hkl @hkl@qoto.org

#Philosophy Of #Science Part I https://youtu.be/NmKLZ0eZpdY #YouTube #Video

An interview with Blackrock Neurotech’s Taryn Southern https://www.messaginglab.com/blog/an-interview-with-blackrock-neurotechs-taryn-southern "The reality is a higher channel count does not necessarily improve the functionality of the device"; #BCI #Blackrock #NeuroTech #Neuralink

Excellent paper on why p-values are not measures of evidence by Johansson (that I missed when I wrote about the topic myself): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00852.x

Now, for the first time, UCLA #scientists have attached nanoscale #biochemical #sensors, which are tuned to identify specific #neurotransmitters, to a soft, implantable #brain probe in order to continuously monitor these #chemicals in real time.
#Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Chemistry #Engineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/ns12172201.html

#Optogenetic therapy for visual restoration https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/23/15041

Do you hear what I see? How do early #blind individuals experience object motion? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0460 "#Blindness leads to cross-modal recruitment of the #visual motion area hMT+ for #auditory motion processing"; #crossmodal #neuroscience

I am especially excited about this piece I wrote for @pennNeuroKnow in collaboration with the International Autoimmune Encephalitis Society (IAES).

In response to patient and family questions, I attempted to synthesize how the brain heals from AE and why there's so much variability in the healing process.

https://autoimmune-encephalitis.org/how-does-the-brain-heal-from-autoimmune-encephalitis-and-why-is-there-so-much-variability-in-the-healing-process/

#OpenScience is encouraging the publication of null or negative results for it is the best way to avoid spending time, energy and money repeating unnecessary experiments. https://junanaguy.medium.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-shared-null-results-c51d0b09bcf5

Brain Stimulation Could Help Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Deep brain stimulation at the intersection of two fiber bundles linked to memory formation appears to alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.

#Neuroscience #Neurology #Neurotechnology #Brain
#NeurologicalDiseases #NeurodegenerativeDiseases
#Alzheimer #Dementia
#DeepBrainStimulation #DBS

https://neurosciencenews.com/dbs-alzheimers-22080/

What’s a hypothesis?

“A hypothesis is not simply a guess about the result of an experiment. It is a proposed explanation that can predict the outcome of an experiment. A hypothesis has two components: (1) an explanation and (2) a prediction. A prediction simply isn’t useful on its own.” (Haroz, 2014)

Blog post: http://steveharoz.com/blog/2014/mysterious-origins-of-hypotheses-in-visualization-and-chi/

#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#PsychMethods
#ReplicationCrisis
#PhilosophyOfScience
#PhilSci
#PhilScidon

Entertaining article about why gatekeeping all of science with pre-publication peer review was a bad idea.

The rise and fall of peer review
https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web by Adam Mastroianni

Seasonal science - snowflakes under a microscope🔬

New preprint from the lab. Ji trained mice on an interactive auditory task in which they control the frequency of a tone with a wheel. Imaging showed that neurons in A1 encode sound, action, and errors. Thus, A1 not only encodes sensory driven activity but also represents the complex interplay between sensory inputs, expectations, and errors. So much more to discover!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.12.520155v1

The Topo-Speech sensory substitution system as a method of conveying spatial information to the blind and vision impaired https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.1058093/abstract

TAKE THIS QUIZ: Are you fluent in Gen-Z office speak?
💀 👍 🙂 💅

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/gen-z-work-slang-quiz/?tid=ss_tw

It's a 200 year-old question, can #AI invent? 💻

Today, machines are increasingly surprising us – whether it's #ChatGPT or #Lensa.

From 3D circuits to antibiotics, there are examples and #evidence of AI helping humans invent.

In some cases, it might even be the inventor.

💬 According to AI #experts, it's likely to transform how we invent: https://theconversation.com/can-machines-invent-things-without-human-help-these-ai-examples-show-the-answer-is-yes-196036

#tech #technology #science #ScienceMastodon #journalism #news #AcademicMastodon #academia

UNLIKE Twitter spambots, we have GOOD bots here on the Fediverse!

Bots that post goodness on your timeline:
- @TinyForest
- @EmojiAquarium
- @TinyPettingZoo

Also, cute hourly animals:
- @hourlywolves
- @toomanyfoxes
- @HourlyYotes
- @HourlyRedPandas

In addition, there are many bots that mirror Twitter accounts to ease the transition!

There is also this great tool that helps you find people you know on Twitter:
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

Please boost to share!
#FediTips #Twittermigration

@jocelyn_etienne @erinnacland @academicchatter I don't mind research grants as such, but the competitive aspect of most grants is destroying academia.

A better approach is to have a low, fixed acceptance threshold for grants, beyond which all applicants get entered into a lottery.

Also, the "don't need to pay researchers if they're getting grant funding" culture is a problem. Researchers are employees, not business owners; universal funding should be the default / expected income source.

Absolutely superb essay on the possible dynamics of consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey! Highly recommend! #consciousness #philosophyofmind #psychology #neuroscience #self #evolution

https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness

Using light to manipulate neuron excitability https://news.mit.edu/2022/neuron-excitability-optogenetics-1207 "A new #optogenetics-based tool allows researchers to control how neurons respond to electrical input"; #BCI #neuroscience