Daniel Ferris @Ferris_vball@qoto.org
beach volleyball player, dad, husband, and neuromechanist
Joined Nov 2022
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I urge colleagues to abandon NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports as scientific outlets for new work. If Elsevier continues these journals, do not serve on their editorial boards and do not submit new articles to them. Elsevier has no power to profit from us if we simply say No.
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Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.
I am joining this action and have also resigned.
Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
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RT @ImagingNeurosci
All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal
https://imaging-neuroscience.org
This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.
Reading a review paper by an early stage faculty member and their trainees that ignores over a decade of similar research by other researchers. Review paper makes it seem like they came up with the concept. Already received multiple emails from people in the field mad over the treatment of their research in the review. Do we reach out to the assistant professor or just let it go?
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New paper on auditing Elon's early impact on Twitter.
- Hateful users became more hateful
- Hate increased dramatically
- There was no overall change in bots
Paper (accepted to ICWSM 2023) is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04129
New paper out by recent PhD grad from my lab. It is possible to get clean EEG sources from playing table tennis. Large differences in parietal-occipital regions between returning serve from a ball machine and returning serve from a human. Senorimotor cortex is pretty similar for two tasks. Data set is online in BIDS format for those interested in performing new analyses (e.g. competitive and cooperative conditions) https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0463-22.2023
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I am really confused in the field of machine learning right now. Like really. This is the field that likes to gate keep other fields who are not "technical" or whatever, and we're seeing papers advertising evaluation datasets that are the outputs of other models.
Like machine translation training and evaluation datasets that are the outputs of other machine translation systems.
What happened to the BASIC concept of not testing on your training set?
Or anything related to learning theory?
NSF panel reviewing proposals for Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) this May is in need of reviewers. Contact jfritz@nsf.gov if you are willing to help. Info on program here: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/integrative-strategies-understanding-neural
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The contribution of the basal ganglia and cerebellum to motor learning: A neuro-computational approach
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011024
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In her #JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Jennifer Leestma tells us about her research into how people recover from a stumble and why she thinks that 'Angular momentum in human walking’ published by Herr and Popovic in JEB in 2008 is already a classic
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/6/jeb245659/301369
I love this answer by Orson Welles about entering into something new. It has relevance to scientists deciding to study something they weren’t trained in.
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75% of scientists are burned out and pulling back on conferences, peer review, committee membership, etc https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00633-w
When scientists set boundaries, it not only improves their own personal well-being, but also creates norms that limits are acceptable and healthy
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RT @David__J__Clark
NIH funded post-doc position in neural control of walking. Come join a great team in sunny Gainesville Florida! 🌞🌴 For details please send me a direct message.
Is it common for faculty members to go back and reread their just submitted grant proposals, knowing they will find things they don't like and can't change? Asking for a friend.
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I am a cognitive neuroscientist who focuses on how the mind and brain change during healthy aging. I use cognitive tasks along with eye-tracking, fMRI, and EEG to determine how age differences in attentional control contribute to memory impairments. #introduction #cognition #neuroscience
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Neuromodulation of Neural Oscillations in Health and Disease
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/3/371
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All of cortex is motor cortex.
Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.25.529300v1.abstract
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Modeling motor control typically requires stitching together multiple neural and biomechanical modeling frameworks.
So, we created MotorNet — a toolbox to study neural architectures/learning, muscle dynamics, delays, noise, and tasks, all under one roof!
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A physical neural mass model framework for the analysis of oscillatory generators from laminar electrophysiological recordings
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192300085X
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Yes!! Our
J Exp Biol review paper on the spectrum and diversity of 3D methods for answering questions about locomotor biomechanics is out! With Oliver Demuth,
Eva Herbst, Delyle Polet &
Ashleigh Wiseman
#DAWNDINOS https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/Suppl_1/jeb245132/287121/Modern-three-dimensional-digital-methods-for
beach volleyball player, dad, husband, and neuromechanist
Joined Nov 2022
