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Experts hail ‘remarkable’ success of electronic implant in restoring sight Sight of 84% of people with form of age-related macular degeneration restored after being fitted with device

The Guardian: Experts hail 'remarkable' success of electronic implant in restoring sight www.theguardian.com/science/2025... retinal implant, PRIMA, Pixium Vision, Science Corporation, #AMD

Exploring the McGurk Effect in Cochlear-Implant Users: A Systematic Review brill.com/view/journal... Systematic review carried out using the McGurk paradigm to understand the speech perception mechanism in CI-fitted individuals

Macaque IT neurons may shift from low to high spatial frequencies over time, supporting a coarse-to-fine view of vision. Evidence is incomplete, but the study offers clues to how spatial frequency links to category signals in object recognition.
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Sensory representations in primary visual cortex are not sufficient for subjective imagery Cabbai et al. test whether sensory representations in primary visual cortex (V1) can be dissociated from subjective mental imagery. They find that V1 representations can occur without subjective exper...

Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...

Pretty stoked to learn about {medley} by @jbryer.bsky.social !!! 🎶

Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!!

(he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)

How Quarto embed fixes data science storytelling | Emily Riederer Literate programming excels at capturing our stream of conscience. Our stream of conscience does not excel at explaining the impact of our work. Notebooks enable some of data scientists’ worst tendenc...

Technical writing is hard bcs "writing is thinking" but we often should tell our story not in the order we worked. Solution? I wrote a quick post on how @quarto.org 's embed shortcodes can reframe technical writing as reproducible evidence curation

www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...

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Screenshot of the Data Science resources website showing a list of blogs at the top of the site.

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...

#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

A blue hexagon on a white background. Inside the hexagon is a grid of much smaller hexagons. Most of these are dark blue, but some of the small hexagons are lighter blue and spell out the letters SF. On top of the grid is the text sfhotspot.

Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space).

Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/

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Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity Topographic neural networks are computational models that can simulate the spatial and functional organization of the brain. Topographic constraints in neural networks can be implemented in multiple w...

New lab preprint, led by @tlmnhut.bsky.social. We show that certain topographic CNNs offer computational advantages, including greater weight matrix robustness, better handling of OOD noisy data, and higher entropy of unit activation.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043

WOMBAT 2025 (Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team). 29-30 September in Naarm/Melbourne. Registration now open! Early bird discount ends Aug31. wombat2025.numbat.space

Registrations for the annual #WOMBAT2025 workshop are open! 🎉
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!

🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space

#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats

Shout out to @meanwhileina.bsky.social‬. His blog post was exactly what I needed to brush up on different factor-variable coding schemes used in regression models: michael-franke.github.io/Bayesian-Reg...

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.

No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.

#rstats

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan How does cerebral blood perfusion map onto micro-, meso- and macro-scale brain structure? Using arterial spin labeling data from the Human Connectome Project, this study provides a detailed characteri...

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

YouTube video by Lander Analytics Caterina Constantinescu - Data Validation in R: From Principles to Tools and Packages [Remote]

pointblank, assertr, validate, and dataquieR are the ones that come to mind.
This is a great overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1c...

What makes visual processing in the brain so powerful and flexible? Very excited to share our new work where we started from SOTA models that accurately predict dynamic brain activity during hours of video watching, and investigated core computations underlying visual perception

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures,” by Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. in 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence

YouTube video by useR! Conference Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

New presentation just posted at today's @user-conf.bsky.social virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com

Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025

Seven Cognitive Filters of the Mind: A Phenomenological-Cognitive Framework for Understanding Consciousness and Agency: https://osf.io/4ne2z

A tale of three types of internal object representations in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668040v1

Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668096v1

Integrating multiple sensory modalities during dyadic interactions drives self-other differentiation at the behavioral and electrocortical level https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668120v1

Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667932v1

The Health Information and Statistics Office within the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires, Argentina, faced some key and unexpected challenges in its first year as an organization. As a small,… Transforming Public Health Data Management: From Individual Use to Scalable Workflows with R

UseR 2025: Transforming Public Health Data Management: From Individual Use to Scalable Workflows with R www.youtube.com/watch?v=82yM... #rstats

As Shiny applications scale, maintaining clean structure, managing dependencies, and ensuring long-term maintainability become increasingly challenging. The {box} package modernizes R’s approach to… Thinking Inside the {box}: A Structured Approach for Full-Stack App Development - Samuel Calderon

UseR 2025: Thinking Inside the {box}: A Structured Approach for Full-Stack App Development www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEA... #Rstats

Asynchronous programming can be a powerful paradigm, whereby computations are allowed to run concurrently without blocking the main session. It is an opportune time to survey the current landscape,… The Future of Asynchronous Programming in R - Charlie Gao

UseR 2025: The Future of Asynchronous Programming in R www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLD... #Rstats

Description One of the most common critiques of ggplot2 is its lack of built-in interactivity. While static plots are powerful for storytelling, interactive visualizations can enhance exploration,… Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

UseR 2025: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj... #Rstats

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!

doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, th...

Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.

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...

While being in the final stretches of working on a revision, I had enough with fiddling around with each #ggplot in #rstats until it looks good saved.

So, I wrote some custom code & might put everything in a guide if there is interest.

I would love to hear how other deal with this problem.