What happens when serious academics try to be funny - a single case example. Or my debut in stand-up comedy 🤪https://youtu.be/LKLJ5mUZxFU

Comedy Night: Open-Mic Researcher Showcase

YouTube video by dace02

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Here is my story of how I cycled ~2000 km around the Netherlands in 5 days and 21 hours. dcdace.net/2026/05/12/r...

Race Around the Netherlands 2026 - Dr Dace Apšvalka

Here is my story of how I cycled ~2000 km around the Netherlands in 5 days and 21 hours.

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A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job

We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science

While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...

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Tried to take advantage of April Fools' Day and draw more attention to my otherwise unspectacular poster. Not sure it worked. Some people genuinely congratulated me. And when I apologised for the joke, they laughed and congratulated me on a good joke. @ismrm.bsky.social #Annapolis ☺️

Happy to have contributed to this multi-site MRS study led by @drkatdyke.bsky.social! We found a minimal impact of the menstrual cycle on GABA and GSH measures. The menstrual cycle should not justify excluding women from MRS research. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.jn...

Mandatory listening. Peter has a knack for these interviews. And this dropped just a week after Seiji turned 91.

Peter Bandettini@fmri-today.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dr. Seiji Ogawa discovered and coined "Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent" BOLD contrast - used in almost all fMRI today. It was my great honor to interview him over two days on the very beginnings of fMRI, and so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBK...

Didn't know about this, not only intellectual but also genetic link between George Boole and Geoffrey E. Hinton. Simon Peyton Jones gave an amazing talk at #DarwinCollege yesterday. Great content, engaging delivery, and he spoke so fast I couldn’t zone out like I often do during talks🙂

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

I agree with this - Python dependency management truly is a dumpster fire.

Haha, the authors didn't even bother to delete that always-so-positive ChatGPT start of response: "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic"! 😂

Join us for another two weeks of Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge, #COGNESTIC, 16-27 September, 2024. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis, focussing on MRI, fMRI and EEG/MEG. www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

Is it worth paying and upgrading from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4?