Javeria Hashmi

or

this thorn in my side
is from the seeds I've planted
(Bleeding ol' me)

being super kind to yourself and others either through a sense of humour or honesty is wisdom enough. rest, relax, rejuvenate!

may the healing process bring you even more wisdom

For aficionados of timing, prediction, psychophysics-and anyone who wants to look at something other than the news to be distracted-a new study by Matthias Grabenhorst and Georgios Michalareas:

The anticipation of imminent events is time-scale invariant
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

#neuroskyence

a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face in front of a window . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a sad face in front of a window .

Initiating grant spiral 🌀 If you need me, leave offerings of coffee and low expectations.

#AcademicLife
#FundedOrFeral

New paper led by wonder postdocs Francesca Greenstreet and @jessegeerts.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social trying to understand why –in the "what for" sense– there are multiple motor learning systems –supervised and RL-based– in the brain.

Check out Jesse's 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜?
We employed Switching Linear Dynamical Systems to investigate the dynamics of resting-state networks
They are dynamic, not static!
Work with Xiaoyu Zhao with lots of new methods.
Thread.
#neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

human, macaque, marmoset!

“The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior.”

—Slavoj Zizek

Photo: Andy Miah | #SlavojZizek #literature #quotes #fblifestyle #philosophy

The belly of the beast is an important place. That is how you bring it down. You just proved it with your responses.

**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...

Good stuff. thanks @pessoabrain.bsky.social

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hecheng Jin, Ting Xu, et al:

Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI?

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Yes, its a different world altogether

We can still do our work but let it be about the work and less about us? when we allow the self importance and big personality go, our work benefits.

“Vanity of vanities… all is vanity. You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.”

—Jack Kerouac

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

" I think the tables will turn, because the kind of dynamics which these technologies promote is exactly what you don’t want when you’re trying to minimize free energy. It’s not sustainable."

Karl Friston — Functioning Brains and Psychotic Societies On the Free Energy Principle, societal boundaries, cancer, and the beauty of sparsity.

“There’s a popular view that connectivity, in the Facebook sense, is a good thing. In my world, it’s really bad. Dense connectivity is the killer. It is death.” — Karl Friston. hbarjournal.substack.com/p/karl-frist...

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

fun old experiment (1968): O. Lippold believed that the alpha rhythm was related to the physiological tremor in eye muscles (also ~10 Hz). so in this experiment, the eyeball was cooled & warmed to shift the muscle tremor frequency. when they measured EEG, the alpha frequency seems to change.

Be yourself! That's the only thing that has ever worked for me.

Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...

zenodo.org/records/1722...

haha. no not going there with you. But people who have worked on the data, know. Dismissing empirical/experiential knowledge of people who have gone to hell & back to understand this is sheer hubris. I challenge you to also work on data for decades, study limitations and strengths, then conclude

Meh. take a crash course in complexity.

We recently wrote a paper on this topic, that was recently accepted but not yet out. Will love to hear your thoughts on it. Will share on my page soon.