I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Our friend @gavinkarlmeier.bsky.social asked in his podcast @hakendran.org today for an algorithmic following feed: top-level posts from the last 48h, ranked by engagement, capped at three per account - but ONLY from the people you follow. So we built it -> Following Highlights

📣 Researchers of any field! I'm giving a workshop on tools for reproducible workflows in scientific data analysis. Any suggestions? Any comment or repost is very valuable 💙

WOW so proud to see our work out on @plos.org Computational Biology 🎉 Please let me introduce you our new #OpenSource toolbox for circular permutation testing of #BrainBody interactions. 🤝 @teresaberther.bsky.social & @danlikesbrains.bsky.social 🔗 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 1/6

Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling

Author summary Conventional best-practice statistical approaches have so far been difficult to implement in cases where the underlying data are circular, for example in the analysis of phase data. Suc...

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A court in München sentenced that suno.ai used without permission copyrighted material to train their generative music model. Gema, the German society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights, obtained this result in a quite a smart way... 1/4 www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Gema gewinnt Klage gegen Suno: Wir versuchen die Beweisführung zu rekonstruieren

Die Gema konnte nachweisen, dass die Musik-KI Suno an geschützten Werken trainiert wurde. Eine interaktive Rekonstruktion der Beweisführung.

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AI boosters like to claim it'll help ⬇️ fossil fuel emissions They've been silent on AI ⬆️efficiency in finding & extracting fossil fuels Turns out enabled emissions fr fossil fuel productivity gains EXCEED avoided emissions fr renewables productivity gains whenever fossil-sector gains are nonzero

AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

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@eurosky.social 🤝 @sprind-de.bsky.social 🤝 @tudresden.bsky.social Zusammen mit der TU Dresden entwickelt Eurosky einen Open Source Bridging Algorithmus für SM. Ich freue mich riesig über diese Zusammenarbeit mit @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social und die Unterstützung durch SPRIN-D bei diesem Vorhaben.

Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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#Agenda Modern Python Project Management 16 July 2026, 10:00–11:30 CEST *about 10 min... Online & free Registration: buff.ly/54VgBNT @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social @digiresacademy.bsky.social

Modern Python Project Management for Researchers with uv

The Python programming language is enjoying great popularity in Scientific Computing due to its ease of use and its vast ecosystem of available software packages. However, due to the explosive growth ...

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Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood, 1983-84 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137826

Hey python nerds out there 🐍🤓 I'm giving a workshop about how to create and handle your (research) project with uv, in collaboration with @digiresacademy.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday 16th, 10:00 am CEST 📍 Online ⏳ 1h30m Registration link: events.digital-research.academy/event/141/re... See ya!

Modern Python Project Management for Researchers with uv

The Python programming language is enjoying great popularity in Scientific Computing due to its ease of use and its vast ecosystem of available software packages. However, due to the explosive growth ...

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How many graphs 🎶 Must a scientist still craft 🎶 Before we can see the unambiguous clusterfuck we are all drifting in? Source: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-r...

I think we just passed oops.

For years I have asked myself: is there a promising place where to shape tomorrow's European democracies? Maybe in the hope that we will also become "E pluribus, unum" one day? I am now thrilled and looking forward to what @wsocial.eu has to offer :D Check it out! wsocial.news

W - The European social network for verified humans

W is a European social network governed by EU law, data hosted in Europe, and built for real, verified people. Trust your feed.

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Opinion | Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.

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You can help make justice for Palestine a reality. Sign the European Citizens’ Initiative to fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7) rdcu.be/eSwvU

The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks

Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...

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'Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling' New preprint, and what a way to welcome @teresaberther.bsky.social to the #neuroskyence community. With @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, she developed CBPT for circular #bodybrain analyses. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🔽

Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.

These two projects have been brewing for a long time, and we’re thrilled to finally share them. Huge thanks to collaborators/friends for their work and patience: Clayton Hickey, Giorgio Coricelli, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social and Damiano Grignolio.

What a great SciComm initiative by the Italian science community in Germany! 👏 Bringing kids closer to science in their native language 🥹🇮🇹 love that!

Roberta Colapietro@robertacolapie.bsky.social · last yr.

We did it! The very first Native Scientist workshop for Italian kids in Cologne was a success 🇮🇹 41 Italian-speaking children explored the wonders of science through hands-on experiments in their heritage language 🧑‍🔬

It sounds weird but... I somehow feel you.

Aaaand the paper is out on Imaging Neuroscience! 🤩 To learn about cool new (and old) features to be used in classifying M-EEG brain states, check it out: doi.org/10.1162/imag... Big thanks to all the co-authors and the reviewers for their great input 🫶

Beyond oscillations - Toward a richer characterization of brain states

Abstract. Our moment-to-moment conscious experience is paced by transitions between states, each one corresponding to a change in the electromagnetic brain activity. One consolidated analytical choice...

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Elio Balestrieri@eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share the first preprint of my postdoc! We explored a novel features space to describe M-EEG timeseries. These features are highly informative in differentiating brain states, even more than canonical features like power in predefined frequency bands! :D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You asked for it...

Did anyone use correlations for a temporal generalisation analysis? I have a hard time finding something, but it seems straight forward (and symmetric) for my problem at hand. I want to do encoding, not decoding analyses. Pointers greatly appreciated ! #eeg

This new flow of people to BS is heartwarming... Welcome everybody! Let's show that an alternative to X is possible!

An enlightening read!

Matt Perich@mattperich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Who needs more neural manifolds? In my opinion: everyone! This was a fun article to write, thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @emilytransmitter.bsky.social for making it happen! #neuroskyence #compneurosky #neuroAI

The third #preprint in 3 months, what a sequence! In this work first-authored by @janafehring.bsky.social, we probe new features characterizing cortical hierarchy and its changes through the #lifespan. Check it out! :D #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Jana Fehring@janafehring.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share this preprint in which we find individual and robust neurophysiological markers of cortical hierarchy and highlight the dynamic nature of the brain's organization throughout life :) biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Happy to see our opinion piece on the dynamics of brain-body states now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Really enjoyed drawing this up with @micahgallen.com and @jgross.bsky.social! #CogSci #interoception #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics

We propose a computational framework for high-dimensional brain–body states as transient embodiments of nested internal and external dynamics governed…

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Application deadline coming up - 14 May. Have a look if you are interested in a fully funded PhD on brain oscillations and Parkinson's. #neuroskyence #EEG #PsychSciSky

Christian Keitel@ckeitelsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join our team! PhD project opportunity below - apply or share. Thx! #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #EEG