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Someone did it!
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This is literally me - I think law is so interesting (especially the interaction of law and science/medicine), but would never want to be a lawyer. I'm starting a MD/PhD program, so I can't really justify a third doctorate and want to have a real job tho

I don't think they seem to understand how hashing works...

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Spatial attention and working memory are popularly thought to be tightly coupled. Yet, distinct neural activity tracks attentional breadth and WM load.

In a new paper @jocn.bsky.social, we show that pupil size independently tracks breadth and load.

doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...

Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression In visually complex and dynamically changing environments, humans often face the challenge of filtering out salient stimuli that are presently irrelevant to their tasks. Recent evidence suggests that ...

We found attentional suppression might be related to re-coding salient singleton locations in a inverted format to target locations
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

Thank you! Wishing you the best in Adelaide!

Thanks Will!

Item-based Parsing of Dynamic Scenes in a Combined Attentional Tracking and Working Memory Task Abstract. Human visual processing is limited—we can only track a few moving objects at a time and store a few items in visual working memory (WM). A shared mechanism that may underlie these performanc...

How does the visual system track moving objects while remembering the color of those objects? My latest research article (co-first with Piotr @styrkowiec.bsky.social) exploring this question using EEG is out in JoCN! @jocn.bsky.social #workingmemory #cognition #cogneuro #cogsci #neuro

Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex Increasing working memory (WM) load incurs behavioral costs, and whether the neural constraints on behavioral costs are localized (i.e., emanating from the intraparietal sulcus) or distributed across ...

New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Additionally, using representational similarity analysis (RSA) we found that both the breath of spatial attention and the modality of remembered items reliably predicted some variance in EEG activity. However, a purely item-based measure of storage explained unique and separate variance!

Very excited to announce my first paper is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Using EEG, we identify an item-based measure of storage in working memory that generalizes across auditory and visual items.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljFF3QW8S...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #workingmemory

Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:

Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules Abstract. A defining feature of human cognition is our ability to respond flexibly to what we see and hear, changing how we respond depending on our current goals. In fact, we can rapidly associate al...

Domain general frontoparietal regions show modality-dependent coding of auditory and visual rules

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That godawful NYT article on an "unpublished study on puberty blockers" was favorably cited by Thomas (p22, fn9)! Bad reporting can easily construct a narrative that science is "biased" which is then weaponized

And, this is how even "liberal media" like NYT nonstop pushing anti-trans bias (like turning a researcher not wanting to publish a null result with some methodological issues into a controversy) has caused so much harm -- it's all the narrative

Basically saying "you can ignore scientific consensus as long as I can find some made-up evidence of bias." Maybe, just maybe, people who have advanced training in a field actually do know more (this is why overturning Chevron was terrible too)

Not looking forward to this getting quoted - may be one of the dumbest words committed to judicial opinion. Don't assume that "experts" are correct, but assume that judges are better at science than scientists?

And this is why musk, Vance etc are so opposed to scientific funding - they see any line of inquiry that doesn't generate profit for themselves as "wasteful." They want it to reinforce their ideology first and then search for truth ... Which is just bad science

It's valuable to distinguish science as a method from science as applied. Obviously the questions asked, methods used, etc are biased as a result of the human element. But those are more a flaw of people instead of science itself

UChicago has ~$108 million in NIH grants. According to most recent F&A rate info I found (2019-20), UChicago has an F&A rate of 62% for on-campus grants, so around $67million in F&A support. If the rate is cut to 15%, that’ll be a loss of $50 million in support. That’s thousands of jobs lost

Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.

One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012.

United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade.
propub.li/3BQjJ1e

The problem here was that they jumped to make the diagnosis based just on symptoms when it probably wasn't supported by the evidence. Dr. Pham omitted findings from the pediatrician (expanding head) and neurosurgeon (chronic hematomas) which would have supported another cause

The parents filed a lawsuit against the hospital for refusing to provide medical records from the birth (probably also a HIPAA violation). The hospital says they purged (!!!) the records. Looks like the hospital might be doing shady stuff to cover something up.

trellis.law/doc/22095065...

variable names *are* code comments

I find it pretty useful as a smart autocomplete tool, saves a lot of time as long as you double check. Also use it (I know this is bad) to write comments when too lazy to

Wouldn't use it to write anything critical tho, and wouldn't pay for it

I don't \n\n know why

would you do that?

Terrific! Paywalls are disappearing! No more 12 month embargo between when NIH funded work appears in a journal and when it becomes accessible to all (as of December 2025).

www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...