Janice Ngiam

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects!
www.loc.gov/free-to-use

6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.

6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit

#AcademicSky #CogSci #MedSky

www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...

The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter Hierarchical Bayesian models of perception and learning feature prominently in contemporary cognitive neuroscience where, for example, they inform computational concepts of mental disorders. This...

Long overdue thread on: ✨The generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter (gHGF)✨

Ever wanted to build your own HGF without deriving/implementing new equations? Ever wondered how volatility beliefs in the HGF relate to predictive coding?

Check this out:
arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937

"Results of the first randomized controlled trial of single-dose HPV vaccine, published in Lancet Global Health in March 2024, showed greater than 97% efficacy against the HPV16 and HPV18 strains at 36 months among women in Kenya."

Imagine virtually ending cervical cancer.

Outside photo of the Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition. Copyright: Max Planck Institute for Human Development

If you're in #Berlin or around: come work with us, the Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social

We're looking for a student assistant at the Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition (10h/week, 1-2 years contract, deadline: Sept 15, 2024).

Full job ad here: www.michaelgaebler.com/wp-content/u...

Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature Awareness of when a paper can’t be trusted is often too low — but adopting some easy-to-use technological solutions can help researchers, publishers and referees to clean things up. Awareness of when ...

Depressing: Academic papers that have been retracted because they're wrong keep getting cited. Our scientific record is contaminated

Inspiring: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr makes amazing software tools to detect both the fraudulent papers and the work that relies on them 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interesting PhD position at the @wzb.bsky.social: wzb.eu/en/jobs/doct...

#JobOpportunity!

Berlin, DE: The Berline Institute of Health is hiring a PhD candidate for the project “Towards clinical application of virtual deep brain stimulation" with Dr. Jil Meier

Apply by Sep 05!

Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3YA4pP6

#neuroscience #neuroinformatics #DBS

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In this review/primer written by the talented @gutlin.bsky.social and @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social we introduce a range of computational methods useful for studying neural activity in schizophrenia 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 New article 🚨

Open LLMs are powerful and reproducible alternatives to closed models like GPT or Gemini.

This tutorial shows how LLMs work and how to apply open LLMs in behavioral science research using @huggingface.bsky.social.

Article: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Repo: github.com/Zak-Hussain/...

🚨Open course materials🚨

Excited to share open materials (cc-by-sa) for a 1-week course on using open-source LLMs in social and behavioral science using the @huggingface.bsky.social ecosystem that my student Zak and I finished today at #GSERM Uni St. Gallen.

github.com/Zak-Hussain/...
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1/6 🚀Meet ARIADNE!

Whether you're beginning your PhD journey or you are a senior researcher, it's your go-to resource collection to simplify academic life, just like we wished for during our PhDs. It's also a dynamic, ever-evolving, community-driven resource! 📚

Reproductive Justice: Policy, Politics, and Intersectionality European Consortium for Political Research

I am co-chairing a section on "Reproductive Justice: Policy, Politics, and Intersectionality" at the upcoming ECPG in Ghent by @ecpr.bsky.social. If you are working on anything related, submit your proposal! Please share widely!
[deadline 7 December 2023]
Proposal procedure: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...