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*TODAY 9th December 2025 4:00 PM GMT* MathWorks is hosting an interactive session on their new integrated AI assistant - MATLAB Copilot

Featuring a live Q&A with Seth DeLand, product manager for Generative AI at MathWorks.

This is probably the most useful thing in the piece... why LLMs are good at learning from code, and less good at learning from language. [and presumably video though they don't mention this].

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...

Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.

Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....

Thanks so much everybody for reposting this 🙏🙏🙏

Please please continue to share it among your networks. I'm hoping there's somebody out there who is as excited about this project as I am.

Next Wednesday Dec 10th, we are excited to have Dr @danieljamesyon.bsky.social join us for our last session of the year. Dr Yon will tell us about how our interactions with others alter metacognitive states of mind. Full details on our website (surl.li/mqtofs). All are welcome in person!

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

Come join us at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, a great place to do research!

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility.

osf.io/preprints/me...

GitHub - matlab/rules: A collection of MATLAB coding rules and guidelines optimized for use with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot A collection of MATLAB coding rules and guidelines optimized for use with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot - matlab/rules

Though if you point your AI to the best practices here github.com/matlab/rules perhaps it won't make quite so many blunders. Without it Claude is often convinced MATLAB should have Python's ? ternary operator! 🤔

#MATLAB #MATLABambassador

Most excitingly 🚀 for those of us using Claude Desktop (or VSCode/Gemini CLI), there's now the MATLAB MCP Core Server uk.mathworks.com/products/mat... – allowing you to make mistakes even faster than before! It closes the loop between MATLAB and AI by letting it generate AND run code.

GitHub - matlab/prompts: Curated collection of AI prompts for MATLAB development - enhance your workflow with MATLAB Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants. Includes p... Curated collection of AI prompts for MATLAB development - enhance your workflow with MATLAB Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants. Includes prompts for Live Script...

And for prompt engineering enthusiasts, there's guidance at github.com/matlab/prompts with lively community discussion here uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentra... 💬

Since then, the ecosystem has exploded. There's MATGPT chatgpt.com/g/g-QFTjbeK3U-matlab – ChatGPT tuned specifically for MATLAB. MATLAB itself now has AI Copilot baked in uk.mathworks.com/products/mat....

One imagines the very extensive and professionally maintained MATLAB documentation must be in the training set! 📚

Claude Sonnet 3.5 was incredibly accessible 🤖 – allowing me to implement MATLAB scripts, initially in a domain in which I was very familiar, with impressive ease and the pleasing scattershot accuracy of an over-enthusiastic, tireless postgraduate researcher.

I had dallied with AI chatbots before July 2024. It was only after reading Ethan Mollick's "Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gradually-... that I gave them a more thorough workout. It is interesting to revisit that article nearly 1.5 years later.

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour

The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

This letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry tells us everything we need to know about current thinking in #autism research. Concise, accessible & powerful. Read it if you think autism = social deficits! #DoubleEmpathyProblem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fascinating that #EEG is one of the top trends, while #fMRI is declining.
We've just set up a @ucl.ac.uk EEG community and attendance was way over what we expected. Interesting times.
#neuroskyence

MATLAB SIG relaunch tomorrow!
Wednesday 26th November

I really should prepare my slides....

#MATLAB #MATLABambassador

Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club, Wed 19th at 11am UK time!

Jianghao Liu

A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia

All welcome!

For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

This is terrifying.

"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."

...

"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social

MATLAB Special Interest Group Join us for the relaunch of this SIG!

There will also be much more sensible talks from MATLAB folks about how to get your code in front of other people, new features in MATLAB such as AI, as well as nibbles and the inevitable merch!

Sign up here;

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matlab-spe...

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This talk will hopefully show the power of serendipity in research, when a common tool (spoiler MATLAB!) allows disparate disciplines to work together.

to the story of how an Electronic Engineer typing MATLAB into jobs.ac.uk two decades ago ended up in Psychology, how reading the MATLAB manual won me a job with Professor Jen Cook, and my hence my current PhD...

As MATLAB Special Interest Group Chair I will be rabbiting on about MATLAB for 30 mins. So if you have a hankering to hear about my journey with MATLAB; which will feature how I first encountered MATLAB in a military psychiatric institution...

MATLAB Special Interest Group (re)launch event at the University of Birmingham. Just over a week away! Join us on the 26th of November from 1300.