connectivity is dominated by aperiodic, rather than oscillatory, coupling Functional connectivity (FC) has attracted significant interest in the identification of specific circuits underlying brain (dys-)function. Classical analyses to estimate FC ( i.e ., filtering electro...

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

there must be a better way of doing this, somebody please help me out 😂

love the colored pencils. you have to make those grant applications colorful!

And a shoutout also to the "local" volunteers that made the whole logistics of the PhD symposium run super smoothly!

I hope we managed to sow some (healthy!) distrust about the literature, and some renewed attention towards the details in the "methods" section.
More to come about this very soon! 👀

This year's #BernsteinConference was a blast! So many cool discussions, so many faces I was happy to see again, so many interesting new people to meet etc.
Within this, my highlight was the PhD hackathon organized with @irinapochinok.bsky.social
We had a full house of super bright students!
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I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

Thank you Valerie, way too kind!!
Maybe it will soon be a good time to bring back some of the projects that we discussed a while ago 👀