Ben Kanter @beneuroscience@qoto.org

hey guys from Twitter.

we are glad to see you here but please understand that the fact that fediverse is anti-viral, anti-hierarchy and anti-capitalist is the point of it

please also understand that CWs, alt text and other stuff here is not there to "silence you" — it is to allow users greater agency over their feeds for their mental benefit, and to support disabled people.

this network was built by marginalized people. who disliked Twitter for the same reasons you do.

don't bring it back.

Did you know that my sample size justification paper (which you are citing about once a day, thanks for that) has a shiny app that will guide you towards a state of the art sample size justification? You can find it here: https://shiny.ieis.tue.nl/sample_size_justification/ As part of this Mastodon promotion month, I will answer each and every question anyone has who uses the Shiny app for the sample size justification in their next study (if I can!).

@NicoleCRust @PessoaBrain @albertcardona @FroehlichMarcel @SussilloDavid @teixi that’s a great question, not easy to answer, since we have to first agree on what’s emergence.

I have coedited a whole special issue about it: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/2022/380/2227

Shamelessly, I recommend the 1st paper to set the stage, and all the other papers in the issue.

@psychxr @FroehlichMarcel @PessoaBrain @SussilloDavid @albertcardona
@teixi
@manlius

Thank you Konrad. Now that we know where the buttons are and we'll all boosted the intros, let's science.

Here's one we have not yet resolved. Let's say I want to use the word 'Emergent' in the title of my next paper. What better be true abut my system? (eg Is it whole is bigger than sum? How would I show?)

Did Hopfield get it right?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.79.8.2554

https://mastodon.social/@kordinglab@sigmoid.social/109314640406987605

#neuroscience

Online now: the series of Jupyter notebooks we developed for my course 'Foundations of Neural & Cognitive Modelling' (at U Amsterdam), which could double as computational exercises accompagnying @Neurograce 's Models of Mind.

https://clclab.github.io/FNCM/intro.html

Academics who are on GitHub, consider upvoting this excellent suggestion from @Edent (see link below).

The suggestion is to change the code used by ORCID's website to allow Mastodon verification links to be found. This would allow Mastodon users with an ORCID page to verify that they are the author of the publications listed on their ORCID page.

https://github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/issues/6668

#SciComm

Here is a carrot wasp, Gasteruption sp., seen this past July 2022 in Cambridge, UK. The adults drink nectar from flowers of the carrot family–hence the name–and contribute to pollinating them.

Its larval progeny develops as an unwelcomed boarder–a #parasite, really, even a predator–in the nest cells of native bees and wasp larvae, consuming the food intended for the host, and likely have started #hibernation by now. Will only pupate into next Spring.
#wasplove #entomology #iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125443949

Ambio

Nature, smells, and human wellbeing

(HT @BenjaminDYoung)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w

In case someone didn't know, two books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:

#Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and lectures plus #rstats, #Python and #Stan code at https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/

#Regression and Other Stories at https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ including #rstats and #Stan code

The web sites also have links to the publishers' web stores if you prefer hard copies of these

Finally finding time for my Mastodon #introduction!

I am a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest in Toronto, Canada. I am also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.

My research uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study cognitive aging, with a special focus on memory and the functional organization of the medial temporal lobes.

Read more here: https://www.olsenmemorylab.com/

If you're interested in how our capacity to #transfer #knowledge relates to why we suck at #multitasking, then check out this review I wrote with the mastodonless Paul Dux. It's hot off the press today!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00653-x

@neuro
@cognition

Let me highlight a recent toolbox the brilliant @sandervanbree has written with other brilliant tootless (not toothless) people, which allows you to realign the time axis of your ephys experiments from clock time (msec) to brain time #oscillations, aptly called the BrainTimeToolbox. Stand-alone though hopefully to be implemented in #fieldtrip eventually.

https://github.com/sandervanbree/braintime

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01386-8

Trying things out. I will be posting mainly #neuroscience. So here is a question. What is the most important thing we need to be able to do to understand the principles on which brains work?

Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."

More plotting of flies! I call this one "Fruit fly snow angel"