Benedikt Ehinger

All your p-values are wrong Or they don’t mean what you think, or they are not interpretable in most situations (Wagenmakers, 2007; Kruschke, 2013). Why is that? Let’s consider how a p-value is calculated. For sim…

All your p-values are wrong

Nice blog by Guillaume Rousselet garstats.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/p...

Byztory Animated history videos focusing on the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.

Recommendation: Byztory www.youtube.com/c/Byztory

Animated history videos In the style of Historia Civilis

You might not know it, but you do want to learn about Bzyantine!

Crazy that these videos have so little viewers. They are high quality and fun to watch!

These scientists could just as well live in another world. What kind of modelling do they do, if LLMs can do it. Logistics regressions...?

Psychopathy does not exist

Interesting speculative article. I know more or less nothing about the topic - I'd be curious about other opinions!

aeon.co/essays/psych...

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

I see only psychophysics for you, and nothing for me xD

Only 2 days left to submit your proposal for #juliacon #julialang!

Consider submitting to the Biology Minisymposium if you have cool work in bioinformatics or life sciences! pretalx.com/juliacon-202...

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(In the screenshot at least you have more categories than when I look at your post)

Yours surely is incomplete :D cool feature! Thanks!

Figure 1 in this paper is both informative and hillarious. The collider on self-perceived causal inference skill is too real

🔑 Our key finding: TUS over the frontal eye fields (FEF) excited saccadic behavior, effectively biasing eye movements towards the contralateral side within a fraction of a second. 👀 This confirms that TUS can modulate behavioral in humans in real time.

Ultrasound gives our brain a nudge in the right direction 🧠

👀 Look to your left, look to your right!

We used #ultrasound to stimulate the brain and it changed human choice behavior within a fraction of a second. No surgery, no implants.

Link to paper ⬇️

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

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!

Deadline: 8 March 2026

www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

1) participants' metadata, in particular demographics, are a bigger risk for privacy 2) we have created a new metric k-global that gives you the relative importance of each variable for anonymity and 3) BIDS compliant little python package to help everyone with data curation.

Assessing metadata privacy in neuroimaging Abstract. The ethical and legal imperative to share research data without causing harm requires careful attention to privacy risks. While mounting evidence demonstrates that data sharing benefits scie...

It's out! direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Mental gymnastics meme. TOP: Regression mental gymnastics. The effect is significant...even when I adjust for...everything we have measured. BOTTOM: Causal Inference Mental Gymnastics. unmeasured confounds could explain the effect the sample might suffer from selection bias differential measurement error! SUTVA violation!

Almost done with my next lecture, so going back now to work on some new memes

Open-Source Award for DifferentiationInterface.jl DifferentiationInterface.jl, co-developed by BIFOLD researcher Adrian Hill, wins one of France’s Open Science Awards for making cutting-edge modeling and optimization more flexible, efficient, and ope...

🏆Award-winning: France's Prix Science Ouverte 2025

Switching AD backends in Julia used to mean rewriting your whole codebase. @gdalle.bsky.social @adrianhill.de got fed up — and built #DI instead.

News: t1p.de/58a65

@julialang.org @ecoledesponts.bsky.social #julialang @tuberlin.bsky.social

😃Finally!!!😃 >> After more than 3 yr hard work together with @matteuler.bsky.social , I am delighted to share our Meta-Analysis about ALL studies linking Intelligence to the P300 ERP >> Small but significant effect size across 49 studies‼️https://biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705728v1

Neuroblox

Innovations and Inventions at @picowerinstitute.bsky.social Neuroblox
picower.mit.edu/innovations-...
#neuroscience

Wow, Pluto is incredible. Because of my python muscle-memory I've just been running julia in jupyter whenever I needed a notebook but I finally took the plunge and it's crazy how many features this thing has. #julialang

“New horizons for Julia”:

My article about #Julialang and new directions for the language. I talk about new tooling for installation, compilation to small binaries, and more. Julia is simply the best and most fun language for #science and #engineering.

t.co/azLBxkd49C

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces Nature - The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions

rdcu.be/eRVUk

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Smth like that in Matlab?

beautiful.makie.org/dev/examples...

Schematic representation of the sequence of tasks in the benchmark.

We compared the TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker against the EyeLink 1000 Plus. Across 8 tasks, accuracy was similar. One key difference: TPx3 aggressively smooths sample data, which may affect sub-fixation phenomena and fixation onsets. Check the paper for the full results.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 Workshop announcement.

We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser.

📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany
🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026.
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the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years.

if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.

Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...

Final paper of my PhD 🤗

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.

However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.