I’m not necessarily a fan of all this AI but let me tell you, if I could get an LLM to do bedtime for my 9-year-old…
22.11.2025 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@jpeelle.bsky.social
PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying the neuroscience of language at Northeastern University Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press) http://jonathanpeelle.net/the-neuroscience-of-language
I’m not necessarily a fan of all this AI but let me tell you, if I could get an LLM to do bedtime for my 9-year-old…
22.11.2025 02:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
22.11.2025 00:26 — 👍 49 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3Very 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...
21.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1what's that Prof. Meyers?
21.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0oh man and I also forgot ascots
21.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Important for reviewers and people interpreting reviews of their grants
21.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0When given documents to review that have my name mis-spelled I'm always torn about whether to track changes when I fix it
21.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
AD/ADRD peeps: Notice to expire the Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias effective immediately. (Related R21 also expired in NOT-AG-25-023). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
20.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)
20.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
pumpkin emeritus
20.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶
Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).
Please help spread the word!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Ditto(ish) for our section. Rescheduled from early November to early January!
19.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
20.11.2025 10:08 — 👍 318 🔁 79 💬 15 📌 8now THAT is a flower!
20.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 070 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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20.11.2025 01:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0dint see this one coming
20.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh yes you need a Myers and Myers publication....
19.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just to add a data point: A study section I'm on that was originally scheduled for late October is now being rescheduled for mid-January. #nihgrants
19.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…
19.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 196 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 2Email: "Thank you for reaching out. Kindly note that this is in XXX's signature queue and is being expedited. I will be back to you soon with an update."
I can't imagine being in a job where I have a "signature queue" 😂 and an assistant whose job it is to notify people about it 😂😂
The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide.
Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.
Always check your priors!
#rstats
If there was any justice in the world I would get a medal for getting the kids to school on time with all (well, most) of their things.
18.11.2025 13:29 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
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