Bundesfamilienministerin Karin Prien kürzt mehr als 200 Projekten bei »Demokratie leben!« das Geld. Menschen, die im Ministerium arbeiten, sagen: weil sie der Hausspitze zu links sind. Auch interne Dokumente, die wir einsehen konnten, nähren den Verdacht.
1/6 Our paper is out today in Nature Communications!
From the SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social we show that temporal expectations shape somatosensory perception - for both painful heat AND non-painful cold stimuli.
Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!
Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results.
we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
Frag den Staat veröffentlicht Chatverläufe zwischen den Abgeordneten Goiny und Stettner und Kultursenatorin Wedl-Wilson. Es sind verstörende Einblicke.
Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much!
doi.org/10.64898/202...
arxiv.org/html/2603.07...
Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
How do people search for information to make efficient decisions?
Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory.
Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Important take on the sustainability aspect of open science!
Also really liked this related work by Govaart, Hofmann @smnhfmnn.bsky.social & Medawar (2022)
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Langsam habe ich den Eindruck, die Fördermittelaffäre vor einigen Jahren im BMBF war gar kein so außergewöhnlicher Einzelfall. Die Idee, Gelder wegen unerwünschten politischen Äußerumgen zu entziehen scheint doch nicht so selten und abwegig zu sein, wie uns damals versichert wurde.
PANDORA is out 🧠⚡️
Run your high-res population (>80K) multimodal MRI study — now
▲ 98 mods
▲ speed/power/RAM wins 🚀
▲ New supervoxels
▶ Super easy with your UKB var of choice
preprint with @fmrib-steve.bsky.social et al.: medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
start: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/pandor...
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published
Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible
elifesciences.org/articles/110...
Die Kampagne könnt Ihr hier unterstützen:
weact.campact.de/petitions/ku...
"Lesen hilft!" findet Ihr hier:
lesen-hilft.org
Das solltet ihr alle lesen: Collien Fernandes hat Christian Ulmen angezeigt, wirft ihm psychische und physische Gewalt vor, analog wie digital.
Starke Recherche von @julianeloeffler.bsky.social, @romanhoefner.bsky.social, @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social, @milatz.bsky.social & Lukas
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.
open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
Vocal production learning is a key ability enabling spoken language, but is not itself unique to humans, having been documented in (e.g.) some bird, bat, & seal species. A new study of pinnipeds in @science.org 👇 finds they have neural adaptations supporting voluntary control of vocalizations.
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Here's an engaging & accessible introduction to our studies of individual differences in how people respond to poetry, art, & music. @kristenfrench.bsky.social interviewed @giacomobignardi.bsky.social about the research he's leading to decipher the mysteries of “aesthetic chills”.
@nautil.us
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Check out our new preprint!
We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging:
Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization?
Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better.
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How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)
A recent @natneuro.nature.com paper analyzed lesion network mapping and raised concerns about the validity of the method.
See below 👇 for our response.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Schmidt et al. present PyLORAKS, a GPU-accelerated implementation of LORAKS, built with the PyTorch framework: doi.org/10.52294/001...
@nikweiskopf.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thats a helpful approach to include spatial distribution of synaptic targets into fMRI signal regression
"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know."
We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A lab visit to Hamburg so engaging I forgot to take photos except for a last-minute selfie. 😄🤳
Grateful to @christianbuchel.bsky.social, @olegolt.bsky.social, and lab for the warm welcome and inspiring discussions. 🧠
Leaving one’s own bubble. Immersing in critical, generous exchange. Science. 💛
A few years ago, I was on a commission here in the Max Planck Society that tried to motivate the society to stop wasting millions of Euros on Microsoft licenses for bad calendar and email software. That and Elsevier subscriptions are just wasteful use of public funds imo. >
