Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org
@aaronlwong @HeedLab @sensorimotor @neuroscience
Why can't these be "small" papers on biorxiv /arxiv with a linked figshare repo? The paper would just have some basic background on why /how the data was collected.
Jeffrey C. Erlich
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What math do neuroscientists need to know?
A highlight of #SFN2022 was Ella Batty's answer to this question. She showed off an incredible math for neuroscientists course she has developed at Harvard with open materials (https://ebatty.github.io/MathToolsforNeuroscience/) and discussed her amazing work with Neuromatch Academy (https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/)
Her SFN slides are here: https://osf.io/s94b2
@jiahongbo @NicoleCRust @neuralengine
I'm also not worried about the ability to participate in sustained conversation. Once you reply in a thread, the default for further replies is to add your tag, so you will end up with a notification.
Even better, my instance, qoto.org allows 2^16 characters per toot! So, in theory people can express themselves a little more clearly. (but the downside is rambling....)
@ParkinJim @kamado I'm not worried about bots that self-declare as bots. I'm more worried about the bots and human trolls that made twitter so toxic.
@kamado @ParkinJim interesting. They didn’t talk about two things that have been concerning me. Bots and advertising. How do we keep those out?
@jiahongbo @NicoleCRust @neuralengine everytime a post gets boosted it appears again in a timeline. So I think the timeZone isssue is smaller than you think. But I do have similar concerns about advertising and bots ruining this place as soon as there is enough critical mass.
@neuralengine @NicoleCRust I don’t agree. If you have a large following, posts will end up on timelines all over the fediverse. The main drawback of mastodon for large orgs is that they can’t pay for their posts to be promoted.
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If you are submitting an abstract to
@CosyneMeeting
this year, especially if its your first time, we at the COSYNE DEIA committee have made this video to help you out: https://youtu.be/0r4Nz7NGmUw
Its interviews from experienced reviewers talking about how they evaluate abstracts
@freemo @digital_carver well, at least one academic I follow blocked qoto because of this nonsense. So it is a bit annoying. but I support qoto's position!
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@Odedrechavi It's a fair point. I think there should be more flexibility. If a student knows which lab they want to join, they should be allowed to start without required rotations. For others, brief rotations may help them find the right home.
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RT @criticalneuro
I know everyone raises this every year, but why isn't there 1 portal to submit 1 reference letter per grad student on the job market that any university can access instead of having to submit to 500 different links?
Jeffrey C. Erlich
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Loving tidybayes + ggdist more and more and more. Check out how easy it is to plot all your priors (even the tricky LKJ distribution!) at once, automatically, with ggdist::parse_dist()! (code here: https://gist.github.com/andrewheiss/a4e0c0ab2d735625ac17ec8a081f0f32) #rstats #bayesian #brms
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RT @aaronhoyland@twitter.com
It's the year of our Lord 2022 and I'm still seeing people say "Well, what did kids do before?" referring to vaccines and other modern medicine. There is no magical halcyon past where kids lived "natural" lives and thrived. You want to know what they did, Jan? THEY DIED. Often.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/aaronhoyland/status/1592920555724079105
@bwyble
That phrase "big farm upstate" on its own is idiomatic and thus "cleverer" than it needs to be. But that phrase is part of a section saying "we were wrong"... so i think you might be overly concerned about a little bit of idiomatic english in a paper that is quite clear overall.
@bwyble @briannosek there is less jargon, more clarity and repetition than in a typical academic paper. Just like i think it is uncontroversial to say that the NYTimes is more accessible than JEP:General, this is more accessible.
@bwyble @briannosek compared to the average paper in say Psych Science, i would say this is much more accessible.
Jeffrey C. Erlich
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Dude, read this paper. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk/
@imasd @albertcardona @freemo @trinsec maybe the whole thing is satire?
