Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org

TFW you spend too long w AI bros:

At The California Institute Of Technology
I don't care how God-damn smart
these guys are: I'm bored.

It's been raining like hell all day long
and there's nothing to do.

Written January 24, 1967
while poet-in-residence at
the California Institute of
Technology.

Happy Advent! I created a special Advent calendar designed to highlight problems and inconsistencies in academic papers and scientific journals. Each day, a new case will be published, and your task is to spot the problem.
Day 1. Enjoy!
papermills.tilda.ws/advent

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.

🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

I wrote this brief blog when I was at NIAS-KNAW during my stay as a Distinguished Lorentz Fellow 2020-2021. A recent conversation reminded me of it, and I decided to make it public to facilitate sharing it. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2024/03/03/t...

we are looking for a computational neuroscience PhD student on:

NeuroAI approaches to understanding inter-individual differences in cognition and psychiatric disorders

in collaboration with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social

app deadline 24th Feb for Sept 2024 start

ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...

New results! A model built like the brain but NOT trained on neural data. Yet, it replicated neural (and behavioral) data. And it made novel predictions that were confirmed in data! New learning principles emerge from biomimetic computational primitives
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Alright: given everyone's so interested in the data search engine from yesterday -

(A) if you're looking for *online, free, or open datasets* to do science, where do you look? What are the most common sources or databases?

(B) what field are you in?

Re-up this pls, let's help each other.

#HiSciSky #neuroskyence 👋 I'm Haris, did a PhD in behavioural neuro, a stint in industry as software engineer and back in neuroscience because I missed it (Stockholm syndrome? 🤔). Talk to me about natural behaviour, open source tools for research, espresso making, RL, bjj, climbing, nocharactersleft