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Nicolas Darmanthé
@doctornicosmic.bsky.social
Junior doctor by day. Data cruncher by night. Interested in everything, always learning and easily distracted by shiny objects. Born at 360ppm. 🇫🇷🇦🇺 Currently in Darwin, Australia 📌
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Small multiples can save even the most complicated chart. And the best thing is, you can use this technique for almost any type of chart. A scatter plot, for example!

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(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
April 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It was already hard to find quality content in the ocean of information before LLMs. I always tell people that the issue isn't the lack of resources/information about a topic, the issue is finding the good quality information (and knowing it is so). AI has made the problem even worse.
Even with all of the push back, I think we are still greatly *underestimating* the damage that this current "AI" tech is doing. We were actually doing a respectable job of cataloging human knowledge and making it accessible to people. Now we are actively polluting it and making it useless.
Fucking fuck Google to the fucking moon and back. I searched for a Scientific American article and got an AI summary that had an error in almost every single sentence, starting with the date being off by a decade.
August 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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It's that time of year again! Today I look at the history of so-called "Medically Unexplained Symptoms" with my students (part of our #pseudoscience class).

Migraines? Rooted in "perfectionism"
Ulcers? "stress"
AIDS? "shame/guilt"
MS? "childhood trauma"

Tropes now recycled for #MECFS & #LongCovid
October 18, 2023 at 11:14 AM
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
High-resolution maps of biological annotations in the brain are increasingly generated and shared. In this Review, Bazinet and colleagues discuss how brain connectomes can be enriched with biological ...
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October 19, 2023 at 1:22 AM
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We're hosting Eli Muller to talk to us about his paper "Diffuse coupling in the brain - A temperature dial for computation" TOMORROW (Friday 6th October Asia time)
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open invite—please join!

Details: www.world-wide.org/seminar/9586/

#ComplexSystems #Neuroscience
October 5, 2023 at 2:33 AM
I'm on a night shift and have some time to kill. #neuroskyence What are some "wow, that's awesome" papers you have read that have fundamentally changed the way you think about the brain? Here's one of mine www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Loss of Brain Aerobic Glycolysis in Normal Human Aging
The normal aging human brain experiences global decreases in metabolism, but whether this affects the topography of brain metabolism is unknown. Here …
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October 4, 2023 at 2:16 PM
#HiSciSky ! I am a junior MD interested in physiology, neuroscience, pharmacology and psychiatry. I love neuroimaging, statistics and coding. I also love a good outdoor adventure and mountain biking.
October 2, 2023 at 1:09 PM