New blogpost: 10 recent papers using Makie.jl to visualize their science.
Thanks for citing us, and congrats to everyone involved on the amazing work! :tada:
makie.org/website/blog...

Figure 2. FORCE1s reports in vivo neuronal activity with high fidelity under resonance scanning 2-photon microscopy (A-I) 2P-guided whole-cell patching and resonant-scan imaging in anesthetized mice. (A) Experimental schematic. (B) 2P images of a representative FORCE1s-Kv-expressing neuron are shown at high resolution (i) and the size and resolution used during voltage imaging (ii). The patching pipette is outlined. (C) Simultaneous electrophysiological recording (top, 10 kHz) and FORCE1s-Kv fluorescence imaging (bottom, 440 Hz). The fluorescence trace was low-pass filtered at 150 Hz to enhance the visualization of the spikes. Dashed boxes: epochs shown in panels D-E. Vertical lines: detected spikes. Gray triangle (left, and in panels D-E): -70 mV. (D-E) Zoomed-in subthreshold (D) and bursting (E) epochs. Panel D’s optical trace was low-pass filtered at 50 Hz to enhance the visualization of subthreshold fluctuations.

This is beautiful data. 2p optical reporting of subthreshold voltage, validated with simultaneous patch clamp. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... FORCE1s by François St-Pierre's group, with a bunch of great people joining in.

I'm not at CHI but I hear that there's expected "oh god what do we do about reviewing, we have had an exponential explosion in paper submissions" discussion.

I think a good start would be to stop making everyone feel like they have to publish 10 first author CHI papers to get a job. :-\

Also what would it look like for hiring to force review based on quality over quantity and to surface that they do that?

Candidates will submit their three best papers, and must remove publication lists from their CV.

(Yes I recognize why this would be controversial.)

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!

New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).

Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.

auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

This excellent post implicitly highlights my primary purpose in organizing these replication studies--to *describe* what happens when we try to replicate the published literature. This descriptive evidence grounds conceptual debates about *why* we observe those rates, and what we "should" observe.

Ha! That was fun. micropython is interesting

I'll add the eye-movements later. It's going to be a demo for @unistuttgart.bsky.social Tag der Wissenschaft!

#eyetracking #outreach

Yes there are nice points raised here but am I the only one getting tired of the ratio of pieces giving advice on how academic moms can carry the workload versus pieces on how institutions/funders/collaborators etc can make the workload more bearable? 🤷🏼‍♀️

benediktehinger.de/blog/science...

Same same with eeg. Turned out, it is not necessarily when the train passes, but when the track-segment is "activated". Luckily I don't have 16hz - we have 5hz now xD

Yeah, me too! That why I keep the git and git annex in the same repo...

Datalad is great, but I'm also sometimes thinking I don't use 95% of the features, maybe I should switch to something simpler

If you use datalad, there exists a datlad-dataverse bridge that might be interesting. We use it in our lslautobids project

maybe you can find a suitable dataverse instance?

maybe they are just geniuses that understand all of the complexity, and are so fast to implement it - or maybe not.

how do you even grade that. Some groups are "re-implementing" so much stuff, that they really shouldn't, and actually couldn't do that themselves in finite time, missing the point entirely.

Oral exams hardly scale to 30 groups. Exams is entirely the wrong approach - idk. super frustrated.

it was the german chapter though - but good to here you are regularly going there! It's really great that RSE gets much more visibility :)

Thanks for the kind words!

It is so annoying to read LLM generated/"improved" project reports. What a waste of opportunity, time, energy of everyone involved.

Whatever LLMs students are using, their EEG game is OK, but not super coherent.

right now all marker streams are exported automatically to the respective events.tsv, I'll write an issue so we document that more clearly.

We focused on MNE-compatible physiology (tested only with EEG), but we are happy to support implementations for other recordings - what do you have in mind?

hey - synchronisation is happening via labstreaminglayer (LSL) & pyxdf/mnelab for reading in the LSL streams. In the current implementation everything happens automatically, but o.c. if you have very custom needs, you need to modify things :)

Work with the amazing **undergrad** Manpa Barman (!), presented at @society-rse.org, now published in @apertureohbm.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/aper...

LSLAutoBIDS:
1) integrates (LSL #EEG, behav, etc.)
2) manages (conversion to BIDS)
3) versions (datalad / git-annex)
4) publishes/archives (dataverse, private or public)

No more dataloss & no stress in sharing data.

Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001...
Code: github.com/s-ccs/LSLAut...

When recording experimental data, have you ever:
1) overwritten data?
2) changed the experiment and forgot when?
3) had a student leave the lab leaving a mess of dataset?
4) noticed how everyone has their own way to transfer data?

We published a solution: LSLAutoBIDS - open science by design.

🧵

Barman et al. describe LSLAutoBIDS, an open-source #Python package that implements an automated workflow for data integration, curation, versioning, and publishing: doi.org/10.52294/001...

#OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue
@benediktehinger.bsky.social

New preprint! w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social

We found that, even during simple natural scene viewing, human visual cortex predicts—hierarchically in central vision and at higher levels peripherally—reconciling classical predictive coding with recent evidence from animal models and AI (e.g. JEPA) (1/10)

JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!

@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant.

The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.

Julia is quickly becoming the successor to Fortran, once the standard for high-performance computing in science, mathematics, and engineering. It’s powerful and fun to use. Get a solid foundation with a good book:

lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...

#julialang #physics #programming #mathematics

If someone was wondering (I was) their APC is 5400$

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sebastian Dresbach, Renzo Huber, et al:

Laminar CBV and BOLD response characteristics over time and space in the human primary somatosensory cortex at 7T

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

If only it were this easy to be an academic! A fun game by @forrt.bsky.social.

I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓

I published 40 papers and paid $2,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸

How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

Aoslo is so sci-fi - let's microscope the photoreceptors while the eyes move - with lasers!!