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Benedikt Ehinger

@benediktehinger.bsky.social

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Comp-#CogSci TT-Prof - follow.me @ @[email protected] 🧠, #vision, #eyetracking, #cognition, VR/mobile #EEG, methods, design (www.thesis-art.de), teaching & supervising our lab mainly develops in #julialang

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 21d

S-CCS Lab PhD Position

3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...

Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de

Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy

EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes

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🟠 CO2Klima 🟠 Klimakrise jetzt stoppen! @co2klima.bsky.social · 3d

Herbst der Reformen
Unter #Söder und #Merz gibt es keinen #Klimaschutz mehr
CO2-#Emissionen Deutschlands in den letzten 12 Monaten um +11,6 Mio t gestiegen
Gebäude +9,1 Mio t.
Verkehr Straße/See +3,8 Mio t
Energie +1,1 Mio t
Luftfahrt +0,8 Mio t
#Klimaschutzgesetz wird verfehlt

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Laserbrille 💚 @laserbrille.bsky.social · 2d

Du weißt, dass du am Arsch bist, wenn die Tabelle plötzlich nicht mehr ausreicht:
Oberflächentemperatur im Pazifik, jeweils gemessen im September 1850-2025 ⬇️
#Klimakatastrophe

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JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 3d

One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS:
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is one of the most widely used noninvasive neuromodulation methods. Despite its popularity, some recent studies highlighted issues about the r...

www.medrxiv.org

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Tomas Ros @neuromeditate.bsky.social · 4d

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Code: github.com/neurotuning/...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

A repetitive thing we hear a lot as women in cognitive sciences — which comes up especially when we talk to each other about our reviews, how peers talk to us, etc. — is our writing is not accessible, does this generalise to other fields? Weaponised "you're unclear" is so pathetic IMHO of course

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 5d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Mike X Cohen PhD, Sincxpress Education @mikexcohen.bsky.social · 12d

Why I left academia and neuroscience.

This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 7d

When is work not work? What is the workiest work?

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

Work that isn’t counted as work

An interesting LinkedIn post from some colleagues musing on the “expectation of free service” has been stuck in my head for a few days now. In my university, we have a workload model wh…

gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com

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Chris Rackauckas @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social · 8d

Claude code sucks... but it's still very useful! Check out this blog post that details how Claude is deployed to solve problems in the #Julialang #SciML open source scientific computing infrastructure.

stochasticlifestyle.com/claude-code-...

#llm #vibecoding #physics #opensource #oss

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia's SciML Infrastructure - Stochastic Lifestyle

Claude Code in Scientific Computing: Experiences Maintaining Julia’s SciML Infrastructure So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM s...

www.stochasticlifestyle.com

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Simon Danisch @simi.bsky.social · 7d

Finally announcing Bonito.jl! 🎉 A Julia web framework that went from "neglected prototype" to something I'm genuinely proud of.

Reactive UIs, rich widgets, Makie integration, deploy anywhere (Jupyter/VSCode/web/static HTML)
makie.org/website/blog...

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 9d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

profserious.substack.com

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe release the illustration under cc-by as a vector? Then others don't need to reinvent the graph :)

Beautiful indeed!

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 8d

Illustration of phase coherence!

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for organizing! It was a blast!

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 11d

Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...

fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short

This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…

vimeo.com

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 12d

Added 3 slides to my "dear students, don't use LLMs" slidedeck. Here's how it works:

1. Generated map of <our country/city> from prompt "Generate an image: a schematic map of the <X> with major roads, cities, and landmarks."
Discuss how obviously wrong it is. Very fun, many lolz, silly LLM. 🤣

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 15d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks!

Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 14d

Cool! Ist the data available somewhere? It is written "on osf" but without a link :/

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Michael Höfler @tontrug.bsky.social · 18d

Robust tests should be the default, not the backup. New preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps... #statistics #psychology #replication #testing

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 16d

That was a reference to the Farrell book - it's bout modelling of cognition, and ssm's were one example. I always found that a bit curious. I agree completely with you :)

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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 18d

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 18d

Never got a response from the authors either :(

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19d

I used to be one of those people who insisted that the word "data" was plural and that "data is" was wrong.

I think I was the one who was wrong, after I read this.

www.arrantpedantry.com/2012/08/07/t...

The Data Is In, pt. 2

In the last post, I said that the debate over whether data is singular or plural is ultimately a question of how we know whether a word is singular or plural, or, more accurately, whether it is cou…

www.arrantpedantry.com

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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 19d

DDM = cognitive model, no????