Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵
New preprint (by Vandendriessche et al.)
In everyday life, choices often lead to multiple simultaneous outcomes — some positive, some negative. Yet most reinforcement learning research has focused on situations where each choice produces only a single outcome 1/5
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Three figures, each quantifying the marginal posterior uncertainty in various one-dimensional variables using nested quantile intervals. The intervals are horizontal so that the marginal posterior visualizations can be stacked on top of each other vertically, allowing for more readable variable name labels.
Did you know that I maintain a suite of principled diagnostic and visualization tools for Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis in both R and Python?
github.com/betanalpha/m...
github.com/betanalpha/m...
I just updated the visualization tools to include a new plot variant.
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What do #neuromodulators do in the #brain? Two recent papers give new insights:
@nishantjoshi.bsky.social shows they do not only reshape individual cellular properties, but also the architecture linking them, thereby expanding the computational repertoire.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What makes behavioral interventions work beyond the psychological theory they implement? Their format, level of engagement, delivery modality?
In a new paper analyzing 274 interventions from 15 megastudies (4.1M+ participants), we tested 19 features: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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More details about the Bayesian Workflow book and case studies now available on the book web site avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (but you still need to wait a bit for the book)
A white sign with black text: And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. -Terry Pratchett
Forward.
Conjugate priors can be a helpful starting point to build from
That game was brutal
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For those in favor or against, it seems like a good one to discuss in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Individuals with psychotic-like experiences exhibit unstable prediction-outcome relationships and stress-sensitive disruption of prediction error signaling in daily life, which contributes to persistent threat anticipation and vulnerability.
How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de)
Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
All the defaults are really the issue, in either form of NHST. Pick your models, pick your priors, pick your settings, and a happy Bayes factor you will have
good bayesians don't let their friends do NHST with bayes factors
Thank you! that is awesome congrats to you as well! I will dm you so we can chat more! 😄
Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
Worth a look if you're running online studies. Happy to be a part of this, great work led by Grace. Check out Oleg's thread; feedback welcome!
A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“
Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist”
Me:
Scientific workflow management russpoldrack.substack.com/p/scientific... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
“linear in the log-odds space”
Our back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture to rats and mice is now published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, and it's open access! Yay.
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
AHHH! I MATCHED AT WESTERN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL! I COULD NOT BE MORE THRILLED RIGHT NOW!!!
Thank you! This will be you in no time 😊
Thank you so much ☺️
