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Daniel Borek
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🇵🇱 PL in Brussels | A PhD candidate trying to make sense of human 🧠 #oscillations in #EEG #MEG using #R and #Python | other interests: knowledge management, #metascience, #OpenScience, #PhilosophyOfScience, #DataViz | 🎥 #cinephile
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gauteeinevoll.bsky.social
Episode #34 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On balanced neural networks – with Nicolas Brunel

theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn34

Cortical neurons seem to receive about the same amount of excitation and inhibition. One of the founders of this key idea in 1990s explains.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
We propose applications to physiological networks, climate, and finance
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Mini thread below 👇
Partial Information Rate Decomposition
Partial information decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multiunit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variable...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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bsiepe.bsky.social
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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davdittrich.economicscience.net
#EconSky
AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10165

"… find that productivity indeed increases.

… the increase in productivity is driven by less-experienced (peripheral) developers.

… 1/3
AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
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October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mvugt.bsky.social
"Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science
Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.
www.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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gutlin.bsky.social
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

🧠🟦 🧠🤖

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles - Nature Neuroscience
The human brain cycles through a repertoire of brain networks on a 1-second timescale during rest and tasks. This cycling appears to allow periodic engagement of essential cognitive functions, with th...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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gutlin.bsky.social
How to develop good research questions

#CogSci #Neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How to develop good research questions - Nature Human Behaviour
Designing good research questions goes well beyond the standard definitions of clarity, focus and tractability, and even beyond ‘novelty’ in the strictest sense. This Comment describes the iterative c...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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gweindel.bsky.social
Absolutely lovely and very much needed for experimental #EEG 🤩
September 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
At this point, I might as well --
Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!
Infographic illustrating different ways to model age. First panel shows two "extreme" cases; including age as a linear numerical predictor (df = 1) or including age as a categorical predictor (df = number of years of age minus 1). Second panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is categorized into broader bins (df = number of categories minus 1, here 5 - 1 = 4). Third panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is included with a polynomial (df = degrees of freedom of the polynomial, here 4). Fourth panel shows an intermediate solution in which age is modeled with the help of splines (df = degrees of freedom of the splines, here 4).
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
danielborek.bsky.social
TIL Adding a comment in #Rcode or #rmarkdown header in #R script that includes at least four trailing dashes (-), equal signs (=), or hashes (#) automatically creates a foldable code section visible in the outline In #RStudio.

# My Title ----
## Another Section =====
### A Third Section #####
August 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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vincentab.bsky.social
🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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carlislerainey.bsky.social
Top 15 ggplot2 extensions, by downloads during the last month.

Some surprises here, at least for me.

#rstats

Code: gist.github.com/carl...
June 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
danielborek.bsky.social
a "real" vibe coding :)

www.thewayofcode.com#1
Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The...
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May 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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sambiddle.com
Barber Says You’ll Soon Need Haircut
April 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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manlius.bsky.social
I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology:

thebullshitmachines.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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nicolecrust.bsky.social
A theme is emerging: attempts to reduce brain functions & dysfunctions to a few things (like an ion channel) aren’t working.

A similar story exists for anesthesia - knockout all the putative things and anesthesia still works. “Lists of things” is not the way.

The alternative? /1
April 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is the origin of tipping points? In dynamical systems, from cancer to ecology, this fundamental phenomenon shows the importance of bifurcations and critical thresholds. Check this and other lectures on the @upf.edu Complex Systems Lab YouTube Channel youtube.com/channel/UCEt...
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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danielemarinazzo.bsky.social
Damn, joke's on me, I reversed mechanisms and behaviors 😂😂😂
March 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What does Jesus have to do with linear regression?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/11/w...
What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
March 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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nschawor.bsky.social
📆 updated for 2025: list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP:
google sheet 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is the role of chance (history) and deterministic laws (physics) in shaping life? Check out this inspiring paper by Temple Smith and former @sfiscience.bsky.social
faculty member Harold Morowitz on history, physics, and life origins. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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gweindel.bsky.social
Oh Simon task included 😍*knuckle cracking sound*
magnetokrishio.bsky.social Krish D. Singh @magnetokrishio.bsky.social · Feb 6
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social
I also like his phrasing here, re "great lesson" we've learned from #IntergroupContact
One of social psychology’s great lessons is that prejudice decreases with friendly social contact between people of equal status, while minimal contact sustains prejudice. In today’s world, anti-immigrant sentiment in both Germany and the U.S. runs strongest in states with the fewest immigrants. West Virginians, whose state has the lowest proportion of undocumented immigrants, have been most likely to disagree that “the growing number of newcomers from other countries strengthens American society.”
January 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM