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Benedikt Ehinger
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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 · Sep 23
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
Fully funded PhD position via imprs-is A mobile EEG/EyeTracking setup EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes
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briannosek.bsky.social
The universal agreement among commenters throughout was that our collective time to shine is represented by the bottom right cell. Congrats to all of us for making it on to the alignment chart!

Thus concludes reality distraction strategy #822.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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handle.invalid Stefan Haufe @handle.invalid · 3d
I am delighted to share our NeurIPS paper "Correcting misinterpretations of additive models" [1, 2] to be presented by Benny Clark in San Diego.

[1] openreview.net/pdf?id=2ClM0...

[2] recorder-v3.slideslive.com?share=107448...
openreview.net
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nschawor.bsky.social
"Electrodes are held on the scalp of the patient by an arrangement of rubber and whalebone bars tied under the chin (fig. 1). A most suitable cap is one made for setting waves in hair. It is not necessary to shave the scalp, though the examination is easier if the hair is short and recently washed."
Fig. 1
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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zvjedavaa.bsky.social
Der Faschismusexperte Jason Stanley stellt Deutschland in diesem Interview (gegen Ende des langen Texts) ein schlechtes Zeugnis für seinen Kampf gegen den Neofaschismus aus. Lesenswert!
www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
US-Faschismus-Theoretiker warnt: „Es werden nur noch wenige Demokratien übrigbleiben“
Jason Stanley sieht die Meinungsfreiheit und demokratische Institutionen in den USA massiv bedroht und zieht historische Vergleiche.
www.fr.de
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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achetverikov.bsky.social
FYI, if you are using Zotero, koofr.eu provides a free 10 gb cloud with webdav that could be used for synchronizing pdfs. I tested it this week as I no longer have access to the server I used previously. Seems to work well. koofr.eu/blog/posts/k...
Koofr with Zotero via WebDAV
Are you using Zotero with Box and don’t know what to do when Box support for WebDAV eventually runs out? Are you searching for Zotero with Box alternative? Don’t fret, Koofr is here for you. Read abou...
koofr.eu
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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neural-reckoning.org
LLM PR is "impressive" in that it picks up a lot of the issues that human reviewers do. Or at least, the issues that humans do based on a quick read. And that's the problem with both human and LLM reviews. They respond mostly to surface level. In humans because of time pressure, in LLMs by design.
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?

We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.

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

Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)

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Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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thecedarprince.bsky.social
I am on the job market and wanted to advertise myself here! 🤠

Looking for full-time or contracting roles!

Historically, my work spans population dynamics, healthcare informatics, robust adaptive controls, software engineering, and community engagement. 🧪

#STEMjobs #academicsky #publichealth
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni...

For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...
A screenshot of Catherine Yeh's website: https://catherinesyeh.github.io/ The website looks clean, colorful, and modern. A screenshot of four of the websites included in my Are.na board. They mostly show academic websites in different styles. Some are more text-heavy, some feature more colors and images.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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cncastillo.bsky.social
Blog post explaining how I drew the Julia logo using spins and an MRI scanner! 🪄🧲 #JuliaLang #MRI

cncastillo.github.io/BlochHole/po...
I Drew the Julia Logo Using an MRI Machine – Bloch Hole
How the physics of MRI can be used to draw with spins and why this is useful.
cncastillo.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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nschawor.bsky.social
thank you for listening to my EEG TED talk! (the vibes from these chairs 😅).

we ran a MNE-python tutorial for >100 people for a week. the program going from preprocessing to source estimation to group analysis was ambitious, but I hope seeing all the steps involved was helpful for participants. 🙂
melekyalcin.bsky.social Melek Öyküm Yalçın @melekyalcin.bsky.social · 16d
this week at #PracticalMEEG2025 in Aix!

having run an MEG pipeline by trial and error, I was doubting myself between all parameters. lectures on the analysis steps + hands-on application together were very helpful!

& seeing women on stage sharing what they're excited about just hits different ⭐️
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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durstewitzlab.bsky.social
Revised version of our #NeurIPS2025 paper with full code base in Julia & Python now online, see arxiv.org/abs/2505.13192
October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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mgarvert.bsky.social
🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀

🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling

We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.

📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!

More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt

#CognitiveNeuroscience
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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drgbuckingham.bsky.social
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social
6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Conference
📅 August 25–28, 2026

🚀 Registration & Abstract Submission Now Open!

🔗 Register now:
👉 lnkd.in/dYgS5ndk

🧠 Submit your contribution:
👉 lnkd.in/dR6y5y4b
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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nschawor.bsky.social
learn about advanced electrophysiology-related toolboxes (>20 to choose from) at this online event, in lectures or hands-on tutorials:
📅 Wednesday, October 30th at 2 pm (CET)
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...

very cool concept! 🙂 free but registration required.
#PracticalMEEG2025
Bouquet | PracticalMEEG2025
cuttingeeg.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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cuttingeeg.bsky.social
💜 At CuttingEEG, we believe that science thrives in safe and caring spaces.
Meet our Panther for Care crew 🐆 — here to ensure every participant enjoys a great scientific and social experience at #PracticalMEEG2025 next week!

We’re ready. We’re caring. We’re inclusive. 🌍
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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cuttingeeg.bsky.social
#PracticalMEEG2025 is coming up soon |Oct 28–30| and we’re full!
But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis.
💐Free but mandatory registration 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
benediktehinger.bsky.social
If you are looking, or know someone who is looking - please forward them!

I'm open to discuss the topic, but o.c. many ideas!!
benediktehinger.bsky.social Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · Sep 23
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
Fully funded PhD position via imprs-is A mobile EEG/EyeTracking setup EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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dresler.bsky.social
Arguably this is 2 pages too many, given that grant decisions are mostly based on CV + abstract:

"We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not
detectibly impact their proposal rankings."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics
Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...
link.springer.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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alexh.bsky.social
#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????

Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Multiverse studies seem doomed to perpetuate a cycle of "look it varies!" "but not that much" "does too!".

Here's another exchange that I had missed.

"Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions"
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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co2klima.bsky.social
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
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM