🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization.
But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture?
We tested this directly.
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Are #openaccess fees that some journals charge authors too high? The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the world’s largest research institution, reportedly thinks so and plans to stop funding some, a move that could shake up #scientificpublishing. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
I am glad there are some people that find this useful 🌈
#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly.
jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...
Concluding this #TidyTuesday by sharing a guide on getting figures in #ggplot2 ready for publication!
Tomorrow I will share a bit more about how I use #Rstats in my own work in #StatisticalGenetics 🧬
I've only ever used %in% to be honest.
Their seat is too low for me and I am not a giant.
(Slightly adapted to fit into the character limited)
Tulving (1996): Neuroimaging is transforming the study of the brain/mind, promising to revolutionize research on neural bases of cognitive processes very much in the way in which the telescope changed the study of the heavens and the microscope the investigation of the infinitesimal world.
Chinese honesty can be brutal :D
We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
If you haven't yet changed how you teach and evaluate thanks to AI, you probably need to. This is not something that educators asked to happen, but it is worth noting what is out there - in this case an OpenClaw tool designed to cheat.
A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Having spend time in multiple countries and institutions, it's very interesting to see what is and isn't a problem in certain places. E.g. getting reimbursed takes a few days here at Fudan University (Shanghai) but getting a University stamp on a document is feels like applying for a building permit
This is so ridiculous.
Really good point.
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I usually think driving here is a bit an annoying but this time it was a treat :)
Driving from #Beijing to #Tianjin on the day of #CNY was a dream. Almost no cars, which I probably don't need to point out is very rare in these parts.
On that note: I wish everyone a happy year of the 🐴! May you find success in your endeavors. I for my part have planned a lot.
#SpringFestival
Oh, es war wohl 2006.
Frustrating...
That's also my intuition. A single study is usually not that informative but even if there are multiple, small differences in design can have massive but unknown effects, which makes it difficult to integrate what we learn across studies.
Do you know about the German guy who in the 80ies or 90ies dressed up as one of the warriors, hid among the other warriors and got away with a slap on the wirst?
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
To quote @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social: "I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste..."
Wow AI is so amazing we should use it for all our scientific diagrams
Periodic reminder: It’s Spring Festival in mainland China. Many researchers are on holiday while simultaneously working on major NSFC grant applications.
Responses to manuscript handling, reviews, or revisions may be delayed over the next two weeks.
NSD-synthetic, the out-of-distribution companion dataset of NSD consisting of 7T fMRI responses to 284 artificial images, is now published.
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com
We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
