A must read by @jwlockhart.bsky.social on the money behind open science. He’s spot on that there are some subjects you just can’t touch with typical peer reviewers in #metascience scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

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Clinical 7T gradients can go fast — but peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) stops you at high-res fMRI. ⚡ Meet POPE 🌍: we reshape EPI pulses to dodge PNS exactly when it spikes → robust 0.3mm fMRI, seeing intracortical veins. 🧠 w/ @SiemensHealth 👉 doi.org/10.64898/202...

New preprint! What the eyes do when searching for a visual target reveals the psychological similarity between objects, just like more classic (but much longer & tedious) tasks like triplet odd-one-out and direct comparison. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... #BRAINFLOW @upcite.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Eye movements reveal representational geometry

Mental representations are the explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences, but there is no widely accepted characterization of how they cause behavior. Visual representational geometry can be quantified by similarity scores, but almost all methods require an explicit judgment. To examine how representations cause behavior by varying task demands, observers must perform different tasks while continuously reporting similarity, leading to dual-task interference. This study develops scanpaths as an implicit similarity measure, and uses representational similarity analysis to validate it. Observers searched for a target; fixations on distractors may reveal similarity. Similarity was also quantified by an odd-one-out task in the same participants, and ratings from different participants (Jiang et al. 2022). Representational geometries between tasks correlated. A generative model predicted first fixations in novel data. This double validation of the scanpath method opens the door to examining the causality of representations by determining if and how they vary with task demands. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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🧠 EEG / ERP researchers wanted! We are testing ways to visualize uncertainty in EEG topoplots ⏱ ~15min 💻 Best on Laptop, mobile possible 🎁 2 "Muse-2" headsets will be raffled among participants. Survey: www.soscisurvey.de/uncertain_to... #EEG #ERP #Neuroscience #DataVisualization

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge

Eighteen associate editors of the journal Statistics and Computing have announced they will resign after Springer Nature announced the journal would require a fee to publish.  In a July 8 stat…

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Great review on SSVEP BCI! Reads very fair and complete :)

Jordy Thielen@jordy-thielen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy to share our newly published review on #SSVEPs! We review the state of the art and discuss how steady-state visual evoked potentials are driving advances in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and neural engineering. Feedback is welcome! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our newly published review on #SSVEPs! We review the state of the art and discuss how steady-state visual evoked potentials are driving advances in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and neural engineering. Feedback is welcome! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s time to start thinking about how to change my MSc data skills assessments for next year. Last year they did 4 output reproductions (write code to make an output given raw data) of increasing complexity. The marking was too much and AI use prevents learning. psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yann Harel, Lune Bellec, et al: Gamer in the scanner: Event-related analysis of fMRI activity during retro videogame play guided by automated annotations of game content doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N

Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Tiobe Index May 2026: "Meanwhile, the newer statistical language Julia has struggled for years to establish itself as a stable top-30 language despite strong technical merits and growing academic interest." #JuliaLang www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Since Vogel & Machizawa’s Nature (2004) paper, the classic claim has had two parts: a. CDA amplitude increases as people hold more items in mind up to a certain limit - ~4 items. And b) the size of that CDA increase predicts who has higher visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1038/natu...

Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity - Nature

Nature - Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity

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I don't think our culture is ready for accepting this idea, and probably some percentage of humans never will be. My guess: hundreds of years from now a majority will agree with this, but many still won't, and it will correlate with religion and education. (See, e.g., Darwinian evolution) 🧠📈 🧪

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-... #neuroscience

I found particularly surprising, that subjects were 10% faster to react to a 40hz flicker than random/no-flicker. Is this commonly known? (Not a speed/accuracy trade-off)

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Matthew K. Attokaren, Annabelle C. Singer, et al: 40 Hz audiovisual stimulation improves sustained attention and related brain oscillations doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream” arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825 Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann 🧵 thread below

The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream

In studying primate vision, a large body of work focuses on the first feedforward sweep. During this initial time window, information is thought to pass through ventral stream regions in a stage-like ...

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Cool thread on creativity in science. My most disruptive days may already be behind me 😉

@jamesyoungevans.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Out today in @science.org: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @lingfeiwu.bsky.social, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.

Imagining philosophical zombies does not reveal an explanatory gap. It only shows imagination not possibility. Imaging airplanes flying backward reveals no deep mystery about aerodynamics. There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-... #neuroscience

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ | NOEMA

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

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How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky

The five stages of grief, but for when you realize that your design calls for a more complex random effects structure and now your fixed effects are no longer significant.

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PhD Position: Brain, Computation and Technology at the Donders Institute | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Candidate: Brain, Computation and Technology at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

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I tell prospective students to ask current lab members what they think is the worst thing about me

I think one can only urge people to interview current and former trainees before committing to a new position. I don't think one even considers what challenges can arise as a person starting out in science & why this is useful. if a PI declines to establish contacts here, it's def a bad sign.