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Sometimes, I think research is the process of removing, for example, 121 characters of 23 words from some text of it fits some size limit, while still retaining its meaning. Superfluous words, I CAST THEE OUT!

EDIT: Research is the process of editing text to fit size limits, but retaining meaning.

Omg this. Please. Less ABB.

I had the experience recently of reviewing a paper that was clearly AI nonsense. The abstract didn't quite hang right, I skip to the methods, sort of nonsense, the results didn't make any sense for the data and was just tables.

It got past the editors at a reputable journal...

Just reviewed a paper on psilocybin, I think was AI generated. I can't believe the editor sent out.

Methods very brief and point form, used several non clinical samples but not clear what they were actually used for, results was 4 tables of "statistics" and virtually zero text.

Wooooow.

I was a little less on the way home. Probably around 24.

:00 on the way there, because I landed so early in the morning and I was heading to a space north of Brisbane, I think I was 34 hours! But I got a nice little public bus tour of Australia north of Brisbane, and to see a few pretty towns :)

The longest day. I think today will be 38 hours for me? I can't even keep track, but it sure will be nice to be home.... In 6 hours...

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Having sat on CIHR and NIH committees, so many worthy and wonderful grants don't make the cut because funding is so tight.

Wishing you more luck on the next try!

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Hot take: we should not be training these LLMs to pretend to be human beings. It's the weirdest and craziest thing and gives all the wrong impressions and ideas of what they are.

They do not have feelings and stuff does not "really stick with them".

If you want to make the news impactful, don't tell people about the amount of funding. Few will cry for largest institutions that lose money.

Talk about the number of clinical trials shut down, the number of patients no longer receiving cutting edge treatment. Jobs lost, people harmed..

Def issues there. But I think a lot of what people describe as failures to replicate was just not finding "exactly" the same thing, because the samples were always a little bit different.

And because I don't think we all use our brains exactly the same way all the time. Getting better.

In neuroscience, and neuroimaging in particular, I think the "replication crisis" stems from the fact that we often identify group results that are specific to the group being studied; two "non replicating" results can both be true. Just not universally true.

Brains are complicated.

Over the past few years, one of the biggest obstacles to me performing research has turned out to be lawyers. Even the simplest agreements seem to take a year.

We are doing the same thing over and over again, and they continuously insist to reinvent the wheel. It's wild. It's a Mel Brooks movie.

I've sat on NIH. Committees twice. It's basically free labor ($400 for about 50 hours of work). And the bar to get a findable score is INCREDIBLY high. The review is so intensly rigorous.

"So called" experts indeed. As opposed to who?

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Most of the most exciting funded projects I have been involved with were Multi site collaborative studies.

Most of the most exciting stuff I see coming up is the same.

Yup.

Agree. It's good to have a moment to sit back and see our progress. It's hard to notice it as it's flying by

:)

So important to see work focusing on sex specific differences!

Very nice. Good example of what people can do with animal research that could translate into human research.

:)

The Empire Strikes Back, Back.

In pajama pants?

This is the way.

I went late in the morning and there was zero line! I like some places, our elections are well run I meant to be as maximally accessible to everybody.
#vote

Hey, from my perspective he's helping us.

We all know who's going to stand up for our sovereignty.

For people at @sobp

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April 25, 2025, 6:30 to 9.
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