Once you get past the first 5 minutes of me bumbling around clearly in need of media training, we settle into a nice groove talking about fitting mechanistic models, ML/AI for neuroscience, underconstrainedness vs. degeneracy, and its potential benefits for biology (plus some good chuckles).
Feeling validated.
18th Summer School Advanced Scientific Programming in Python.
You are in science and write Python every day? But you feel you want to understand the Python part a little bit better? Then join us in Prague, Czechia for this year’s summer school ‘Advanced Scientific Programming in Python’. 🧑🔬🧑💻🧑🏫 30st August–06th September 2026. #aspp2026
Apply now: aspp.school
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number
What if we did a single run and declared victory
Tout juste sortis de l'imprimerie.
En librairie le 24 octobre.
Très hâte !
I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
Do you want inter-site brain🧠 reading algrithm?
Here is one solution -- a converter between site-specific embeddings 🤪 and image reconstructing decoder 🙂.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#heatwaves in Europe and Canada the week "Hot summer nights" (my new #climatechange themed album) was released.
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
Watch out for this individual. Rumour has it, they’re really good at explaining contrastive learning. #ohbm2025
thank you! 🧠 From personal experience the results can vary greatly even based on how one computes FC (🥲) so having a benchmark exactly as it is in the paper would be really useful for folks
So cool! 😍 Does the NDA archive include connectivity matrices? Any chance you might share them on OpenNeuro?
ChatGPT. is. NOT. Google.
🚨 Dataset & Manuscript alert! 🚨 The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project (TCP) manuscript is now available @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data! 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What’s with folks getting in touch with me asking for a PhD? Does h-index of 2 scream "tenure" or what?
⭐ Speaker Spotlight: Lucina Uddin
🗓️ June 27 | 🕔 17:15 – 18:00
Join us at OHBM 2025 for a presentation by Lucina Uddin!
See more information about Lucina in the comments.
#OHBM2025
🚨Our Brain & AI team at Meta opens a new contingent worker position in US (or UK).
If you have solid Python experience and/or a background in neuroimaging, you can apply at tinyurl.com/58cdam26
(We also have 1 postdoc and 1 research engineer position in Paris here: tinyurl.com/4mxn6ydb)
In the year of our Lord 2025... we are still putting on makeup on women without their consent.
It's truly like feminism never happened 🙅♀️
(I have been ranting about this ever since people started using it to demonstrate GANs back in the 2010s, I can't believe it's still an "acceptable" task in AI!)
What is better than CEBRA? You got it: explainable CEBRA.
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An MRI AI engineer job be like:
- You’ve deployed cutting-edge AI models for 5 years.
- No experience with medical imaging required.
Aaaaaaaalrighty.
P for priorities
I increasingly worry that tech is building the ideal 1984-style propaganda + surveillance machine
The risk is the collapse of democracy, as the elite concentrates too much control power, making it counter-powers impossible. Democracy needs counter-powers, including activists.
Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria
I don’t know who needs to hear this but your PhD doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be finished.
I have finally become someone I despise: Reviewer 2.
Reviewer: paper is too long
Same reviewer: please add 50 more analyses I requested
A daily reminder that it’s ok to be ordinary.
Study human brain structure and function with our new open access 7T MRI dataset
led by superstar scientist @donnagift.bsky.social ↙️