przypominam że na Węgrzech związki partnerskie dla par jednopłciowych istnieją od 2009 roku, więc właśnie Tusk nie chcę wprowadzać Budapesztu ( co prawda jeszcze przed-Orbanowskiego, do Warszawy)

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem

Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

Another rule is that if you actually challenge any of this stuff, some tech bro must say "Yeah but what do you know? They actually built these systems!"
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

Recognizing LLM-generated text isn’t just a skill—it’s a life sentence.

Infographic titled "Ocean Pollution" from worldoceannetwork.org, presenting key statistics about marine pollution across three visual layers representing the ocean surface, water column, and seabed. Surface level highlights four facts: poisonous algal species have increased threefold; 1 in 20 adults will become ill after a single exposure to contaminated water; cigarettes are the most collected item during beach clean-ups; and 15% of our annual food intake consists of microplastics. Mid-water level shows three statistics illustrated with silhouettes of marine animals: 267 marine species are prone to ingesting plastic debris (illustrated with a sea turtle); 55% of the fish we eat have ingested plastic (illustrated with fish among plastic bags); and 100,000 marine creatures die per year from plastic entanglement (illustrated with a seal tangled in debris). Two additional facts are noted: 70% of litter sinks to the seabed, and the average lifespan of a plastic bag is just 12 minutes.

This #infographic by Stephanie Phung is always a favorite example during my workshops.

✅ What WORKS in this infographic?
• Consistency: colors, fonts, font sizes and illustration style are the same throughout the entire visual. Everything in the visual belongs together.

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GitHub - posit-dev/great-docs: Great Docs lets you easily build a Python package docs site Great Docs lets you easily build a Python package docs site - posit-dev/great-docs

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min!

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github.com/posit-dev/gr...

Image of a scene from the Big Bang Theory. Leonard is showing his mother Beverley around his University. When she learns that his recent research is attempting to "replicate" the research of an Italian group, Beverley is not very impressed. Beverley asks, "So, no original research?". Leonard says "no". Beverley responds, saying "Well, what's the point in my seeing it? I could just read the paper the Italians wrote."

From an old slide deck on replication research. Rewatching this episode of the Big Bang Theory hit differently after my own experiences with conducting replication research ;)

It's hard to pick my favorite widget of our course — but our new "Patchwork Playground" is a top candidate! 🏆

Learn the {patchwork} syntax 📦 as you interactively stitch up to 8 plots in any layout you can think of 🤯

Available now in "ggplot2 uncharted" 🤘
www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module4/plot...

Cover of "Causal Inference" by Paul R. Rosenbaum.

Paul Rosenbaum's Causal Inference book is strongly recommended even if you think you don't need another intro causal inference book. It's short, it's precise, and it's thoughtful about sensitivity analysis and using all the evidence we have.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Latest post, on why a lot of LLM-based results may just be a coin toss: kucharski.substack.com/p/ai-has-an-...

artefacts in MEG: here, the participant forgot to remove a belt with a metal buckle. the buckle moves when breathing, introducing low frequency artefacts. taking off the belt solves resolves this. 🙂

Biology is full of coconuts. 🥥

The issue tracker is turned off

Modelling time-resolved electrophysiological data with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models Providing utility functions for fitting Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models (BGAMMs) to time-resolved data (e.g., M/EEG, pupillometry, mouse-tracking, etc) and identifying clusters.

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/
#rstats #brms #EEG

Aperiodic exponent of brain field potentials is dependent on the frequency range it is estimated The aperiodic component of brain field potentials (EEG, LFP, intracortical recordings) is increasingly being recognized as an important topic in both basic and clinical neuroscience. Aperiodic activit...

Aperiodic parameters are systematically dependent on the frequency range used to estimate them. We evaluated intracortical recordings of 62 patients using both Specparam and IRASA.
The full article is finally out. @martinirani.bsky.social @medelero.bsky.social

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Wasn’t joking

I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)

Astrocytes spread electrical influences but don't spike. Food for thought.
Cell-type specific astrocyte activation is driven by cortical top-down modulation
doi.org/10.64898/202...

Everyone should wait a few weeks for him to debug, but what @lakens.bsky.social did to my brittle idea is great, it'll become a huge success (and I'll happily contribute if he'll let me (i added it into a full app here for example)) his iteration seems the better idea here so happy someone did this!

#statstab #503 Reaction time distributions: an interactive overview

Thoughts: Might be useful when you start off with this type of research. But I am curious what people think for no-nos with this approach.

#reactiontime #rt #distributions #guide #r

lindeloev.github.io/shiny-rt/

The next scikit-learn release will allow inspecting the type and values of attributes of fitted estimators in Jupyter notebooks & example code rendered as HTML in sphinx-gallery powered project websites.

scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_exa...

Portrait of Lise Meitner taken in 1928. She is smoking a cigarette and looking impatient to get back to her experiments.

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop:

In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table.

Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission.

She did not win a Nobel prize.

New post, on whether I could get Claude Code to complete a data task that had taken me AGES a decade ago…

kucharski.substack.com/p/how-much-t...

EEG-Pype: An accessible MNE-Python pipeline with graphical user interface for preprocessing and analysis of resting-state electroencephalography data Author summary We developed EEG-Pype, a free and open-source software tool, to make the complex analysis of brain electrical activity (electroencephalography, or EEG) more accessible to the broader sc...

This looks like really useful software: a GUI-driven EEG analysis shell on MNE, specifically targeted towards resting state EEG dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Move over LLMs, it's time for wetware DOOM

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

AI is rapidly changing how we write code — but how should we use it in research?

To kick off our 2026 “How-To” we welcome Russ Poldrack (@russpoldrack.org; Stanford University):

🧠 Better Code, Better Science

📅 22 April 2026
🔗 Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is...

#OHBM #OpenScience

This Thursday (March 5th), we're hosting Changsong Zhou, but mind the time shift (from our usual 15:00 UTC to 14:00). Here's the registration link + more information about the talk:
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Wikipedia entry for dinkus In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g.   ∗ ∗ ∗   or   • • •  . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.

perennial reminder that this typographic thing:

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is called a "dinkus"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus