The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

Am.not triggered by spiders appearing randomly on the screen during a talk. But I am triggered when their figures do not use the right color map. #ohbm2026

I think I will start believing in AI when it can fix printer problems.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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How about starting the new year with a new Nilearn release? Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!! New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis... More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...

Nilearn 0.13.0 is out

Hello y’all and happy new year !!! We have just released Nilearn 0.13.0! 🚀 This is a major release with some new features and a LOT of deprecations: Support for sklearn set_output to extract data ...

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Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...

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Only use I have found so far in LLMs. Helped me translate the recipes on my website. remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...

Glad some people are willing to lose years of their life to listen, fact check and debunk this type of content. And also remain entertaining.

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The Know Rogan Experience #0044 - Elon Musk returns (part 1) We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 return interview with Elon Musk. And it is so filled with misinformation, we'll need a second show. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Q4... Audio: www.knowrogan.com/0044-elon-mu...

You think AI is an awesome coding tool? Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

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Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

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Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them. Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.

GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython. hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...

Free-threaded Python on GitHub Actions

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If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.

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Traditional Python notebooks are stored as JSON, not Python, causing a whole host of problems. For one, ipynb files are hard to use with Git: few character changes can yield enormous git diffs. marimo solves this and more by storing notebooks as pure Python files: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuI...

Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app. The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’. The name? Histogram.

We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Retinotopic mapping data permit accurate matching of participants across different datasets

Public sharing of neuroimaging data is becoming increasingly common for the advancement and validation of scientific research. However, this sharing poses challenges regarding privacy and data safety,...

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Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened. Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

The Collapse of Ego Depletion

Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".

Ardem Patapoutian@ardemp.bskyverified.social · 2y ago

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled. My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

The ShamWow Fallacy or How Placebos Were Redefined

If I told you that an all-natural remedy performed just as well as a placebo in a clinical trial, how would you interpret that? Proponents of so-called complementary and alternative medicine often cla...

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