Matt Wall

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

A deluge of AI slop is overwhelming the AI research field, including 89 conference papers submitted to NeurIPS by just one author! 😂
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Thank God for Bluesky Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’ Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…

Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.

However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.

The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.

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I'm very tempted. VERY.

How much trouble would I get in if I set this as my actual auto-reply? Would it be worth it for the lolz? 🤔

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

Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...

New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

Cool! Best of luck with it. 👍

Well, you'd think that, right? Turns out it's surprisingly hard to do that these days...

Absolutely wild thread. Humanities students who refuse to read... anything. We are so screwed.

Good thread

Generating synthetic task-based brain fingerprints for population neuroscience using deep learning - Communications Biology DeepTaskGen uses deep learning to generate synthetic task-based fMRI maps from resting state data, enabling scalable neuroimaging studies. It preserves individual variation and outperforms benchmarks ...

1/ DeepTaskGen learns a mapping from resting-state connectomes to whole-brain task fMRI, generating synthetic contrast maps in >20k UKB sbj that often match or outperform real data for predicting age, sex, cognition, and clinical measures. #RewardSignals #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Oh God. How did this get through the editorial process?! *Checks journal name* Ah, yeah, OK.

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

"Our economy is now dependent on bullshit-suicide-machines, therefore we must continue to shovel billions more dollars into bullshit-suicide-machines." 🤣

This is so funny.

"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."

The A-Team credits were a lie. What the fuck

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

Attn all human MRI/fMRI folks! The Dept of Psychology at Northeastern University is hiring a new Director of the NU Biomedical Imaging Center at the level of Associate or Full Professor. Bonus: you'll have the best Chair EVER 😉 Full ad here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

There was a 50yr window in which it made economic sense to teach coding in schools and the British education system missed all of it.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...

We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Hospital scenes were filmed in the hospital I was born in.

Oh wow - this is incredible work! 👏👏👏

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

Oh... Oh no. We are so screwed.

Wow - this is cool. Could be a game-changer.