Benedikt Ehinger

And don't forget to lobby your university library to pay for the same journals via subscription-bundles!

Agreed. See mdpi, frontiers etc. and the recent move of Elsevier to not only copy mdpi journal names 1:1 but also their special issue models.... It's sad

As if Research integrity checking at Universities works that well... Not even at national level, recently someone was banned to apply for federal funding for a whooping one year. I don't remember specifics, if it was plagiarism or faking data.

Another reason to sign the cost of knowledge pledge and don't review/submit/edit/support for-profit publishers. Not even with their 30% profits do they really care

## Unfold.jl workshop videos available ##

You are interested in regression-ERPs, overlap-correction, and non-linear effects in event-related EEG?

Materials: www.s-ccs.de/workshop_unf...
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#EEG #cogsci #cogneuro #neuroimaging

Nice work modeling behavior and EEG as dynamical systems. The State space model is similar to the "dynamical causal model" (without all the fantastical claims). Their code seems to work well in high dimensions, whereas DCM has only been used in small problems, despite both using the EM algorithm.

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Go @cncastillo.bsky.social!

Love the work of KomaMRI.jl -- currently the bleeding edge of Magnetic Resonance Imaging work!

For those in medical #imaging, please check out the package! 🤯

juliahealth.org/KomaMRI.jl/s...

#julialang #opensource

Excellent presentation on the bootstrap: users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/boot.... #statistics #StatsSky

Sometimes, but other times you discuss a study/paradigm with different colleagues and they simply tell you that it didn't work for them either. Then null results would be helpful.

Also undoubtedly publication bias exists

Introducing Ai2 Paper Finder | Ai2 Ai2 Paper Finder is an LLM-powered literature search system that mimics the iterative paper-finding process.

Paint me impressed: allenai.org/blog/paper-f...

Ai2 PaperFinder was quite helpful to find papers on a quite specific and obscure topic :)

What other paper research / discovery tools can you recommend?

This summer my lab's journal club somewhat unintentionally ended up reading papers on a theme of "more naturalistic computational neuroscience". I figured I'd share the list of papers here 🧵:

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and all of the other tracks on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@TheJuliaLan...

Happy to have contributed together with @lgrabot.bsky.social to discuss #traveling_waves and cognition!

That would be fantastic!

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Related idea has been done at iclr blog.iclr.cc/2025/04/15/l...

Not a pure llm peer review, but feedback on the peer reviews

JuliaHub at JuliaCon 2025 JuliaCon 2025 is set to be the biggest yet, and JuliaHub is excited to take part. Join us July 22–26 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

JuliaCon 2025 is almost here—JuliaHub is ready! We're a Diamond Sponsor with 50+ attendees, 40 speakers, and 50+ sessions covering Dyad, #SciML, and more. See you in Pittsburgh! juliahub.com/blog/juliahu...
#JuliaLang #JuliaCon2025 #OpenSource #ModelBasedDesign #Simulation #Dyad #ModelingToolkit

I am in London this week for the Royal Society Future of science publishing conference. I think publishing will get worse before it gets better, but the organizers have invited ppl with equally spicy opinions so should be fun royalsociety.org/science-even...

Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:

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

I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.

But...

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Need your #code to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn #Julia, the modern language for #HPC, with a high-quality book. Here are some options:

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#julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science into #finance and other areas.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Which Kind of Science Reform What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments.

"You're exactly right, that's a great point!"

"Thank you so much for this insight!"

Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

For faculty teaching #ComputationalPhysics with #JuliaLang:
Q1: Do you prefer #Plutonotebooks, or #Jupyter?
Q2: How do you grade assignments? In the past, I've commented directly in Jupyterlab (which is somewhat
painful). I have thought about NBGrader, but that seems like a lot of effort.

1) I prefer Pluto, but I mostly do workshops. There is a Plutoquiz or something package iirc haven't tried
2) for python I use cocalc self hosted (including improved nbgrader) but careful, support stopped a year ago or so. Not easy to find...

Not physics, so can't help with 3)

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations.... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.

Clement Greenberg
Avant-Garde and Kitsch (1939)
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My latest: a short review on latent variable models to help uncover trial-to-trial structure in perceptual decision-making strategies

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMiv4sIRv...

What a week @Global Tipping Points conference @gsiexeter.bsky.social

From stark warnings on very-near climate tipping points to identifying feedback loops, system rules (in finance, markets and culture) and mindset change we need for climate action 🌍

Heavy-hearted but determined & inspired ✊