elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

#TheLearningSalon is happening now!!
Unfortunately I have absolutely no time these days… otherwise I would totally join!

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

Writing my “introduction biography paragraph” for a conference and it’s almost the most difficult thing I’ve had to do
(More difficult: writing your own recommendation letter)
Also there is no way I am writing in the third person 😂​
Any examples of self-written (or not) personal bio are welcome!!

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

The level of climate change denialism (or probably the exposure given to the denialists) on MuskTwitter is simply disgusting. What a sad use of the propaganda machine that it has become… Full support to the brave scientists who try to explain patiently. 💚​
#ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet

thomasfuchs, 1 year ago to random

Me: “Having to choose an instance makes people not join Mastodon”

Pundit: “They should have to choose an instance”

Me: “They won’t. They just don’t sign up.”

Pundit: “They should just choose an instance”

How do you even logic

davidslifka, 1 year ago to random

Hi @spreadmastodon (the discussion group of awesome people),

Meet http://spreadmastodon.org (the site), and

@spreadmastodon (the account). :)

So grateful to all of you for your ideas, support, and partnership, and looking forward to doing lots more together ahead.

davidslifka, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

In 2004, the web was under threat.

Microsoft’s browser held 95% market share, but failed to protect against viruses and spyware. The internet was becoming more centralized and less safe, stifling innovation.

So a movement began: Spread Firefox. People rallied around open-source software that fixed the problems, building and marketing it together.

Today there is another movement to break from centralized social. But it hasn’t had a name - until now.

@spreadmastodon and #TakeBackSocial

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mmasnick, 1 year ago to random

Okay people: who has one of those e-ink notepad thingies? I know a lot of friends swear by the Remarkable 2, and I've played with it, but couldn't quite fall in love with it. But I've been looking at the Supernote A6X and thinking... you know... that looks like it would work for me. But... still... not sure I can justify the price, which is quite high.

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

Hi @maystodon !
Shall we discuss what to prepare for #Maystodon ?

For those already on Mastodon, one contribution would be to pledge/ try / attempt to post only on Mastodon for the month of May (well, except to promote Ma(y)stodon); and of course to welcome and help all newcomers!

For those on Twitter or other places, it would be to join and pledge / try to only post Mastodon.

Do you think it is too much to ask? 🤔​

NicoleCRust, 1 year ago to random

Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of Causes
Fred Dretske

Any fans? It's about the tension between brain-based and psychological-based causes. I missed it (published in 1991) and I'm just starting.

It is the business of this book to show how this apparent conflict, a conflict between two different pictures of how human behavior is to be explained, can be resolved. The project is to see how reasons- our beliefs, desires, purposes, and plans- operate in a world of causes, and to exhibit the role of reasons in the causal explanation of human behavior. In a broader sense, the project is to understand the relationship between the psychological and the biological- between, on the one hand, the reasons people have for moving their bodies and, on the other, the causes of their bodies' consequent movements.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262540612/explaining-behavior/

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

Very early sneak peek on what I'm currently working on... Yes it's #PlaceCell #Replay !!

#Hippocampus #Hexamaze

Video made in Matlab of: 1) left: sequence of place cell spikes, with a moving time window going through it from left to right 2) middle: representation of a hexagonal-shaped maze seen from above with cumulated decoded positions shown as red dots over a black background (not super informative) 3) right: video of the peak decoded location (in red) shown starting from the rat's position (green dot on the top right arm of the maze) and extending around the maze center in a long replay event with a few occasional jumps

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

This new #NeuroPreprint seems really cool 👀​

“ We show that rats can efficiently navigate or direct objects to arbitrary goal locations within a virtual reality arena solely by activating and sustaining appropriate hippocampal representations of remote places.”

Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based brain-machine interface

#Hippocampus #NeuroRat #BMI #PlaceCells

neuralreckoning, 1 year ago to random

A short argument for why the big publishers cannot be part of a publishing reform effort

Science is stuck in a vicious cycle it is hard to escape from. The decision to publish a scientific paper is made based on an evaluation of its likely importance and technical correctness. Scientists are evaluated based on these publication decisions, and resources (jobs, grants and promotions) are distributed accordingly.

The current system distorts scientific priorities. Science is incredibly competitive, resources are allocated on a short term basis, and the primary metric used to evaluate scientists is their publication record. As a consequence, there is an unavoidable pressure to select problems and design studies that can lead to results that are likely to be favourably evaluated and published in the short term. This is in opposition to the long term scientific value, a fact that appears to be widely acknowledged by working scientists (https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12016710/science-challeges-research-funding-peer-review-process).

The current system is a vicious cycle and stable equilibrium. In principle, we could choose to evaluate scientists and their work in a better way. However, no individual or small group can do this alone. If an institution chooses to hire scientists who do work that they believe will be of enduring scientific value despite being unlikely to win short term grant funding, they will take a huge financial hit. Public research is under such severe resource constraints that this is simply not feasible for most institutions even if they wished to do so. Similarly, a public funding body that makes decisions based on long term scientific value and not short term publishability is likely to be able to count fewer high profile papers in their output, and compared to other funding bodies will appear to be underperforming when they are reviewed at the government level. Individual scientists have even less flexibility than these institutions.

Journal prestige cements this problem. It is the widespread availability of an easily calculated metric based on journal prestige that makes this cycle so hard to break. If there were no such metric, different groups could try different approaches and the effect would not be so obvious in the short term. The availability of the metric forces all institutions to follow the same strategy, and makes it hard to deviate from this strategy.

The majority of big publishers commercial value rests on their journal prestige. If there were no funding implications to publishing in one journal rather than another, scientists would be free to choose based on price or features. There are widely available solutions with better features at virtually no cost. Consequently, the entire business model of these publishers would collapse without the journal prestige signal.

Big publishers therefore cannot be part of the needed reforms. The success of these reforms would untie the evaluation of the quality of scientific work from the journal it is published in, and this would destroy the business model of these publishers. They will therefore do everything in their power to resist such reform.

Divorcing from the big publishers will not be enough. Journal prestige is the cement of the current negative stable equilibrium, but eliminating that will not guarantee a globally better system. We need systems for publishing and evaluating science that is diverse and under the control of researchers. This is what we intend to do with Neuromatch Open Publishing (https://nmop.io/).

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

#Hippocampus neuroscientists:
Do you think that hippocampal #Replay can truly represent a future planning trajectory?
Or that all replay trajectories are actually related to consolidation / generalization / other memory-oriented mechanisms?

Discussion & questions welcome!
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Poll in Post 2 ⤵️​

elduvelle, 1 year ago to Neuroscience

#SpikeSorting : where would be the best place (or handle / hashtag) to ask questions about Phy? 🙏​
And if you use it, can you let me know, maybe we can help each other?
(This Phy: https://phy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
*Edit: added these hashtags: #Electrophysiology #Neuroscience #Tetrodes *

elduvelle, 1 year ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Thread of cute things that #Rats do:

• Slow-motion licking #Rat

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