🚨NEW PAPER OUT IN #ImagingNeuroscience🚨 In our new study, we tested whether the Hurst exponent (H) from fMRI reflects the brain's excitatory:inhibitory (E:I) balance measured with MR spectroscopy. 🧠🧵 The idea comes from critical brain theory... direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Does the brain’s E:I balance really shape long-range temporal correlations? Lessons learned from 3T MRI

Abstract. A 3T multimodal MR study of healthy adults (n = 18; 10 female; 21.3–53.4 years) was performed to investigate the relationship between functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) long-range ...

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University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4... Crossposted with @openvibe.social

University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem

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"Contemporary academic job management culture is fundamentally incompatible with quality research and lecturing." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king Is reading dying? Some interesting thoughts in here

Text is king - by Adam Mastroianni - Experimental History

read on, queen

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On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

" a submission tsunami fueled by generative AI, paper mills, and publication pressure has strained these conferences' review pipelines to the breaking point" gptzero.me/news/neurips/

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

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As AI systems advance, they will challenge our fundamental assumptions about research quality, scholarly communication, and the nature of intellectual labor. gwern.net/doc/science/... #science #academia #publishing #llm

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

Prof. Lucina Uddin from UCLA discusses her views on brain networks as studied with functional MRI

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

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New maps of brain folds from 26 carnivoran species show how differences in behaviour and ecology appear in their anatomy. buff.ly/IQvBHbh

Blood flow ≠ oxygen consumption www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted - TUM

Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

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Some really good tips here. Wish I had learned number 3 earlier, or ever for that matter 🥲 www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool...

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Explore this post and more from the GradSchool community

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Does anyone know how to access the #Altmetric API now? They require an API key, which, when i applied for one they denies me. Very annoying, as I had a python script that pulled the Altmetric data and autopopulated my CV. Now I have to do this manually

A recent study led by Drs. @weberam2.bsky.social and Ruth Grunau explores an innovative way to measure how preterm infants’ brains use oxygen, using advanced MRI technology that is both safe and noninvasive. Learn more about the work from UBC and @bcchresearch.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/46HAZ5m

Very cool explanation of Markov Chains and how LLMs are just fancier versions of an old idea elijahpotter.dev/articles/mar...

Markov Chains Are the Original Language Models

Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.

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WILD www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

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I am giving a talk next week about how to use your computer in a more efficient way: #homerowmods, copy/paste with #copyq, screenshots with #flameshot, #wezterm, #tmux, #zsh, #vim, #neovim, #windowtilingmanager, #bat, #eza, #fzf, #rg, #fd, #zoxide, #yazi or #vifm, #lazygit Any other ideas?

Big news! I was on a podcast for @bcchresearch.bsky.social This was research in #preterm #brains, #oxygenation measured with #arterialspinlabelling and #qsm, and looking at ventilation methods. Read more about the study here: bsky.app/profile/webe... plmlex.clicks.mlsend.com/tl/c/eyJ2Ijo...

Transforming neonatal care through MRI innovation - Best Lives

This episode explores new research from BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) that uses an innovative MRI technique to measure brain oxygen metabolism in preterm infants. Dr. Alexander Web...

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🚨NEW PAPER OUT IN #NMRinBiomedicine🚨 We developed a noninvasive MRI method to measure brain oxygen use (CMRO₂) and blood flow (CBF) in preterm infants. This could be key for understanding early brain development! #Neonatology #MRI #BrainHealth #openaccess 👶🧪 doi.org/10.1002/nbm.... 🧵 1/9

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Publish or perish incentivises researchers to publish more, where scientific fraud has now become its own industry www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds | Science | AAAS

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

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My work is being highlighted by BCCHR Communications, but I don't use Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn: Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1E3k... Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DMqKEWAp-G... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

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I believe at this time we can afford more nuance and precision than this. Most null results are uninformative because most experiments are uninformative because we use NHST to replace the scientific process. We can't keep avoiding the root problem forever. Also the focus on efficiency is jarring.

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Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

Interesting theory re #schizophrenia www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff

Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia

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Interesting theory re #schizophrenia www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff

Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia

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Basic science is essential. "Most drugs don’t begin with research intended to make that drug. In fact, the results of their study showed that 80% of the medicines on their list led back to a discovery from basic research without any intention of creating a new drug" www.chronicle.com/article/in-d...

In Defense of ‘Silly’ Science

Basic research and the value of curiosity.

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Utterly fascinating "Researchers using the same data and hypothesis arrive at different conclusions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

Am I crazy, or did this paper get published with very low resolution figures? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developmental patterns of white matter functional networks in neonates

In recent years, the development of neonatal brain networks has become a research focus, with traditional studies primarily emphasizing gray matter (G…

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