Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org
Assistant Professor at UBC; MRI, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience; Books and Mountains
https://github.com/WeberLab
weberlab.github.io
Joined Nov 2022
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🔥 Next week we'll be presenting and discussing the Open Science Network initiative at #fediforum alongside a growing network of academics and open science activists 🧬
Together, we'll explore how we can build open and federated digital spaces that are co-designed and governed by scientific communities.
Join us to explore how we can create digital spaces that foster collaboration, ensure data ownership, and push the boundaries of open science practices in federated environments.
I am LOVING this podcast called If Books Could Kill, with the tag line: "The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds"
They did a great episode on Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Demons, which was a book I loved when I read, but now feel differently about (they do a fair critique of what he gets right and what he gets wrong)
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Good opinion piece in Nature today emphasising the value of slow science, and taking the time to think deeply. I think it holds merit, but only if we all jump off the hamster wheel together.
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Too many people review previous work as if they are complete instead of data points. For that matter, too many people think of their own scientific results as if they are the only experiment evah and complete answers to questions.
In my lab, we never "show", nor do we ever say someone else "showed". We say we "found", and that others "found"... they found that in that experiment, under these conditions, on that day, something happened.
The "replication crisis" mostly (mostly) disappears once you move away from "paper as discovery" to "paper as one small piece of a large puzzle."
IMO, there is no such thing as a perfect study design. It is really rare that a study design can actually answer a question. Instead, those questions get answered by integrating and triangulating over many studies.
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Anna's Archive continues to be doing amazing work. Pirate archives are becoming increasingly more important as we realize that copyright makes it impossible to legally archive humanity's knowledge in a redundant and safe way.
If you have some extra storage space lying around, consider seeding a few of the torrents here to help preserve humanity's books, scientific papers, magazines, comics and more.
Whoa
First time I'm hearing of this
Possibly largest repository of books/magazines/science articles
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"Notes on Taylor and Maclaurin series", by Eli Bendersky.
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/notes-on-taylor-and-maclaurin-series/
Beautifully and clearly explained.
#math
Need to test this out on some #baby #brains
https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything-2?tab=readme-ov-file
Assistant Professor at UBC; MRI, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience; Books and Mountains
https://github.com/WeberLab
weberlab.github.io
Joined Nov 2022
