Jörn Alexander Quent

Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.

If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:

In the end, we had to walk a bit though.

Unfortunately, we blindly trusted a Chinese cycling app called #XingZhe, which on two occasions let us astray just "tiny" bit, which was annoying but taught as a valuable lesson.

... with some breathtaking scenery. While I haven't cycled in loads of places (mostly UK & Germany), the cycling in #China in the last days was the best experience I had so far. Also such a nice difference to the insanity that is traffic in #Shanghai.

95% of the cycling infrastructure around the lake offers a silky smooth ride...

Instead of flying somewhere I bought a carbon road bike (I promise no #midlifecrisis) and we rented a car to drive to Taihu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tai) to give it a spin.

If you live close to #Shanghai #China and like cycling, it's definitely a must do. It was just amazing. Some impressions:

You already have found a power user in me :)

Amazing!

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

library(ggplot2) # Doesn't work anymore! ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp, y = mpg)) + geom_point() + theme_minimal() ggsave("not-transparent.png", bg = "transparent") # This works! ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp, y = mpg)) + geom_point() + theme_minimal(paper = "transparent") ggsave("yes-transparent.png")

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.

Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.

Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

I never thought that one day I would be routing for film and music companies to aggressively defend their copyrights.

I will not forgive you that this file is not called playe.R.

Is this untypical? I thought this time of the year should be better. I wanted to go hiking there so rain would indeed suck.

How did they not get this guy who had to push his bike? bsky.app/profile/wuta...

I am very jealous :) I meant to go to Gongga Shan this week as well but unfortunately I had to change my plans.

Hopefully I can go next year!

I really want to go to Gongga. I meant to go this year but it didn't work out.

GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.

What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?

Why is this (220-yard sprint in 47.73 seconds or less) so specific?

It's so strange I always pick exactly the time a company is experiencing higher volumes of requests when I contact their support.

Real strange. I bet I must be unlucky.

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I am quite lucky because my main community (especially) professionally more or less moved here completed.

I've not been on Twitter since they made it so that you can't block people anymore so I don't know who is still on there.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

I am honestly positively surprised with reviewer portal of Springer Nature's Scientific Reports.

1st they didn't force me to provide a million details for the privilege to volunteer my (unpaid) time. 2nd everything else was also pretty stream-lined including what criteria had to be judged. 👍

Why are LibreOffice's ordered list so ugly? As much as I hate MS Office, this is one absolutely abysmal thing.

It's indeed random for better visualisation.

In sum, we believe this is the first direct evidence in humans of systems consolidation theory for specific memories: the hypothesized transformation of memories from hippocampus to cortex over sleep.

Take look for yourself on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social t.co/xFEDpqVXfE 6/6

Excited to present our new work reading minds!

Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6